What He Did in Solitary: Poems
By: Amit Majmudar
4.02
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The prize-winning poet reflects on what sustains us in a sundered world. With his dazzling abili…
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1. Ice
By: Anna Kavan
3.67
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more
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"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."-Anna Kavan, Ice
2. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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3. Counting Descent
By: Clint Smith
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to com… read more
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4. Lincoln in the Bardo
By: George Saunders
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more
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5. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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6. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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7. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
8. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
By: Thornton Wilder
5.00
Format: 36 pages,
Featuring a beautiful new cover and author biography, this novel, which brought Wilder his first Pu… read more
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9. Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
By: Orson Scott Card
4.10
Format: 382 pages, Paperback
Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning … read more
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"The piggies were not to be disturbed-"-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
"Darkness bound them closer than light."-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
"I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable."-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
10. 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)
11. Sourdough
By: Robin Sloan
3.76
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world… read more
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"Culture,"-Robin Sloan, Sourdough
"It was a fungal party hellscape."-Robin Sloan, Sourdough
"You went to Greenland...on purpose," Naz said."-Robin Sloan, Sourdough
"I agree," Mona said. As if she had any choice."-Robin Sloan, Sourdough
12. Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
By: Orson Scott Card
3.78
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
Children of the Mind (1996) is the fourth novel of Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game series o… read more
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"I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her."-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
"Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?"-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
"But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong."-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
"It was wrong of me to value my own pain so highly that I thought it gave me the right to inflict more on him."-Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)
13. Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
By: Orson Scott Card
3.81
Format: 592 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriousl… read more
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"Madness, and then illumination."-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
"Human beings remain grubs all the lives."-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
"It's intelligence that makes you unhappy."-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
"Inside us there is a place that is our true self."-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
14. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
15. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
16. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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17. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
18. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
19. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
20. The Library Book
By: Susan Orlean
3.89
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more
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"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
21. Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more
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"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
22. Ghost Station
By: S.A. Barnes
3.57
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more
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23. The Renunciations: Poems
By: Donika Kelly
4.29
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more
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24. A Hundred Lovers: Poems
By: Richie Hofmann
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly a… read more
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25. Moonbound
By: Robin Sloan
4.09
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future a… read more
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26. 2nd Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #2)
By: Terryl L. Givens
4.40
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
"I have seen a vision, in which I know that Jerusalem is destroyed . . ." In the wake of epic ca… read more
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27. Wade in the Water: Poems
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.10
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more
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"History is a ship forever setting sail."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
28. Blood Snow
By: dg nanouk okpik
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
American Book Award–winning poet dg okpik’s second collection of poems, Blood Snow, tells a continu… read more
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29. The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America
By: Philip Bump
3.61
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A widely-read Washington Post columnist takes a deep dive into what the end of the baby boom means … read more
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30. The Life Impossible
By: Matt Haig
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight L… read more
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"And, like so many of life's fun things, it will begin with minimally invasive radiofrequency-based vein ablation surgery."-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible
"When you grieve someone you see their message in everything. Even in the sunlight on a blade of grass. The whole world becomes their translator."-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible
31. What He Did in Solitary: Poems
By: Amit Majmudar
4.02
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The prize-winning poet reflects on what sustains us in a sundered world. With his dazzling abili… read more
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