The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People
By: Paul Seabright
3.92
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world Rel…
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1. Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
By: Mary Doria Russell
4.09
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into th… read more
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"How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?"-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
"And you believe you will succeed, where God has failed me?"-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
"The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it."-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
"Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief."-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
2. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- history
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
3. Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial
By: Janet Malcolm
4.14
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
"Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hillscasts, from its first pages, a genuine sp… read more
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4. Housekeeping
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.94
Format: 450 pages,
A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more
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5. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
6. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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7. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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9. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- nonfiction
10. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
By: Eric H. Cline
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more
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- history
11. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
By: Deb Chachra
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdo… read more
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- economics
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"We’re accustomed to thinking about making the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources as one that we are doing under duress, making a sacrifice to stave off disaster. But that’s not wh…"-Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
12. Radicalized
By: Cory Doctorow
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and… read more
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13. The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
By: Steven Mithen
4.14
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the langua… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
14. Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
By: Sergei Guriev
3.98
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy Hitler… read more
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- economics
- history
- nonfiction
"As countries became postindustrial, educated, and internationally linked, their rulers had to adapt—or, at least, pretend to. Amid the third wave of democracy, liberal norms spread worldwide. The for…"-Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
"These four changes—in the nature of work, education, social values, and communication technology—make it harder for dictators to dominate citizens in the old way. Harsh laws and bureaucratic regulati…"-Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
"These four changes—in the nature of work, education, social values, and communication technology—make it harder for dictators to dominate citizens in the old way. Harsh laws and bureaucratic regulati…"-Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
15. Growth: A Reckoning
By: Daniel Susskind
3.92
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethin… read more
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- economics
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- nonfiction
16. Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
By: Michael Taylor
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves t… read more
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- religion
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17. Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ
By: Catherine Nixey
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”— New Yo… read more
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18. Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia
By: Mark Galeotti
4.04
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Absolutely gripping, deeply authoritative, hugely important and lethally lurid’Simon Sebag Montefi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
By: Daniel Chandler
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, ma… read more
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20. The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People
By: Paul Seabright
3.92
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world Rel… read more
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- nonfiction
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21. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
22. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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- history
23. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
By: Nate Silver
3.84
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
24. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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- sociology
25. Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
By: J. Doyne Farmer
4.38
Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Doyne Farmer is the world's leading thinker on technological change. For decades he has focused on… read more
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26. War
By: Bob Woodward
4.43
Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more
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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."-Bob Woodward, War
"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"-Bob Woodward, War
"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"-Bob Woodward, War
"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"-Bob Woodward, War
27. Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
By: Emily Herring
4.55
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individua… read more
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28. Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
By: Harvey Whitehouse
4.27
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
How our evolved psychology has shaped the past, present and future of humanity. Each of us is en… read more
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- sociology
29. The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
By: Richard Dawkins
4.25
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the world's great science writers and a book that reflects on the vast arc of evolutionary … read more
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- history
30. Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years
By: Paula Fredriksen
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to … read more
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