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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

ByMichael Pollan

2006 • 339 Readers • 480 pages • 4.1

Mythologies

ByRoland Barthes,Annette Lavers(Translator)

1957 • 62 Readers • 160 pages • 4.2

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

ByAnna Funder

2003 • 50 Readers • 328 pages • 4.1

Imajica

#2 of 2 in Imajica

ByClive Barker

1991 • 142 Readers • 1,026 pages • 3.9

The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman

The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman

ByGalawdewos,Wendy Laura Belcher(Translator),+1 more

1672 • 1 Reader

The Heart Goes Last

3 Positron

The Heart Goes Last

ByMargaret Atwood

2013 • 146 Readers • 320 pages • 3.3

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Modernity and the Holocaust

Modernity and the Holocaust

ByZygmunt Bauman

1989 • 4 Readers • 5

Living in the End Times

Living in the End Times

BySlavoj Žižek

2010 • 7 Readers • 432 pages

The Other Venice: Secrets of the City

The Other Venice: Secrets of the City

ByPredrag Matvejević,Russell Scott Valentino(Translator)

2002 • 1 Reader • 112 pages

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Mediterranean

Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape

ByPredrag Matvejević

1987 • 1 Reader

Seeing Like a State

The Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Seeing Like a State

ByJames C. Scott

1998 • 107 Readers • 445 pages • 4.1

The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

ByLawrence Wright

2006 • 104 Readers • 578 pages • 4.5

Year of Our War

#1 of 3 in Fourlands

The Year of Our War

BySteph Swainston

2017 • 11 Readers • 384 pages • 3.3

Gun, With Occasional Music

Gun, With Occasional Music

ByJonathan Lethem

1994 • 67 Readers • 262 pages • 3.7

Snow Country & Thousand Cranes

ByYasunari Kawabata,Edward G. Seidensticker(Translator)

1977 • 143 Readers • 204 pages • 3.4

The Summer Book

The Summer Book

ByTove Jansson,Thomas Teal(Translator)

1972 • 132 Readers • 186 pages • 3.9

The White Ship

ByChingiz Aitmatov

1957 • 3 Readers • 160 pages

Dialogues in Paradise

Dialogues in Paradise

ByCan Xue

1988 • 3 Readers • 173 pages

Memoirs of a Survivor

The Memoirs of a Survivor

ByDoris Lessing

1974 • 7 Readers • 182 pages • 4

Malgudi Days

ByR.K. Narayan

1943 • 38 Readers • 292 pages • 4.3

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

ByMuriel Spark

1961 • 125 Readers • 164 pages • 3.6

Too Loud a Solitude

Too Loud a Solitude

ByBohumil Hrabal,Michael Henry Heim(Translator)

1976 • 57 Readers • 98 pages • 3.8

The Clown

ByHeinrich Böll,Leila Vennewitz(Translator)

1963 • 21 Readers • 258 pages • 4.3

Black Wine

ByCandas Jane Dorsey

1996 • 3 Readers • 285 pages

A Bohemian Youth

A Bohemian Youth

ByJosef Hiršal

1997 • 1 Reader

Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

ByLewis Hyde

2010 • 5 Readers • 320 pages • 4.3

Wizard of the Crow

Wizard of the Crow

ByNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o

2004 • 50 Readers • 786 pages • 4.5

Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

ByKristopher Jansma

2013 • 11 Readers • 274 pages

Independent People

#1 of 1 in Sjálfstætt fólk

Independent People

ByHalldór Laxness,James Anderson Thompson(Translator)

1934 • 59 Readers • 513 pages • 3.9

Before the Deluge

Before the Deluge

ByOtto Friedrich

1995 • 4 Readers • 442 pages

ByThomas Pynchon

1963 • 123 Readers • 500 pages • 4.1

ByOlaf Stapledon

95 Readers • 3.7

The Crying of Lot 49

The Crying of Lot 49

ByThomas Pynchon

1965 • 319 Readers • 288 pages • 3.8

Alias Grace

ByMargaret Atwood

1996 • 267 Readers • 636 pages • 3.9

Elizabeth's London

Elizabeth's London

ByLiza Picard

2003 • 2 Readers • 368 pages

Stone Junction

ByJim Dodge

1990 • 12 Readers • 515 pages • 3.5

Jagannath

ByKarin Tidbeck,Carmen Montes Cano(Translator),+1 more

2011 • 33 Readers • 192 pages • 3.4

A School for Fools

A School for Fools

BySasha Sokolov,Carl R. Proffer(Translator)

