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The Five Books of [Robert] Moses
By: Arthur Nersesian
3.90
Format: 1510 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic, playful, brutal, sweeping, and always entertaining reimagining of New York City history…
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1. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
By: Stephen Kotkin
3.97
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more
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"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
3. Nova
By: Samuel R. Delany
3.80
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adv… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"The inevitable is that unprepared for."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"How many notes have you made on this book?"-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
"Right now I'm just a bright guy with a lot to say and nothing to say it about."-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
4. Railsea
By: China Miéville
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Hardcover
On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarp… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
5. 4 3 2 1
By: Paul Auster
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Astonishing, a masterpiece, Paul Auster's greatest, most satisfying, most vivid and heartbreaking n… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Micro
By: Michael Crichton , Richard Preston
3.43
Format: 344 pages, ebook
In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high-concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
7. Cry Dance
By: Kirk Mitchell
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
If there's one thing Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmet Quanah Parker knows, it's that the… read more
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- fiction
8. The Atlantis Plague (The Origin Mystery, #2)
By: A.G. Riddle
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition for A PANDEMIC 70,000 YEARS IN THE MAKING... WILL CHANGE HUMANITY... FORE… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
9. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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10. Butcher's Crossing
By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more
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11. Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
By: H.W. Brands
3.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twe… read more
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12. The Prague Cemetery
By: Umberto Eco , Richard Dixon
3.50
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
19th-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Religious conversion evidently transforms not just the soul but also facial appearances."-Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
"People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction."-Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
"Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun."-Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
"Zawsze tak jest - jeśli ci sie nie powiedzie, szukasz kogoś, aby oskarżając go, usprawiedliwić własne niedołęstwo."-Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
13. Death on the Installment Plan
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, Journey to the End of the Nightand Death on the … read more
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14. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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15. Audition
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife… read more
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16. Amnesiascope
By: Steve Erickson
4.41
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Erickson's funniest and most intensely confessional novel edges Los Angeles up against the next mil… read more
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17. There Is No Antimemetics Division
By: qntm
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more
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- fiction
"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
18. Ohio
By: Stephen Markley
3.87
Format: 484 pages, Hardcover
One sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in nort… read more
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- fiction
"New Canaan had this look, like a magazine after it’s tossed on the fire, the way the pages blacken and curl as they begin to burn, but just before the flames take over."-Stephen Markley, Ohio
"You make someone your devil for long enough, and you want to hold onto that. There's something rapturous about hating another person, especially if you have a goddamned good reason."-Stephen Markley, Ohio
"What an important lesson for every young person to learn: If you defy the collective psychosis of nationalism, of imperial war, you will pay for it. And the people in your community, your home, who y…"-Stephen Markley, Ohio
"Like MacMillan and the clique of teachers and the coaches who all went to the same church and barbecued at one another's houses, much of the country's small-bore civil servants were itching to do som…"-Stephen Markley, Ohio
19. The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
3.94
Format: 666 pages, Hardcover
It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"The priest who once supervised me as a student had once said to me that a person only has to step sideways for everything to look different. He'd been talking about the priest's role as a director of…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)
20. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
By: Robert A. Caro
4.44
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson… read more
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"People are always asking me why I chose Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson to write about. Well, I must say I never thought of my books as the stories of Moses or Johnson. I never had the slightest inte…"-Robert A. Caro, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
21. Sundial
By: Catriona Ward
3.80
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling… read more
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- fiction
"I don't know what it's like for other people, but love and nausea are often indistinguishable to me"-Catriona Ward, Sundial
"Gdy coś ci zagraża, możesz zrobić trzy rzeczy: uciekać, walczyć albo spróbować się z tym zaprzyjaźnić."-Catriona Ward, Sundial
"Rozłąka z dzieckiem to doznanie niepodobne do żadnego innego. Człowiek ma wrażenie, że jest pusty w środku."-Catriona Ward, Sundial
"Dorosłe życie to bagno, w którym człowiek tkwi po uszy, gobelin wzajemnych pretensji tkany tak ciasno, że nie sposób go rozplątać."-Catriona Ward, Sundial
22. The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.03
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel… read more
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- fiction
23. Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)
By: Ken Liu
4.56
Format: 1047 pages, Hardcover
The conclusion to Ken Liu's chronicle of the Dandelion Dynasty. Ukyu-Gondé. Stalked by foes a… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"Trust is reward with trust."-Ken Liu, Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)
"I like who I am when I'm with you."-Ken Liu, Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)
"There's always a second act. Always."-Ken Liu, Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)
"Glad to see your brain hasn't been entirely rotted by books."-Ken Liu, Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)
24. Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro
By: Liliana Colanzi
3.69
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Los cuentos de Liliana Colanzi exploran diversas formas de narrar el tiempo, como el viaje geológic… read more
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- fiction
25. Master of the Revels (D.O.D.O., #2)
By: Nicole Galland
3.75
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
In this brilliant sequel to The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.—an enthralling, history-bending adventure… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
26. Dead Space
By: Kali Wallace
3.70
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science … read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"I was never given a choice, I wanted to say, but I couldn't bring myself to speak the words aloud. It was true, and it was a comforting lie. We always had a choice. It was just that the companies we …"-Kali Wallace, Dead Space
27. The Deluge
By: Stephen Markley
4.23
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching c… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"Yeah, well, time marches on. Getting caught up in causes don’t interest me. Not anymore. Especially when you see the scope of what this is."-Stephen Markley, The Deluge
28. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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- fiction
29. The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
By: Mark Arax
4.43
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Author Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land wh… read more
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30. The Revisionaries
By: A.R. Moxon
3.83
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
All is not boding well for Father Julius. . . A street preacher decked out in denim robes and r… read more
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- fiction
"He's so certain of his correctness, the Coyote, so taken with his self-perceived moral authority. Having targeted the worst person he's ever met, he's bestowing license upon himself to bestow the wor…"-A.R. Moxon, The Revisionaries
"Sometimes it all strikes me as futile. But other times, I don't think what matters is the result. In those moments, I think all that matters is hope. Not the hope the world provides us. I think the o…"-A.R. Moxon, The Revisionaries
31. The Five Books of [Robert] Moses
By: Arthur Nersesian
3.90
Format: 1510 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic, playful, brutal, sweeping, and always entertaining reimagining of New York City history… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
