Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie
By: Matt Colquhoun
4.07
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
We are living through an epidemic of narcissism, or so we are told. Technology has made us self-obs…
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1. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
By: Jean-François Lyotard , Brian Massumi , Geoff Bennington
3.81
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and… read more
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"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating us…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, "fracta", catastrophes, and pragmatic par…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
2. Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez
By: Philip Carlo
4.02
Format: 592 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The shocking true story behind the serial killer case that inspired the hit Netflix series! Pain… read more
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- nonfiction
3. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
4. The Navajo Code Talkers
By: None , Doris A. Paul
3.51
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
An intriguing account of a select platoon of Marines known as the Navajo Code Talkers, the subject … read more
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- nonfiction
5. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
6. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
By: Robert Alexander
4.12
Format: None pages,
Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragi… read more
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7. Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism
By: Benjamin Noys
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
We are told our lives are too fast, subject to the accelerating demand that we innovate more, work … read more
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- nonfiction
8. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
By: Hannah Green , Joanne Greenberg
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality int… read more
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9. In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
By: Eugene Thacker
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
"Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly c… read more
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10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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11. Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, #9)
By: Robert Jordan
3.97
Format: 780 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Rand is on the run with Min, and in Cairhein, Cadsuane is trying to figure out where he is headed. … read more
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"A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough."-Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, #9)
"Stories have power. Gleemen's tales, and bards' epics, and rumors in the street alike. They stir passions, and change the way men see the world."-Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, #9)
"You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway."-Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, #9)
12. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
By: Elizabeth Smart
2.83
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Weptis an enigma… read more
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13. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
14. The Last Samurai
By: Helen DeWitt
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more
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15. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
By: Reni Eddo-Lodge
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more
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16. The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
By: Philip Carlo
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
There were times at home when Richard would have one of his outbursts and break things and then loc… read more
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17. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
18. The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)
By: Susan Dennard
3.68
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Hemlock Falls isn't like other towns. You won't find it on a map, your phone won't work here, and t… read more
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"You either trust the forest or you don't, Winnie."-Susan Dennard, The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)
"But our minds are pretty good at hiding what we don’t want to see, Winnebago."-Susan Dennard, The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)
"That’s why we’re called the Luminaries, Winnie: we are lanterns the forest can never snuff out."-Susan Dennard, The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1)
19. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
20. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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21. Sweet Sorrow
By: David Nicholls
3.78
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
One life-changing summer Charlie meets Fran... In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you do… read more
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"... and it occurred to me then, just as it does now, that the greatest lie that age tells about youth is that it’s somehow free of care, worry or fear."-David Nicholls, Sweet Sorrow
"...but first love, I think it’s like a song, a stupid pop song that you hear and you think, well that is all I will ever want to listen to, it’s got everything, it’s clearly the greatest piece of mus…"-David Nicholls, Sweet Sorrow
22. The Netanyahus
By: Joshua Cohen
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more
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23. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
By: Mark Fisher
4.29
Format: 211 pages, None
Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
24. Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
By: Tracy Borman
4.26
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives,… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
By: Stephen Fry
4.32
Format: 415 pages, Paperback
There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such … read more
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"You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will."-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
"Wicked men never learn, for wicked men have no interest in myths, legends, and stories. If they had they would learn from them and triumph, so we must be glad of their ignorance and dullness of wits."-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
"You see?' said Prometheus. 'It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labours, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept …"-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
"A fine statue of a naked Theseus stands proudly today in Athens' central place of assembly, the city's hub, Syntagma Square. Even today he is a focus of Athenian identity and pride. The ship he broug…"-Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #2)
26. Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
By: Terry Miles
3.64
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
Conspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly undergrou… read more
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"We each had our reasons for wanting the fantastical world promised by Rabbits to replace the flawed emotional narrative of our real lives."-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
"The world felt smaller from that vantage point, and much easier to understand. Life was messy and complicated when you were in the middle of it, while it was rushing toward you from all angles, close…"-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)
27. Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
By: Robert Matzen
3.85
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars… read more
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"When my mother wanted to teach me a lesson about life,' said Luca Dotti, 'she never used stories about her career. She always told stories about the war. The war was very, very important to her. It m…"-Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
28. So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
3.95
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of h… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
"Art is as much about searching as it is about creating."-Karl Ove Knausgård, So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
"The self is a work in progress, it understands itself through its memories but lives its life between them, in bits and pieces, in the present and in the past, in thoughts and emotions."-Karl Ove Knausgård, So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
"In themselves pictures are beyond words, beyond concepts, beyond thought, they invoke the presence of the world on the world's terms, which also means that everything that has been thought and writte…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
"Everything else has changed and disappeared with time, but not the painting. When we stand in front of it, we realise its significance, we bring it to life, we draw it into our own time and our own r…"-Karl Ove Knausgård, So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
29. Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape
By: Acid Horizon
3.76
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
Anti-Oculus is a psychedelic trip through the eyes of power, exploring avenues of escaping systems … read more
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30. Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie
By: Matt Colquhoun
4.07
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
We are living through an epidemic of narcissism, or so we are told. Technology has made us self-obs… read more
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- nonfiction
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31. Morphing Intelligence: From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains (The Wellek Library Lectures)
By: Catherine Malabou
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, … read more
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