9 must-read nonfiction books like Projeto Nacional: o dever da esperança by Ciro Gomes

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Projeto Nacional: o dever da esperança

By: Ciro Gomes

4.18

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Projeto Nacional: O dever da esperança é um convite para debater racionalmente o país que somos e o…

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1. O Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma

By: Lima Barreto

3.77

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Sátira impiedosa do Brasil oficial, considerado expoente do Pré-Modernismo brasileiro, Triste Fim d… read more

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"Quem uma vez esteve diante deste enigma indecifrável da própria natureza, fica amedrontado, sentindo que o gérmen daquilo está depositado em nós e que por qualquer cousa ele nos invade, nos toma, nos…"

-Lima Barreto, O Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma

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2. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Ego Is the Enemy

By: Ryan Holiday

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive, visionary geniuses who remade the worl… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Das Kapital by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Serge L. Levitsky

4. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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6. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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7. Liquid Modernity

By: Zygmunt Bauman

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focus… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and… read more

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"Su misma superioridad lo perdió"

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

"There is no Master but the Master,"

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

"No hay manera de diferenciar un robot de un ser humano bueno"

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

"There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power."

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

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9. The Death of Ivan Ilych

By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude

4.13

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more

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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"

-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

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10. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

11. The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People

By: Dan Buettner

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking book, Dan Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart eating a… read more

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12. The Time Machine

By: H.G. Wells , Greg Bear , Carlo Pagetti

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

“I’ve had a most amazing time....” So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account … read more

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"For after the Battle comes quiet."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"[...] The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me. [...]"

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

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13. Auto da Compadecida

By: Ariano Suassuna

4.50

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

O Auto da Compadecida, de Ariano Suassuna, consegue o equilíbrio perfeito entre a tradição popular … read more

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"Valha-me Nossa Senhora, Mãe de Deus de Nazaré! A vaca mansa dá leite, a braba dá quando quer. A mansa dá sossegada, a braba levanta o pé. Já fui barco, fui navio, mas hoje sou escaler. Já fui menino,…"

-Ariano Suassuna, Auto da Compadecida

14. The End of Eternity

By: Isaac Asimov

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a man whose job it is to range through past and present Centuries, mon… read more

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15. Dom Casmurro

By: Machado de Assis

4.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic story of love and jealousy, Dom Casmurro is the story of Bento and his childhood love, Ca… read more

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16. O Alienista

By: Machado de Assis

4.10

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Clássico da literatura brasileira, este texto de Machado de Assis continua sendo, cento e trinta an… read more

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"Portando que se devia admitir como normal e exemplar o desequilíbrio das faculdades."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

"Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

"Los locos de amor eran tres o cuatro, pero sólo les resultaban asombrosos por la curiosa índole de su delirio."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

"Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

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17. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

18. Faça Fortuna Com Ações: Antes Que Seja Tarde

By: None

3.69

Format: 496 pages,

O jornalista e investidor Decio Bazin mostra como trilhar com seguranca os caminhos da Bolsa de val… read more

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19. O Povo Brasileiro: A Formação e o Sentido do Brasil

By: Darcy Ribeiro

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Por que o Brasil ainda nao deu certo? Quando chegou ao exilio no Uruguai, em abril de 1964, Darcy R… read more

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20. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb

4.02

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more

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"Homo homini monstrum"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"Oh! Everything I loved!"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"

-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

21. Hackeando Tudo: 90 Hábitos Para Mudar o Rumo de Uma Geração [Ebook]

By: Raiam Santos , None , None , None

3.00

Format: 24 pages,

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22. Tudo é Rio

By: Carla Madeira

4.26

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Por este livro passa um rio. Em sua correnteza, a obsessão de três personagens que não sabem desist… read more

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"Deus não é um lugar de certeza, é só um pouco de esperança."

-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio

"Um dia feliz tem mais poder que a tristeza de uma vida inteira"

-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio

"Quem vê de fora faz arranjos melhores, mas é dentro, bem no lugar que a gente não vê, que o não dar conta ocupa tudo."

-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio

"Não sabia se livrar daquele sentir, e do sentir para o consentir é só um tombinho de nada, basta um descuido para quem está andando tropeçar."

-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio

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23. Torto Arado

By: Itamar Vieira Junior

4.49

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Vencedor dos prémios LeYa (2018) e Jabuti, finalista do Oceanos (2020). Um livro comovente que traz… read more

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"Olha, dona"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Durante algum tempo, pensei que pudesse haver uma ruptura entre nossas famílias, mas o perdão aflorava da bênção que poderia ser o retorno de alguém de qual somos parte."

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Você incutiu naquelas vidas um respeito grande por suas próprias histórias. Mas agora nem você conseguia mais se iluminar com a esperança de que a mudança fosse possível, muito menos acreditava que a…"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

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24. I Am Legend

By: Richard Matheson

4.06

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and c… read more

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"Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

"It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word “horror"

-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

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25. Contact

By: Carl Sagan

4.15

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the … read more

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"Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours."

-Carl Sagan, Contact

"Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter."

-Carl Sagan, Contact

"Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world?"

-Carl Sagan, Contact

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."

-Carl Sagan, Contact

Cover of The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5) by Andrzej Sapkowski

26. The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

By: Andrzej Sapkowski

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Geralt the Witcher—revered and hated—is a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a m… read more

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"I can hear… music…"

-Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

"A mother, you son-of-a-bitch, is sacred!"

-Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

"Świat się zmienia, słońce zachodzi, a wódka się kończy."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

"They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts."

-Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)

Cover of Persuasão: Como usar a retórica e a comunicação persuasiva na sua vida pessoal e profissional (Portuguese Edition) by Mayte Carvalho

27. Persuasão: Como usar a retórica e a comunicação persuasiva na sua vida pessoal e profissional (Portuguese Edition)

By: Mayte Carvalho

3.77

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

"Eu sei que este livro funciona. Funcionou comigo. Comecei e não conseguia mais parar. A leitura é … read more

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28. O rei dos dividendos: A saga do filho de imigrantes pobres que se tornou o maior investidor pessoa física da bolsa de valores brasileira (Portuguese Edition)

By: Luiz Barsi Filho

4.42

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

"O livro que você tem em mãos é uma inspiração para a riqueza, mas não só: ao compartilhar momentos… read more

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29. The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader

By: James C. Hunter

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

To lead is not to be “the boss,” the “head honcho,” or “the brass.” To lead is to serve. Although… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Projeto Nacional: o dever da esperança

By: Ciro Gomes

4.18

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Projeto Nacional: O dever da esperança é um convite para debater racionalmente o país que somos e o… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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31. Seneca despre moarte

By: Seneca

4.32

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Moet je het leven altijd maar blijven rekken, ten koste van alles? Ook als alleen pijn en ellende o… read more

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  • nonfiction

5 best-selling politics books like Projeto Nacional: o dever da esperança by Ciro Gomes

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Liquid Modernity

Zygmunt Bauman

3.45

Transform Your Habits

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

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18 Best fiction books like The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, Greg Bear, Carlo Pagetti

Transform Your Habits

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

William Gibson

3.89

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Animal Farm

George Orwell , Russell Baker , C.M. Woodhouse

3.99

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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

Isaac Asimov

4.21

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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

Orson Scott Card

4.31

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