7 best-selling classics books like A Night Out with Robert Burns by Robert Burns

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A Night Out with Robert Burns

By: Robert Burns

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A nice collection of poetry filled with Scottish sentimentalism and patriotism as one would expect …

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1. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

By: Peter Guralnick

4.16

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of th… read more

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2. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Robert Mighall

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the featu… read more

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  • classics
"I was still cursed with my duality of purpose."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that …"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

3. The Prose Edda

By: Snorri Sturluson , Jesse L. Byock

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?' The Prose Eddais the most… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics

4. A History of the World in 6 Glasses

By: Tom Standage

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standa… read more

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5. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

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6. 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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  • classics
"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

7. Born to Run

By: Bruce Springsteen

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The e… read more

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8. A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more

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  • classics
"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

9. Selected Poems

By: W.B. Yeats , John Kelly

3.27

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

"All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: " "One time it was a woman's face, or worse-" "T… read more

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10. The Living Mountain

By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more

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11. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner

3.89

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more

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  • classics
"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

12. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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13. Passing

By: Nella Larsen

3.93

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more

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  • classics
"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

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14. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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15. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

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"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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16. Herc

By: Phoenicia Rogerson

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favouri… read more

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17. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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18. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

By: Lana Del Rey

3.98

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over … read more

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  • poetry
"Live your life like no one’s listening"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"You don't want to be forgotten You just want to disappear"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"Stay on your path Sylvia Plath don't fall away like all the others"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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19. Young Mungo

By: Douglas Stuart

4.38

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more

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"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

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20. Lie With Me

By: Philippe Besson

4.26

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more

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"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

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21. The Gentleman From Peru

By: André Aciman

3.56

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more

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22. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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23. Medusa

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, feminist retelling of Greek myth from the internationally bestselling author of The Min… read more

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"I'd never known a change that wasn't monstrous."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"I was lonely and I was angry, and rage and loneliness can end up tasting the same."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"I'm a half-finished map and I'm always trying to plot my points, and I won't have anyone do it for me."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"Sometimes, not even folding yourself into the smallest, littlest shape is enough. So you might as well stay the size you're supposed to be"

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

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24. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more

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"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

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25. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

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"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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26. Different for Boys

By: Patrick Ness

3.82

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

Friendship, masculinity, sex—Anthony Stevenson has a lot of questions. Is it different for boys who… read more

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"We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

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27. Bored Gay Werewolf

By: Tony Santorella

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more

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28. Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania

By: Paul Kenyon

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The only country in Eastern Europe to speak a Latin language, Romania has always felt itself differ… read more

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29. The Cat Prince: & Other Poems

By: Michael Pedersen

3.69

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

'Pedersen bends words like no-one else. There's a naughtiness, an innocence and surprising vulnerab… read more

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  • poetry
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30. A Night Out with Robert Burns

By: Robert Burns

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A nice collection of poetry filled with Scottish sentimentalism and patriotism as one would expect … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics

8 Top history books like The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, Jesse L. Byock

Transform Your Habits

The Saga of the Volsungs with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok

Jackson Crawford , Jackson Crawford

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Poetic Edda

Anonymous , Lee M. Hollander

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Egil's Saga

Anonymous , Bernard Scudder , Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir , Egill Skallagrímsson

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok

Ben Waggoner

3.26

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