Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth
By: Asaf Elia-Shalev
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Israe…
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1. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
By: William Finnegan
4.27
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer Barbaria… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"Still, I wondered what Sam, mental illness and all, might have to tell us about adulthood. Why, for example, did it seem to be always receding as a concept, even as we got older?"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"But surfing always had this horizon, this fear line, that made it different from other things, certainly from other sports I knew. You could do it with friends, but when the waves got big, or you got…"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents
By: None
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
"Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict" brings the multi-faceted story of the struggle in the Mid… read more
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4. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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5. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
6. Fever House (Fever House, #1)
By: Keith Rosson
4.03
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more
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7. Dearborn
By: Ghassan Zeineddine
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more
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- race
8. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
9. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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10. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- israel
11. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- israel
12. Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978
By: Geoffrey Phillip Levin
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensit… read more
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- politics
- judaism
- history
- nonfiction
13. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
By: Jia Tolentino
4.04
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
14. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Sarah Ogilvie
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
15. Dirtbag: Essays
By: Amber A'Lee Frost
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The victories and failures of millennial socialism, as told by the writer who lived it. Amber A'Le… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
16. The Prison Minyan
By: Jonathan Stone
4.31
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to Otisville, America's only Jewish prison...where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatt… read more
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17. The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977
By: Gershom Gorenberg
4.08
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
"Remarkably insightful . . . A groundbreaking revision that deserves to reframe the entire debate .… read more
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- history
- israel
- politics
- judaism
- nonfiction
18. Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth
By: Asaf Elia-Shalev
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Israe… read more
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- race
- history
- israel
- politics
- judaism
- nonfiction
19. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
By: Isabella Hammad
4.74
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From the award-winning novelist of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the P… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
20. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
