The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
By: Philip Ball
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and…
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1. Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
By: Lee Berger , John Hawks , Harrison Ford , Douglas Chadwick
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolu… read more
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2. Timequake
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a c… read more
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3. Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
By: John Dvorak
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein's General Theory … read more
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4. Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction
By: Catherine Belsey
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, … read more
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5. Dear Committee Members
By: Julie Schumacher
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more
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7. The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds
By: Leigh Calvez
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
A naturalist probes the forest, mainly at night, to comprehend the secret lives of owls in this boo… read more
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8. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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9. Styles of Radical Will
By: Susan Sontag
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she … read more
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10. The Complete Father Brown
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
Forty-nine quietly sensational cases investigated by the high-priest of detective fiction FATHER BR… read more
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11. 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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"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
12. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more
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13. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
14. 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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"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
15. Out There Screaming
By: Jordan Peele
3.79
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more
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"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming
16. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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17. Blackouts
By: Justin Torres
3.77
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more
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18. Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
By: Harold Schechter
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Kill… read more
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19. The Council of Animals
By: Nick McDonell
3.58
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
A captivating fable for humans of all ages—dreamers and cynics alike—who believe (if nothing else) … read more
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20. All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
By: Douglas Wolk
4.01
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revela… read more
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"If he does find himself back in the mountain of Marvels, or if he never leaves it, I hope he finds its glorious imaginary world changing all the time, keeping pace with the real one in which he lives…"-Douglas Wolk, All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
"As you explore the Marvel story, it becomes another world you can call your own, one that's constantly expanding and full of unfinished wonders. You can no more exhaust its possibilities than the rea…"-Douglas Wolk, All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
21. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
By: Robin George Andrews
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma mor… read more
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22. Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
3.45
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more
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23. Broken
By: Don Winslow
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss,… read more
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24. Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
By: Danna Staaf
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, the… read more
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25. Horror: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Darryl Jones
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the light… read more
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26. Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
By: Angus Fletcher
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This “fascinating” (Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Outliers ) examination o… read more
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27. Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
By: Elsa Panciroli
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dino… read more
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28. When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness
By: David M. Peña-Guzmán
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming Are humans the … read more
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29. The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
By: Philip Ball
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and… read more
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30. 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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"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
