Books That Matter: The Decameron
By: Kristina Olson
3.45
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A deadly plague ravages the land; so, a small band of people flee to the country. There, in relativ…
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1. Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
By: Agatha Christie
3.96
Format: 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players! Mr. Shaitana wa… read more
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- classics
- audiobook
"I have always disapproved of murder."-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
"Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?"-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
"Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner."-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
"There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best."-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
2. The Arabian Nights
By: Anonymous , Richard Francis Burton , A.S. Byatt
4.03
Format: 1049 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most fa… read more
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- classics
"Experience shapes perception."-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights
"It is amazing what women in love will do"-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights
"If you need a hug, give it to someone else."-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights
"Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!"-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights
3. Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Edited by John Carey. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray… read more
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- classics
4. The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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- classics
- audiobook
"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
5. The Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee
4.09
Format: 625 pages, Paperback
First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more
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- classics
"All for one and one for all."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
6. Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)
By: Agatha Christie
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
Nurse Amy Leatheran had a most unusual patient. Louise, according to her husband, celebrated archae… read more
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- classics
- audiobook
7. Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed
By: Edwin Barnhart
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Audible Audio
Centuries ago, Spanish conquistadors searching for gold and new lands encountered a group of indepe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
8. A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)
By: Agatha Christie
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman! Rex Fortescue, king of a finan… read more
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- classics
9. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
By: Thomas C. Foster
3.17
Format: 319 pages,
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden r… read more
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11. The Decameron
By: Giovanni Boccaccio , G.H. McWilliam
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the … read more
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12. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
By: Randall Munroe
4.14
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
13. Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #16)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Everyone blamed Emily's accident on the stairs on her dog, but she was convinced someone was trying… read more
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14. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his acci… read more
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15. Identical
By: Ellen Hopkins
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Do twins begin in the womb? Or in a better place? Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the di… read more
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16. The Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
3.68
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more
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17. Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power
By: Louisa May Alcott , A.M. Barnard
3.49
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym "A. M. Barnard." Louisa May Alcott's novel of roma… read more
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18. The Story of Human Language
By: None
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Audiobook
"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more
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19. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
20. Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
By: Agatha Christie
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now th… read more
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21. Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple, #13)
By: Agatha Christie
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts t… read more
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22. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
By: Irene Vallejo
4.26
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- books about books
- audiobook
"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
23. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
By: Masaji Ishikawa
4.28
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
The harrowing true story of one man’s life in—and subsequent escape from—North Korea, one of the wo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"I want to give this food to my family in North Korea. But I can’t. So I entrust it to the seagulls. And in my heart, they carry it off to my family. And I weep."-Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
24. The Test
By: Sylvain Neuvel
3.83
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his f… read more
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- audiobook
25. American Girl
By: Wendy Walker
3.71
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A pulse-pounding novel about a small-town business owner found dead and the teenage girl caught in … read more
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- audiobook
26. Self Care by the Moon
By: Valerie Tejeda
3.79
Format: None pages, None
Greater calm and well-being await with this soothing self-care practice that's as easy as looking u… read more
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- audiobook
27. Self Care By The Signs
By: Valerie Tejeda
3.61
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins A soothing guide to living well by harmonizing your self-car… read more
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- audiobook
28. Henrietta & Eleanor: A Retelling of Jekyll and Hyde
By: Libby Spurrier
3.43
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
First published to critical acclaim in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson’s mesmerising thriller is a ter… read more
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- classics
- audiobook
29. The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
By: Maureen Corrigan
4.16
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
5 hours and 43 minutes Meet Agatha Christie, the best-selling novelist in human history. Her wri… read more
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- history
- books about books
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30. Books That Matter: The Decameron
By: Kristina Olson
3.45
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A deadly plague ravages the land; so, a small band of people flee to the country. There, in relativ… read more
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- books about books
- audiobook
31. The Lincoln Obsession: The Author of Manhunt Chases Down His Own Lincoln Obsession
By: James L. Swanson
3.48
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
With an entirely fresh take on presidential history, James Swanson, author of the New York Times be… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
