The Sleep of Reason (Strangers and Brothers, #10)
By: C.P. Snow
3.93
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
The penultimate novel in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series takes Goya's theme of monsters that ap…
Want to Read"Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we mustn't cheapen it with words"-C.P. Snow, The Sleep of Reason (Strangers and Brothers, #10)
"Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we mustn't cheapen it with words"-C.P. Snow, The Sleep of Reason (Strangers and Brothers, #10)
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1. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.86
Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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"Why should I discuss it with you?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
2. Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars f… read more
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"[A] healthy respect for tradition[;]...a kind of default survival behavior"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
"Wherever you go, there we are. It wasn't true. But it made him feel better. That was what words could do."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
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"The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecr…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
3. Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.95
Format: 624 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to a… read more
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"Take this moment right here, and ask yourself, What is now lacking?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
"Guerilla climatology. What do you call that, climatage? Attack meteorology?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
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4. The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
By: John Le Carré
3.99
Format: 589 pages, Paperback
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"Let's die of it before we're too old."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
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5. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
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7. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
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3.59
Format: 251 pages,
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4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
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10. The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
By: Michael Connelly
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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11. Three Tales
By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Roger Whitehouse
4.03
Format: 325 pages,
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12. Love in a Cold Climate
By: Nancy Mitford
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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13. Bullet Train
By: Kōtarō Isaka
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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"Then he (Lemon) leans in to Little Minegishi's corpse and takes hold of the back of the head, nodding it up and down like he's operating a puppet. "Lemon, you are a useful train," he says, doing his …"-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train
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4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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"He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there."-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
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15. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.72
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16. The Sleep of Reason (Strangers and Brothers, #10)
By: C.P. Snow
3.93
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
The penultimate novel in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series takes Goya's theme of monsters that ap… read more
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"Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we mustn't cheapen it with words"-C.P. Snow, The Sleep of Reason (Strangers and Brothers, #10)
