Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages
By: Holly Ordway
4.49
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
It is a widely accepted point of view that J.R.R Tolkien was dismissive of the modern fiction of hi…
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1. A Scanner Darkly
By: Philip K. Dick
4.02
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to… read more
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"We're all dreaming,"-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
"I have seen myself backward."-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
"It's easy to win. Anybody can win."-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
"Okay, I'll come back again on Thursday."-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
2. She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
By: H. Rider Haggard
3.57
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. I… read more
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"...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core."-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
"Life is not worth the trouble of life, except when one in love."-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
"Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought."-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
"Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten."-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
3. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more
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4. The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
By: Shelby Foote
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our histor… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. The Silmarillion
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Ted Nasmith
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the an… read more
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- literature
"Nightingales sang about her wherever she went."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
6. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)
By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more
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7. The Mabinogion
By: Unknown , Jeffrey Gantz
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the bank of the river he saw a tall tree: from roots to crown one half was aflame and the other … read more
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8. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more
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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
9. J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
By: Tom Shippey
3.99
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Recent polls have consistently declared that J.R.R. Tolkien is "the most influential author of the … read more
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10. The Tolkien Family Album
By: None , None
3.93
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
This biography of Tolkien looks at the family details of the author's life. It tells of his love af… read more
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11. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
12. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
13. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
By: Humphrey Carpenter , J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
'...If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable cho… read more
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14. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
By: C.S. Lewis
4.00
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more
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"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
15. The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
3.86
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explore… read more
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"Heart shall be bolder, harder be purpose, more proud the spirit as our power lessens! Mind shall not falter nor mood waver, though doom shall come and dark conquer."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
"Thus ages pass, and men after men. Mourning voices of women weeping. So the world passes; day follows day, and the dust gathers, his tomb crumbles, as time gnaws it, and his kith and kindred out of k…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
16. H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death a… read more
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"Jack, you've debauched my sloth."-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
"Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer."-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
"Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It woul…"-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
"Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the au…"-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
17. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- history
18. Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today
By: Nick Groom
3.55
Format: 469 pages, Kindle Edition
An original and thought-provoking reassessment of J. R. R. Tolkien’s world, revealing how his visio… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- books about books
- literary criticism
19. Reclaiming Vatican II: What It (Really) Said, What It Means, and How It Calls Us to Renew the Church
By: Blake Britton
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
During the past five decades, the Second Vatican Council has been alternately celebrated or maligne… read more
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- history
- theology
20. Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages
By: Holly Ordway
4.49
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
It is a widely accepted point of view that J.R.R Tolkien was dismissive of the modern fiction of hi… read more
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- biography
- theology
- literature
- nonfiction
- books about books
- literary criticism
21. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
