The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future
By: Robert L. Kelly
3.97
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
“I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow.” This inscription in Tutankhamun’s tomb summarizes The Fi…
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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. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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3. Dawn (The Night Trilogy #2)
By: Elie Wiesel , Frances Frenaye
3.66
Format: 320 pages,
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-contr… read more
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4. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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5. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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6. Binti (Binti, #1)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.95
Format: 145 pages, ebook
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza Uni… read more
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7. Marx's Concept of Man
By: Erich Fromm , T.B. Bottomore
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A provocative new view of Marx stressing his humanist philosophy and challenging both Soviet distor… read more
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8. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more
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"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
9. The Interpretation of Cultures
By: Clifford Geertz
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far bey… read more
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10. Exit West
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more
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11. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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12. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By: Rebecca Skloot
4.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henriet… read more
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13. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By: Douglas Adams
3.00
Format: 9 pages,
At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams's Hitchhik… read more
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14. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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15. Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
By: Daniel E. Lieberman
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging s… read more
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"Eating sensibly and exercising don't guarantee long life and good health; they just decrease the risk of getting sick."-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
"The mantra of this book is that nothing about the biology of exercise makes sense except in the light of evolution, and nothing about exercise as a behavior makes sense except in the light of anthrop…"-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
"We evolved to be physically active as we age, and in turn being active helps us age well. Further, the longer we stay active, the greater the benefit, and it is almost never too late to benefit from …"-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
"For generation after generation, our ancestors young and old woke up each morning thankful to be alive and with no choice but to spend several hous walking, digging, and doing other physical activiti…"-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
16. The Deep
By: Rivers Solomon
3.78
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more
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"What is belonging?"-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Forgetting was not the same as healing."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
17. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
By: Hans Rosling
4.36
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporti… read more
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"Free access to data doesn’t turn into knowledge without effort"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Something frightening poses a perceived risk. Something dangerous poses a real risk."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"We like to believe that things happen because someone wanted them to, that individuals have power and agency: otherwise, the world feels unpredictable, confusing, and frightening."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Does saying "things are improving" imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It'…"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
18. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
19. The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
By: Mark Synnott
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
***NPR Books We Love selection*** “If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make… read more
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20. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
By: Bryan Burrough
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths,… read more
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21. The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future
By: Robert L. Kelly
3.97
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
“I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow.” This inscription in Tutankhamun’s tomb summarizes The Fi… read more
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