A Mad Love: An Introduction to Opera
By: Vivien Schweitzer
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera and few that are as daunting for newcome…
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1. The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)
By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli
3.75
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime se… read more
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"In grammar school he’d had an old priest as his religion teacher. “Truth is light,"-Andrea Camilleri, The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)
"«Questo sta a lei scoprirlo, se ne ha voglia. Oppure può fermarsi alla forma che hanno fatto prendere all'acqua». «Non ho capito, mi scusi». «Io non sono siciliana, sono nata a Grosseto, sono venuta …"-Andrea Camilleri, The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)
2. Motherless Brooklyn
By: Jonathan Lethem
3.87
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impu… read more
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3. Fellow Travelers
By: Thomas Mallon
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the highly acclaimed author of Bandboxand Dewey Defeats Truman-a searing new historical novel … read more
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4. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
By: Alex Ross
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centuryis a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music… read more
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- music
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- classical music
- nonfiction
5. Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
By: Mary Norris
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its … read more
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6. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
By: Mary Roach
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In ?Bonk,?the best-selling author of Stiffturns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most al… read more
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7. My Italian Bulldozer
By: Alexander McCall Smith
2.00
Format: 88 pages,
When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late… read more
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8. The Rembrandt Affair (Gabriel Allon, #10)
By: Daniel Silva
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
Two families, one terrible secret, and a painting to die for ... Determined to sever his ties with… read more
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9. Fatherland
By: Robert Harris
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country i… read more
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10. The Right Stuff
By: Tom Wolfe
4.08
Format: 432 pages,
Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuffat a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism.… read more
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11. Murder on the Vine (A Tuscan Mystery)
By: Camilla Trinchieri
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ex-NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle investigates the murder of a local bartender in the Tuscan co… read more
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12. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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13. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
14. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- history
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
15. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
16. A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.27
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on… read more
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"Yet the alternative he had suggested smacked of privilege, and wasn't privilege always bolstered by a discrimination of sorts?"-Jacqueline Winspear, A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)
"...places leave their mark in the same way that a human being can touch us. We have to make our peace with place, with the locations where we have spent time. We consider how we've been affected by b…"-Jacqueline Winspear, A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)
17. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
18. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
19. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
20. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new c… read more
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"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
21. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country
By: John Jackson Miller
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
An all-new Star Trek adventure—the first novel based on the thrilling Paramount+ TV series Star Tre… read more
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22. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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23. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
24. The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.27
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens… read more
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"Children should always be believed until proven otherwise."-Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)
"know that expression—only a man could cause a woman to look like that"-Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)
"Fear had to be handled with care, managed so it became a tool, not a weight."-Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)
"I believe it’s called ‘irrational reasoning.’ It’s what happens to people when they’re scared"-Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)
25. All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
By: Douglas Wolk
4.01
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revela… read more
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- history
"If he does find himself back in the mountain of Marvels, or if he never leaves it, I hope he finds its glorious imaginary world changing all the time, keeping pace with the real one in which he lives…"-Douglas Wolk, All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
"As you explore the Marvel story, it becomes another world you can call your own, one that's constantly expanding and full of unfinished wonders. You can no more exhaust its possibilities than the rea…"-Douglas Wolk, All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
26. The Body by the Sea (Commissaire Dupin, #8)
By: Jean-Luc Bannalec
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In all of Commissaire Georges Dupin’s time living in Brittany, there has never been a murder on his… read more
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27. Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
By: Jonathan Darman
4.38
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
This revealing biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt shows how one of the most consequential leaders i… read more
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- history
28. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- history
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
29. The Library: A Fragile History
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 518 pages, Hardcover
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, des… read more
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- history
"In 1748, the Earl of Chesterfield passed on some useful advice to his son: 'Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors a…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
"Mudie's insistence on the three-volume format was undoubtedly responsible for the verbosity of many nineteenth-century novels, as authors went to extraordinary efforts to pad their texts to the requi…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
30. Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
By: Martin Puchner
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a break… read more
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31. A Mad Love: An Introduction to Opera
By: Vivien Schweitzer
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera and few that are as daunting for newcome… read more
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