A Natural History of Human Thinking
By: Michael Tomasello
3.97
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to…
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1. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
3. Solaris
By: Stanisław Lem
3.99
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more
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- philosophy
"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
4. Les Misérables: Volume Two (Les Misérables, #2)
By: Victor Hugo
4.41
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Les Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published… read more
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"That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; bu…"-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables: Volume Two (Les Misérables, #2)
5. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
By: John Steinbeck
4.06
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more
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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
6. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
By: David Deutsch
4.18
Format: 487 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress o… read more
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- history
- psychology
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- nonfiction
- science
7. Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The debut short novels--nearly thirty years out of print-- by the internationally acclaimed writer,… read more
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8. The Idea of the Holy
By: Rudolf Otto , John Wilfred Harvey
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since the English translation first appeared in 1923, Rudolf Otto's volume has established itself a… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
9. The Selfish Gene
By: Richard Dawkins
4.16
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
"The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was … read more
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- history
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- evolution
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"Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
10. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
By: Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi
4.34
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of pers… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
"At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs."-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing an…"-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: …"-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
11. Minds, Brains and Science
By: John Rogers Searle
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
Minds, Brains and Sciencetakes up just the problems that perplex people, and it does what good phil… read more
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12. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
By: António Damásio
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotio… read more
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13. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
By: Tom Stoppard , None
3.48
Format: None pages,
Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more
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14. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
By: Iain McGilchrist
4.35
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist presents a fascinating exploration of the differ… read more
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- cultural
- history
- biology
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- science
"We don't need a lot more quick fixes. We need a change in the paradigm."-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"[C]hildren with right-brain deficit disorder ignore task obstacles, accept impossible challenges, make grossly inadequate efforts, and are stunned by the poor outcomes. These children act fearless be…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"The left hemisphere prefers the impersonal to the personal, and that tendency would be in any case be instantiated in the fabric of a technologically driven and bureaucratically administered society.…"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
"Believing is not to be reduced to thinking that such-and-such might be the case. It is not a weaker form of thinking, laced with doubt. Sometimes we speak like this: ‘I believe that the train leaves …"-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
15. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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16. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
By: Jared Diamond
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works … read more
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17. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
18. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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19. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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- history
- science
20. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- evolution
- psychology
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- nonfiction
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
21. If I Had Your Face
By: Frances Cha
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerising world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extr… read more
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" For my mother, who taught me how to hold on to a dream "-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
"I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse. I will not come out of this with nothing."-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached and touch…"-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached out and t…"-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
22. The Future
By: Naomi Alderman
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more
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"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
23. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- science
24. 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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- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- anthropology
"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
25. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- science
26. Greenwood
By: Michael Christie
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more
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"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
27. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
28. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
By: Kate Manne
4.25
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
29. A Natural History of Human Thinking
By: Michael Tomasello
3.97
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to… read more
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