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Feudal Society by Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Perennial classics)

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and …

Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed

Pale by Wildbow (Otherverse, #2)

There are ways of being inducted into the practices, those esoteric traditions that predate computers, cell phones, industry, and even …

Pact by Wildbow (Otherverse, #1)

Blake Thorburn was driven away from home and family by a vicious fight over inheritance, returning only for a deathbed …

Ward by Wildbow (Parahumans, #2)

The unwritten rules that govern the fights and outright wars between ‘capes’ have been amended: everyone gets their second chance. …

A life too short by Ronald Reng

Memorial del convento by José Saramago

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (Penguin books -- 1699)

[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, …

Os Cus de Judas by Antonio Lobo Antunes

Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano

Worm by Wildbow (Parahumans, #1)

An introverted teenage girl with an unconventional superpower, Taylor goes out in costume to find escape from a deeply unhappy …

The plumed serpent (Quetzalcoatl) by D. H. Lawrence

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Robert Langdon, #1)

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the …

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway