The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC
By: Cleveland Sellers
4.04
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Among histories of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, there are few personal narratives better…
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1. Self-Help
By: Lorrie Moore
4.13
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
From the national bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs —and a master of contemporary American… read more
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"Nightmares have seasons like hurricanes."-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
"We are dealing, she continues, with a mind, as Williams put it, like a bed all made up."-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
"You will forget whoever it was that said never trust a thought doesn't come while walking. But clutch at it. Apartments can shrink inward like drying ponds."-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
"I'm bonkers, aren't I? I ask with my mouth full. You're unhappy, says Mr. Fernandez. It can be the same thing. You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy."-Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
3. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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- race
"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
4. American Psycho
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.16
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming … read more
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5. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
6. The Jungle
By: Upton Sinclair , Earl Lee , None , Kathleen De Grave
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stoc… read more
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- politics
7. Mother Courage and Her Children
By: David Hare , Bertolt Brecht
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her … read more
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9. Every Day (Every Day, #1)
By: David Levithan
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl. There… read more
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10. A Modest Proposal
By: Jonathan Swift
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Thei… read more
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11. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
By: Milan Kundera , Aaron Asher
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the n… read more
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12. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1)
By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have i… read more
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13. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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14. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
By: Tony Horwitz
4.50
Format: None pages,
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle … read more
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15. A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more
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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
16. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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17. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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18. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more
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19. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.73
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more
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"Let us not reason like cowards,"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"There is no story that is not true."-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
20. Dept. of Speculation
By: Jenny Offill
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more
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21. Cursed Bunny
By: Bora Chung
3.78
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more
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"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny
22. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
By: Katherine Angel
4.08
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of Me… read more
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"The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare."-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation."-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Why not aim for sex itself as being deeply mutually pleasurable? Why not aim for a culture that embraces and enables women’s sexual pleasure, in all its complexity, and admits the complexity of male …"-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norm…"-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
23. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
By: Angie Cruz
3.90
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But whe… read more
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"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
24. The Parisian
By: Isabella Hammad
3.59
Format: 710 pages, ebook
As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinia… read more
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"It occurred to Midhat that a tragic story told quickly might contract easily into a comedy, and without the measure of its depths make the audience laugh."-Isabella Hammad, The Parisian
"A few days afterwards, Marian announced that she was joining the volunteer nurses. She was posted at Divonne-Les-Bains on the Swiss border, and in her letters to Jeannette she described the disfigure…"-Isabella Hammad, The Parisian
"For the first time in his life, Midhat wished he were more religious. Of course he prayed, but though that was a private mechanism it sometimes felt like a public act, and the lessons of the Quran we…"-Isabella Hammad, The Parisian
25. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
By: George Monbiot
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more
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26. The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC
By: Cleveland Sellers
4.04
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Among histories of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, there are few personal narratives better… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
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