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20세기 도서 요약

The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler

저자: William L. Shirer • 1984

Failed artist, vagrant, demagogue: the step-by-step dismantling of a democracy that sparked WWII.

4.08

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📜 Nazi Germany 🎖️ Wwii Biography 🎭 Political Manipulation 📈 Rise Of Fascism ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler

Failed artist, vagrant, demagogue: the step-by-step dismantling of a democracy that sparked WWII.

저자: William L. Shirer 1984 188 페이지

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2,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Nazi Germany 🎖️ Wwii Biography 🎭 Political Manipulation 📈 Rise Of Fascism ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

The Master of Disguise

저자: Antonio J. Mendez • 1999

How the CIA disguise chief spirited 150 agents out of hostile territory without a single loss.

3.85

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🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🔧 Tradecraft 🚁 Agent Exfiltration 🇺🇸 Cia History 🏛️ Agency Memoirs

The Master of Disguise

How the CIA disguise chief spirited 150 agents out of hostile territory without a single loss.

저자: Antonio J. Mendez 1999 384 페이지

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🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🔧 Tradecraft 🚁 Agent Exfiltration 🇺🇸 Cia History 🏛️ Agency Memoirs

The Body Project

저자: Joan Jacobs Brumberg • 1997

How a century made American girls' bodies into a consumer project, from menarche to first diet.

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👧 Adolescent Girlhood 💄 Beauty Standards 🥗 Dieting Culture 🎯 Marketing To Girls 🕰️ Body Image History

The Body Project

How a century made American girls' bodies into a consumer project, from menarche to first diet.

저자: Joan Jacobs Brumberg 1997 214 페이지

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👧 Adolescent Girlhood 💄 Beauty Standards 🥗 Dieting Culture 🎯 Marketing To Girls 🕰️ Body Image History

Los hornos de Hitler

저자: Olga Lengyel • 1947

A Hungarian doctor's wife keeps her family together all the way to the gates of Birkenau.

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoir 🏚️ Auschwitz Survivor 🏥 Camp Infirmary ⚔️ Underground Resistance 💔 Survivor Guilt

Los hornos de Hitler

A Hungarian doctor's wife keeps her family together all the way to the gates of Birkenau.

저자: Olga Lengyel 1947 263 페이지

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoir 🏚️ Auschwitz Survivor 🏥 Camp Infirmary ⚔️ Underground Resistance 💔 Survivor Guilt

Case Closed

저자: Gerald Posner • 1993

One mail-order rifle, three shots, and the case against conspiracy in the JFK assassination.

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🔫 Presidential Assassinations ❄️ Cold War America 🔍 Conspiracy Debunking 🕵️ Forensic History 💥 Political Violence

Case Closed

One mail-order rifle, three shots, and the case against conspiracy in the JFK assassination.

저자: Gerald Posner 1993 640 페이지

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🔫 Presidential Assassinations ❄️ Cold War America 🔍 Conspiracy Debunking 🕵️ Forensic History 💥 Political Violence

This Strange Eventful History

저자: Claire Messud • 2024

Exiled from Algeria, a pied-noir family chases home across four continents for seventy years.

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🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 💔 Inherited Trauma 🧭 Search For Home 🔐 Family Secrets 🕯️ Elegiac

This Strange Eventful History

Exiled from Algeria, a pied-noir family chases home across four continents for seventy years.

저자: Claire Messud 2024 448 페이지

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🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 💔 Inherited Trauma 🧭 Search For Home 🔐 Family Secrets 🕯️ Elegiac

솔로몬의 노래

저자: 토니 모리슨 • 1977

Trapped by wealth and expectation, a Black heir travels South and finds an ancestor who flew.

4.16

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👪 Family Saga 🌳 Lineage Quest 🕊️ Black Folklore ⚖️ Racial Violence 💔 Love And Obsession

솔로몬의 노래

Trapped by wealth and expectation, a Black heir travels South and finds an ancestor who flew.

저자: 토니 모리슨 1977 338 페이지

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👪 Family Saga 🌳 Lineage Quest 🕊️ Black Folklore ⚖️ Racial Violence 💔 Love And Obsession

Spies in the Family

저자: Eva Dillon • 2017

A Soviet general spied for the U.S. for two decades. His handler's daughter reveals why.

