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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

ByEmma Southon

2020 • 55 Readers • 4

This Is Your Mind on Plants

This Is Your Mind on Plants

ByMichael Pollan

2021 • 148 Readers • 288 pages • 3.8

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

ByHannah Ritchie

2024 • 76 Readers • 340 pages • 4.3

Child of God

ByCormac McCarthy

1973 • 205 Readers • 208 pages • 3.7

Women Talking

ByMiriam Toews

2018 • 175 Readers • 242 pages • 3.8

When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

ByPaul Kalanithi

2016 • 896 Readers • 256 pages • 4.4

Paradise Falls

ByKeith O'Brien

2022 • 6 Readers • 455 pages

Origins of the Sacred: The Ecstasies of Love and War

Origins of the Sacred: The Ecstasies of Love and War

ByDudley Young

1991 • 1 Reader • 493 pages

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

ByRay Monk

1990 • 20 Readers • 704 pages • 5

John Muir: Rediscovering America

John Muir: Rediscovering America

ByFrederick W. Turner

1985 • 1 Reader • 448 pages

Paterson

ByWilliam Carlos Williams

1992 • 12 Readers • 342 pages • 5

Seasons of Purgatory

Seasons of Purgatory

ByShahriar Mandanipour(Translator)

2022 • 2 Readers • 208 pages

Shubeik Lubeik

ByDeena Mohamed

40 Readers • 4.4

The Love of Singular Men

The Love of Singular Men

ByVictor Heringer,James Young(Translator)

2016 • 6 Readers • 166 pages • 3.5

The Devil's Best Trick: How the Face of Evil Disappeared

The Devil's Best Trick: How the Face of Evil Disappeared

ByRandall Sullivan

2024 • 1 Reader

Isabella Warrior Queen

Isabella Warrior Queen

ByMichael G. Kramer

2023 • 209 pages

The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

ByJames David Lewis-Williams

2002 • 6 Readers • 320 pages • 5

Certain Dark Things

Certain Dark Things

BySilvia Moreno-Garcia

2016 • 226 Readers • 272 pages • 3.7

Challenger Deep

Challenger Deep

ByNeal Shusterman

2015 • 105 Readers • 320 pages • 4.3

Dry

ByNeal Shusterman,Jarrod Shusterman

2018 • 155 Readers • 390 pages • 4

Kairos

ByJenny Erpenbeck

2021 • 66 Readers • 336 pages • 3.5

The Safekeep

ByYael van der Wouden

2024 • 58 Readers • 262 pages • 4.3

The Devil's Highway: A True Story

The Devil's Highway: A True Story

ByLuis Alberto Urrea(Narrator)

2004 • 3 Readers • 4.5

Daughter of the Moon Goddess

#1 of 2 in The Celestial Kingdom

Daughter of the Moon Goddess

BySue Lynn Tan,Patricia Sebastián Hernández(Translator)

2022 • 777 Readers • 512 pages • 3.9

The Light Brigade

The Light Brigade

ByKameron Hurley

2019 • 245 Readers • 396 pages • 3.9

Divine Rivals

#1 of 2 in Letters of Enchantment

ByRebecca Ross

2023 • 988 Readers • 326 pages • 4.1

Practice

ByRosalind Brown

5 Readers

The Penelopiad

#2 of 16 in Canongate's The Myths

ByMargaret Atwood

2005 • 213 Readers • 199 pages • 3.6

Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone

Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone

ByNetta Weinstein,Heather Hansen,+1 more

2023 • 1 Reader • 293 pages

Between Two Fires

Between Two Fires

ByChristopher Buehlman

2012 • 437 Readers • 436 pages • 4.2

The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE

The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE

ByRobin Fleming

1 Reader

Stormbird

#1 of 8 in Wars of the Roses

Wars Of The Roses Book 1

ByConn Iggulden

2013 • 42 Readers • 477 pages • 3.9

On Grand Strategy

On Grand Strategy

ByJohn Lewis Gaddis

2018 • 31 Readers • 386 pages • 3.6

The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women

The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women

ByValerie Young

2011 • 5 Readers • 304 pages

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

ByKatherine Arden

2024 • 224 Readers • 327 pages • 4

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

ByRick Rubin

2023 • 403 Readers • 5h 45m • 3.8

Little Thieves

#1 of 3 in Little Thieves

ByMargaret Owen

2021 • 212 Readers • 512 pages • 4.3

The Hour of the Star

The Hour of the Star

ByClarice Lispector,Giovanni Pontiero(Translator)

