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I Served the King of England

I Served the King of England

ByBohumil Hrabal

1983 • 19 Readers • 243 pages • 3.8

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

ByAtul Gawande

2014 • 297 Readers • 282 pages • 4.5

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

ByAtul Gawande

2002 • 62 Readers • 270 pages • 4.3

Waterfront

ByPhillip Lopate

2004 • 2 Readers • 450 pages • 2

American Passage

American Passage

ByVincent J. Cannato

2009 • 2 Readers • 496 pages • 5

Babbitt

BySinclair Lewis

1922 • 36 Readers • 384 pages • 4

Invisible Cities

Invisible Cities

ByItalo Calvino,William Weaver(Translator)

1972 • 306 Readers • 182 pages • 4.1

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

ByRichard Powers

1985 • 4 Readers • 352 pages

The City in History

The City in History

ByLewis Mumford

1961 • 13 Readers • 784 pages

The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality

#1 of 1 in Der Untergang des Abendlandes

The Decline of the West

ByOswald Spengler

1918 • 28 Readers • 2

Hiroshima

ByKeiji Nakazawa

2010 • 188 pages

Hiroshima

ByJohn Hersey

1946 • 153 Readers • 162 pages • 4.1

The Inferno

#1 of 3 in La Divina Commedia

The Divine Comedy

ByNicholas Kilmer(Translator),Dante Alighieri

1320 • 410 Readers • 241 pages • 4.1

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

ByFlannery O'Connor

1965 • 43 Readers • 265 pages • 4.1

Petersburg

ByAndrei Bely,David McDuff(Translator)

1913 • 28 Readers • 598 pages • 3.5

Doctor Zhivago

ByBoris Pasternak,Max Hayward(Translator),+1 more

1957 • 200 Readers • 594 pages • 3.4

My Man Jeeves

#1 of 14 in Jeeves

ByP.G. Wodehouse

1919 • 90 Readers • 150 pages • 3.7

A Passage to India

A Passage to India

ByE.M. Forster

1901 • 154 Readers • 376 pages • 3.3

The Orenda

#3 of 3 in Bird Family Trilogy

ByJoseph Boyden

2013 • 36 Readers • 490 pages • 3.9

The Count of Monte Cristo

#2 of 2 in Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

The Count Of Monte Cristo

ByAlexandre Dumas

1830 • 1,410 Readers • 1,276 pages • 4.3

Honeymoon

ByPatrick Modiano,Barbara Wright(Translator)

1990 • 2 Readers • 128 pages

Capital

ByRana Dasgupta

2014 • 2 Readers • 480 pages • 5

In the House of the Interpreter

#2 of 4 in Memoirs

In the House of the Interpreter

ByNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o

2012 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

I, Claudius

#1 of 2 in Claudius

ByRobert Graves,Stephen Alcorn

1934 • 179 Readers • 432 pages • 4.1

The Corrections

The Corrections

ByJonathan Franzen

2001 • 254 Readers • 662 pages • 3.9

Siddhartha

ByHermann Hesse,Hilda Rosner(Translator)

1922 • 936 Readers • 152 pages • 3.9

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

ByHarper Lee

1960 • 2,903 Readers • 309 pages • 4.1

East of Eden

ByJohn Steinbeck

1952 • 1,018 Readers • 601 pages • 4.5

Rabbit, Run

#1 of 5 in Rabbit Angstrom

ByJohn Updike

1960 • 99 Readers • 337 pages • 3.6

Middlemarch

ByGeorge Eliot

18 • 369 Readers • 810 pages • 4.2

Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions

ByKurt Vonnegut

1973 • 505 Readers • 322 pages • 3.9

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

ByEdith Wharton

1905 • 141 Readers • 435 pages • 3.8

Lolita

ByVladimir Nabokov,Giulia Arborio Mella(Translator)

