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786 books

The Periodic Table

Primo Levi

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Italy

A chemist uses elements to survive the 20th century.

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The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

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A bored boy drives through a tollbooth. The other side is worth it.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

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The portrait ages. He doesn't. Everything has a cost.

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The Plague

Albert Camus

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France

A city sealed off by disease. What happens inside.

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The Pleasures of Exile

George Lamming

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Barbados

Caliban reads The Tempest and writes back.

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The Plot Against America

Philip Roth

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Lindbergh wins in 1940. One Jewish family watches America change.

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The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo

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Dominican Republic

Her mother controls her body. Poetry gives her somewhere to be loud.

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The Power Worshippers

Katherine Stewart

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How religion got a lobbyist badge.

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The Price of Inequality

Joseph E. Stiglitz

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Why inequality isn’t an accident.

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The Promise

Damon Galgut

The Promise cover
South Africa

They promised. They keep almost keeping the promise.

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The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer

Gregor Gall

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What did Strummer actually believe? Gall finds out.

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The Quiet American

Graham Greene

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Vietnam

An American arrives in Saigon with good intentions. People die.

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The Rabbit Listened

Cori Doerrfeld

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When comfort sounds like silence.

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The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists

Robert Tressell

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Working-class rage before it was trending.

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

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Pakistan

A Pakistani man in New York watches America turn against him.

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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Bertolt Brecht

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Fascism, but make it vaudeville.

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The Return

Hisham Matar

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Libya

Back to Libya after the revolution. Where's his father?

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The Revolution of Everyday Life

Raoul Vaneigem

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The revolution isn't an event. It's every day. Starting now.

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The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet!

Carmen Agra Deedy, illustrated by Eugene Yelchin

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The law said be quiet. The rooster disagreed.

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The Sagas of Icelanders

Various

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Iceland

Viking Age Iceland, written down 300 years later.

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The Savage Detectives

Roberto Bolaño

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Chile

Young poets searching for a lost poet. All get lost.

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The Sea Around Us

Rachel Carson

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She wrote about the sea. Then she wrote Silent Spring. This came first.

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The Secret River

Kate Grenville

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Australia

A convict settler. Aboriginal land. The choice he makes.

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The Sellout

Paul Beatty

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America’s racial absurdity, roasted.

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