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Call It Sleep

ByHenry Roth

1934 • 23 Readers • 480 pages • 3.3

Pnin

ByVladimir Nabokov

1957 • 108 Readers • 193 pages • 3.7

A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction

A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction

ByJoel Greenberg

2014 • 5 Readers • 304 pages • 4

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America

ByDaniel J. Boorstin

1961 • 18 Readers • 315 pages • 4

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Radiance of Tomorrow

Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel

ByIshmael Beah

2014 • 1 Reader

The Bilingual Mind

The Bilingual Mind

ByAneta Pavlenko

2014 • 1 Reader • 400 pages

The Language Hoax

The Language Hoax

ByJohn McWhorter

2014 • 18 Readers • 203 pages • 3.3

Best American essays 2013

Best American essays 2013

ByCheryl Strayed

2013 • 2 Readers • 316 pages

Leaving the Sea: Stories

Leaving the Sea: Stories

ByBen Marcus

2014 • 5 Readers • 288 pages • 4

The Goldfinch

ByDonna Tartt

2013 • 1,111 Readers • 1,006 pages • 4

Command and Control

Command and Control

ByEric Schlosser

2013 • 55 Readers • 656 pages • 4

Empress Dowager Cixi

Empress Dowager Cixi

ByJung Chang

2013 • 18 Readers • 436 pages • 4

Quack This Way

ByBryan A. Garner,David Foster Wallace

2013 • 2 Readers • 146 pages • 4

The Summer Game

The Summer Game

ByRoger Angell

1972 • 7 Readers • 303 pages • 4.3

The gap

ByThomas Suddendorf

2013 • 1 Reader • 358 pages

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Perfect Moral Storm

Perfect Moral Storm

ByStephen M. Gardiner

2011 • 2 Readers • 512 pages

Climate Matters

Climate Matters

ByJohn Broome

2012 • 1 Reader • 210 pages

How Dogs Love Us

How Dogs Love Us

ByGregory Berns

2013 • 19 Readers • 272 pages • 3.6

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

ByThomas S. Kuhn

1962 • 167 Readers • 226 pages • 3.9

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

ByRichard Rorty

1979 • 8 Readers • 424 pages • 4

Anything that moves

Anything that moves

ByDana Goodyear

2013 • 6 Readers • 262 pages • 3

The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election

The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election

ByJohn Sides,Lynn Vavreck

2013 • 4 Readers • 352 pages • 4

Revolutions

ByJack A. Goldstone(Editor)

1986 • 3 Readers • 352 pages

Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

ByMalcolm McCullough

2013 • 1 Reader • 347 pages

Speedboat

ByRenata Adler

1976 • 33 Readers • 178 pages • 3.8

Ebony and Ivy

ByCraig Steven Wilder

2013 • 5 Readers

Stories of Your Life and Others

Stories of Your Life and Others

ByTed Chiang

2002 • 780 Readers • 281 pages • 4.3

The Lowland

ByJhumpa Lahiri

2013 • 87 Readers • 340 pages • 4

Black Swan Green

Black Swan Green

ByDavid Mitchell

2006 • 97 Readers • 400 pages • 4

Selected Short Stories

Selected stories

ByAlice Munro

1985 • 20 Readers • 545 pages • 5

For Discrimination

For Discrimination

ByRandall Kennedy

2013 • 2 Readers

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

ByDaniel E. Lieberman

2013 • 26 Readers • 4.5

Dissident gardens a novel

Dissident Gardens

ByJonathan Lethem

2013 • 14 Readers • 386 pages • 3

The Accumulation of Freedom

The Accumulation of Freedom

ByDeric Shannon(Editor),Anthony J. Nocella II(Editor)

2012 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

ByBen Fountain

2012 • 55 Readers • 335 pages • 3.7

The Wolf in the Parlor

The Wolf in the Parlor

ByJon Franklin

2000 • 2 Readers • 304 pages

The Serious Game

The Serious Game

ByHjalmar Söderberg

1912 • 3 Readers • 240 pages

The sports gene

The sports gene

ByDavid J. Epstein

2013 • 5 Readers • 338 pages • 4.5

Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature

Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature

ByVaclav Smil

2012 • 8 Readers • 320 pages

& Sons

ByDavid Gilbert

2013 • 7 Readers • 434 pages • 3

The Collective

ByDon Lee

2012 • 2 Readers • 310 pages • 3

Mind and Cosmos

Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

ByThomas Nagel

2012 • 6 Readers • 144 pages

High Price

ByCarl L. Hart

2013 • 9 Readers • 332 pages • 2

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

ByReza Aslan

2013 • 96 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

This Land, This Nation

This Land, This Nation

BySarah Phillips

2007 • 1 Reader • 310 pages

Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama

Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama

ByPeniel E. Joseph

2009 • 1 Reader • 288 pages

The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

ByClare Mulley

2012 • 5 Readers • 426 pages

Humboldt

ByEmily Brady

2013 • 2 Readers • 260 pages • 4

The woman upstairs a novel

The woman upstairs a novel

ByClaire Messud

2013 • 26 Readers • 272 pages • 5

Hold It 'Til It Hurts

Hold It 'Til It Hurts

ByT. Geronimo Johnson

2012 • 2 Readers • 340 pages

How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

ByJoe Studwell

2013 • 37 Readers • 320 pages • 3.3

TransAtlantic

ByColum McCann

2013 • 30 Readers • 304 pages • 4.2

The Unwinding

ByGeorge Packer

2013 • 34 Readers • 448 pages • 3.9

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Cool War

ByNoah Feldman

2013 • 1 Reader

The new digital age

The New Digital Age

ByEric Schmidt

5 Readers • 3

Birdsong, Speech, and Language: Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain

Birdsong, Speech, and Language: Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain

ByMartin Everaert,Robert C. Berwick,+1 more

2013 • 1 Reader • 560 pages

The Flamethrowers

The flamethrowers a novel

ByRachel Kushner

2013 • 63 Readers • 432 pages • 3.4

The Teleportation Accident

The Teleportation Accident

ByNed Beauman

2012 • 29 Readers • 272 pages • 3

Water and the West

Water and the West

ByNorris Hundley Jr.