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📡 Cold War Espionage 🕵️ CIA History 🏳️ Soviet Defectors 🔍 Mole Hunts 🤝 Handler-Agent Bonds

Spies in the Family

A Soviet general spied for the U.S. for two decades. His handler's daughter reveals why.

저자: Eva Dillon 2017 352 페이지

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1,000+ 개의 평점

📡 Cold War Espionage 🕵️ CIA History 🏳️ Soviet Defectors 🔍 Mole Hunts 🤝 Handler-Agent Bonds

Mount Analogue

저자: René Daumal • 2005

Eight seekers sail toward an invisible mountain where the only map is sincerity.

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📜 Philosophical Allegory 🔮 Esoteric Quest 🚪 Hidden World 🧙 Master And Disciples ✨ Mystical Adventure

Mount Analogue

Eight seekers sail toward an invisible mountain where the only map is sincerity.

저자: René Daumal 2005 120 페이지

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📜 Philosophical Allegory 🔮 Esoteric Quest 🚪 Hidden World 🧙 Master And Disciples ✨ Mystical Adventure

Enemy of the People

저자: Marvin Kalb • 2018

Trump's war on the press follows a 1950s script. The democracy-saving ending is not guaranteed.

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137

🇺🇸 American Democracy 📰 Press Freedom 🕵️ Mccarthyism 📡 Media Manipulation 🧠 Disinformation

Enemy of the People

Trump's war on the press follows a 1950s script. The democracy-saving ending is not guaranteed.

저자: Marvin Kalb 2018 200 페이지

4.13

137 개의 평점

🇺🇸 American Democracy 📰 Press Freedom 🕵️ Mccarthyism 📡 Media Manipulation 🧠 Disinformation

Realpolitik

저자: John Bew • 2015

Realpolitik was a liberal reformer's idea before Bismarck hijacked it. What was lost.

3.94

161

🏛️ Political Realism 📚 Intellectual History ♟️ Statecraft And Strategy 🌍 Geopolitical Thought 🇩🇪 German Political Thought

Realpolitik

Realpolitik was a liberal reformer's idea before Bismarck hijacked it. What was lost.

저자: John Bew 2015 408 페이지

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🏛️ Political Realism 📚 Intellectual History ♟️ Statecraft And Strategy 🌍 Geopolitical Thought 🇩🇪 German Political Thought

Wright Brothers, Wrong Story

저자: William Elliott azelgrove • 2018

Wilbur Wright solved flight alone. Orville Wright spent decades burying that fact.

3.66

130

🛩️ Aviation History 🔍 Revisionist Biography 🔧 Inventor Biography ⚖️ Patent Wars 🌟 Unsung Genius

Wright Brothers, Wrong Story

Wilbur Wright solved flight alone. Orville Wright spent decades burying that fact.

저자: William Elliott azelgrove 2018 288 페이지

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🛩️ Aviation History 🔍 Revisionist Biography 🔧 Inventor Biography ⚖️ Patent Wars 🌟 Unsung Genius

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

저자: Howard Zinn • 1994

History never stops, and silence is a political act: a memoir of war, racism, and radicalization.

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🚩 American Leftism ✊ Civil Disobedience ☮️ Anti-War Activism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🏭 Class Consciousness

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

History never stops, and silence is a political act: a memoir of war, racism, and radicalization.

저자: Howard Zinn 1994 214 페이지

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🚩 American Leftism ✊ Civil Disobedience ☮️ Anti-War Activism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🏭 Class Consciousness

The Beautiful and Damned

저자: F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1922

Parties, gin, and the long wait for an inheritance hollow out a golden Jazz Age couple.

3.73

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🗽 Jazz Age Novel 💔 Doomed Love 💰 Idle Rich 🥀 Fading Beauty ⚖️ Inheritance Plot

The Beautiful and Damned

Parties, gin, and the long wait for an inheritance hollow out a golden Jazz Age couple.

저자: F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 422 페이지

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🗽 Jazz Age Novel 💔 Doomed Love 💰 Idle Rich 🥀 Fading Beauty ⚖️ Inheritance Plot

The Money Kings

저자: Daniel Schulman • 2023

From peddler carts to Wall Street: Jewish dynasties that bankrolled America's rise.

