Robert Frost: A Life
By: Jay Parini
4.26
Format: None pages,
In this important new biography of Robert Frost (1874-1963), Jay Parini offers a major reassessment…
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1. The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
By: Muriel Spark
3.65
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—i… read more
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- literature
- classics
"it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls."-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
"- 'Poise is perfect balance, an equanimity of body and mind, complete composure whatever the social scene. Elegant dress, immaculate grooming, and perfect deportment all contribute to the attainment …"-Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)
2. Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
By: Megan Marshall
4.20
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired Americ… read more
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- poetry
- history
- biography
- literature
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
3. Truman
By: David McCullough
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
4. Oliver Twist
By: Charles Dickens , George Cruikshank , Philip Horne
3.88
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an in… read more
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- literature
- classics
"Meat, ma'am, meat."-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"Please, sir, I want some more."-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"هناك كتب .. غلافـها أفضل ما فيها"-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?"-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
5. Robert Frost: A Life
By: Jay Parini
4.26
Format: None pages,
In this important new biography of Robert Frost (1874-1963), Jay Parini offers a major reassessment… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- history
- biography
- literature
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
6. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
7. So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
By: Maureen Corrigan
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It's a staple on almost every high school reading list in the country. It's a book that has remaine… read more
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- history
- classics
- biography
- nonfiction
8. Eisenhower in War and Peace
By: Jean Edward Smith
4.06
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-DispatchIn… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
"Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity."-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
"The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient."-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
"Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover."-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
"Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it."-Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower in War and Peace
9. The Invention of Morel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms
4.00
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more
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- literature
- classics
"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
10. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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11. Grimus
By: Salman Rushdie
3.57
Format: 256 pages,
"A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present-day . . . Thunde… read more
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12. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
13. Shame
By: Salman Rushdie
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shar… read more
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14. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
By: Walter Isaacson
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose … read more
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15. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
16. Medea
By: Euripides , Rex Warner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more
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17. Goodbye to All That
By: Robert Graves
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society foll… read more
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18. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
19. The Magician
By: Colm Tóibín
4.02
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more
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- literature
"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
20. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
21. 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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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"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
22. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- biography
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
23. 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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- nonfiction
"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
24. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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- literature
"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
25. At Night All Blood is Black
By: David Diop
3.82
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting a… read more
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"La nuit, tous les sangs sont noirs."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"Temporary madness, in war, is bravery's sister."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"Laughter brings laughter and smiles bring smiles."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"God's truth, each thing carries its opposite within."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
26. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By: Susan Magsamen
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brai… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Running with Sherman
By: Christopher McDougall
4.25
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
A heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in Ame… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"Brain opioids are so powerful that if you exercise, you can lower your “mental health burden"-Christopher McDougall, Running with Sherman
"Normally, up to 75% of all prisoners who are released will be arrested aging within five years. But among prisoners who’ve worked with animals, the recidivism rate tends to be as low as 10 percent. P…"-Christopher McDougall, Running with Sherman
28. 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
By: Weiwei Ai
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In Ai Weiwei's widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
29. The Other Name: Septology I-II
By: Jon Fosse
4.06
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more
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- literature
"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
30. Booth
By: Karen Joy Fowler
3.83
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
Best Book of the Year Real Simple - AARP - USA Today From the Man Booker finalist and bestselli… read more
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"Why does the extraordinary courage of ordinary women go so unsung?"-Karen Joy Fowler, Booth
31. Lost & Found: A Memoir
By: Kathryn Schulz
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & F… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"For now, at least, the world is ours to notice and to change, and that seems to me sufficient. It is true that loss will ultimately part us from it, but it is also true, as I said earlier, that we ha…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
"One consequence of losing a parent—obvious enough, although it hadn't occurred to me beforehand—is that it reconfigures the rest of your family. All my life, it had been the four of us; to the extent…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
"What an astonishing thing it is to find someone. Loss may alter our sense of scale, reminding us that the world is overwhelmingly large while we are incredibly tiny. But finding does the same; the on…"-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir
