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  • The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1

    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn August 7, 2007 Literature & Fiction

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    4.8 stars

    1,539 ratings

    “BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY” —Time
    Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report o...

  • The Hunt for Red October (A Jack Ryan Novel Book 1)

    by Tom Clancy October 1, 1984 Literature & Fiction

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    4.7 stars

    4,555 ratings

    The #1 New York Times bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Tom Clancy—a gripping military thriller that introduc...

  • The Hustler

    by Walter Tevis December 31, 2002 Literature & Fiction

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    4.5 stars

    581 ratings

    When it was first published in 1959, The Hustler was the first--and the best--novel written about billiards in the 400-year his...

  • The Jack Vance Treasury

    by Jack Vance January 30, 2007 Literature & Fiction

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    4.5 stars

    94 ratings

    Nebula and World Fantasy Grand Master Jack Vance is one of the most admired and cherished writers of science fiction and fantas...

  • The Lifecycle of Software Objects

    by Ted Chiang September 11, 2021 Literature & Fiction

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    4.5 stars

    38 ratings

    What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, 'Many people think that a very abstract acti...

  • The Little Prince

    by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry May 15, 2000 Literature & Fiction

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    4.8 stars

    6,096 ratings

    Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard...

  • The Lord of the Rings

    by J. R. R. Tolkien February 15, 2012 Literature & Fiction

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    4.8 stars

    15,319 ratings

    One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

    In ancient times ...

  • The Machine Stops

    by E. M. Forster May 23, 2013 Literature & Fiction

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    4.4 stars

    178 ratings

    E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist. He is known best for his ironi...

  • The Mind-Body Problem

    by Rebecca Goldstein March 1, 1993 Literature & Fiction

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    4.2 stars

    72 ratings

    The hilarious underground bestseller about one woman’s pursuit of carnal pleasure—and the philosophy that gets in the way.

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  • The Minefield Girl

    by Sofia Ek February 1, 2018 Literature & Fiction

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    3.9 stars

    160 ratings

    The Minefield Girl is based on Sofia Ek´s personal experiences as a young woman doing business in Libya, while Gaddafi was stil...

  • The Old Man and the Sea

    by Ernest Hemingway August 24, 2016 Literature & Fiction

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    4.6 stars

    13,859 ratings

    "His best. Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us, I mean his and my contemporaries." - _William Faulkner....

  • The Opposing Shore

    by Julien Gracq September 8, 2021 Literature & Fiction

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    4.5 stars

    17 ratings

    With four elegant and beautifully crafted novels Julien Gracq has established himself as one of France's premier postwar noveli...

  • The Painted Bird

    by Jerzy Kosinski August 9, 1995 Literature & Fiction

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    4.4 stars

    803 ratings

    Jerzy Kosinski's mythic, master-work of a shattered post-War Europe.

    Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird establis...

  • The Piano Tuner

    by Daniel Mason August 19, 2003 Literature & Fiction

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    4.0 stars

    483 ratings

    A New York Times Notable Book

    A San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of t...

  • The Poems of Dylan Thomas

    by Dylan Thomas October 31, 2017 Literature & Fiction

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    4.7 stars

    131 ratings

    The most complete and current edition of Dylan Thomas' collected poetry in a beautiful gift edition celebrating the centenary o...

  • The Power of Myth

    by Joseph Campbell June 1, 1991 Literature & Fiction

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    4.7 stars

    2,087 ratings

    The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, write...

  • The Prophet

    by Kahlil Gibran January 15, 2019 Literature & Fiction

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    4.7 stars

    1,797 ratings

    "My all-time favorite collection of poems . . . [Gibran's] poetry always roots me in my humanity." --Rupi Kaur, #1 New York Tim...

  • The Reasonableness of Christianity, and A Discourse of Miracles

    by John Locke June 1, 1958 Literature & Fiction

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    4.5 stars

    19 ratings

    A new and manageable edition of Locke has been badly needed. Professor Ramsey's judicious editing of these important texts fill...

  • The Remains of the Day

    by Kazuo Ishiguro October 2, 2012 Literature & Fiction

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    4.5 stars

    5,432 ratings

    From the Nobel Prize–winning author, here is an elegant Everyman's Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novel...

  • The Road

    by Cormac McCarthy March 28, 2006 Literature & Fiction

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    4.4 stars

    10,186 ratings

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

    The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to surv...

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