Broken Dreams
By: Tom Bower
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
'Tom Bower is a brave man - he could not have stayed in business as an investigative biographer but…
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1. Open
By: J.R. Moehringer , Andre Agassi
4.31
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever … read more
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"Control what you can control."-J.R. Moehringer, Open
"We talk about things. We talk about nothing."-J.R. Moehringer, Open
"The most animated talks we have are about…things"-J.R. Moehringer, Open
"When they hand me the trophy I think about vomiting into it"-J.R. Moehringer, Open
2. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
By: Michael Lewis
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
#1 New York TimesBestseller -- With a new Afterword In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a … read more
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3. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
By: Christopher McDougall
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of al… read more
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4. Rivers of London (Peter Grant, #1)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Hardcover
Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too… read more
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5. The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker as civiliza… read more
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7. Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
By: Ian Fleming
3.74
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to France to play in a high-stakes bac… read more
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"Mine’s Bond – James Bond."-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
"Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket."-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
"In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come."-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
"Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment."-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
8. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)
By: David McCloskey
4.21
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more
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9. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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10. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
11. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
12. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
13. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
14. Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket
By: Stefan Szymanski
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
One of the bestselling authors of Soccernomics, Stefan Szymanski, teams up with the award-winning c… read more
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15. It's Always Summer Somewhere: A Matter of Life and Cricket
By: Felix White
4.56
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Felix White, for reasons often beyond him, has always been deeply in love with cricket. His passion… read more
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16. The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
By: Philip Pullman
4.15
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. … read more
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"You going to be a scientist when you grow up?"-Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
"For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do."-Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
"I have told you all the rules I know. If there are rules I have forgotten to mention then they do not matter."-Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
"He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed."-Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
17. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
By: Adam Kay
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more
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18. A Heart That Works
By: Rob Delaney
4.62
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller * The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 * Entertainment Weekly Best Boo… read more
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"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
19. Sweet Sorrow
By: David Nicholls
3.78
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
One life-changing summer Charlie meets Fran... In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you do… read more
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"... and it occurred to me then, just as it does now, that the greatest lie that age tells about youth is that it’s somehow free of care, worry or fear."-David Nicholls, Sweet Sorrow
"...but first love, I think it’s like a song, a stupid pop song that you hear and you think, well that is all I will ever want to listen to, it’s got everything, it’s clearly the greatest piece of mus…"-David Nicholls, Sweet Sorrow
20. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
21. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
By: John Carreyrou
4.41
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar start… read more
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"It just feels like you want us to give you the formula for Coke in order to convince you that it doesn’t contain arsenic,"-John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
22. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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23. Ramble Book
By: Adam Buxton
4.14
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
Ramble /ˈramb(ə)l/ Verb 1. walk for pleasure in the countryside. ‘Dr Buckles and Rosie the do… read more
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24. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
By: David Attenborough
4.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more
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"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
25. The Barcelona Legacy: Guardiola, Mourinho and the Fight For Football's Soul
By: Jonathan Wilson
4.07
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
Manchester, 2018: Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho lead their teams out to face each other in the 17… read more
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26. T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen
By: Peter Kay
4.23
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch … Mastermind, Moonl… read more
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27. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
By: Jonathan Freedland
4.37
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the … read more
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28. Parenting Hell
By: Rob Beckett
4.25
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE MADNESS, ABSURDITY, AND UTTER CHAOS OF BEING A PARENT FROM THE… read more
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29. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
By: Mick Herron
4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more
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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
30. Broken Dreams
By: Tom Bower
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
'Tom Bower is a brave man - he could not have stayed in business as an investigative biographer but… read more
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31. State of Play: Under the Skin of the Modern Game
By: Michael Calvin
3.93
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
*** Award-winning author of The Nowhere Men, Living on the Volcano and No Hunger in Paradise return… read more
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