A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History
By: Seth Berkman
4.03
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. We're Going to Need More Wine
By: Gabrielle Union
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
A powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Your world is only as small as you make it."-Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine
"My humaness doesn't insulate me from racism or sexism."-Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine
"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself"-Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine
"An empress does not concern herself with the antics of fools"-Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine
2. New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)
By: Robert Jordan
4.07
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
The prequel novel to the globally bestselling Wheel of Time series - a fantasy phenomenon The ci… read more
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- audiobook
"Even the mountains will be worn down with time"-Robert Jordan, New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)
"Wish for something hard enough, and you could think you saw it."-Robert Jordan, New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)
"Friends lightened many burdens, even those they did not know of."-Robert Jordan, New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)
"The inn where she had a small room was called The Gates of Heaven..."-Robert Jordan, New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)
3. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caughtis the powerful narrative… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
4. Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
By: Suki Kim
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six… read more
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- history
- biography
- asia
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
5. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
6. Human Acts
By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer… read more
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- asia
7. The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
By: J.L. Collins , Mr. Money Mustache
4.00
Format: 240 pages,
"In the dark, bewildering, trap-infested jungle of misinformation and opaque riddles that is the wo… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir
By: Eddie Huang
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
"Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He's bigger than food."-… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone
By: Richard Lloyd Parry
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of nort… read more
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10. Please Look After Mom
By: Shin Kyung-Sook , Chi-Young Kim , None
4.62
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
An international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies in the author's n… read more
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11. The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness (Babylon Bee Guides)
By: Kyle Mann
4.27
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
To show the world you're a good person—and also to avoid getting canceled and having your life ruin… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
13. Infinite Country
By: Patricia Engel
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For readers of Valeria Luiselli and Edwidge Danticat, an urgent and lyrical novel about a Colombian… read more
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- audiobook
"She wondered about that, if by birth one could already be out of step with destiny, but only replied that she was very tired and ready to sleep."-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"When you leave one country for another, nobody tells you years will bleed together like rain on newsprint. One year becomes five. Five years become ten. Ten years become fifteen."-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"Police are not your friend. Even the cordial ones. Yes, they are there to help people in danger just like you're taught in school, but in this country some people think the ones they protection from …"-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"It happened far away from the capital, all the way on the Pacific coast, but it was still our country, our dead, Elena thought. Tragic, almost, that she never felt more patriotic than when grieving h…"-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
14. Love in the Big City
By: Sang Young Park
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting… read more
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- asia
"I like the universe that is you"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Let's be hamburguer patties together forever,"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Sometimes his very existence to me is the existence of love itself"-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
"Jaehee, who had taught me that every season is its own beautiful moment -- that Jaehee didn't live here anymore."-Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City
15. The Davenports (The Davenports, #1)
By: Krystal Marquis
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 1910, the Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changin… read more
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- audiobook
"Olivia remembered the moment she'd realized that every Black person she knew was touched by the horror of slavery. Sometimes Olivia felt it like a wound hidden deep under smooth skin—one that she did…"-Krystal Marquis, The Davenports (The Davenports, #1)
16. Queen Macbeth
By: Val McDermid
3.77
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more
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- audiobook
17. Sparks Like Stars
By: Nadia Hashimi
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanist… read more
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- audiobook
"Grief starts before anyone has gone missing."-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars
"If faith was a life raft, mine was riddled with holes."-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars
"Let people serve you information, but never let them serve you your opinion."-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars
"You need no one to confirm you. You are everything you believe yourself to be."-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars
18. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By: Barbara Demick
4.45
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
19. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
By: Shaun Bythell
3.48
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A cantankerously funny view of books and the people who love them. It does take all kinds and throu… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"It should go without saying that anyone who introduces themselves as 'a bit weird' is almost certainly not."-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
"This group derives an alternate sort of gratification from the fact that their niche obsession somehow differentiates them from other people, mistakenly assuming that it makes them more interesting."-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
"It's not as though there is anything wrong with being American, although perhaps in a land of immigrants the only way to differentiate yourself is to cling onto a piece of the land you left, even if …"-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
20. My Name Is Why
By: Lemn Sissay
4.29
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
By: Audrey Clare Farley
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)
By: Amanda Lovelace
3.85
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
“life is not something that can be experienced on a deadline.”amanda lovelace, the bestselling & aw… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"actually, no, i don’t take it as a compliment when you tell me how “hot"-Amanda Lovelace, Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)
"you truly don’t have to wait until a special occasion to do anything, so go on & put the holiday tree up in august. stay up till dawn making that instagram-worthy cake. wear those glistening green he…"-Amanda Lovelace, Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)
23. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
24. Virgil Wander
By: Leif Enger
4.01
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Virgil Wander is an all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in t… read more
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- audiobook
"Your tribe is always bigger than you think."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"He had an advanced capacity for hatred. It came to him easily and fully formed."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"She seemed to belong here, though maybe she was the sort to belong wherever she was at the time."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
"I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return."-Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
25. Mouth to Mouth
By: Antoine Wilson
3.67
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he on… read more
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- audiobook
"A relationship needs its games. If there is no sense of play, there is only desperation, the fear of being alone."-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
"Frances had pegged Jeff as a computer whiz and Jeff did little to disabuse him of that notion. His newly acquired knowledge of Microsoft Excel had catapulted him to database wizard status and he went…"-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
26. Winter in Sokcho
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.56
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut F… read more
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- asia
"The rain hammered down, the sea rising beneath it in spikes like the spines of a sea urchin."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
"How do you know when a story is done?" "My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
"How do you know when a story is done?’ ‘My character reaches a point when I know he has a life of his own. I can let him go."-Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
27. Beasts of a Little Land
By: Juhea Kim
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink o… read more
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- audiobook
"If you really love someone you say goodbye without ever leaving."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"The sky was white and the earth was black, like at the beginning of time before the first sunrise."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"Jade felt that they each would have only half a life, a single wing, which would not be truly complete unless they stood together side by side."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"But he thought that his father and mother were up there somewhere, that he didn't come into this world alone, and so was reminded why he must keep surviving as best he can..."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
28. I Went To See My Father
By: Shin Kyung-Sook
3.70
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After… read more
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- asia
- audiobook
29. The Mermaid from Jeju
By: Sumi Hahn
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Yangsze Choo's Night Tiger and Min Jin Lee's Pachinko comes a magical saga that… read more
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- asia
- audiobook
"Tendrils of vine and fern fell from both sides of the gully, like green waterfalls spilling from rocks. Sunlight beamed through the trees, illuminating every tiny insect and mote in the air..."-Sumi Hahn, The Mermaid from Jeju
"The half moon disappeared behind a cloud, casting the scene into darkness. The silence between the boy and girl expanded. It filled with memories of promises made, words that the world had broken"."-Sumi Hahn, The Mermaid from Jeju
30. Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope (A Bestselling Basketball Memoir)
By: Carmelo Anthony
4.08
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From iconic NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony comes a New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up… read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- sports
- audiobook
31. A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History
By: Seth Berkman
4.03
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
The inspiring, unlikely story of the American, Canadian, South Korean and even North Korean women w… read more
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- sports
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