Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
By: James Parker
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the vertiginously talented Atlantic staff writer James Parker, a collection of uproarious pros…
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1. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
2. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
3. The Alternatives
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more
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- audiobook
4. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
5. Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
By: Therese Oneill
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"[A woman] takes up just the right amount of space. Small is best. You need to prove yourself worthy of the molecules you displace, madam."-Therese Oneill, Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
6. The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism
By: Adam Nagourney
4.22
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. First Love: Essays on Friendship
By: Lilly Dancyger
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
8. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
By: Saul Perlmutter
3.63
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decis… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
11. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
12. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Burn
By: Peter Heller
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more
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- audiobook
14. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
By: Brenda Wineapple
4.40
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent history of the 1925 Scopes trial and how the teaching of evolution in public schools … read more
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- audiobook
15. Sacrificial Animals
By: Kailee Pedersen
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up … read more
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- audiobook
"Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against…"-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals
"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? Wih the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's C…"-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals
"At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's …"-Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals
16. Earth to Moon: A Memoir
By: Moon Unit Zappa
4.42
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheis… read more
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- audiobook
17. Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
By: James Parker
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the vertiginously talented Atlantic staff writer James Parker, a collection of uproarious pros… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- essays
- self help
18. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.68
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more
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- nonfiction
19. How to Leave the House
By: Nathan Newman
3.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: th… read more
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20. By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
By: Rebecca Nagle
4.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Na… read more
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- audiobook
21. America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
By: H.W. Brands
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over Amer… read more
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