Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon
By: Elizabeth Wilson
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Tennis's gladiatorial beauty, its stylish duelling and fashionable court-wear make it a romantic's …
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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
2. Priestdaddy: A Memoir
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.50
Format: 24 pages,
The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas"… read more
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3. A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
3.00
Format: None pages,
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
By: W. Timothy Gallwey , Zach Kleinman , Pete Carroll
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Inner Game of Tennis is a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and… read more
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5. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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6. String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
By: David Foster Wallace , John Jeremiah Sullivan
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
An instant classic of American sportswriting--the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, "the best … read more
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7. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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8. Exit West
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more
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9. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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10. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Hardcover
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And w… read more
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11. Soumission
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.65
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more
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"It’s submission,"-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"There is no Israel for me."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"I was about as political as a bath towel."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
12. The Nix
By: Nathan Hill
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and deeply touching debut novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and ho… read more
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13. The Essex Serpent
By: Sarah Perry
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scienti… read more
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14. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
15. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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- nonfiction
"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
16. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
By: Amanda Montell
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more
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"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
17. The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer
By: Christopher Clarey
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This New York Times bestselling biography tells the life story of the most iconic men's tennis pl… read more
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18. All In: An Autobiography
By: Billie Jean King
4.32
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of a champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant te… read more
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19. The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis
By: Conor Niland
4.38
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidential for tennis.' Ed Caesar… read more
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20. Dog Days
By: Ericka Waller
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Ericka Waller's Dog Days is a debut novel about the way dogs can bring out the best in us in the fa… read more
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21. Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon
By: Elizabeth Wilson
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Tennis's gladiatorial beauty, its stylish duelling and fashionable court-wear make it a romantic's … read more
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