The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government
By: Philip K. Howard
3.75
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: “What’s the right thing…
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1. We
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more
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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
2. Stuart Little
By: E.B. White , Garth Williams
3.90
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! Stuart Little is no o… read more
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"Well,"-E.B. White, Stuart Little
"Very fine law,"-E.B. White, Stuart Little
"(Not every doctor can look into a mouse's ear without laughing)"-E.B. White, Stuart Little
"A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if it’s mother keeps it tidy,"-E.B. White, Stuart Little
3. Starship Troopers
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.01
Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more
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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
4. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
By: Erik Larson
3.86
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hit… read more
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5. If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
By: Brenda Ueland
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In her 93 remarkable years, Brenda Ueland published six million words. She said she had two rules s… read more
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6. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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- political science
- history
- nonfiction
7. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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8. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more
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- nonfiction
9. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
10. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
11. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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12. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
13. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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- economics
- history
14. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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- history
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15. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
By: Daniel James Brown
4.49
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga… read more
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- history
16. The Starless Crown (Moonfall, #1)
By: James Rollins
3.79
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save thei… read more
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17. The Man Who Lived Underground
By: Richard Wright
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Fred Daniels, un jeune homme noir, se fait arrêter par la police à la fin d’une journée de travail,… read more
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"Jesus, take me to your blessed home above and wrap me in the bosom of thy love..."-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"This tendency of freely juxtaposing totally unrelated images and symbols and then tying them into some overall concept, mood, feeling, is a trait of Negro thinking and that has always fascinated me."-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"Yes, the only being who could possibly gaze down upon such a hopeless spectacle and encompass its meaninglessness would have to be a god. That was it! Maybe men had invented gods to feel what they co…"-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
"What was this sense of guilt so seemingly innate, so easy to come by, to think, to feel, so verily physical? It seemed that when one felt this guilt one was but retracing in one’s living a faint patt…"-Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground
18. This America: The Case for the Nation
By: Jill Lepore
4.05
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case f… read more
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- history
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"There have always been those who argued that the end justifies the means, that the means aren’t really important,"-Jill Lepore, This America: The Case for the Nation
19. The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government
By: Philip K. Howard
3.75
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: “What’s the right thing… read more
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- government
- political science
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20. 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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