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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,926 ratings — published 1957
The Pacific (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 14,526 ratings — published 2009
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 596,003 ratings — published 1969
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,988,063 ratings — published 1818
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,452,199 ratings — published 2022
Yol (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,080,853 ratings — published 2006
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,111,481 ratings — published 1925
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,778,195 ratings — published 1945
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,789 ratings — published 2005
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 49,782 ratings — published 1981
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,142,464 ratings — published 1932
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,145,791 ratings — published 1866
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,398,320 ratings — published 1956
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,719,830 ratings — published 1949
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,593,696 ratings — published 2003
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 7,258 ratings — published 2012
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 641,242 ratings — published 2021
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 7,154 ratings — published 1980
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 2,770 ratings — published 2019
The Science of Storytelling (ebook)
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avg rating 4.05 — 8,734 ratings — published 2019
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,277,090 ratings — published 1847
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 398,950 ratings — published 1937
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,995,218 ratings — published 1951
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 717,495 ratings — published 1989
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 24,434 ratings — published 1986
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,241 ratings — published 1928
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 239,753 ratings — published 2003
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,508,791 ratings — published 1942
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,967,715 ratings — published 1963
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 445,341 ratings — published 1925
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,984,150 ratings — published 1890
Gone Girl (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 3,541,614 ratings — published 2012
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 637,167 ratings — published 2012
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,628,735 ratings — published 2003
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,367,660 ratings — published 2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 255,364 ratings — published 2010
Bossypants (ebook)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,071,124 ratings — published 2011
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 3,616 ratings — published 2008
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 9,105 ratings — published 1971
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 6,605 ratings — published 1980
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 1,866,839 ratings — published 2006
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 21,082 ratings — published 2004
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,311,546 ratings — published 1947
Avatar Volume 8: The Last Airbender (Avatar #8)
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avg rating 4.52 — 265 ratings — published 2007
Avatar Volume 7: The Last Airbender (Avatar #7)
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avg rating 4.61 — 596 ratings — published 2007
Circe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,446,305 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,149,853 ratings — published 2011
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,532,849 ratings — published 1915
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,062,638 ratings — published 1999
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 793,682 ratings — published 1962
“What we want from a career narrative is some moral thrust, some meaningful story we can, as [Richard] Sennett suggests, tell our children. The old narrative was “I worked hard and therefore succeeded” or sometimes “I screwed up and therefore failed.” But a life of only intermittently rewarded effort—working hard only to be laid off, and then repeating the process until aging forecloses decent job offers—requires more strenuous forms of explanation. Either you look for the institutional forces shaping your life, or you attribute the unpredictable ups and downs of your career to an infinitely powerful, endlessly detail-oriented God.”
― Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
― Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“All problems in this world stem from people thinking about this world in the timescale of their lifetimes.”
― Notes from the Edge of Sanity
― Notes from the Edge of Sanity