Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba
By: Stephen Purvis
4.03
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Orphan Master's Son
By: Adam Johnson
4.07
Format: 443 pages, Hardcover
Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang - and an influentia… read more
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"Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch."-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
"Citizens, gather 'round your loudspeakers, for we bring important updates!"-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
"Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past."-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
"In a gesture of socialist support, the Dear Leader placed his hand upon her."-Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
2. Double Fault
By: Lionel Shriver
3.23
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An ardent middle-ranked professional tennis player, Willy Novinsky meets her match in Eric Oberdorf… read more
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3. Chickenhawk
By: Robert Mason
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
A true story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma … read more
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- nonfiction
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4. Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
By: Kapka Kassabova
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
"Remarkable: a book about borders that makes the reader feel sumptuously free." --Peter Pomerantsev… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Our Man in Havana
By: Graham Greene
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income. read more
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6. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
3.78
Format: 377 pages,
Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Box… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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8. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
By: Lawrence Wright
4.16
Format: 208 pages,
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9. Battle Royale
By: Koushun Takami , Yuji Oniki
None
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of jun… read more
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10. Welcome to Hell: One Man's Fight for Life Inside the Bangkok Hilton
By: None
2.96
Format: None pages,
Written from his cell and smuggled out page by page, Colin Martin's autobiography chronicles an inn… read more
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11. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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12. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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13. Eat the Buddha
By: Barbara Demick
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
The new book by award-winning journalist and National Book Award finalist Barbara Demick. read more
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14. Fever Pitch
By: Nick Hornby
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more
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15. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
16. Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
By: Jo Nesbø
4.20
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own… read more
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"Your mother should have treated him better, he was her patron, after all. Just like the parasite that is humanity should treat this planet better."-Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
"She was upfront like that, a one man woman, and always had been. Even if Markus was far from being a one woman man. Because it wasn’t about what he thought of her, but about what she thought of herse…"-Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
"Have you ever thought about how as children we expect unconditional love from our parents, without giving anything in return? But then we grow up and things change completely. When do you think we st…"-Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)
17. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
By: Catherine Belton
4.18
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine… read more
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- biography
18. BOX 88 (BOX 88, #1)
By: Charles Cumming
4.07
Format: 482 pages, Paperback
An organisation that doesn’t exist. A spy that can’t be caught. 1989: The fall of the Berlin … read more
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19. The Scarlet Papers
By: Matthew Richardson
4.33
Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition
VIENNA, 1946: A brilliant German scientist snatched from the ruins of Nazi Europe. MOSCOW, 1964:… read more
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20. Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder
By: Kerryn Mayne
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day,… read more
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21. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
22. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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23. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
24. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By: Barbara Demick
4.45
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more
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- biography
"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
25. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
By: Bill Browder
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more
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26. The Wall
By: John Lanchester
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous … read more
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"There would be a new life, and we would be living a new life. It felt like too much to hope for, but not in a bad way, more the kind of thing you stop yourself thinking about for superstitious reason…"-John Lanchester, The Wall
"Home: it didn’t just seem as if home was a long way away, it actually felt as if the whole concept of home was strange, a thing you used to believe in, an ideology you’d once been passionate about bu…"-John Lanchester, The Wall
27. Look Both Ways
By: Linwood Barclay
3.75
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
Inspired by his decades-long love of cars, internationally bestselling author Linwood Barclay envis… read more
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28. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage
By: Clementine Ford
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more
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29. The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and his Wife: Winner of the 2024 Best Non fiction Crime Book, Davitt Awards
By: Rebecca Hazel
4.20
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
Teacher and former rugby league player Chris Dawson appeared to have it all – a loving family and a… read more
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30. The System
By: Ryan Gattis
4.26
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying, multi-voiced thriller tackling our criminal justice system, from the writer Michae… read more
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31. Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba
By: Stephen Purvis
4.03
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of chara… read more
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