4.08

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🏦 Banking Dynasties 🗽 Jewish Immigrants 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age 🔄 Assimilation

The Money Kings

From peddler carts to Wall Street: Jewish dynasties that bankrolled America's rise.

저자: Daniel Schulman 2023 592 페이지

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500+ 개의 평점

🏦 Banking Dynasties 🗽 Jewish Immigrants 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age 🔄 Assimilation

The Lavender Garden

저자: Lucinda Riley • 2012

A lonely heiress inherits a crumbling château in Provence and uncovers its wartime secrets.

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⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 🪖 French Resistance 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Forbidden Love 🔐 Family Secrets

The Lavender Garden

A lonely heiress inherits a crumbling château in Provence and uncovers its wartime secrets.

저자: Lucinda Riley 2012 403 페이지

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⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 🪖 French Resistance 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Forbidden Love 🔐 Family Secrets

Another Country

저자: James Baldwin • 1962

When a Black drummer leaps from a bridge, his bohemian circle fractures along the color line.

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🏙️ Bohemian New York 💔 Interracial Romance 🎭 Artists And Lovers 🖤 Self-Destruction 🗽 1950s New York

Another Country

When a Black drummer leaps from a bridge, his bohemian circle fractures along the color line.

저자: James Baldwin 1962 448 페이지

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🏙️ Bohemian New York 💔 Interracial Romance 🎭 Artists And Lovers 🖤 Self-Destruction 🗽 1950s New York

Roman by Polanski

저자: Roman Polański • 2007

He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.

4.12

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🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 🎥 Director Biographies 🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🧳 Exile And Displacement 🎭 Tragedy And Art

Roman by Polanski

He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.

저자: Roman Polański 2007 448 페이지

4.12

500+ 개의 평점

🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 🎥 Director Biographies 🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🧳 Exile And Displacement 🎭 Tragedy And Art

Goliath

저자: Matt Stoller • 2019

A century ago, America broke the trusts. An intellectual counterrevolution brought them back.

4.23

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⚖️ Antitrust Policy 🏢 Corporate Power 🔄 Neoliberalism 📜 New Deal Economics 🎓 Chicago School Economics

Goliath

A century ago, America broke the trusts. An intellectual counterrevolution brought them back.

저자: Matt Stoller 2019 605 페이지

4.23

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⚖️ Antitrust Policy 🏢 Corporate Power 🔄 Neoliberalism 📜 New Deal Economics 🎓 Chicago School Economics

The New Lombard Street

저자: Perry G. Mehrling • 2010

The Fed's 1873 playbook broke in 2008. The new role: dealer of last resort.

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🏦 Central Banking 📜 Monetary History 🔧 Financial Plumbing 🔄 Credit Cycles 🕶️ Shadow Banking

The New Lombard Street

The Fed's 1873 playbook broke in 2008. The new role: dealer of last resort.

저자: Perry G. Mehrling 2010 192 페이지

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274 개의 평점

🏦 Central Banking 📜 Monetary History 🔧 Financial Plumbing 🔄 Credit Cycles 🕶️ Shadow Banking

The Hour of the Star

저자: Clarice Lispector • 1977

An invisible Rio typist wants to be noticed; a fortune-teller promises she will be.

4.11

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📚 Existential Fiction 🖋️ Narrator Intrusion 🌾 Overlooked Lives 🏙️ Urban Poverty ⏳ Fatalistic Fiction

The Hour of the Star

An invisible Rio typist wants to be noticed; a fortune-teller promises she will be.

저자: Clarice Lispector 1977 96 페이지

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58,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Existential Fiction 🖋️ Narrator Intrusion 🌾 Overlooked Lives 🏙️ Urban Poverty ⏳ Fatalistic Fiction

Fighter Pilot

저자: Robin Olds • 2010

Married a Hollywood actress, then declared war on the U.S. Air Force’s bomber generals.

4.49

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🛩️ Fighter Pilot Memoirs ✈️ Military Aviation 🫡 Air Force Leadership 💥 Aerial Combat 🧑‍✈️ Fighter Pilot Ethos

Fighter Pilot

Married a Hollywood actress, then declared war on the U.S. Air Force’s bomber generals.

