The Song The Owl God Sang
By: Chiri Yukie
4.43
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
Among the vanishing cultures of the world, the Ainu of north-east Asia stand out for the startling …
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1. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.01
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungr… read more
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"Master, I go hunting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"Bu bir taş. Gerçek Lisan’da ise “tolk"-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra..."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
2. In Real Life
By: Cory Doctorow , Jen Wang
3.81
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role-playing game where she spends most of … read more
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- fiction
"– Here, take this. It'll give you a boost. – You spent 90 gold on this?? – 90 gold is nothing when you're the baddest bitch in the virtual universe."-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life
"– I understand the world can be cruel place and there are people out there counting on naive kids like you to take advantage of. Don't just think because it's video games people can't get hurt."-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life
"Most of the people you see going to work today are LARPing (live-action role playing) an incredibly boring RPG (role-playing game) called "professionalism" that requires them to alter their vocabular…"-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life
"When I was an activist in the 1980s, ninety-eight percent of my time was spent stuffing envelopes and writing addresses on them. The remaining two percent was the time we spent figuring out what to p…"-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life
3. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
By: Tom Reiss
4.48
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo - a stunning feat of historical… read more
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4. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
5. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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6. The Tale of Genji
By: Royall Tyler , Murasaki Shikibu
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
See an alternate cover edition . Written in the eleventh century, this portrait of courtly life in… read more
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- fiction
- japan
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8. Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
By: William Scott Wilson , None
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hagakure("In the Shadow of Leaves") is a manual for the samurai classes consisting of a series of s… read more
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- japan
9. 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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- poetry
- mythology
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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
"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
"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
10. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
By: Thornton Wilder
5.00
Format: 36 pages,
Featuring a beautiful new cover and author biography, this novel, which brought Wilder his first Pu… read more
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11. Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir
By: Mikiso Hane , Mark Selden , None , Kyoko Selden
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaid… read more
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12. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.02
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's … read more
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"I want to suffer so that I may love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"أصبحت فجأة لا أغضب من الناس، بل ما عدت ألاحظ وجودهم."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
13. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
By: Kabi Nagata , Jocelyne Allen
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience … read more
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14. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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15. Star Maker
By: Olaf Stapledon
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Star Makeris a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937. The book describes a his… read more
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16. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more
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17. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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18. The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters
By: Ō no Yasumaro , Basil Hall Chamberlain , None
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Written by imperial command in the eighth century, The Kojikiis the oldest surviving Japanese book.… read more
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19. When the Angels Left the Old Country
By: Sacha Lamb
4.27
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
A queer immigrant fairytale about individual purpose, the fluid nature of identity, and the power o… read more
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20. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
By: Emily M. Danforth
4.07
Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition
When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Reli… read more
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"Let's rock this shit."-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
"It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all."-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
"The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson."-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
"But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do."-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
21. A Crane Among Wolves
By: June Hur
4.03
Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition
June Hur, bestselling author of The Red Palace, crafts a devastating and pulse-pounding tale that w… read more
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"What need has the king for a thousand courtesans? I cannot possibly imgaine wanting a thousand husbands." "Because rape - "He flicked an uneasy glance my way, as though afraid to offend my womanly se…"-June Hur, A Crane Among Wolves
22. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
23. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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- fiction
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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
24. The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)
By: F.C. Yee
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi and Av… read more
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"Human desires were responsible for the situation they were in."-F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)
"Better to parry the sword than heal the wound it made in the flesh."-F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)
"Let a problem least for too long and people begin to believe it's not a problem."-F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)
"Ah, the faint grain of sand, the merciless hound at our heels, the spoke of the season's wheel"-F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)
25. The Shadow of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #2)
By: F.C. Yee
4.36
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
The epic, can’t-miss follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Avatar, The Last Airbender:The Ris… read more
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"Man guesses, spirits act."-F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #2)
"What we do without guidance defines who we are!"-F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #2)
"Things were so much clearer when there was relief."-F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #2)
"Weakness is practiced and learned as much as strength is!"-F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels, #2)
26. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
27. Gorączka złotych rybek
By: Kanoko Okamoto
3.47
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Opowieść o obsesji i poszukiwaniu idealnego piękna pióra jednej z niezwykle interesujących osobowoś… read more
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- japan
28. Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
By: Sue Burke
3.91
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on… read more
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"Equality is not a fact, like the length of days... Equality is an idea, a belief, like beauty."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"A Pax day and night lasted about twenty Earth hours, and a Pax year about 490 Earth days. A year seemed like such a long time."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"I have a significant and inescapable communication to enter into with them. Animals never grow smarter, but I do. Ours will be a rewarding relationship."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"... what bothered them more were the pink slugs twenty centimeters long they found eating old carcasses. The slugs would attack anything and dissolved living flesh on contact."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
29. A Woman of Pleasure
By: Kiyoko Murata
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
“Even though A Woman of Pleasure exposes the brutal life of sex workers, a dynamic optimism runs th… read more
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30. The Song The Owl God Sang
By: Chiri Yukie
4.43
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
Among the vanishing cultures of the world, the Ainu of north-east Asia stand out for the startling … read more
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- indigenous
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- japan
- mythology
31. A Ruin of Shadows
By: L.D. Lewis
4.08
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
General Daynja Édo is a legend: head of the Boorhian Empire's military and possessor of a mask of i… read more
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