Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art
By: Nancy G. Heller
3.74
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The first time she made a pizza from scratch, art historian Nancy Heller made the observation that …
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1. Frida Kahlo: The Paintings
By: Hayden Herrera , Joel Avirom
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
In small, stunningly rendered self-portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked op… read more
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- art
- art history
- nonfiction
2. Because of Winn-Dixie
By: Kate DiCamillo , Chris Sheban
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Kate DiCamillo's beloved, best-selling debut novel is now available in a paperback digest edition. … read more
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3. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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4. Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
By: Kim Malone Scott
4.00
Format: None pages,
From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say … read more
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5. Tin Man
By: Sarah Winman
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a… read more
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6. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
By: Roxane Gay
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image,… read more
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7. My Oxford Year
By: Julia Whelan
3.87
Format: 515 pages, ebook
Major Motion Picture Already in Development with Temple Hill Entertainment Set amidst the breathtak… read more
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9. Fates and Furies
By: Lauren Groff
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, th… read more
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10. The White Tiger
By: Aravind Adiga
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more
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11. American Pastoral
By: Philip Roth
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more
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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
12. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
By: Tony Fadell
4.33
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Written for anyone who wants to grow at work—from young grads navigating their first jobs to CEOs d… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Infinite Country
By: Patricia Engel
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For readers of Valeria Luiselli and Edwidge Danticat, an urgent and lyrical novel about a Colombian… read more
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"She wondered about that, if by birth one could already be out of step with destiny, but only replied that she was very tired and ready to sleep."-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"When you leave one country for another, nobody tells you years will bleed together like rain on newsprint. One year becomes five. Five years become ten. Ten years become fifteen."-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"Police are not your friend. Even the cordial ones. Yes, they are there to help people in danger just like you're taught in school, but in this country some people think the ones they protection from …"-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
"It happened far away from the capital, all the way on the Pacific coast, but it was still our country, our dead, Elena thought. Tragic, almost, that she never felt more patriotic than when grieving h…"-Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
14. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- nonfiction
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
15. It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
By: Mary Louise Kelly
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly… read more
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- nonfiction
"In his book "Being Mortal", the surgeon Atul Gawande accurately describes the joy that flows from being good at your work. 'You become a doctor for what you imagine to be the satisfaction of the work…"-Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
16. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
By: Michael Easter
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and re… read more
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- nonfiction
17. The Puppets of Spelhorst
By: Kate DiCamillo
4.19
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale—with enchanting illustrations b… read more
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"The moon has no master," said the owl. "The moon is its own king." "Or queen," said the girl. The moon rose higher."-Kate DiCamillo, The Puppets of Spelhorst
18. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
19. Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more
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"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
20. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
21. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
22. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
By: Heather McGhee
4.63
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the Am… read more
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- nonfiction
"They have to make Americans afraid of one another. They're exploiting fear in America to sell guns."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Ultimately, an economy, the rules we abide by and set for what's fair and who merits what, is an expression of our moral understanding."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"It's often unconscious, but their perception of The Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart the web that supports everyone, includi…"-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
23. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
24. Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations, #1)
By: B.B. Alston
4.38
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood low-income housing projects, receiving full schol… read more
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25. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
By: Priya Parker
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at wor… read more
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- nonfiction
"Chill" is a selfishness disguised as kindness"-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
"Good controversy is much more likely to happen when it is invited in but carefully structured."-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
"In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating."-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
"Barack Obama's aunt once told him, 'If everyone is family, no one is family.' It is blood that makes a tribe, a border that makes a nation. The same is true of gatherings. So here is a corollary to h…"-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
26. Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up
By: Claire Wilcox
4.51
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), as an artist and a woman, has a unique international appeal. Her instantly… read more
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- art
- art history
- nonfiction
27. Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art
By: Nancy G. Heller
3.74
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The first time she made a pizza from scratch, art historian Nancy Heller made the observation that … read more
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- art history
- nonfiction