저자: Robin Olds 2010 416 페이지

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3,000+ 개의 평점

🛩️ Fighter Pilot Memoirs ✈️ Military Aviation 🫡 Air Force Leadership 💥 Aerial Combat 🧑‍✈️ Fighter Pilot Ethos

Diplomacy

저자: Joseph M. Siracusa • 2010

How a handful of treaties, a flawed peace, and a napkin deal carved up the map.

3.14

245

📜 Diplomatic History ⚖️ International Law 🤝 Alliance Politics 🌐 Globalization 🏛️ Power Politics

Diplomacy

How a handful of treaties, a flawed peace, and a napkin deal carved up the map.

저자: Joseph M. Siracusa 2010 160 페이지

3.14

245 개의 평점

📜 Diplomatic History ⚖️ International Law 🤝 Alliance Politics 🌐 Globalization 🏛️ Power Politics

The Boy from the Sea

저자: Garrett Carr • 2025

A baby washes ashore, a fishing family takes him in, two brothers wrestle over who belongs.

3.79

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🇮🇪 Irish Family Saga 🎣 Fishing Community ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 👶 Foundling Child 🕯️ Elegiac Tone

The Boy from the Sea

A baby washes ashore, a fishing family takes him in, two brothers wrestle over who belongs.

저자: Garrett Carr 2025 336 페이지

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8,000+ 개의 평점

🇮🇪 Irish Family Saga 🎣 Fishing Community ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 👶 Foundling Child 🕯️ Elegiac Tone

The Killing Zone

저자: Frederick Downs Jr. • 1978

A 23-year-old lieutenant lands in Vietnam. A mine takes his arm. The months between.

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🪖 Vietnam War 📖 War Memoirs 🫡 Platoon Leadership 🧠 Psychological Trauma 🥾 Infantry

The Killing Zone

A 23-year-old lieutenant lands in Vietnam. A mine takes his arm. The months between.

저자: Frederick Downs Jr. 1978 240 페이지

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🪖 Vietnam War 📖 War Memoirs 🫡 Platoon Leadership 🧠 Psychological Trauma 🥾 Infantry

A Writer's Diary

저자: Virginia Woolf • 1953

Virginia Woolf's diary: 23 years of teaching herself to write the novels that changed fiction.

4.17

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📝 Writers On Writing 🎨 Creative Practice 📚 Modernist Literature 📓 Writer's Journals ✍️ Fiction Craft

A Writer's Diary

Virginia Woolf's diary: 23 years of teaching herself to write the novels that changed fiction.

저자: Virginia Woolf 1953 355 페이지

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📝 Writers On Writing 🎨 Creative Practice 📚 Modernist Literature 📓 Writer's Journals ✍️ Fiction Craft

High Financier

저자: Niall Ferguson • 2010

A German exile predicted globalization. Then he built the London bank to finance it.

3.71

251

🏦 Investment Banking 👪 Family Dynasties 📜 Financial History 🏛️ City Of London 🧳 Exile And Identity

High Financier

A German exile predicted globalization. Then he built the London bank to finance it.

저자: Niall Ferguson 2010 576 페이지

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251 개의 평점

🏦 Investment Banking 👪 Family Dynasties 📜 Financial History 🏛️ City Of London 🧳 Exile And Identity

Forrest Gump

저자: Winston Groom • 1986

An Alabama innocent with a low IQ runs from bullies into football, war, and an unrequited love.

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🎭 Picaresque Satire 👶 Innocent Protagonist 💔 Unrequited Love 🪖 Vietnam War Fiction 🫂 War Buddy Friendship

Forrest Gump

An Alabama innocent with a low IQ runs from bullies into football, war, and an unrequited love.

저자: Winston Groom 1986 248 페이지

4.00

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🎭 Picaresque Satire 👶 Innocent Protagonist 💔 Unrequited Love 🪖 Vietnam War Fiction 🫂 War Buddy Friendship

The Art of Rest

저자: Claudia Hammond • 2019

Before the genocide, there was a homeless painter, a spellbinding voice, and a prison cell.

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👹 Nazi Germany 👑 Dictator Biographies 📈 Rise To Power 🧠 Political Psychology 📣 Propaganda Analysis

The Art of Rest

Before the genocide, there was a homeless painter, a spellbinding voice, and a prison cell.

