The Private Life of the Brain: Emotions, Consciousness, and the Secret Life of the Self
By: Susan A. Greenfield
3.60
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
"Drawing on many different sources-the effects of neurological disorders and injuries, the actions …
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1. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.01
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungr… read more
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"Master, I go hunting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"Bu bir taş. Gerçek Lisan’da ise “tolk"-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra..."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
2. After Dark
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.74
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychologica… read more
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"With luck, it might even snow for us."-Haruki Murakami, After Dark
"The silence is so deep it hurts our ears"-Haruki Murakami, After Dark
"Is it against the law for me to know it?"-Haruki Murakami, After Dark
"Are you asking because you really want an answer?"-Haruki Murakami, After Dark
3. The Spinoza Problem
By: Irvin D. Yalom
4.25
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic rema… read more
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- philosophy
- psychology
"Dom nije mjesto - to je stanje svijesti."-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem
"Omul fiind in totalitate parte a naturii, este incorect sa credem ca omul mai degraba tulbura, decat sa respecte ordinea naturii."-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem
"…It seems impossible to overestimate their capacity for irrationality. Somewhere in this world, with every blink of the eye, a fool is born."-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem
"تمام قوم اسرائیل در نگرش محترمانه خود به تورات، در همان گناهی دخیل بودند که خدا به وسیله موسی به آنها هشدار داده بود: بت برستی. در همه جا یهودیان نه بت هایی طلایی بلکه بت هایی از «کاغذ و جوهر» را می …"-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem
4. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.35
Format: 26 pages,
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Timesbestseller and international ph… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
5. The Myth of Sisyphus
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"A fate is not a punishment."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"there are truths but no truth"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"To will is to stir up paradoxes"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
6. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole #2)
By: Sue Townsend
3.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
At sixteen, Adrian Mole's life continues to be nothing but a set of tragic circumstances: His tempe… read more
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7. Brighton Rock
By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more
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8. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The N… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- psychology
- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
9. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
10. Existentialism Is a Humanism
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
11. Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole, #6)
By: Sue Townsend
3.12
Format: None pages,
Adrian Mole, now age thirty-four and three quarters, needs proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of… read more
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12. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1)
By: Sue Townsend
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his … read more
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"I think Jane Austen should write something a bit more modern."-Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1)
"Adrian Mole's diary Easter Poor Jesus, it must have been dead awful for him. I wouldn't have the guts to do it myself."-Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1)
13. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
By: Cordelia Fine
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
It's the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children--boys who play with do… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
14. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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15. Midnight’s Children
By: Salman Rushdie
3.98
Format: 647 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more
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"Life again refused to remain lifesized"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
16. Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
By: George Newbern , Luke Dittrich
3.50
Format: 140 pages,
For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksand The Hare with Amber Eyescomes a propulsive, … read more
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17. 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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18. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
By: Michael Greger , Gene Stone
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the… read more
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19. Blue Nights
By: Joan Didion
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more
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20. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
21. Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (Adrian Mole, #4)
By: Sue Townsend
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Adrian Mole has at last reached physical maturity, but he can't help roaming the pages of his diary… read more
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22. Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (Adrian Mole, #8)
By: Sue Townsend
3.81
Format: 75 pages, Hardcover
When we last heard from Adrian, he had fallen in love with Daisy Flowers and they had embarked on a… read more
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23. Measuring the World
By: Daniel Kehlmann , Carol Brown Janeway
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the live… read more
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24. True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole (Adrian Mole, #3)
By: Sue Townsend
4.30
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
Adrian Mole has grown up. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clingin… read more
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25. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
By: Reni Eddo-Lodge
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more
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26. Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: A Renowned Neurologist Explains the Mystery and Drama of Brain Disease
By: Allan H. Ropper , Brian David Burrell
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Tell the doctor where it hurts." It sounds simple enough, unless the problem affects the very orga… read more
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27. The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
By: Ichiro Kishimi
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our re… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
"All you can do in regard to your own life is choose the best path that you believe in."-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
"But is being normal, being ordinary, really such a bad thing? Is it something inferior? Or, in truth, isn't everybody normal?"-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
"Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn’t that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you are lacking in the courage to be happy."-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
"Look, no matter how much you want to be Y, you cannot be reborn as him. You are not Y. It's okay for you to be you. However, I am not saying it's fine to be 'just as you are'. If you are unable to re…"-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
28. Milkman
By: Anna Burns
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attem… read more
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"how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man"-Anna Burns, Milkman
"It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so."-Anna Burns, Milkman
29. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
30. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
By: Stephen Fry
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Mythos is a modern collection of Greek myths, stylishly retold by legendary writer, actor, and come… read more
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- nonfiction
"Green fingers are better than gold."-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
"Goodness me. You don’t ask for the moon, do you?"-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
"Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable."-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
"For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite."-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
31. The Private Life of the Brain: Emotions, Consciousness, and the Secret Life of the Self
By: Susan A. Greenfield
3.60
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
"Drawing on many different sources-the effects of neurological disorders and injuries, the actions … read more
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- medical
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- medicine
- psychology
- philosophy
- neuroscience
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- nonfiction
- popular science
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