The Last Word: Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue
By: Ben Macintyre
3.86
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A collection of delicious morsels that celebrate the richness, ridiculousness and resilience of lan…
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1. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.22
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degre… read more
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"Your relationship to mortality is your own."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"In spite of my fear of living, I chose not to die."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
2. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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3. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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4. A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge, #3)
By: Ken Follett
4.40
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious co… read more
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5. Restless
By: William Boyd
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Paperback
"I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her … read more
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6. Le Malade imaginaire
By: Molière
3.63
Format: 255 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière.… read more
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"La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut."-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire
"Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies."-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire
7. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
8. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
9. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
10. The Echo Chamber
By: John Boyne
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
'His relish is infectious' Times'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Ra… read more
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"They wouldn’t understand anyway. The cheese fell off their crackers a long time ago."-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber
"I’m sorry, but there is nothing – nothing – that squeezes my lemons more than people saying that."-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber
11. A Terrible Kindness
By: Jo Browning Wroe
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more
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12. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
13. The Year of the Locust
By: Terry Hayes
3.57
Format: 652 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Utterly gripping, elegantly written... most definitely worth the wait’ Observer'Ticks all the boxe… read more
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14. The Teacher (DS Cross Mysteries, #6)
By: Tim Sullivan
4.51
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes f… read more
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15. The Twyford Code
By: Janice Hallett
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a … read more
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"A lot of talk inside about feelings. How feelings are like visitors with something to give you. If they knock on your door: answer. Let em in. Accept the gift. Say cheers, mate. Otherwise, they said,…"-Janice Hallett, The Twyford Code
16. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more
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- essays
17. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
By: Hwang Bo-Reum
4.02
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more
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"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
18. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
19. The Night Ship
By: Jess Kidd
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars tha… read more
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20. The Monk (DS Cross Mysteries, #5)
By: Tim Sullivan
4.51
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
To find a murderer, you need a motive . . . THE DETECTIVE DS George Cross has always wondered w… read more
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21. The Politician (DS Cross Mysteries, #4)
By: Tim Sullivan
4.49
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
A ransacked room. A dead politician. A burglary gone wrong – or a staged murder? THE DETECTIVE … read more
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22. Outback (DS Walker, #1)
By: Patricia Wolf
4.18
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
Two missing backpackers. One vast outback. DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie… read more
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23. The Dentist (DS Cross Mysteries, #1)
By: Tim Sullivan
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition
A homeless man. Violently strangled. No leads. Except for his past. An outsider himself, DS Geor… read more
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24. The Cyclist (DS Cross #2)
By: Tim Sullivan
4.24
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
To solve any murder, you must first know your victim . . . THE DETECTIVE DS George Cross has … read more
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25. The Patient (DS Cross Mysteries, #3)
By: Tim Sullivan
4.56
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Bristol detective DS George Cross investigates the suspicious suicide of a young woman. DS Georg… read more
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26. The Last Word: Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue
By: Ben Macintyre
3.86
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A collection of delicious morsels that celebrate the richness, ridiculousness and resilience of lan… read more
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- linguistics
- nonfiction
- essays
- language
