The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
By: Destin Jenkins
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have…
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1. Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
By: Kim Phillips-Fein
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster―and an … read more
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- american history
- history
- finance
- urban studies
- nonfiction
- cities
- economics
2. Breakfast of Champions
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Breakfast of Champions,one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore … read more
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3. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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4. Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Ak… read more
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5. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
6. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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7. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
By: bell hooks
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more
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8. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
9. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
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10. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
11. Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The futures of both humans and Oankali rest in one young being's successful metamorphosis into adul… read more
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12. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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13. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
14. Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.16
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of th… read more
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"We couldn’t survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world."-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
"She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she ans…"-Octavia E. Butler, Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
15. Red Plenty
By: Francis Spufford
4.34
Format: 168 pages,
The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned… read more
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16. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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- race
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
17. Devil House
By: John Darnielle
3.22
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Now, he is a true… read more
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"The past is charming and safe when you're skittering around on its surface. It's a nice place to linger a moment before seeking the lower depths."-John Darnielle, Devil House
"I remember before I finally fell asleep feeling like there wasn't all that much to say about my life. I'd had several satisfying relationships, they hadn't amounted to much. I'd gotten better at my w…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
"What would my work be like if I had to keep returning to the same story every time, I wondered. If, instead of hunting down sad places where people's lives had been ruined, there was only the one pla…"-John Darnielle, Devil House
18. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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19. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
20. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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- economics
- history
"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
21. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By: Jenny Odell
3.68
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more
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22. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
By: Haruki Murakami
3.87
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegi… read more
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"Don’t let the bad elves get you."-Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
"Every person has their own colour."-Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
"The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily."-Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
"Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience."-Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
23. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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- race
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
24. Hard by a Great Forest
By: Leo Vardiashvili
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the … read more
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25. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
26. Manhunt
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.54
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more
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"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
"Every day I am making a choice, thought Indi as she set the sample wheel onto its shelf in the freezer. Every day I decide I matter more than the people outside this place."-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
27. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
By: Walter Johnson
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told thr… read more
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- race
- history
- nonfiction
"One of the things about people who have little left to lose, of course, is that they have everything to gain. On August 9, 2014, the disinherited of St. Louis rose again to take control of their hist…"-Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
"Viewed from St. Louis, the history of capitalism in the United States seems to have as much to do with eviction and extraction as with exploitation and production. History in St. Louis unfolded at th…"-Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
28. Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
By: Kerri Arsenault
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral … read more
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- history
"We broke the rules of our family's way of life, rules they encouraged us to break; we chose different paths."-Kerri Arsenault, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
29. Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
By: Vincent Brown
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an… read more
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- race
- history
30. The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
By: Destin Jenkins
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have… read more
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- history
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- urban studies
- nonfiction
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- cities
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31. Snow Crash
By: Neal Stephenson
4.02
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The "brilliantly realized" (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term "me… read more
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"They made data a controlled substance."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
"To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
"I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
"Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
