Understanding Disaster Insurance: New Tools for a More Resilient Future
By: Carolyn Kousky
4.48
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
The frequency and intensity of natural disasters—such as wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and storms—…
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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By: Michael Lewis
4.30
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more
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"Time is a variable continuum."-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
2. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
3. A Tale for the Time Being
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and h… read more
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"Maketa,"-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Live. For Now. For the time being."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"True freedom comes from being unknown."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Forget the clock. It has no power over time."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
4. It Can't Happen Here
By: Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrow… read more
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"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
5. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
By: Robert D. Putnam
3.77
Format: 67 pages,
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- nonfiction
6. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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7. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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8. Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in s… read more
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9. Blue Nights
By: Joan Didion
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more
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10. Babbitt
By: Sinclair Lewis
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more
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11. Dancer from the Dance
By: Andrew Holleran
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic r… read more
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12. 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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13. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
By: Jon Krakauer
4.08
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a s… read more
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14. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
15. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
By: Jake Bittle
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Our Share of Night
By: Mariana Enríquez
4.28
Format: 588 pages, Hardcover
A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. … read more
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"Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama."-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
"They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead."-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
"Nothing can hurt you now, how long was now, how long did the present last?"-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
"Detestaba cuando la gente se reía de esas fiestas donde la gente trataba de ser feliz."-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night
17. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
18. Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more
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"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
19. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
20. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
By: Malcolm Harris
3.90
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more
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21. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
22. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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23. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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24. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."-Javier Zamora, Solito
25. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
By: Michelle Obama
4.27
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2022 - In an insp… read more
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"Going high is about learning to keep the poison out and the power in."-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
"Being different conditions you toward cautiousness, even as it demands being bold."-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
"Life has shown me that strong friendships are most often the result of strong intentions. Your table needs to be deliberately built, deliberately populated, and deliberately tended to."-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
"Real-world connections most often tend to cut against stereotypes. They can be remarkably calming, in fact—a small but potent way to reset a bad mood or challenge broader feelings of mistrust. The on…"-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
26. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
By: Michael Lewis
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more
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"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
27. Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
By: M. Nolan Gray
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing… read more
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28. Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
By: Jenny Schuetz
3.95
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the Uni… read more
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29. Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
By: Ben Wilson
4.14
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From a brilliant young historian, a colorful journey through 7,000 years and twenty-six world citie… read more
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30. Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
By: Rachel Maddow
4.32
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House: the wild crimes, audacious c… read more
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"Agnew was like Nixon's id -- without the burden of much actual knowledge or curiosity or responsibility to the country at large."-Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
"I had turned over a log and exposed to the light a scurrying colony of unpleasant creatures whose only reaction was one of annoyance that I had been so crass as to disturb their settled way of life. …"-Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
"It is a rare man or woman who is ever really changed by ascension to high office, or tempered by the solemnity of the oaths they have sworn or by the national duties they have shouldered. And Spiro A…"-Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
31. Understanding Disaster Insurance: New Tools for a More Resilient Future
By: Carolyn Kousky
4.48
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
The frequency and intensity of natural disasters—such as wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and storms—… read more
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