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Good Life by Robert Waldinger, Marc Schulz

Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to …

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of …

The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has …

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now …

The botany of desire by Michael Pollan

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make …

This Book Will Make You Kinder by Henry James Garrett

Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires by Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set …

Devil-Land by Clare Jackson

Ssotbme Revised - An Essay on Magic by Ramsey Dukes

On the road by Jack Kerouac (Penguin twentieth-century classics)

On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his …

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe, #1)

Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, …

Persians by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

A history of the Persian Empire from a Persian perspective (as much as that's possible) from its founding in the …