Confessions of a Book Reviewer
By: George Orwell
3.89
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Where some of Orwell’s old interest in the starving writer crops up, now mixed with the wintry gloo…
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1. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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- literature
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
2. The Egg
By: Andy Weir
3.41
Format: None pages, ebook
A short story about the universe. read more
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- short stories
3. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
By: David Foster Wallace
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement a… read more
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- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
4. The Myth of Sisyphus
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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- essays
"A fate is not a punishment."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"there are truths but no truth"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"To will is to stir up paradoxes"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
5. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
6. The Tell-Tale Heart
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None
4.24
Format: 31 pages, Library Binding
A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more
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"would a madman have been so wise as this?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
7. Time's Arrow
By: Martin Amis
4.33
Format: None pages,
In Time's Arrowthe doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his l… read more
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- literature
8. Voyage of the Beagle
By: Charles Darwin , Janet Browne , Michael Neve
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
s/t: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches When the Beaglesailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1… read more
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- nonfiction
9. A Man Without a Country
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -Los Angeles… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
10. Utopia
By: Paul Turner , Thomas More
3.55
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more
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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."-Paul Turner, Utopia
11. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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- literature
12. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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- literature
13. Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
By: Simon Callow
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Simon Callow offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language, b… read more
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14. Uncle Vanya
By: Anton Chekhov
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more
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15. The Elements of Style
By: E.B. White , William Strunk Jr.
4.18
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is … read more
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"He owned"-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"To achieve style, begin by affecting none."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
"When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor."-E.B. White, The Elements of Style
16. The Seagull
By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more
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17. The People of the Abyss
By: Jack London
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author's preface: "The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902… read more
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18. Ghosts
By: Henrik Ibsen
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"Ghosts" is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her decease… read more
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19. The House of the Dead
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Ergin Altay
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of h… read more
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20. Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
By: Gabriel Wyner
4.23
Format: None pages,
The ultimate rapid language-learning guide! For those who've despaired of ever learning a foreign l… read more
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21. Apology
By: Plato , James J. Helm
4.20
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more
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"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."-Plato, Apology
"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."-Plato, Apology
"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."-Plato, Apology
"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."-Plato, Apology
22. Tokyo Express
By: Seichō Matsumoto
3.68
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more
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23. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
By: Brian Klaas
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews w… read more
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24. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
25. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
By: Douglas Murray
4.21
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technol… read more
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26. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
By: George Stephanopoulos
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more
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27. Dark Days
By: James Baldwin
4.40
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more
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"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
28. Thatcher’s Spy: My Life as an MI5 Agent Inside Sinn Féin
By: Willie Carlin
4.02
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
Early one morning in March 1985, as he climbed the six steps of Margaret Thatcher’s prime-ministeri… read more
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29. This Land: The Struggle for the Left
By: Owen Jones
3.94
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A whodunnit political page-turner' Meliss… read more
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"That summer, Corbyn and his supporters pushed against a door they thought was made of reinforced steel; as things proved, it was made of cardboard."-Owen Jones, This Land: The Struggle for the Left
30. Confessions of a Book Reviewer
By: George Orwell
3.89
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Where some of Orwell’s old interest in the starving writer crops up, now mixed with the wintry gloo… read more
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31. War
By: Bob Woodward
4.43
Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more
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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."-Bob Woodward, War
"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"-Bob Woodward, War
"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"-Bob Woodward, War
"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"-Bob Woodward, War
