The Last Libertines
By: Benedetta Craveri
3.89
Format: 620 pages, Paperback
The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri writes in her preface to the book, “tells the story of a …
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1. The Berlin Stories
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.04
Format: 401 pages, Paperback
First published in 1935 and 1939, the two related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Ber… read more
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"From 1929 to 1933, [age 25-29] I lived almost continuously in Berlin, with only occasional visits to other parts of Germany and to England. Already, during that time, I had made up my mind that I wou…"-Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories
2. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
3. The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
By: John Le Carré
3.99
Format: 589 pages, Paperback
John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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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)
"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
"Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present."-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
4. Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
By: François-René de Chateaubriand
3.96
Format: 1504 pages, Paperback
The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time … read more
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- history
- france
- biography
- nonfiction
"It is a long way from these strict parents to the child-spoilers of today."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"There are only two true things: intelligent religion and youthful love, which is to say the future and the present. The rest is not worth the trouble"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Life is spent hovering round our tomb. Our various sicknesses are but the winds which carry us more or less near to the haven. … Death is our friend, nevertheless we do not recognise it as such, beca…"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
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
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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- france
6. Excursion to Tindari (Inspector Montalbano, #5)
By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
Following the long-running success he has enjoyed on bestseller lists in Europe, Inspector Salvo Mo… read more
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7. Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
4.31
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
From Simon & Schuster, Elizabeth Jane Howard's Casting Off is the next chapter in the Cazalet Chron… read more
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- historical
"It is extraordinarily difficult not to hate someone when one feels powerless with them."-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"Ich meine, wenn uns etwas nicht gelingt, bleibt uns noch genügend Zeit, es noch mal zu versuchen."-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"Wenn du das Schreiben zu deinem Beruf machen willst, dann musst du anfangen, dich auf dein eigenes Urteil zu verlassen. Du darfst dir ruhig anhören, was andere davon halten, aber letztlich ist richti…"-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
"The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the i…"-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)
8. 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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- history
- biography
- historical
- france
- nonfiction
9. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more
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- historical
10. Decline and Fall
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself… read more
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11. Memoirs of Hadrian
By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick
4.23
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more
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- historical
- france
"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
12. Follia
By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola
3.96
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more
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"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"-Patrick McGrath, Follia
13. Cassandra at the Wedding
By: Deborah Eisenberg , Dorothy Baker
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At t… read more
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14. Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles #3)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3.66
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
In the third novel of England's Cazalet family, Elizabeth Howard moves through the dark, middle day… read more
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- historical
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16. Godsgrave (The Nevernight Chronicle, #2)
By: Jay Kristoff
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A ruthless young assassin continues her journey for revenge in this new epic fantasy from New York … read more
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17. All Change (Cazalet Chronicles #5)
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is the 1950s and as the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, the Duchy, passes away, she takes with her … read more
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- historical
18. The Dud Avocado
By: Elaine Dundy , Terry Teachout
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas … read more
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19. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
20. Embers
By: Sándor Márai , Carol Brown Janeway
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisite… read more
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21. Lolly Willowes
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more
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22. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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23. Madame de Pompadour
By: Nancy Mitford , Amanda Foreman
2.18
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affecti… read more
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24. The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Chandler's 5th novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of glitter… read more
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25. Bruges-La-Morte
By: Georges Rodenbach , Will Stone
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Hugues Viane is a widower who has turned to the melancholy, decaying city of Bruges as the ideal lo… read more
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26. Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun, #1)
By: J.G. Ballard
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's st… read more
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27. 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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- history
"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
28. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- nonfiction
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
29. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
By: Ian W. Toll
4.76
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS"-Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
30. Three Poems
By: Hannah Sullivan
3.90
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018 One of Bustle's 12 Most Anticipated Poetry Collections for 201… read more
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31. The Last Libertines
By: Benedetta Craveri
3.89
Format: 620 pages, Paperback
The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri writes in her preface to the book, “tells the story of a … read more
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- historical
- french revolution
- nonfiction
- france
