How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration
By: Ellen Winner
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
There is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.' This book examines a number of…
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1. Why?: What Makes Us Curious
By: Mario Livio
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristic… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
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2. The Days of Abandonment
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
3.87
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more
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"I'm dead, but I'm fine."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
3. Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures
By: Eric R. Kandel
4.14
Format: 96 pages, ebook
Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new b… read more
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- art
- art history
- psychology
- nonfiction
- design
- science
4. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
5. Oblomov
By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment
4.12
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more
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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"Love was life's hardest school of all."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
6. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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7. The Hemingses of Monticello
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
3.77
Format: 342 pages,
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had … read more
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- nonfiction
8. Les dix enfants que madame Ming n'a jamais eus (Le Cycle de l'invisible, #6)
By: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Madame Ming aime parler de ses dix enfants vivant dans divers lieux de l'immense Chine. Fabule-t-el… read more
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9. Give Me Your Hand
By: Megan Abbott
3.69
Format: 384 pages,
The thriller, promised to be Abbott's "biggest and best yet", weaves together two time frames to te… read more
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10. A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more
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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
11. White Oleander
By: Janet Fitch
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleandertells the unforgettable story … read more
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12. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
By: Lynda Barry
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling… read more
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13. The Colossus of New York
By: Colson Whitehead
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates… read more
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14. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
15. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
16. There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, Carlo Rovelli fo… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"I don’t like to thank God: I like to wake in the morning, look at the sea and thank the wind, the waves, the sky, the fragrance of plants, the life that allows me to exist, the sun that rises."-Carlo Rovelli, There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
17. Fight Night
By: Miriam Toews
4.04
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, A Complicated Kindness, and All My Puny Sorrows r… read more
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"She (mom) yelled from upstairs, Those are books that help me to live! Those books are my life! Get down here! I yelled back. I'm your goddamn life!"-Miriam Toews, Fight Night
18. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By: Susan Magsamen
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brai… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
19. 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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20. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.10
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more
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"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
21. Winter Recipes from the Collective
By: Louise Glück
3.99
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more
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- nonfiction
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. We search for it all of our lives, even after we find it."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
22. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
By: Max Fisher
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
23. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
24. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
25. Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
By: Zena Hitz
3.65
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life … read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
"The idea that real and serous learning is something practiced only by a small elite is stubborn and hard to displace."-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
"For those of us without the strength or the insight to choose for ourselves such quiet, withdrawn places, failure is perhaps the best-trod route to inwardness."-Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
26. Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
By: Karen Armstrong
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature--and an urgent call to reclaim that power i… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
27. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
By: Justin Gregg
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
28. But the Girl
By: Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
3.74
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your f… read more
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29. Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
By: Akil Kumarasamy
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens… read more
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"The refugees continued to cross the sea and we tried to map out the violence, the peaks and the falls, through time. When does a war begin? Is it with a public declaration broadcast in the morning ho…"-Akil Kumarasamy, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
30. The End of August
By: Yū Miri
3.52
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generati… read more
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31. How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration
By: Ellen Winner
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
There is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.' This book examines a number of… read more
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- art
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- psychology
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- design
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