Tiger Work
By: Ben Okri
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
'Both a work of lyrical imagination and a warning about the dangers we will face unless we take imm…
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1. Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
By: John Gray
3.94
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Straw Dogs is a work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions abou… read more
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- nonfiction
"Outside of science, progress is simply a myth."-John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
"Looking for meaning in history is like looking for patterns in clouds."-John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
"Western though is fixated on the gap between what is and what ought to be."-John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
"In the struggle for life, a taste for truth is a luxury--or else a disability."-John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
2. The Age of Reason
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
4.17
Format: None pages,
The first fully Existentialist fiction by the creator of a philosophical movement that captured the… read more
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3. W, or the Memory of Childhood
By: Georges Perec , David Bellos
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader in… read more
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4. Bobok
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.48
Format: 22 pages, Paperback
"Bobok" (Russian: Бобок, Bobok) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that first appeared in 1873.… read more
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- short stories
"Acho que o mais inteligente é quem ao menos uma vez por mês chama a si mesmo de imbecil — capacidade de que hoje não se ouve falar!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bobok
"I don't like it when people with only a general education rush to solve problems best left to specialists; and that happens all of the time among us."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bobok
5. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- essays
- climate change
- environment
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
6. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
7. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- essays
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
8. Blessings
By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more
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9. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- essays
10. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
11. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
12. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- essays
13. The Other Name: Septology I-II
By: Jon Fosse
4.06
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more
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"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
14. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- essays
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
15. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- poetry
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
16. The Eternal Ones (Deathless, #3)
By: Namina Forna
3.94
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
The dazzling finale to the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling Gilded Ones series. One girl … read more
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17. Bodies
By: Christine Anne Foley
3.81
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
You were everything I ever wanted. Johnny was my first. I was seventeen and I was only brave enough… read more
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18. Clara Reads Proust
By: Stéphane Carlier
3.59
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A tender and witty coming-of-age story about the power of literature to inspire new beginnings, pep… read more
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19. The Amendments
By: Niamh Mulvey
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more
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20. Hold Back the Night
By: Jessica Moor
4.19
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Observer debut novelist of the year, comes a blistering, heart-wrenching new novel of comp… read more
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21. Tiger Work
By: Ben Okri
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
'Both a work of lyrical imagination and a warning about the dangers we will face unless we take imm… read more
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- poetry
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- climate change
- environment
- nature
