A Turn In The South
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Naipaul's first book about America. A revealing, disturbing book about the American South--a part o…
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1. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
By: Hisham Matar
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hisham Matar, a memoir of his… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?"-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"The past, like a severed limb, tried to fix itself onto the body of the present."-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest."-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"Those who would later lament Seif and his father's (Qaddafi) regime are like a man who looks at the ashes and says, "I much prefer the fire"-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
2. The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
By: Stuart Kells
3.46
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Libraries are filled with magic. From the Bodleian, the Folger and the Smithsonian to the fabled li… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- history
- travel
"Designer clothes were another well-known taste. ‘Just because I am a librarian,’ she declared, ‘doesn’t mean I have to dress like one."-Stuart Kells, The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
"For many years, Larkin was university librarian at Hull University’s Brynmor Jones Library. When Larkin first met a new vice chancellor there, the VC asked for the library’s payroll/non-payroll break…"-Stuart Kells, The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
"The Folger librarian Louis Wright wrote of an English wife who parted company with her husband because he insisted upon reciting Shakespeare in the middle of the night. A perhaps less fortunate wife,…"-Stuart Kells, The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
"For Umberto Eco, the ideal library was humane and lighthearted, a place where two students could sit on a couch in the afternoon and, without doing anything too indecent, ‘enjoy the continuation of t…"-Stuart Kells, The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
3. 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
4. Mating
By: Norman Rush
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American … read more
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- literature
5. Between the Woods and the Water
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris
4.12
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts The journey that Patrick Le… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
6. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more
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- literature
7. A Turn In The South
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Naipaul's first book about America. A revealing, disturbing book about the American South--a part o… read more
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- history
- memoir
- the united states of america
- literature
- travel
- nonfiction
- essays
8. Of Human Bondage
By: W. Somerset Maugham , Maeve Binchy , Benjamin DeMott
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an … read more
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- literature
9. Extinction
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard is one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in the German language. Extinction… read more
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10. Butcher's Crossing
By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more
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11. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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12. Shooting an Elephant
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Shooting an Elephant" is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a poli… read more
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13. In Patagonia
By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more
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- history
- memoir
- literature
- travel
- nonfiction
"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D.Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names take…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
14. A Collection of Essays
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
George Orwell's collected nonfiction, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that earne… read more
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15. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
16. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
17. A Guest at the Feast
By: Colm Tóibín
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
18. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.73
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more
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- literature
"Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
19. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
20. The Romance of American Communism
By: Vivian Gornick
4.34
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
Writer and critic Vivian Gornick's classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to Am… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
- the united states of america
"My father had a sister, Mady, who had married badly and ‘ruined her life.’ Her story was a classic. She had fallen in love before the war with an American adventurer, married him against her family’s…"-Vivian Gornick, The Romance of American Communism
21. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
By: Leigh Phillips
3.90
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
