Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power, Germany 1918
By: Volker Weidermann
3.84
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A Spectator Book of the Year History that reads like a novel: the story of the writers and intel…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. Histoire de la violence
By: Édouard Louis
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
J’ai rencontré Reda un soir de Noël. Je rentrais chez moi après un repas avec des amis, vers quatre… read more
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"I’m sorry, monsieur, but now this is a criminal proceeding. It’s out of your hands."-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence
"I’ve been trying to construct a memory that would let me undo the past, that would amplify it and destroy it, so that the more I remember and the more I lose myself in the images that remain, the les…"-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence
"I know from experience that the isolation of those who try to forget the past is as terrible as the isolation of those for whom the past is an obsession; I’ve learned that the question is never wheth…"-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence
"I was sure that if I kept acting like a trauma victim, that’s what I’d become the effects would be even worse and would last longer. Meanwhile my body knew exactly what was going on. I told Clara: th…"-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence
3. Storm of Steel
By: Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only … read more
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- world war i
- nonfiction
- history
4. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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5. Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem
By: Philip Kerr
3.88
Format: None pages,
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- germany
6. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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- german literature
- germany
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
7. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
8. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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9. Doctor Faustus
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
3.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now rendered into English by acclaimed … read more
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10. The World of Yesterday
By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more
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11. The Origins of the Irish
By: J.P. Mallory
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
About eighty million people today can trace their descent back to the occupants of Ireland. But whe… read more
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12. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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- german literature
- history
- politics
- germany
- nonfiction
- european history
"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
13. Grand Hotel Europa
By: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
4.04
Format: 547 pages, Hardcover
Pfeijffer diagnosticeert de tijdgeest in een kolossale roman met Europa als speelveld ‘De toekom… read more
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"El fenómeno del turismo es la problematización extrema del ya de por si problemático concepto de autenticidad"-Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Grand Hotel Europa
"Para una cultura anquilosada en el pasado, la nostalgia de viejos valores no es la medicina, sino la enfermedad."-Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Grand Hotel Europa
"Je zou de geschiedenis van Europa kunnen beschrijven als een geschiedenis van terugverlangen naar de geschiedenis."-Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Grand Hotel Europa
"De liefde van mijn leven leeft in het verleden. Dat is ondanks de alliteratie een vreselijke zin om te moeten schrijven."-Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Grand Hotel Europa
14. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
By: Timothy Garton Ash
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more
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- european history
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
15. Windstärke 17
By: Caroline Wahl
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Ida hat nichts bei sich außer dem alten, verschrammten Hartschalenkoffer ihrer Mutter, ein paar Lie… read more
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16. La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Un magistral roman d'apprentissage, une saisissante enquête sur les traces d'un mystérieux auteur m… read more
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"Nunca intentes decir de qué habla un gran libro. O si lo haces, la única respuesta posible es: de nada."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"He alcanzado el estado terminal de la inmigración: simplemente ya no creo en la posibilidad del regreso."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Estuvo tanto tiempo en el exilio - medio siglo! - que nos decíamos que debía de haberse dejado una parte de sí mismo por el camino"-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Nos apetece hablar de todo, menos del exilio. De todas formas, no hay nada que decir sobre el exilio. No conozco un tema más molesto en este mundo."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
17. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
By: Steven Levitsky
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more
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"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
18. The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
By: Richard J. Evans
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler… read more
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- european history
19. We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right
By: Mark Galeotti
3.80
Format: 160 pages, ebook
A The Times best book of 2019 'In fewer than 150 pithy pages, Galeotti sketches a bleak, but con… read more
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"Those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those who do regret it have no brain."-Mark Galeotti, We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right
"Russians can be unhappy, yet still loyal. Putin is to a large extent being rated not as a man, not even as a politician, but as an icon of Russia. To vote for him is not to endorse a program, but to …"-Mark Galeotti, We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right
"Putin has no ideological commitment to anything, really, and so has no reason to try to impose totalitarianism. Ideologists are, after all, the scariest kinds of rulers, because they want to dictate …"-Mark Galeotti, We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right
20. La ciudad prometida
By: Valentina Şcerbani
3.42
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Una novela fascinante sobre la pérdida y la esperanza, sobre la adolescencia y el fin de la pureza,… read more
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21. Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power, Germany 1918
By: Volker Weidermann
3.84
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A Spectator Book of the Year History that reads like a novel: the story of the writers and intel… read more
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- world war i
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- politics
- germany
- nonfiction
- european history