1975 • 1 Reader • 433 pages

Rendezvous with destiny

Rendezvous with destiny

ByEric F. Goldman

1952 • 1 Reader • 503 pages

Odds Against Tomorrow

Odds Against Tomorrow

ByNathaniel Rich

2013 • 14 Readers • 304 pages • 2.3

Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922

The Working Class in American History

Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922

ByDavid A. Corbin

1981 • 1 Reader • 328 pages

Married love and other stories

Married Love and Other Stories

ByTessa Hadley

4 Readers • 3

Who Owns the Future?

Who Owns the Future?

ByJaron Lanier

2013 • 40 Readers • 367 pages • 3.2

Feathers

ByThor Hanson

2001 • 8 Readers • 352 pages • 4

The Genius of Earth Day

The Genius of Earth Day

ByAdam Rome

2013 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War

ByEric Foner

1971 • 6 Readers • 400 pages

The Harvard Psychedelic Club

The Harvard Psychedelic Club

ByDon Lattin

2010 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History

Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History

ByEduardo Galeano,Mark Fried(Translator)

2012 • 2 Readers • 423 pages

The Portable Margaret Fuller

The Portable Margaret Fuller

ByMargaret Fuller

1994 • 2 Readers • 531 pages

Simpler

ByCass R. Sunstein

2013 • 1 Reader • 260 pages

Born Losers : A History of Failure in America

Born Losers : A History of Failure in America

ByScott A. Sandage

2005 • 2 Readers • 362 pages • 4

Puzzlecraft: The Ultimate Guide on How to Construct Every Kind of Puzzle

Puzzlecraft: The Ultimate Guide on How to Construct Every Kind of Puzzle

ByMike Selinker,Thomas Snyder

2012 • 2 Readers • 192 pages

Injustice on Appeal

Injustice on Appeal

ByWilliam M. Richman,William L. Reynolds

2012 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

I Want to Show You More

I Want to Show You More

ByJamie Quatro

2013 • 9 Readers • 206 pages • 4

Gideon's Trumpet

Gideon's Trumpet

ByAnthony Lewis

1964 • 8 Readers • 264 pages • 4.5

Toms River

ByDan Fagin

2013 • 11 Readers • 562 pages • 4.3

Make No Law

ByAnthony Lewis

1991 • 2 Readers • 356 pages • 5

An Artist of The Floating World

An Artist of the Floating World

ByKazuo Ishiguro

1986 • 111 Readers • 208 pages • 3.8

Les Misérables

#1 of 3 in Los Miserables

Les Misérables

ByVictor Hugo,Isabel Florence Hapgood(Translator)

7 • 755 Readers • 1,378 pages • 4.2

Open City

ByTeju Cole

2011 • 46 Readers • 274 pages • 3.8

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

ByMohsin Hamid

2013 • 71 Readers • 3.8

Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

#1 of 3 in People's Trilogy

Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

ByFrank Dikötter

2010 • 29 Readers • 448 pages • 2.5

Le Rouge et le Noir

The Red and the Black

ByStendhal

1830 • 145 Readers • 576 pages • 3.2

After the Apocalypse

After the Apocalypse

ByMaureen F. McHugh

2011 • 14 Readers • 188 pages • 3.8

Why priests?

ByGarry Wills

2013 • 1 Reader • 302 pages

The Third Son

ByJulie Wu

2013 • 1 Reader • 312 pages

Fresh Off the Boat

Fresh Off the Boat

ByEddie Huang

2013 • 21 Readers • 290 pages • 4.1

The Ecological Rift : Capitalism's War on the Earth

The Ecological Rift : Capitalism's War on the Earth

ByJohn Bellamy Foster,Brett Clark,+1 more

2010 • 6 Readers • 544 pages

Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World

Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World

ByEric Foner

2002 • 2 Readers • 256 pages

What We Know about Climate Change

What We Know about Climate Change

ByKerry Emanuel

2007 • 4 Readers • 120 pages • 5

The Days of Abandonment

The Days of Abandonment

ByElena Ferrante,Ann Goldstein(Translator)

2002 • 119 Readers • 192 pages • 4

On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks

On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks

BySimon Garfield

2012 • 14 Readers • 464 pages • 3.6

Four New Messages

Four New Messages

ByJoshua Cohen

2012 • 1 Reader • 208 pages

The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy

The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy

ByEdward N. Luttwak

2012 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

Flying Tigers

ByDaniel Ford

1991 • 3 Readers • 384 pages

The Inspired Vegan

The Inspired Vegan

ByBryant Terry

2012 • 5 Readers • 242 pages • 4

What the Robin Knows

What the Robin Knows

ByJon Young

2012 • 13 Readers • 241 pages • 4

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Smoke Signals

ByMartin A. Lee

2012 • 4 Readers • 528 pages • 5

Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know

Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know

ByJonathan P. Caulkins,Mark A.R. Kleiman,+1 more

2012 • 2 Readers • 288 pages • 4