Why I Am Not a Christian & The Faith of a Rationalist
By: Bertrand Russell
3.88
Format: 32 pages, Pamphlet
Why I Am Not a Christian was originally given as a public lecture for the South London Branch of th…
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1. Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
By: Martin Luther , Stephen J. Nichols , Henry Eyster Jacobs
3.88
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
2018 Reprint of 1910 Harvard Classics Edition. The Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power o… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
2. It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
By: Mark Wolynn
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generatio… read more
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- nonfiction
3. The Soul of Man Under Socialism
By: Oscar Wilde
3.91
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues th… read more
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"The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great."-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg."-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence."-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
4. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
5. Sumerians: A History From Beginning to End
By: Henry Freeman
4.23
Format: None pages,
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- nonfiction
6. God Sees the Truth, but Waits
By: Leo Tolstoy
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more
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- philosophy
7. We
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more
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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
8. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more
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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
9. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
10. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
11. Harrison Bergeron
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.93
Format: None pages, ebook
It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is… read more
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12. The Prose Edda
By: Snorri Sturluson , Jesse L. Byock
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?' The Prose Eddais the most… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Two Discourses of God and Man
By: Søren Kierkegaard
4.00
Format: 222 pages, ebook
republication of the 1st edition of David F. Swenson's translation of Two Discourses of God and Man… read more
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- philosophy
14. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell
3.37
Format: None pages,
Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
15. Steppenwolf
By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more
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16. On the Shortness of Life
By: Seneca , Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the im… read more
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17. Civil Disobedience
By: Henry David Thoreau
3.80
Format: None pages,
Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience was originally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Go… read more
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18. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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- nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
19. The Fall of the House of Usher
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.87
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more
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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
20. The Jungle Book
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.90
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Ju… read more
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"Mark my trail..."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
"Each dog barks in its own yard."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
"Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
"It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding."-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
21. The Queen of Spades
By: Alexander Pushkin , None
2.18
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more
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22. Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
By: Paul Bloom
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
New York Post Best Book of 2016 We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of other… read more
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23. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more
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"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"-Plato, The Symposium
"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."-Plato, The Symposium
"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
24. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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25. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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26. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
27. Letter to a Christian Nation
By: Sam Harris
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In response to The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriati… read more
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"There had been ample warning that a storm “of biblical proportions"-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
"These data are unequivocal: we are building a civilization of ignorance."-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
"Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms."-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
"Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms."-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
28. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
29. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
By: Amanda Gorman
4.56
Format: 29 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN 9780593465271 can be found here. On January 20, 2021,… read more
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"So while we once asked: How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert: How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?"-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
"The new dawn blooms as we free it, For there is always light, If only we're brave enough to see it, If only we're brave enough to be it."-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
"Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew That even as we hurt, we hoped That even as we tired, we tried"-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
"When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. The new dawn balloons as we free it. For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be …"-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
30. Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more
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"What, you egg?"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done, is done"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done cannot be undone."-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What, you egg? / [He stabs him.]"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
31. Why I Am Not a Christian & The Faith of a Rationalist
By: Bertrand Russell
3.88
Format: 32 pages, Pamphlet
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