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Significance

ByJo Mazelis

1 Reader

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

ByJill Leovy

2015 • 4 Readers • 386 pages • 5

Music for Wartime

Music for Wartime: Stories

ByRebecca Makkai

1 Reader

Persian Mirrors

Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran

ByElaine Sciolino

1 Reader

Bon Appetempt

Bon Appetempt: A Coming-of-Age Story

ByAmelia Morris

1 Reader

The Dark Road

ByFlora Drew, Ma Jian

3 Readers • 3

Decoy

Decoy: A Novella

ByAllan Gurganus

1 Reader

From Dawn to Decadence

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present

ByJacques Barzun

2 Readers

One Rainy Day in May

ByMark Z. Danielewski

3 Readers

The Breast Cancer Wars

The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America

ByBarron H. Lerner

1 Reader

The State We're In

The State We're In: Maine Stories

ByAnn Beattie

1 Reader

Leaving Orbit

Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight

ByMargaret Lazarus Dean

2 Readers

BMe

BMe: A True Story of Literary Arousal

ByJ.C. Hallman

1 Reader

The Boatmaker

ByJohn Benditt

1 Reader

Mistakes I Made at Work

Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong

ByJessica Bacal

1 Reader

American Babylon

American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland

ByRobert O. Self

1 Reader

The River At The Centre Of The World

BySimon Winchester

1 Reader

Will the Boat Sink the Water?

Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants

ByWu Chuntao, Zhu Hong, Chen Guidi

1 Reader

1988

1988: I Want to Talk with the World

ByHan Han, 韩寒

1 Reader

All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found

ByPhilip Connors

3 Readers • 3.5

Pillar of Fire

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65

ByTaylor Branch

2 Readers

Cries in the Drizzle

ByAllan H. Barr, Yu Hua

1 Reader

Lovers in the Age of Indifference

ByXiaolu Guo

2 Readers • 2

My Documents

ByAlejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell

1 Reader

Lucky Alan and Other Stories

ByJonathan Lethem

2014 • 3 Readers • 176 pages

Little Egypt

ByLesley Glaister

1 Reader

A Clearing in the Distance

A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century

ByWitold Rybczynski

5 Readers

The Origins of the Second World War

ByA.J.P. Taylor

4 Readers

Gone to Ground

Gone to Ground: One woman's extraordinary account of survival in the heart of Nazi Germany

ByAnthea Bell, Marie Jalowicz Simon, Hermann Simon, Irene Stratenwerth

1 Reader

Let Me Tell You

Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings

ByLaurence Jackson Hyman, Sarah Hyman DeWitt, Shirley Jackson,Ruth Franklin

2 Readers • 5

Adrift

ByPaul Griffin

4 Readers • 4

Your Band Sucks

Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution

ByJon Fine

1 Reader

Blue Fasa

ByNathaniel Mackey

2 Readers

Flash

Flash: The Homeless Donkey Who Taught Me about Life, Faith, and Second Chances

ByPriscilla Shirer, Rachel Anne Ridge

1 Reader

The Silenced

ByJames DeVita

1 Reader

Modern Romance

ByAziz; Klinenberg Ansari,Eric Klinenberg

2015 • 4 Readers • 288 pages • 3.5

Meanwhile There Are Letters

Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald

BySuzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan

1 Reader

Lamb

ByBonnie Nadzam

2011 • 6 Readers • 275 pages • 4

Fell of dark

ByPatrick Downes

1 Reader

The Festival of Insignificance

ByMilan Kundera,Linda Asher(Translator)