3 • 169 Readers • 100 pages • 3.9

Power and Prediction

Power and Prediction

ByAjay Agrawal,Joshua Gans,+1 more

2022 • 17 Readers • 256 pages • 2

Immunity to Change

Immunity to Change

ByRobert Kegan,Lisa Laskow Lahey

2009 • 12 Readers • 340 pages • 3.8

A Better World

BySarah Langan

2024 • 35 Readers • 368 pages • 3.6

All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth

All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth

ByJoel H. Morris

2024 • 4 Readers • 3

How to Buy Essentially Nothing for a Year: My Story and Guide to Mapping Your Own Journey into Buying Essentially Nothing

How to Buy Essentially Nothing for a Year: My Story and Guide to Mapping Your Own Journey into Buying Essentially Nothing

ByElizabeth Chai

2024 • 1 Reader

The Leopard

ByGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa,Archibald Colquhoun(Translator)

1958 • 103 Readers • 223 pages • 3.9

Home Fire

ByKamila Shamsie

2017 • 211 Readers • 290 pages • 4

Four Treasures of the Sky

Four Treasures of the Sky

ByJenny Tinghui Zhang

2022 • 91 Readers • 320 pages • 4.3

The Paper Palace

The Paper Palace

ByMiranda Cowley Heller

2021 • 203 Readers • 512 pages • 3.8

Twelve Caesars

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

ByMary Beard

2021 • 4 Readers • 392 pages • 4

A Thousand Brains

A Thousand Brains

ByJeff Hawkins

2021 • 73 Readers • 288 pages • 4

The Berry Pickers

The Berry Pickers

ByAmanda Peters

2023 • 152 Readers • 321 pages • 4.2

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

ByDavid Brooks

2023 • 95 Readers • 320 pages • 4.1

The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza & the Fate of God in the Modern World

The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza & the Fate of God in the Modern World

ByMatthew Stewart

2005 • 4 Readers • 352 pages • 3

The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

ByPamela Prickett,Stefan Timmermans

13 Readers • 4

Wolf in White Van

Wolf in White Van

ByJohn Darnielle

2014 • 157 Readers • 168 pages • 3.7

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

#1 of 4 in Inheritance Trilogy

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

ByN.K. Jemisin

2010 • 570 Readers • 432 pages • 3.8

Always Coming Home

Always Coming Home

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1985 • 86 Readers • 546 pages • 4.2

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

ByAmanda Montell

2024 • 198 Readers • 272 pages • 3.3

The Electricity of Every Living Thing

The Electricity of Every Living Thing: One Woman's Walk with Asperger's

ByKatherine May

2021 • 20 Readers • 288 pages • 3.6

Homecoming

ByKate Morton

2023 • 164 Readers • 560 pages • 3.8

Poverty, by America

Poverty, by America

ByMatthew Desmond

2023 • 273 Readers • 305 pages • 4.1

The English Soul

The English Soul

ByPeter Ackroyd

2024 • 382 pages

Well, This Is Exhausting: Essays

Well, This Is Exhausting: Essays

BySophia Benoit

2021 • 9 Readers • 336 pages

The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven

The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven

ByNathaniel Ian Miller

2021 • 12 Readers • 304 pages

Intermezzo

BySally Rooney

2024 • 356 Readers • 448 pages • 3.9

Strange Beasts of China

Strange Beasts of China

ByYan Ge

2021 • 71 Readers • 240 pages • 3.6

Life on Mars

ByTracy K. Smith

2011 • 45 Readers • 87 pages • 3.4

Lonely Castle in the Mirror

Lonely Castle in the Mirror

ByMizuki Tsujimura,Phillip Gabriel(Translator)

