Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal
By: Hanna Garth
4.18
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
2. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
3. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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4. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Sing, Unburied, Sing
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2017 A searing and profound Southern odyssey. In Jesm… read more
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6. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more
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7. The Trial
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir
3.95
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more
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"But I’m not guilty,"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"Asking questions were the most important thing."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
8. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
9. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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10. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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11. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
12. Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds
By: None
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
One of the most enduring myths on the Nigerian Femme Fatale - mammy-water, 'winch' or husband-snatc… read more
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13. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
By: Sidney W. Mintz
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
Traces the history of sugar production and consumption, examines its relationship with slavery, cla… read more
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14. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more
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15. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
16. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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17. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
18. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By: Dan Saladino
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
19. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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20. Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more
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"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
21. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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22. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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- nonfiction
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
23. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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- essays
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
24. 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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- nonfiction
- essays
"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
25. All This Could Be Different
By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's mo… read more
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"The world has ended a thousand times and my name called in each new book of it."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"The world we knew has always been half-terrible, made as it is by the powerful, for the powerful. We were crowning a different one. Its birth would not be easy; no birth was."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"This is my tragedy and my great good fortune, to be the recipient of this bond, to be kept alive under its crushing warmth and weight, to be given it so freely, so much more than I have ever deserved."-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
"I use the present tense, but I mean, that’s the way I remember it, and these are the things I learned about it, later, and the two combined have formed my truth of a place. We all have our truth of a…"-Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different
26. Deacon King Kong
By: James McBride
4.17
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer and the people who… read more
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"You’ve got to be strong to get old."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"Friendship was trouble in business."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"A man ain’t got to stand in church every Sunday to do God’s work."-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
"Is your cheese this good? This wasn’t plain old housing projects “cheese food"-James McBride, Deacon King Kong
27. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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- social justice
28. No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
By: Alicia Kennedy
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the sub… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
By: Rebecca May Johnson
3.75
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Cooking is thinking!The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the car… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- essays
"Mrs Beeton writes in anticipation of her absence."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
"Cooking by the recipe a thousand times and more gives me this insight into language and its relation to living things."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
"Cooking is the tool I use to draw close to other people, though closeness makes me anxious. Cooking is how I manage closeness."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
"What I want for the people I cook for is for them to enjoy their own perversions at the table, to feel free to exhibit a lack of constraint."-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
30. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
By: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and … read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
"Everywhere we go, no matter how hard we try to avoid it, capitalism follows us."-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
"Science is supposedly about asking questions, except about scientists and how science is done."-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
"Access to a dark night sky—to see and be inspired by the universe as it really is—should be a human right, not a luxury for the chosen few."-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
31. Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal
By: Hanna Garth
4.18
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
“Garth’s in-depth and intimate ethnography portrays the shortcomings in Cuba’s welfare system, and … read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- anthropology
