In Praise of Disobedience: The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Writings
By: Oscar Wilde
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Works of Wilde’s annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British pl…
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1. The Wall
By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more
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"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
2. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
3. The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
By: Owen Jones
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
In The EstablishmentOwen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting criti… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
4. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more
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5. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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6. The Summer Book
By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more
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7. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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8. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: None pages,
Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Ne… read more
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9. The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world … read more
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10. Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None
3.92
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more
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11. Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
4.19
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Colum… read more
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"What use is a power to read the heavens if it cannot be turned to your own benefit?"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
"There was magic in the world, pure and simple, things she didn't understand. Best get used to it."-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
"We have become a place of long weeping A house of scattered feathers There is no home for us between earth and sky. —From Collected Lamentations from the Night of Knives"-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
12. Bewilderment
By: Richard Powers
3.92
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A heartrending new novel from the … read more
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"Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
"Apparently God had made life on one planet only, and only one country of that planet's dominant species needed to manage it."-Richard Powers, Bewilderment
13. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
By: Eric Cervini
4.31
Format: 494 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
14. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
15. Translating Myself and Others
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary transla… read more
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"To translate is to look into a mirror and see someone other than oneself."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"To translate is to alter one’s linguistic coordinates, to grab on to what has slipped away, to cope with exile."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"Translation will open up entire realms of possibilities, unforeseen pathways that will newly guide and inspire the writer’s work, and possibly even transform it. For to translate is to look into a mi…"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose ex…"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
16. The Library: A Fragile History
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 518 pages, Hardcover
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, des… read more
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- history
"In 1748, the Earl of Chesterfield passed on some useful advice to his son: 'Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors a…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
"Mudie's insistence on the three-volume format was undoubtedly responsible for the verbosity of many nineteenth-century novels, as authors went to extraordinary efforts to pad their texts to the requi…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
17. 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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- history
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"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
18. The Stonewall Reader
By: New York Public Library
4.36
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fig… read more
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"Defend the fairies!"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"This place was the “ART"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"I just want you all to know,"-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
"You can’t call us fags anymore, we’re gay."-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader
19. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
By: Wole Soyinka
3.16
Format: 444 pages, Hardcover
In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospi… read more
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20. In Praise of Disobedience: The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Writings
By: Oscar Wilde
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Works of Wilde’s annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British pl… read more
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