1954 • 1,273 Readers • 395 pages • 3.9

Animal farm

ByGeorge Orwell

1945 • 3,176 Readers • 140 pages • 4.1

Atlas Shrugged

ByAyn Rand

30 • 569 Readers • 946 pages • 3.1

Anna Karenina

ByLeo Tolstoy,Richard Pevear(Translator),+1 more

1877 • 1,100 Readers • 1,480 pages • 3.9

Taliesin

#1 of 5 in The Pendragon Cycle

ByStephen R. Lawhead,Nadia May

1987 • 52 Readers • 3.5

War and Peace

ByLeo Tolstoy

190 • 785 Readers • 1,396 pages • 4

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

ByFyodor Dostoevsky,Andrew H. MacAndrew(Translator)

19 • 1,007 Readers • 796 pages • 4.4

The Passage

#1 of 3 in The Passage

ByJustin Cronin

2010 • 479 Readers • 766 pages • 4

Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure

ByThomas Hardy,Patricia Ingham,+1 more

1895 • 107 Readers • 534 pages • 3.9

The Opposite of Loneliness

The Opposite of Loneliness

ByMarina Keegan

2014 • 63 Readers • 240 pages • 3.4

ByDoug Dorst

1949 • 309 Readers • 473 pages • 4

Our work is but begun : the University of Rochester, 1850-2005

Meliora Press

Our work is but begun : the University of Rochester, 1850-2005

ByJanice Bullard Pieterse

2014 • 250 pages

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

ByKen Kesey

1962 • 802 Readers • 336 pages • 4.1

A History of Reading

A History of Reading

ByAlberto Manguel

1996 • 32 Readers • 558 pages • 3.8

The Victorian city

The Victorian City

ByJudith Flanders

2012 • 8 Readers • 545 pages • 4

Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

#2 of 1 in Samlede Værker

Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

BySøren Kierkegaard

1843 • 72 Readers • 640 pages • 4.1

Political Order and Political Decay

#2 of 2 in Political Order

Political Order and Political Decay

ByFrancis Fukuyama

2014 • 18 Readers • 672 pages • 5

The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain

ByThomas Mann,John E. Woods(Translator)

1924 • 175 Readers • 854 pages • 3.9

Economics

ByHa-Joon Chang

2014 • 26 Readers • 384 pages • 4

The Novel: A Biography

The Novel: A Biography

ByMichael Schmidt

2014 • 4 Readers • 1,172 pages

Brief History of Time

A Brief History of Time

ByStephen Hawking,Carl Sagan,+1 more

1988 • 518 Readers • 301 pages • 4.2

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

ByJacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm

2014 • 26 Readers • 568 pages • 4

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

ByThomas Piketty,Arthur Goldhammer(Translator)

2013 • 197 Readers • 685 pages • 4.2

Pensées

ByBlaise Pascal

1670 • 29 Readers • 480 pages • 4.2

Without You, There Is No Us

Without You, There Is No Us

BySuki Kim

2014 • 46 Readers • 291 pages • 3.6

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

ByPeter Thiel,Blake Masters

2014 • 402 Readers • 225 pages • 3.9

Snow Crash

ByNeal Stephenson

1992 • 1,205 Readers • 448 pages • 3.9

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

ByRobert A. Caro

1974 • 216 Readers • 1,246 pages • 4.8

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

ByChristopher McDougall

2009 • 267 Readers • 4.3

Gustav Mahler: The Symphonies

Gustav Mahler: The Symphonies

ByConstantin Floros,Vernon Wicker(Translator),+1 more

2003 • 366 pages

Never Mind

#1 of 5 in Patrick Melrose

ByEdward St. Aubyn

1992 • 22 Readers • 208 pages • 3.8

The Timeless Way of Building

The Timeless Way of Building

ByChristopher Alexander,Professor in the Department of Architecture Christopher Alexander