2017 • 317 Readers • 354 pages • 4.4

Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

ByNancy Fraser

2022 • 5 Readers • 209 pages • 2.8

The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

ByR.D. Laing

1960 • 32 Readers • 224 pages • 3.3

Cave in the Snow

Cave in the Snow

ByVicki Mackenzie

1998 • 3 Readers • 234 pages • 4

Against the Loveless World

Against the Loveless World

BySusan Abulhawa

2019 • 118 Readers • 385 pages • 4.6

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock

ByJoan Lindsay

1967 • 115 Readers • 186 pages • 4

Third Millennium Thinking

Third Millennium Thinking

BySaul Perlmutter,Robert MacCoun,+1 more

2024 • 1 Reader

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

ByStephanie Foo

2022 • 295 Readers • 353 pages • 4.6

Fireborne

#1 of 3 in The Aurelian Cycle

ByRosaria Munda

2019 • 284 Readers • 432 pages • 4.3

Pale Fire

ByVladimir Nabokov

1945 • 373 Readers • 282 pages • 4.3

The King in Yellow

Steve Grayce

The King in Yellow

ByRobert W. Chambers

1895 • 189 Readers • 224 pages • 3.2

In Light Of India

In Light Of India

ByOctavio Paz

1995 • 1 Reader

The Years

ByAnnie Ernaux,Alison L. Strayer(Translator)

2008 • 76 Readers • 256 pages • 4.5

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

ByDavid Goggins

2018 • 390 Readers • 363 pages • 4.2

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

BySabrina Imbler

2022 • 92 Readers • 272 pages • 3.9

Starter Villain

Starter Villain

ByJohn Scalzi

2023 • 731 Readers • 262 pages • 4

Light Years from Home

Light Years from Home

ByMike Chen

2022 • 44 Readers • 384 pages • 4

The Spear Cuts Through Water

The Spear Cuts Through Water

BySimon Jimenez

2022 • 516 Readers • 400 pages • 4.2

How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between

How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between

ByBent Flyvbjerg,Dan Gardner

2023 • 74 Readers • 304 pages • 4.1

An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness

An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness

ByKay Redfield Jamison

1995 • 5 Readers • 219 pages

Women Who Run with the Wolves

Women Who Run With the Wolves

ByClarissa Pinkola Estés

1992 • 219 Readers • 520 pages • 4.1

Monstrilio

ByGerardo Sámano Córdova

2023 • 320 Readers • 336 pages • 4.1

New Seeds of Contemplation

New seeds of contemplation

ByThomas Merton

1962 • 23 Readers • 321 pages • 4.5

The Seas

BySamantha Hunt

2004 • 57 Readers • 192 pages • 4.1

Evil Eye

ByEtaf Rum

2023 • 48 Readers • 352 pages • 4.4

The Control of Nature

The Control of Nature

ByJohn McPhee

1989 • 20 Readers • 288 pages • 4.2

North Woods

ByDaniel Mason

2023 • 206 Readers • 385 pages • 4.3

The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

ByPico Iyer

2023 • 5 Readers • 3

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

The Boys in The Boat

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

ByDaniel James Brown

2013 • 226 Readers • 418 pages • 4.4

Weyward

ByEmilia Hart

2023 • 629 Readers • 418 pages • 4.1

The Bee Sting

ByPaul Murray

2022 • 335 Readers • 736 pages • 4.3

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

ByHawon Jung

2023 • 14 Readers • 304 pages • 3.5

Shift

#1 of 3 in Shift

ByHugh Howey

2013 • 456 Readers • 4

Emperor of Rome Ruling the Ancient World

Emperor of Rome Ruling the Ancient World

ByMary Beard

2023 • 6 Readers • 493 pages