1976 • 13 Readers • 232 pages • 5

Mythago Wood

#1 of 7 in Mythago Wood

ByRobert Holdstock

1984 • 83 Readers • 288 pages • 3.6

My Tender Matador

My Tender Matador

ByPedro Lemebel

2001 • 10 Readers • 176 pages

The Golem (Dedalus European Classics)

The Golem (Dedalus European Classics)

ByGustav Meyrink,Mike Mitchell(Translator),+1 more

1915 • 15 Readers • 264 pages • 4.3

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From the Velvets to the Voidoids

From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World

ByClinton Heylin

1993 • 3 Readers

Every Man Dies Alone

Every Man Dies Alone

ByHans Fallada,Michael Hofmann(Translator)

1947 • 35 Readers • 593 pages • 4.6

The True Deceiver

The True Deceiver

ByTove Jansson,Thomas Teal(Translator)

1982 • 20 Readers • 181 pages • 3.6

Kristin Lavransdatter

Kristin Lavransdatter

BySigrid Undset,Tiina Nunnally(Translator)

60 Readers • 4

Tranquility

ByAttila Bartis

2009 • 1 Reader • 292 pages

Fatelessness

The Holocaust

ByTim Wilkinson(Translator),Imre Kertész

1975 • 13 Readers • 262 pages • 3.8

The Corrections

The Corrections

ByJonathan Franzen

2001 • 283 Readers • 662 pages • 3.9

Fahrenheit 451

ByRay Bradbury

1953 • 3,188 Readers • 227 pages • 3.9

The Sirens of Titan

The Sirens of Titan

ByKurt Vonnegut

1959 • 470 Readers • 322 pages • 4

Manufacturing Consent

Manufacturing Consent

ByEdward S. Herman,Noam Chomsky

2002 • 201 Readers • 482 pages • 4

Red Sorghum

ByMo Yan,Howard Goldblatt(Translator)

25 Readers • 4

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See

ByAnthony Doerr

2014 • 1,468 Readers • 544 pages • 4.2

The Dying Earth

#1 of 4 in The Dying Earth

The Dying Earth

ByJack Vance

1950 • 172 Readers • 90 pages • 3.6

Ficciones

ByJorge Luis Borges,John Sturrock(Translator),+1 more

1944 • 284 Readers • 192 pages • 4.2

A Personal Matter

A Personal Matter

ByKenzaburō Ōe,John Nathan(Translator)

1964 • 57 Readers • 165 pages • 4

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

AATSEEL

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

ByAleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1962 • 197 Readers • 104 pages • 3.9

Palm-of-the-hand Stories

Palm-of-the-hand Stories

ByYasunari Kawabata

1988 • 18 Readers • 238 pages • 4

Kokoro

ByNatsume Sōseki,Edwin McClellan(Translator)