저자: Claudia Hammond 2019 304 페이지

3.59

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👹 Nazi Germany 👑 Dictator Biographies 📈 Rise To Power 🧠 Political Psychology 📣 Propaganda Analysis

The Man Without Content

저자: Giorgio Agamben • 1970

Plato banished poets for their power. Aesthetics made art safe, and the artist empty.

4.15

383

🎨 Aesthetic Theory 📚 Continental Aesthetics 🌲 Heideggerian Thought 🏙️ Art And Modernity ⏳ Historical Ontology

The Man Without Content

Plato banished poets for their power. Aesthetics made art safe, and the artist empty.

저자: Giorgio Agamben 1970 144 페이지

4.15

383 개의 평점

🎨 Aesthetic Theory 📚 Continental Aesthetics 🌲 Heideggerian Thought 🏙️ Art And Modernity ⏳ Historical Ontology

The Rape of Nanking

저자: Iris Chang • 1997

The Japanese army turned Nanking into a mass grave, then the government erased the crime.

4.26

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⚔️ Japanese Militarism 🌏 Sino-Japanese War ⚖️ War Crimes 🗣️ Survivor Testimony 🚺 Rape As Weapon Of War

The Rape of Nanking

The Japanese army turned Nanking into a mass grave, then the government erased the crime.

저자: Iris Chang 1997 290 페이지

4.26

55,000+ 개의 평점

⚔️ Japanese Militarism 🌏 Sino-Japanese War ⚖️ War Crimes 🗣️ Survivor Testimony 🚺 Rape As Weapon Of War

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

저자: Philip Gourevitch • 1998

Seven pastors warned they would die tomorrow. The world read their letter and did nothing.

4.22

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🖋️ Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Politics 📜 Colonial Legacy ⚔️ State Violence 🏛️ International Failure

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Seven pastors warned they would die tomorrow. The world read their letter and did nothing.

저자: Philip Gourevitch 1998 356 페이지

4.22

37,000+ 개의 평점

🖋️ Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Politics 📜 Colonial Legacy ⚔️ State Violence 🏛️ International Failure

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

저자: Bill Bryson • 2006

His superpower was vaporizing teachers. The decade was 1950s America at its richest, weirdest peak.

3.94

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🏛️ Mid-Century America 🧒 Childhood Memoir 😂 Humorous Memoir 💰 Postwar Prosperity 🏘️ Small-Town Life

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

His superpower was vaporizing teachers. The decade was 1950s America at its richest, weirdest peak.

저자: Bill Bryson 2006 288 페이지

3.94

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🏛️ Mid-Century America 🧒 Childhood Memoir 😂 Humorous Memoir 💰 Postwar Prosperity 🏘️ Small-Town Life

The Complete Memoirs

저자: Pablo Neruda • 1974

The Nobel poet who turned exile, love, and the Chilean forest into one continuous poem.

4.16

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🌎 Latin American Literature 🎨 Art And Politics 🏃 Exile And Return ✈️ Travel And Identity

The Complete Memoirs

The Nobel poet who turned exile, love, and the Chilean forest into one continuous poem.

저자: Pablo Neruda 1974 498 페이지

4.16

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🌎 Latin American Literature 🎨 Art And Politics 🏃 Exile And Return ✈️ Travel And Identity

Prokleta avlija

저자: Ivo Andrić • 1954

In an Ottoman prison, a monk encounters a young man convinced he is a dead sultan.

4.24

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🪆 Nested Stories 🔗 Prison Narrative 📜 Historical Obsession ✝️ Monk Narrator 🔒 Prison Warden

Prokleta avlija

In an Ottoman prison, a monk encounters a young man convinced he is a dead sultan.

저자: Ivo Andrić 1954 120 페이지

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🪆 Nested Stories 🔗 Prison Narrative 📜 Historical Obsession ✝️ Monk Narrator 🔒 Prison Warden

A World Undone

저자: G.J. Meyer • 2006

One assassination, a web of rigid plans, and leaders who couldn't stop what they started.

4.37

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💣 Trench Warfare 📜 Great War Origins 💢 Diplomatic Failures 🔫 Military History 🇪🇺 Pre-War Europe

A World Undone

One assassination, a web of rigid plans, and leaders who couldn't stop what they started.

