The Australian Ugliness
By: Robin Boyd
3.86
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The highly acclaimed bestseller from one of Australia's greatest architects, with an introduction b…
Want to Read $ 14.95"The Australian is forcefully loquacious, until the moment of expressing any emotion. He is aggressively committed to equality and equal-opportunity for all men, except for black Australians. He has high assurance in anything he does combined with a gnawing lack of confidence in anything he thinks."-Robin Boyd, The Australian Ugliness
"The Australian is forcefully loquacious, until the moment of expressing any emotion. He is aggressively committed to equality and equal-opportunity for all men, except for black Australians. He has high assurance in anything he does combined with a gnawing lack of confidence in anything he thinks."-Robin Boyd, The Australian Ugliness
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1. After the Quake
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.77
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
1995年1月、地震はすべてを一瞬のうちに壊滅させた。そして2月、流木が燃える冬の海岸で、あるいは、小箱を携えた男が向かった釧路で、かえるくんが地底でみみずくんと闘う東京で、世界はしずかに共振をはじ… read more
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"Are you prepared to die?"-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
"This life is nothing but a short, painful dream."-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
"Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair."-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
"Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world."-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
2. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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- architecture
- nonfiction
3. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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- classics
4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- nonfiction
- classics
- history
5. The Wife Drought
By: Annabel Crabb
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
'I need a wife' It's a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it's not actually a jo… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
6. Ice Station (Shane Schofield, #1)
By: Matthew Reilly
3.83
Format: 208 pages,
Antarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteo… read more
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7. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
8. Moon Tiger
By: Penelope Lively
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more
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- classics
"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
9. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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- classics
"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
10. Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design
By: Mark Wigley , Beatriz Colomina
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The question Are We Human?is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a mult… read more
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11. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By: Maya Angelou
4.50
Format: 142 pages,
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern tow… read more
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12. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more
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13. Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)
By: David Hunt
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2014 Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Nonfiction Girt. No word… read more
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14. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
By: Juhani Pallasmaa
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Since the book's first publication, interest in the role of the body and the senses has been emergi… read more
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15. Silence
By: Shūsaku Endō , William Johnston
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And… read more
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16. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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- classics
- 20th century
"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
17. The Lucky Country
By: Donald Horne
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
When it was first published in 1964, 'The Lucky Country' caused a sensation. Horne took Australian … read more
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18. The Librarianist
By: Patrick deWitt
3.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more
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19. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By: Joan Didion
3.84
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more
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- nonfiction
"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
20. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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- nonfiction
21. Cold Enough for Snow
By: Jessica Au
3.73
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more
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- australia
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
22. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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23. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
By: Christopher Clark
4.18
Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
24. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
25. Second Place
By: Rachel Cusk
3.68
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed s… read more
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"Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards."-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Muutoksen ja toiston kaava on niin tiukasti yhteydessä tietynlaiseen harmoniaan elämässä, ja vapauden harjoittaminen on alisteista sille aivan kuin opinkappaleelle. Muutoksia täytyy annostella kohtuu…"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
26. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By: George Saunders
4.54
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to … read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
"Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story."-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more ex…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
"We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner i…"-George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
27. Border Districts
By: Gerald Murnane
3.61
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
A bittersweet farewell to the world and the word by the Australian master "The mind is a place b… read more
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- australia
28. Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane
By: Gerald Murnane
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, "a genius on the level of Beckett" (Teju Cole) Ne… read more
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- australia
29. The Golden Maze
By: Richard Fidler
4.21
Format: 580 pages, Hardcover
Beloved ABC broadcaster and bestselling author of Ghost Empire and Saga Land, Richard Fidler is bac… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- australia
30. The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean
By: Mike Carlton
4.56
Format: 616 pages, Kindle Edition
When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With s… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
31. The Australian Ugliness
By: Robin Boyd
3.86
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The highly acclaimed bestseller from one of Australia's greatest architects, with an introduction b… read more
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- architecture
- classics
- history
- nonfiction
- design
- 20th century
- australia
"The Australian is forcefully loquacious, until the moment of expressing any emotion. He is aggressively committed to equality and equal-opportunity for all men, except for black Australians. He has h…"-Robin Boyd, The Australian Ugliness