1914 • 194 Readers • 263 pages • 4.2

Kitchen

ByYoshimoto Banana

1975 • 279 Readers • 153 pages • 3.9

Cities in Flight

#1-4 of 4 in Cities in Flight

Cities in Flight

ByJames Blish

1970 • 24 Readers • 593 pages • 4

The wolves of Willoughby Chase

#1 of 5 in The Wolves Chronicles

The wolves of Willoughby Chase

ByJoan Aiken

1962 • 30 Readers • 181 pages • 4.1

The House of Hunger

The House of Hunger

ByDambudzo Marechera

1978 • 6 Readers • 160 pages

The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist

The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist

ByEmile Habiby,Trevor Le Gassick

1974 • 6 Readers • 192 pages • 2

Survivor

4 Patternmaster

ByOctavia E. Butler

1978 • 17 Readers • 187 pages • 3.3

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew

ByDaniel Pool

1993 • 20 Readers • 416 pages • 4.2

Punktown

#1 of 8 in Punktown

ByJeffrey Thomas

2000 • 13 Readers • 3.3

The Familiar

#1 of 3 in The Familiar

ByMark Z. Danielewski

2015 • 41 Readers • 839 pages • 3.6

The Eyre Affair

#1 of 8 in Thursday Next

The Eyre Affair

ByJasper Fforde

2001 • 377 Readers • 387 pages • 3.9

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

#2 of 3 in Dirk Gently

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

ByDouglas Adams

1988 • 250 Readers • 326 pages • 3.8

Silently and Very Fast

Silently and Very Fast

ByCatherynne M. Valente

1911 • 30 Readers • 127 pages • 4

Ready Player One

#1 of 2 in Ready Player One

Ready Player One

ByErnest Cline

2008 • 2,517 Readers • 384 pages • 3.9

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

ByFyodor Dostoevsky

1864 • 120 Readers • 233 pages • 4.1

Amnesia Moon

ByJonathan Lethem

1995 • 16 Readers • 249 pages • 2.9

The Drowned Cities

#2 of 3 in Ship Breaker

The Drowned Cities

ByPaolo Bacigalupi

2012 • 34 Readers • 437 pages • 3.8

I Who Have Never Known Men

I Who Have Never Known Men

ByJacqueline Harpman,Ros Schwartz(Translator)

1995 • 493 Readers • 208 pages • 4.3

Malpertuis

ByJean Ray,John Flanders

1943 • 11 Readers • 171 pages • 3.8

Doomsday Book

#1 of 4 in Oxford Time Travel

ByConnie Willis

1992 • 381 Readers • 587 pages • 3.8

The Glass Bead Game

The Glass Bead Game

ByHermann Hesse,Richard Winston(Translator),+1 more

1943 • 134 Readers • 578 pages • 3.9

Fantastic Planet

Fantastic Planet

ByStefan Wul,Stephan Wul,+1 more

1957 • 1 Reader • 158 pages

Blindness

#1 of 2 in Blindness

ByJosé Saramago,Giovanni Pontiero(Translator)

1995 • 571 Readers • 349 pages • 4

The Speed of Dark

The Speed Of Dark

ByElizabeth Moon

2002 • 40 Readers • 13 pages • 3.9

The Ice People

ByRené Barjavel,Charles Lam Markmann(Translator)

1968 • 9 Readers • 182 pages • 2.5

Hard to be a god

#4 of 10 in The Noon Universe

Hard to Be a God

ByArkady Strugatsky,Boris Strugatsky

1964 • 66 Readers • 219 pages • 4.4

In the Mothers' Land

#2 of 2 in Silent City

In the Mothers' Land

ByÉlisabeth Vonarburg

1992 • 2 Readers

The Carpet Makers

Carpet Makers Universe

The Carpet Makers

ByAndreas Eschbach,Doryl Jensen(Translator)

1995 • 35 Readers • 297 pages • 4.4

The Unit

ByNinni Holmqvist

2006 • 35 Readers • 272 pages • 3.2

Cosmicomics

ByItalo Calvino

1968 • 66 Readers • 172 pages • 4.4

The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community

The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community

ByRay Oldenburg

1989 • 10 Readers • 384 pages

Invisible Cities

Invisible Cities

ByItalo Calvino,William Weaver(Translator)

1972 • 322 Readers • 182 pages • 4.1

London Calling: The Middle Classes and the Remaking of Inner London

London Calling: The Middle Classes and the Remaking of Inner London

ByTim Butler,Garry Robson

2004 • 1 Reader

Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road

#1 of 22 in Lone Wolf and Cub

Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road

ByKazuo Koike

2000 • 39 Readers • 303 pages • 3.5

Four Ways to Forgiveness

#7 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

Four Ways to Forgiveness

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1994 • 45 Readers • 320 pages • 3.9

Lord Valentine's Castle

#1 of 7 in Majipoor

Lord Valentine's Castle

ByRobert Silverberg

1980 • 49 Readers • 742 pages • 3.7

The Dervish House

The Dervish House

ByIan McDonald

2009 • 49 Readers • 472 pages • 3.8

Digger, Volume One

#1 of 5 in Digger

Digger, Volume One

ByUrsula Vernon

2005 • 10 Readers • 132 pages • 5

The Gate to Women's Country

The Gate to Women's Country

BySheri S. Tepper

1987 • 44 Readers • 336 pages • 4.2

Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind

#2 of 2 in Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind (Perfect)

Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind

ByHayao Miyazaki

1995 • 12 Readers • 288 pages • 3.3

Na rubu pameti

On the Edge of Reason

ByMiroslav Krleža

5 Readers • 4.5

The Great Book of Amber

#1 of 10 in The Chronicles of Amber

The Great Book of Amber

ByRoger Zelazny

1999 • 100 Readers • 1,268 pages • 4.1