저자: G.J. Meyer 2006 704 페이지

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💣 Trench Warfare 📜 Great War Origins 💢 Diplomatic Failures 🔫 Military History 🇪🇺 Pre-War Europe

Orphan Bachelors

저자: Fae Myenne Ng • 2023

One family, one false name, and the century of silence the Chinese Exclusion Act demanded.

3.91

238

🧧 Immigration Memoir 🏮 Chinese American History 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Immigrant Families 🖋️ Asian American Literature

Orphan Bachelors

One family, one false name, and the century of silence the Chinese Exclusion Act demanded.

저자: Fae Myenne Ng 2023 256 페이지

3.91

238 개의 평점

🧧 Immigration Memoir 🏮 Chinese American History 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Immigrant Families 🖋️ Asian American Literature

Public Enemies

저자: Bryan Burrough • 2004

The FBI built its legend chasing petty killers, beating suspects, and inventing the Ma Barker myth.

3.98

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🏚️ Great Depression Era 🕵️ Fbi History 🔨 Myth Debunking 📖 Revisionist History 📰 Media And Crime

Public Enemies

The FBI built its legend chasing petty killers, beating suspects, and inventing the Ma Barker myth.

저자: Bryan Burrough 2004 640 페이지

3.98

6,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Great Depression Era 🕵️ Fbi History 🔨 Myth Debunking 📖 Revisionist History 📰 Media And Crime

Wealth and Power

저자: Orville Schell • 2013

Modern China's one obsession: reclaiming power after humiliation, even when freedom was the cost.

4.23

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🇨🇳 Modern Chinese History 🏛️ Chinese Political Thought 🏭 Authoritarian Development 🔄 National Rejuvenation 📚 Intellectual History

Wealth and Power

Modern China's one obsession: reclaiming power after humiliation, even when freedom was the cost.

저자: Orville Schell 2013 478 페이지

4.23

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🇨🇳 Modern Chinese History 🏛️ Chinese Political Thought 🏭 Authoritarian Development 🔄 National Rejuvenation 📚 Intellectual History

Moon Over Manifest

저자: Clare Vanderpool • 2010

Sent to her father's Kansas town, a girl follows old letters into an unsolved spy mystery.

4.04

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🏘️ Small Town Secrets 📖 Story Within A Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🔍 Child Sleuths 💔 Grief And Guilt

Moon Over Manifest

Sent to her father's Kansas town, a girl follows old letters into an unsolved spy mystery.

저자: Clare Vanderpool 2010 368 페이지

4.04

36,000+ 개의 평점

🏘️ Small Town Secrets 📖 Story Within A Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🔍 Child Sleuths 💔 Grief And Guilt

Brothers

저자: Alex Van Halen • 2024

Alex Van Halen remembers Eddie: the immigrant brotherhood that built rock's most explosive band.

4.08

9,000+

🎸 Rock Music History 🎤 Band Memoirs 👥 Sibling Bands 🔥 Artistic Obsession 🛠️ Diy Music Scenes

Brothers

Alex Van Halen remembers Eddie: the immigrant brotherhood that built rock's most explosive band.

저자: Alex Van Halen 2024 240 페이지

4.08

9,000+ 개의 평점

🎸 Rock Music History 🎤 Band Memoirs 👥 Sibling Bands 🔥 Artistic Obsession 🛠️ Diy Music Scenes

Below Stairs

저자: Margaret Powell • 1968

She cooked their banquets in early 1900s England, and they forgot she existed.

3.58

14,000+

🧹 Domestic Service 👷 Working Class Memoir 🇬🇧 British Social History 🕰️ Early 1900s Britain 🍳 Cooking Memoir

Below Stairs

She cooked their banquets in early 1900s England, and they forgot she existed.

저자: Margaret Powell 1968 288 페이지

3.58

14,000+ 개의 평점

🧹 Domestic Service 👷 Working Class Memoir 🇬🇧 British Social History 🕰️ Early 1900s Britain 🍳 Cooking Memoir

Eva Luna

저자: Isabel Allende • 1989

Born among mummies, an orphan girl learns that her stories can reshape a world in chaos.

4.01

60,000+

🖋️ Storyteller Heroine ✨ Mythic Storytelling 🪖 Revolutionary Backdrop 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧒 Orphan Protagonist

Eva Luna

Born among mummies, an orphan girl learns that her stories can reshape a world in chaos.