2013 • 16 Readers • 115 pages • 3.5

#3 of 2 in Beloved Trilogy

Paradise

ByToni Morrison

1997 • 55 Readers • 342 pages • 4.3

All that followed

ByGabriel Urza

2 Readers

#2 of 2 in Oliver Sacks' memoirs

On the Move: A Life

ByOliver Sacks

2015 • 64 Readers • 4.1

Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker

ByJulian Voloj

2015 • 3 Readers • 128 pages • 4

#2 of 3 in Bill Hodges Trilogy

Finders Keepers

ByStephen King

2015 • 309 Readers • 372 pages • 3.9

Mateship with Birds

ByCarrie Tiffany

2012 • 3 Readers • 208 pages

Crooked

ByAustin Grossman

2015 • 15 Readers • 355 pages • 3

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

ByWilliam Finnegan

2015 • 100 Readers • 447 pages • 4.3

The Red Book

ByDeborah Copaken Kogan,Deborah Copaken

2012 • 4 Readers • 368 pages • 4

The Argonauts

ByMaggie Nelson

2015 • 186 Readers • 160 pages • 4

The autograph man

ByZadie Smith

2003 • 1 Reader • 512 pages

Fault Lines

ByNancy Huston

2006 • 5 Readers • 302 pages

Ignorance

ByMichèle Roberts

2 Readers

The evening chorus

ByHelen Humphreys

2015 • 7 Readers • 304 pages • 3

#3 of 3 in The Magicians

The Magician's Land

ByLev Grossman

2014 • 255 Readers • 418 pages • 4.2

The A to Z of You and Me

ByJames Hannah

1 Reader

Chop Chop

BySimon Wroe

2 Readers • 3

Jakob's Colours

ByLindsay Hawdon

2 Readers • 2

The Quiet Game

ByGreg Iles

34 Readers • 4.1

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

ByAtul Gawande

2014 • 297 Readers • 282 pages • 4.5

Shotgun Lovesongs

ByNickolas Butler

2014 • 20 Readers • 320 pages • 3.3

The midwife's daughter

ByPatricia Ferguson

1 Reader

On Immunity: An Inoculation

ByEula Biss

2014 • 35 Readers • 224 pages • 4.6

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

ByRoz Chast

2014 • 45 Readers • 228 pages • 4.1

#3 of 3 in Penn Cage

The Devil's Punchbowl

ByGreg Iles

12 • 16 Readers • 740 pages • 3.8

Turning Angel

ByGreg Iles

17 Readers • 3.5

Painted Horses

ByMalcolm Brooks

2014 • 4 Readers • 386 pages • 3

Our Endless Numbered Days

ByClaire Fuller

2015 • 41 Readers • 368 pages • 3.2

Korparna

ByTomas Bannerhed

1 Reader

The Moor: Lives, Landscape, Literature

ByWilliam Atkins

3 Readers

#2 of 3 in The Magicians

The Magician King

ByLev Grossman

2011 • 289 Readers • 400 pages • 3.9

Natchez Burning

ByGreg Iles

32 Readers • 3.9

Meadowland: the private life of an English field

ByJohn Lewis-Stempel

2014 • 6 Readers • 304 pages • 4.5

Running Free

Running Free: A Runner's Journey Back to Nature

ByRichard Askwith

1 Reader

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me

ByDavid Gates

1 Reader

Randall

ByJonathan Gibbs

1 Reader

Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet

ByMark Cocker

2014 • 2 Readers • 229 pages

Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place

ByPhilip Marsden

2014 • 4 Readers • 361 pages

All Day Long

All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain At Work

ByJoanna Biggs

1 Reader

The Third-Born

ByMohsin Hamid

3 Readers

This Is How You Lose Her

ByJunot Díaz

2012 • 136 Readers • 240 pages • 3.8

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

ByGeorge Dyson

4 Readers • 4

On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History

ByNicholas A. Basbanes

2 Readers

Defying Dixie

Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights: 1919-1950

ByGlenda Elizabeth Gilmore

2008 • 2 Readers

One Last Thing Before I Go

ByJonathan Tropper

2012 • 21 Readers • 336 pages • 3.7

The Dog Stars

ByPeter Heller

2013 • 17 Readers • 337 pages • 3.4

Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

ByBeth Macy

2014 • 8 Readers • 464 pages • 3

Battleborn

ByClaire Vaye Watkins

18 Readers • 4

Provenance

ByLaney Salisbury,Aly Sujo

2009 • 9 Readers • 352 pages • 4

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

ByGlenn Greenwald

3 Readers

Just Mercy

ByBryan Stevenson

2014 • 290 Readers • 336 pages • 4.8

The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

ByJonathan Eig

2014 • 1 Reader • 416 pages

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

ByTimothy Egan

2 Readers

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us

ByTom Vanderbilt

2008 • 44 Readers • 402 pages • 3.7

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

ByHampton Sides

2014 • 53 Readers • 454 pages • 4.5

The Memory Palace

ByMira Bartok

2011 • 10 Readers • 320 pages • 3.5

Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats

ByKristen Iversen

2012 • 5 Readers • 434 pages • 3.5

Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

ByKristopher Jansma

2013 • 11 Readers • 274 pages

Dark Invasion 1915: Germany's Secret War & the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America

ByHoward Blum

2013 • 3 Readers

Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America

ByTanner Colby

2012 • 5 Readers • 320 pages

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