War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance
By: Daniel Akst
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Pacifists who fought against the Second World War faced insurmountable odds—but their resistance, p…
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1. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
By: Paul Theroux
3.89
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more
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"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to se…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
"I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts--cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions p…"-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
2. Salt: A World History
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.11
Format: None pages,
From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more
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3. Lit
By: Mary Karr
3.44
Format: 216 pages,
Litfollows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness--and her astonishing resu… 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. Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb
By: Mike Davis
4.50
Format: None pages,
On a September day in 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda exploded a horse-drawn wago… read more
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6. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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7. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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8. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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9. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
10. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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11. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
By: Nellie Bowles
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more
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12. Tread of Angels
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
3.48
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Celeste, a card sharp with a penchant for trouble, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defen… read more
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"He’s playing some kind of game. One I haven’t quite unraveled yet. But I know a man looking to cheat when I see one, and Ibrahim is as sharp as they come. But he’s underestimated me, Mariel. Underest…"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Tread of Angels
13. 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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14. Tastes Like War
By: Grace M. Cho
3.92
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess… read more
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15. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
By: Susan Wels
3.33
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more
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16. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955
By: Harald Jähner
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more
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17. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
By: Matthew Gabriele
3.65
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle … read more
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18. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
By: Margaret A. Burnham
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, … read more
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19. The Romance of American Communism
By: Vivian Gornick
4.34
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Writer and critic Vivian Gornick's classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to Am… read more
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"My father had a sister, Mady, who had married badly and ‘ruined her life.’ Her story was a classic. She had fallen in love before the war with an American adventurer, married him against her family’s…"-Vivian Gornick, The Romance of American Communism
20. The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
By: Bradley Hope
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How did an Ivy League activist become a global fugitive? The tale of a self-taught operative and hi… read more
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21. Reading Genesis
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.10
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more
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22. Acceptance: A Memoir
By: Emi Nietfeld
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more
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"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
23. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
By: Oren Kessler
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more
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24. Light of the Jedi
By: Charles Soule
3.93
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before the Clone Wars...Jedi lit the way for the ga… read more
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"Peace without justice is flawed, hollow at its core."-Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi
"No matter what a person was on the outside. Inside, everyone was made of light."-Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi
"When someone was hurting, you did what you could to heal them. When someone was lost, you found them."-Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi
"If you said you would try to do something, people heard that as you would do something, and if you didn't achieve the goal then they thought you had failed. And blamed you for trying at all. It wasn'…"-Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi
25. Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
By: Ben Smith
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, J… read more
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26. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
By: Kerry Howley
3.81
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more
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"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
27. The Rising Storm (Star Wars: The High Republic)
By: Cavan Scott
4.14
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
The heroes of the High Republic era return to face a shattered peace and a fearsome foe, following … read more
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28. The Gospels: A New Translation
By: Sarah Ruden
4.35
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An "electrifying [and] compulsively readable" new translation of the Gospels, destined to become a… read more
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29. What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
By: Carlos Lozada
4.00
Format: 8 pages, Audiobook
In this “crisp, engaging, and very smart” (The New York Times Book Review) work, The Washington Pos… read more
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"Trump is the sun around which all forms of conservatism now revolve, along orbits of submission, derision, and revision. And yet the Trump era’s most illuminating case for conservatism is one that ba…"-Carlos Lozada, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
30. War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance
By: Daniel Akst
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Pacifists who fought against the Second World War faced insurmountable odds—but their resistance, p… read more
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31. 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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