1979 • 40 Readers • 552 pages • 4.2

A New Theory of Urban Design

A New Theory of Urban Design

ByChristopher W. Alexander,Hajo Neis,+2 more

1987 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

Literate Programming

Literate Programming

ByDonald Ervin Knuth

1992 • 3 Readers • 384 pages

Man's Search for Meaning

Man's Search for Meaning

ByViktor E. Frankl

1946 • 1,084 Readers • 240 pages • 4.3

The Denial of Death

The Denial of Death

ByErnest Becker

1973 • 139 Readers • 239 pages • 3.3

Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

ByBlake J. Harris

2014 • 98 Readers • 576 pages • 3.8

The Symphony

ByMichael Steinberg

1995 • 704 pages

The Story of the Jews

#1 of 2 in The Story of the Jews

The Story of the Jews

BySimon Schama

2013 • 7 Readers • 496 pages • 3.5

Unbroken

ByLaura Hillenbrand

308 Readers • 4.4

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

ByDouglas R. Hofstadter

1991 • 3 Readers • 528 pages

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession

ByLeo Tolstoy

2013 • 3 Readers • 224 pages

The Lowland

ByJhumpa Lahiri

2013 • 82 Readers • 340 pages • 4

River God

ByWilbur Smith

65 Readers • 4

Highways to a War

#1 of 2 in Beware of the Past

Highways to a War

ByChristopher J. Koch

1995 • 2 Readers • 496 pages

The Power Of One

#1 of 2 in The Power of One

The Power of One

ByBryce Courtenay

1989 • 63 Readers • 442 pages • 4.5

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

ByDavid Graeber

2011 • 300 Readers • 534 pages • 4.2

Twilight in the Forbidden City

Twilight in the Forbidden City

ByReginald Fleming Johnston

1934 • 484 pages

Cloud Atlas

ByDavid Mitchell

2003 • 849 Readers • 509 pages • 3.9

Reinventing Bach

Reinventing Bach

ByPaul Elie

2012 • 1 Reader • 512 pages

How Music Works

How Music Works

ByDavid Byrne

2012 • 76 Readers • 345 pages • 3.8

The Undercover Economist

#1 of 3 in The Undercover Economist

The Undercover Economist

ByTim Harford

2005 • 76 Readers • 288 pages • 3.6

Le Grand Meaulnes

Le Grand Meaulnes

ByAlain-Fournier

1913 • 23 Readers • 206 pages • 3.7

A Visit from the Goon Squad

#1 of 3 in Goon Squad

A Visit from the Goon Squad

ByJennifer Egan

2010 • 411 Readers • 289 pages • 3.8

Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight

Yale Agrarian Studies Series

Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight

ByTimothy Pachirat

2011 • 4 Readers • 320 pages

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises

ByCharles P. Kindleberger

1978 • 2 Readers • 304 pages

Nation of Deadbeats

Nation of Deadbeats

ByScott Reynolds Nelson

2013 • 368 pages

The New New Deal

The New New Deal

ByMichael Grunwald

2012 • 2 Readers • 432 pages • 4

Someone Has to Fail

Someone Has to Fail

ByDavid F. Labaree

2010 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt

#2 of 4 in Johnny Dixon

The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt

ByJohn Bellairs

1983 • 5 Readers • 168 pages • 4

City

ByP.D. Smith

2011 • 2 Readers • 400 pages

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How Much Is Enough?

How Much Is Enough?

ByRobert Skidelsky

2013 • 272 pages

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

ByMichael J. Sandel

2012 • 23 Readers • 256 pages • 3.8

Music as Alchemy

Music as Alchemy

ByTom Service

2012 • 1 Reader • 292 pages

The Big Store

ByDonald R. Katz(Editor)

1987 • 1 Reader • 640 pages • 3

Start With Why

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

BySimon Sinek,Susi Purwoko(Translator)

2009 • 305 Readers • 3.9

The Facebook Effect

The Facebook Effect

ByDavid Kirkpatrick

2010 • 13 Readers • 384 pages • 3.7

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

ByMarshall McLuhan

47 Readers • 4.7