London: A Social History
By: Roy Porter
3.78
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
This is a one-volume history of the city of London from Roman times to the late-20th century. Londo…
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1. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.22
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degre… read more
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"Your relationship to mortality is your own."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"In spite of my fear of living, I chose not to die."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
2. Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
By: Orlando Figes
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it … read more
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3. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
By: Antony Beevor
4.32
Format: 494 pages, Paperback
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more
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4. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- british literature
5. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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6. 84, Charing Cross Road
By: Helene Hanff
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspo… read more
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7. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
By: C.J. Sansom
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more
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8. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
9. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
10. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
11. A Line to Kill (Hawthorne & Horowitz #3)
By: Anthony Horowitz
3.93
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sente… read more
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12. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)
By: Louise Penny
4.46
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louis… read more
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"They didn’t need proof. All a woman had to be was alive. Just being a woman was, in the church’s eyes, evil."-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)
"He look at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows and bright blues all intermingled. They formed no image, and he got no feeling. He closed his eyes and paused. When he open th…"-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)
13. State of Terror
By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
4.09
Format: 495 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thril… read more
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14. The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)
By: Louise Penny
4.19
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
You’re a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Arma… read more
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"As a diversion, few things were as effective as chocolate cake."-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)
"Armand knew the terror of that first step. He also knew that the key to a full life was taking it. The trick wasn't necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage."-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)
"Isabelle [Lacoste] sat quietly for a moment, looking into the naked woods. Only in the winter was it possible to see both the forest and the trees. Homicide, she thought, was a perpetual winter."-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)
"[Daniel and Annie] offered to stay on, but both Reine-Marie and Armand had said that it would probably be best if they returned when there wasn't a murderer among them. Which, in Three Pines, might p…"-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)
15. London: A Social History
By: Roy Porter
3.78
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
This is a one-volume history of the city of London from Roman times to the late-20th century. Londo… read more
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- sociology
