The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History
By: Jeffrey Burton Russell
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles - throughout history the Prince of Darkness, the Western …
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1. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
2. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.93
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intenti… read more
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- nonfiction
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3. The Revolt of the Angels
By: Anatole France , Wilfrid Jackson
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An angel, Arcade, leaves heaven, comes to earth, uses his invisibility to steal books from a librar… read more
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4. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
By: Thomas Nagel
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Mind and CosmosThomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
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5. The Bad Popes
By: E.R. Chamberlin
4.18
Format: 306 pages,
Let yourself be swept up by this colorful, panoramic story of seven men who ruled the Church of Rom… read more
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- christianity
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6. The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics
By: Elaine Pagels
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the Nat… read more
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7. We
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more
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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
8. Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow: 1864-1896
By: James Lincoln Collier , Christopher Collier
3.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
History is dramatic -- and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincol… read more
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- history
9. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
10. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.32
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more
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"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
11. Propaganda
By: Edward L. Bernays
3.41
Format: 549 pages, Paperback
"Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and infl… read more
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12. The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
By: Al Álvarez
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
"Suicide," writes the notes English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like… read more
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13. The Satanic Bible
By: Anton Szandor LaVey
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Satanic Biblewas first published by Anton LaVey in 1969. It is a collection of essays, observat… read more
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14. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
15. A Farewell to Arms
By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more
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16. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
17. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
18. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
19. Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds
By: Jacques F. Vallée
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Over two decades ago, eminent scientist Vallee wrote a provocative book about alleged UFO landings,… read more
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20. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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- history
21. Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection
By: Junji Ito
4.11
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A collection full of grotesque imagination and surreal urban legends. Every night, a young man hea… read more
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22. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
23. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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- psychology
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
24. Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection
By: Junji Ito
4.23
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
FRESH NIGHTMARES BROUGHT TO YOU BY HORROR MASTER JUNJI ITO. Countless tombstones stand in rows, … read more
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25. Mimi's Tales of Terror
By: Hirokatsu Kihara
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Experience real-life chills as Junji Ito brings these “true” horror series to life! University s… read more
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26. Soichi
By: Junji Ito
3.92
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
“I’LL GET YOU FOR THIS… I’LL SHOW YOU TRUE HORROR!” Soichi, the unhinged second son of the Tsuji… read more
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27. Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy
By: Costin Alamariu
3.97
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
This is an argument that philosophy is born with and dependent on the idea of nature; and that this… read more
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28. The Death of Omnipotence and Birth of Amipotence
By: Thomas Jay Oord
4.37
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Omnipotence is dead. At least it should be. It has no biblical support. And it dies a death of a t… read more
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29. Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome
By: Stephen Dando-Collins
3.63
Format: None pages, ebook
Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, … read more
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30. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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31. The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History
By: Jeffrey Burton Russell
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles - throughout history the Prince of Darkness, the Western … read more
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