Wisdom

Stephen S. Hall

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A compelling investigation into one of our most coveted and cherished ideals, and the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of this timeless virtue. We all recognize wisdom, bu

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

评分 8.4分

A 24-year-old computer hacker sporting an assortment of tattoos and body piercings and afflicted with Asperger Syndrome or something of the like has been under state guardianship in her native Sweden

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert

评分 8.8分

Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink? Why will sighted people pay more to avoid going blind than blind people will pay to regain

Rembrandt's Eyes

Simon Schama

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The great 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn left us so many arresting self-portraits, painted at every stage in his eventful life, that his distinctive face and bearing are a familiar pa

Lasher

Anne Rice

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From the day her first Vampire Chronicle was published, critics and readers--readers by the hundreds of thousands--have been mesmerized by the writings of Anne Rice.And with the publication of The Wit

Dear Life

Alice Munro

评分 8.6分

A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time. Alice Munro’s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often

Unaccustomed Earth

Jhumpa Lahiri

评分 8.8分

From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand. In the stunnin

The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy

评分 8.7分

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery dee

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

评分 8.2分

Let the games begin! From the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry--a glorious and immersive novel about two childhood friends, once estranged, who reunite as adults to

Beginners

Tom Vanderbilt

评分 5.2分

"Beginners is ultimately about more than learning. It's about the possibilities that reside in all of us." --Daniel H. Pink, New York Times best-selling author of When, Drive, and To Sell

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi

评分 7.6分

Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother,

The Dreamt Land

Mark Arax

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Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

评分 9.0分

From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival), the long-awaited new collection of stunningly

The Orchid and the Dandelion

W. Thomas Boyce MD

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"Based on groundbreaking research that has the power to change the lives of countless children--and the adults who love them." --Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts.

Bad Blood

约翰·卡雷鲁

评分 8.8分

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to t

Chemistry

Weike Wang

评分 8.1分

Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, the unnamed narrator of this nimbly wry, concise debut finds her one-time love for chemistry is more hypothesis than reality. Sh

Men Without Women

Haruki Murakami

评分 7.8分

A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His

Option B

Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

评分 7.6分

From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and movi

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Absolutely on Music

Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa

评分 8.6分

A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The Attention Merchants

Tim Wu, 吴修铭

评分 8.5分

One of the Best Books of the Year The San Francisco Chronicle * The Philadelphia Inquirer * Vox * The Globe and Mail (Toronto) From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch ( a New Yorker

Designing Your Life

Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

评分 8.1分

Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our live

Code Warriors

Stephen Budiansky

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Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi, 雅阿·吉亚西

评分 8.8分

A riveting, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race, history, ancestry, love, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-cen

Sweetbitter

Stephanie Danler

评分 6.7分

在一个闷热得令人窒息的夏日里，小镇女青年Tess初到纽约。她在布鲁克林的威廉斯堡租了一块狭小的地方，并在曼哈顿下城一家高级餐厅找到一份服务生的工作。Tess在纽约城的第一份活计辛苦又低廉，然而这家小小的餐厅却帮她迅速窥探到这座城市的繁杂热闹和时髦精致。她开始从餐桌上的生蚝、香槟、勃艮第红酒学起，在料理中习得城市的生存法则。与此同时，跟每一个在光怪陆离的大城市打拼的姑娘一样，Tess的情路荆棘满布。

Dictator

Robert Harris

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With Dictator, Robert Harris brings the saga of Cicero's life to a time when some of the most epic events in human history occurred: the collapse of the Roman republic, the subsequent civil war, the m

Saving Capitalism

Robert B. Reich

评分 8.2分

America was once celebrated for and defined by its large and prosperous middle class. Now, this middle class is shrinking, a new oligarchy is rising, and the country faces its greatest wealth disparit

Skyfaring

Mark Vanhoenacker, 马克·凡霍纳克

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A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys—and reawakens our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-firs

Empire of Cotton

Sven Beckert

评分 8.3分

The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible,

Gay Berlin

Robert Beachy

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An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexu