Yachts and Things
By: Truman Capote
3.19
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
Capote's previously lost and unpublished tale "Yachts and Things" was recently discovered by Vanity…
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1. First Love
By: Constance Garnett , Ivan Turgenev
3.77
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
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- classics
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"Jealous Othello, ready for murder, was suddenly transformed into a schoolboy."-Constance Garnett, First Love
"I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;"-Constance Garnett, First Love
"I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it."-Constance Garnett, First Love
"Aprovéchate todo lo que puedas, pero no te entregues tú mismo: el sentido de la vida es no pertenecer a nadie más que a si mismo."-Constance Garnett, First Love
2. Gargantua and Pantagruel
By: François Rabelais , M.A. Screech
3.66
Format: 1041 pages, Paperback
The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their … read more
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- classics
- fiction
"gülmektir çünkü insanı insan eden"-François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
"El hombre no val más de lo que él mismo estima."-François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
"Aux lecteurs: Amis lecteurs, qui ce livre lisez, Despouillez vous de toute affection; Et, le lisant, ne vous scandalisez: Il ne contient mal ne infection; Vray est qu'icy peu de perfection Vous appre…"-François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
"Panurge stood beside the galley with an oar in his hand, not to help the herdsmen but to prevent from from somehow clambering aboard and thus escaping their death, and all the while preached to them …"-François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
3. If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
By: Scott Brick , Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Kevin T. Collins
3.87
Format: 144 pages, MP3 CD
Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers o… read more
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- classics
- short stories
- audiobook
"Any brain worth a nickel knows books are good for us."-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
"There is only one rule that I know, goddamn it, you've got to be kind."-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
"Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'."-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
4. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
5. Factotum
By: Charles Bukowski
3.93
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
One of Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of as… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"عشق به درد آدمهای واقعی میخورد."-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"You bitch," I whispered, "I love you." Then I came."-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession."-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"Моята пияна от бира душа е по-тъжна от всички мъртви коледни елхи по света"-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
6. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
By: Margaret Atwood
3.90
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real w… read more
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"Art was a kind of demonic possession. Art would dance you to death. It would move in and take you over, and then destroy you."-Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
"I had a boyfriend once who sent me--in a plastic bag, so it wouldn't drip--a real cow's heart with a real arrow stuck through it. As you may divine, he knew I was interested in poetry."-Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
"There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté."-Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
"There was also, as it turned out, the dismay of my parents to be reckoned with: their tolerance about caterpillars and beetles and other non-human life forms did not quite extend to artists."-Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
7. In Praise of Women's Bodies (Singles Classic)
By: Gloria Steinem
4.13
Format: 9 pages, Kindle Edition
It’s a truism, for instance, that a few clothes are more shocking than none. But for women especial… read more
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"But for women especially, bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can’t possi…"-Gloria Steinem, In Praise of Women's Bodies (Singles Classic)
8. The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Allen Cave
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal … read more
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- classics
- fiction
9. Night Train to Lisbon
By: Pascal Mercier , Barbara Harshav
4.09
Format: 129 pages, Hardcover
A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to … read more
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- fiction
10. Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis
3.75
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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- classics
11. The Judgement
By: Franz Kafka
3.83
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
"The judgment" is considered the most autobiographical of Kafka's stories. First, there are Kafka's… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- short stories
12. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
13. At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #11)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: 377 pages, Paperback
An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out! When Miss Marple comes up … read more
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14. The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
By: Charles Bukowski
3.73
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of Am… read more
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15. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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16. James Moriarty, Consulting Criminal
By: Andy Weir
3.56
Format: 256 pages,
His razor-sharp intellect, uncanny powers of deduction, and knowledge of the criminal underground a… read more
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19. On the Decay of the Art of Lying
By: Mark Twain
3.00
Format: 18 pages, Hardcover
On the Decay of the Art of Lyingis a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1885 for a meeting of the… read more
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20. 2BR02B
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.43
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
2BR02B is a satiric short story that imagines life & death in a future world where aging has been "… read more
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21. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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- audiobook
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
22. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
By: Michael Pollan
3.72
Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio
Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more
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"Anders burst our laughing. He covered his mouth with both hands and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," then snorted helplessly through his fingers and said, " Capiche - oh, God, capiche," and at that..."-Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain
24. Zero Tolerance
By: James Patterson
3.55
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Sergeant Jo Barnes (Hilary Swank) and her elite, all-female US Army investigative team are renowned… read more
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25. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
By: Laurence Leamer
3.83
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more
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26. The Getaway
By: Greer Hendricks
3.32
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
In this short thriller from number one 'New York Times' best-selling authors Greer Hendricks and Sa… read more
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27. We Are the Water People
By: Troy Onyango
3.24
Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio
From critically acclaimed author Troy Onyango comes a dark, suspenseful tale of spirits bearing wit… read more
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28. The Three Students
By: Ellery Queen
3.04
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Three college students accused of stealing an engagement ring. A rhyming clue is left behind, which… read more
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29. Yachts and Things
By: Truman Capote
3.19
Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio
Capote's previously lost and unpublished tale "Yachts and Things" was recently discovered by Vanity… read more
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30. Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
By: Stephen Fry
4.42
Format: 400 pages, ebook
The final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling th… read more
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31. The Honest Swindler
By: Ellery Queen
3.13
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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