The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini's Italy
By: Victoria de Grazia
4.05
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Through the story of one exemplary fascist--a war hero turned commander of Mussolini's Black Shirts…
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1. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more
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2. Min kamp 2 (Min kamp #2)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solita… read more
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3. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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- italy
"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
4. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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5. The Anatomy of Fascism
By: Robert O. Paxton
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more
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6. The Bridge on the Drina
By: Ivo Andrić , William H. McNeill , None
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth… read more
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7. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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8. March
By: Geraldine Brooks
4.23
Format: None pages,
Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction. From the author of the acclaimed YEAR OF WONDERS, an… read more
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9. France 1940: Defending the Republic
By: None
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new perspective on the calamitous fall of France in 1940 and why blame has been misplaced ever si… read more
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10. A Man's Place
By: Annie Ernaux
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more
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- nonfiction
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
11. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
By: Deborah Levy
4.29
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more
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- nonfiction
"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
12. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
By: Jonathan Rosen
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more
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- nonfiction
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
13. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
By: David Maraniss
4.02
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. 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
15. On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
By: Laura Cumming
3.58
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riv… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations."-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
"To commemorate Veda’s life, Elizabeth planted thousands of daffodil bulbs in the grounds of Chapel school for the pupils to pick on Mother’s Day each year, so that no future mother would ever be forg…"-Laura Cumming, On Chapel Sands: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
16. M: Il figlio del secolo
By: Antonio Scurati
4.16
Format: 841 pages, Paperback
Lui è come una bestia: sente il tempo che viene. Lo fiuta. E quel che fiuta è un'Italia sfinita, st… read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
- history
"A história da tragédia humana é um editor voraz."-Antonio Scurati, M: Il figlio del secolo
17. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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18. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
By: Elena Ferrante
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202… read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept t…"-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
19. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
By: Jeff Sharlet
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
20. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
By: Julian T. Jackson
4.17
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
- european history
21. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
22. La Disparition de Josef Mengele
By: Olivier Guez
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
1949 : Josef Mengele arrive en Argentine. Caché derrière divers pseudonymes, l’ancien médecin tor… read more
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23. Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
By: Jason Roberts
4.25
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticul… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
24. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. All'arme! All'arme! I priori fanno carne!
By: Alessandro Barbero
4.04
Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition
«All'arme! All'arme! I priori fanno carne!» grida un artigiano per incitare alla rivolta. È il 20 l… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
26. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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27. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
By: Elle Reeve
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
28. Our Evenings
By: Alan Hollinghurst
4.28
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions mode… read more
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29. The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini's Italy
By: Victoria de Grazia
4.05
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Through the story of one exemplary fascist--a war hero turned commander of Mussolini's Black Shirts… read more
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- italy
- history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- european history
30. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
31. Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
By: Sebastian Smee
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic’s gripping account of the “Terrible Year” in Paris and its en… read more
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- history