저자: Isabel Allende 1989 307 페이지

4.01

60,000+ 개의 평점

🖋️ Storyteller Heroine ✨ Mythic Storytelling 🪖 Revolutionary Backdrop 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧒 Orphan Protagonist

America's Bank

저자: Roger Lowenstein • 2015

In 1907, one elderly banker had to save the American financial system from his private library.

3.81

1,000+

🏦 Central Banking 💰 Monetary History 📉 Financial Panics 🎩 Gilded Age Banking 🗳️ Progressive Era

America's Bank

In 1907, one elderly banker had to save the American financial system from his private library.

저자: Roger Lowenstein 2015 368 페이지

3.81

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏦 Central Banking 💰 Monetary History 📉 Financial Panics 🎩 Gilded Age Banking 🗳️ Progressive Era

Lies of Silence

저자: Brian Moore • 1990

IRA gunmen hold his wife. Her ransom: a car bomb delivered to his own hotel.

3.23

2,000+

⚔️ The Troubles 📚 Literary Thriller 🏠 Home Invasion 💔 Love Triangle ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Lies of Silence

IRA gunmen hold his wife. Her ransom: a car bomb delivered to his own hotel.

저자: Brian Moore 1990 192 페이지

3.23

2,000+ 개의 평점

⚔️ The Troubles 📚 Literary Thriller 🏠 Home Invasion 💔 Love Triangle ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Joseph Anton

저자: Salman Rushdie • 2012

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

3.65

9,000+

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🕌 Religious Fundamentalism 🌍 Cultural Identity

Joseph Anton

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

저자: Salman Rushdie 2012 656 페이지

3.65

9,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🕌 Religious Fundamentalism 🌍 Cultural Identity

The Invention of Russia

저자: Arkady Ostrovsky • 2015

Television became the new Kremlin: how post-Soviet Russia was built on air, not on law.

4.01

1,000+

🏚️ Post-Soviet Russia 🏛️ Russian Politics 📺 State Propaganda 📰 Media Manipulation 🏭 Manufacturing Consent

The Invention of Russia

Television became the new Kremlin: how post-Soviet Russia was built on air, not on law.

저자: Arkady Ostrovsky 2015 378 페이지

4.01

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Post-Soviet Russia 🏛️ Russian Politics 📺 State Propaganda 📰 Media Manipulation 🏭 Manufacturing Consent

Black Garden

저자: Thomas de Waal • 2003

One Soviet province started an ethnic war in 1988 by voting to secede. The stalemate remains.

4.25

500+

⚔️ Caucasus Conflicts 🔥 Post-Soviet Wars 💔 Ethnic Conflict 📜 Competing Histories ❄️ Frozen Conflicts

Black Garden

One Soviet province started an ethnic war in 1988 by voting to secede. The stalemate remains.

저자: Thomas de Waal 2003 400 페이지

4.25

500+ 개의 평점

⚔️ Caucasus Conflicts 🔥 Post-Soviet Wars 💔 Ethnic Conflict 📜 Competing Histories ❄️ Frozen Conflicts

Nelson Mandela

저자: Martin Meredith • 1997

They put him on trial to silence him. His dock statement made apartheid the defendant instead.

4.17

347

🇿🇦 South African History ✊ Anti-Apartheid Movement 🔗 Political Imprisonment ⛓️ Colonial Resistance 🗽 Freedom Fighters

Nelson Mandela

They put him on trial to silence him. His dock statement made apartheid the defendant instead.

저자: Martin Meredith 1997 596 페이지

4.17

347 개의 평점

🇿🇦 South African History ✊ Anti-Apartheid Movement 🔗 Political Imprisonment ⛓️ Colonial Resistance 🗽 Freedom Fighters

Bruce Lee

저자: Bruce Lee • 2001

A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.

4.21

1,000+

🏙️ Midcentury America 🧒 American Childhood 📷 Nostalgia Memoir ☢️ Cold War Culture 🚬 Teenage Rebellion

Bruce Lee

A basement jersey gave a boy superpowers. His mission: vaporize every adult who ruined the fun.

저자: Bruce Lee 2001 288 페이지

4.21

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Midcentury America 🧒 American Childhood 📷 Nostalgia Memoir ☢️ Cold War Culture 🚬 Teenage Rebellion

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