Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness
By: John M. Hull
3.96
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
With a foreword by Oliver Sacks Shortly after John Hull went blind, after years of struggling with…
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1. Il pastore d'Islanda
By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson , Maria Valeria D'Avino , Gunnar Gunnarsson
3.85
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Il Natale può essere festeggiato in tanti modi, ma Benedikt ne ha uno tutto suo: ogni anno la prima… read more
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"A za tím snem pořád věděl, že čas utíka a nikdy se nezastaví, nezastaví ho ani rěky, nikdy se neunaví, že běží stále kuprědu, tajuplně jako rěka z ledovce a spíciho člověka prekročí, jako by byl mrtv…"-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Il pastore d'Islanda
"Der Mensch hängt an dem Seinen, an sich selbst und dem Seinen, bis über den Tod hinaus und bangt davor, das Leben aus den Händen zu verlieren - dies Wirklichste von allem Wirklichen, dies Erbärmlichs…"-Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Il pastore d'Islanda
2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
3. The Moviegoer
By: Walker Percy
3.65
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more
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- philosophy
"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
4. L'Avversario
By: Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris
3.99
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux."-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
"Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingt…"-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
5. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
By: David Quammen
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
"Science writing as detective story at its best." --Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American A New Y… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- health
6. Survival in Auschwitz
By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf
4.33
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
7. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
By: Alice Miller , None
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
As charming performers who skillfully reflect their parents expectations, far too many children gro… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
8. 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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- nonfiction
9. Trilogia della città di K.
By: Ágota Kristóf , Armando Marchi , Giovanni Bogliolo , Virginia Ripa di Meana
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
<>. Rosetta Loy Il grande quaderno La prova La terza menzogna read more
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10. The Bell
By: Iris Murdoch , A.S. Byatt
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed … read more
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11. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
By: Lawrence Wright
4.16
Format: 208 pages,
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12. Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
By: Esther Perel
3.79
Format: 704 pages,
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13. The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more
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14. Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
By: Steven Pressfield
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
In 480 B.C., two million Persian invaders come to the mountain pass of Thermopylae in eastern Greec… read more
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15. The Invention of Morel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms
4.00
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more
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"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"It is frightening to accept so much good fortune!"-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
16. Elizabeth
By: None
4.36
Format: 303 pages,
From the flyleaf: Elizabeth thought that she was a young girl like any other girl - until the day t… read more
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17. Il sergente nella neve
By: Mario Rigoni Stern , Eraldo Affinati
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
I ricordi della ritirata di Russia scritti in un lager tedesco dall'alpino Rigoni Stern nell'invern… read more
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18. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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- philosophy
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
19. La settimana bianca
By: Emmanuel Carrère , Maurizia Balmelli
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
<>ha raccontato una volta Emmanuel Carrere <>. All'inizio, infatti, il piccolo Nicolas ha tutta l'a… read more
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20. The Mind's Eye
By: Oliver Sacks
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in The Mind's Eye, he writes about… read more
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21. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
22. Portnoy's Complaint
By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexualit… read more
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23. The Summer that Melted Everything
By: Tiffany McDaniel
4.45
Format: 864 pages,
Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984:the year a heat wave scorched Breathed, Ohio.… read more
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24. Triste tigre
By: Neige Sinno
4.23
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre
25. I miei stupidi intenti
By: Bernardo Zannoni
3.78
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Questa è la lunga vita di una faina, raccontata di suo pugno. Fra gli alberi dei boschi, le colline… read more
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26. I baffi
By: Emmanuel Carrère
3.73
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
È quasi un capriccio, uno scherzo, quello di tagliarsi i baffi, da parte del protagonista di questo… read more
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27. The Problem of Pain
By: C.S. Lewis
4.13
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful… read more
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- nonfiction
"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
28. Herkunft
By: Saša Stanišić
4.17
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über den ersten Zufall unserer Biografie: irgendwo geboren werden. Und was da… read more
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"Träume sind etwas Lebendiges - und als solche vergänglich wie das Gedächtnis."-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft
"Zoki walks into the classroom, puts a piece of paper down on the teacher’s desk, and shouts: “Everyone write your name."-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft
"Otec tancoval a už nebol nazúrený, napokon to ani nejde dohromady, všetko ostatné sa dá robiť aj s hnevom, ale toto nie, nie objímanie."-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft
"Ich verstehe nicht, dass Herkunft Eigenschaften mit sich bringen soll, und verstehe nicht, dass manche bereit sind, in ihrem Namen in Schlachten zu ziehen."-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft
29. 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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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- science
"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
30. Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness
By: John M. Hull
3.96
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
With a foreword by Oliver Sacks Shortly after John Hull went blind, after years of struggling with… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- disability
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