A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance
By: Parvez Sharma
3.43
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
From the recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow Based on the New York Times ' Critic Pick documenta…
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1. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more
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2. The Fat Years
By: Chan Koonchung
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
TRUTH IS NOT AN OPTION.... Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from offi… read more
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3. Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date
By: Katie Heaney
3.91
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"I've been single for my entire life. Not one boyfriend. Not one short-term dating situation. Not o… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
4. In a Sunburned Country
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out… read more
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- history
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Reflections on the Psalms
By: C.S. Lewis
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
6. What Happened
By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
4.50
Format: 191 pages,
"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I w… read more
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7. My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (My Brother's Husband Omnibus, #1)
By: Gengoroh Tagame , Anne Ishii
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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8. Saga, Volume 10
By: Brian K. Vaughan
4.31
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back, and they’ve made some new...frien… read more
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9. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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- nonfiction
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
10. The Burnout Generation
By: Anne Helen Petersen
3.18
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
1 hora y 47 minutos. In January 2019, culture writer Anne Helen Petersen set the Internet on fir… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
12. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- history
- memoir
- audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
13. The Foghorn Echoes
By: Danny Ramadan
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout tha… read more
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"The story within me aches like an untreated wound. It's unheard and I need to speak it. It roams my insides like a caged animal gasping for air. It trembles."-Danny Ramadan, The Foghorn Echoes
14. Emergency Skin
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.03
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subver… read more
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"We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren't meant to keep he undesirable out, but to hoard resources …"-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin
"No, there’s no one left alive on Tellus. The planet was in full environmental collapse across every biome when our people left. There were just too many people, and too many of those were unfit, infi…"-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin
15. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By: Michael Finkel
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
16. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more
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- history
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- queer
"Gay is the opium of the people."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
17. A Burning
By: Megha Majumdar
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three … read more
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"I am opening a card as if it is a flap of my heart. Opening and closing the card, opening and closing the card – I am ready for my heart to be tearing at the fold."-Megha Majumdar, A Burning
18. Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
By: Tara Schuster
3.89
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Brutally honest, often hilarious, hard-won lessons in learning to love and care for yourself from a… read more
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- audiobook
"Life is not a series of crises to be endured. Life is to be enjoyed."-Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
"The thing about moving," he said, "is it's a good way to shake loose whatever old baggage you have, or the old things that were true about yourself, and decide what you want to be true about yourself…"-Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
"I think we all suffer from the societal pressure to always be occupied. Busy is worn as a badge of honor these days, the busier we are, the more important we feel. But busy doesn't mean important, bu…"-Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
19. Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
By: Marlon James
3.45
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to… read more
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"What a day when a man tell me what to do."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
"You could have a family of one and still drive them apart."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
"Because at the end of a true story, there is nothing but waste."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
"Why should anybody want anybody? Just have nothing, just need nothing."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
20. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
By: Jonathan Van Ness
4.19
Format: 6 pages, Audiobook
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The tr… read more
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- audiobook
"At the end of the day, the people we let in our space affect our ability to get to where we want to go, so if they're in the way of realizing your potential, it's okay to disconnect because you must …"-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
"I hope culturally we can continue to normalize the idea that being a survivor is so much more common than anyone realizes and we all deserve to be heard, but more importantly are deserving of a recov…"-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
"My joy and my accomplishments existed, and so did the pain from my abuse. How can we feel one without the other? Joyful accomplishments exist next to painful memories. I found a lot of my healing whe…"-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
"You know those plants that are always trying to find the light? Maybe they were planted in a location that didn’t necessarily facilitate growth, but inexplicably they make a circuitous route to not o…"-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
21. A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance
By: Parvez Sharma
3.43
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
From the recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow Based on the New York Times ' Critic Pick documenta… read more
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- history
- memoir
- lgbt
- travel
- religion
- nonfiction
- queer
