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20세기 도서 요약

Iron Man

저자: Tony Iommi • 2011

A factory press severs his fingertips. Leather thimbles, detuned strings: heavy metal is born.

4.01

4,000+

🎸 Heavy Metal Memoirs 💰 Music Industry Greed 🩹 Post-Injury Creativity 🥁 Band Dynamics 🔮 Occult Rock

Iron Man

A factory press severs his fingertips. Leather thimbles, detuned strings: heavy metal is born.

저자: Tony Iommi 2011 381 페이지

4.01

4,000+ 개의 평점

🎸 Heavy Metal Memoirs 💰 Music Industry Greed 🩹 Post-Injury Creativity 🥁 Band Dynamics 🔮 Occult Rock

Foucault’s Pendulum

저자: Umberto Eco • 1988

A mock conspiracy among editors turns real when believers decide the secret is worth killing for.

3.91

75,000+

🧠 Philosophical Thriller 🕵️ Conspiracy Fiction 🔍 Pattern Seeking 🗝️ Secret Societies 📜 Occult Scholars

Foucault’s Pendulum

A mock conspiracy among editors turns real when believers decide the secret is worth killing for.

저자: Umberto Eco 1988 623 페이지

3.91

75,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Philosophical Thriller 🕵️ Conspiracy Fiction 🔍 Pattern Seeking 🗝️ Secret Societies 📜 Occult Scholars

Ama y no sufras

저자: Walter Riso • 2003

From homeless vagrant to Führer: how Hitler exploited fear, built an empire, and burned Germany.

4.08

500+

☠️ Nazi Germany ⚔️ World War Ii 👑 Rise Of Dictators ⛓️ Totalitarianism 📢 Political Propaganda

Ama y no sufras

From homeless vagrant to Führer: how Hitler exploited fear, built an empire, and burned Germany.

저자: Walter Riso 2003

4.08

500+ 개의 평점

☠️ Nazi Germany ⚔️ World War Ii 👑 Rise Of Dictators ⛓️ Totalitarianism 📢 Political Propaganda

The Old Capital

저자: Yasunari Kawabata • 2006

A Kyoto adopted daughter meets her mountain-dwelling twin, and their reunion redefines belonging.

3.72

8,000+

🏯 Postwar Japan 👯 Separated Twins 🍂 Elegiac Tone ⛩️ Old Kyoto 📖 Quiet Novel

The Old Capital

A Kyoto adopted daughter meets her mountain-dwelling twin, and their reunion redefines belonging.

저자: Yasunari Kawabata 2006 160 페이지

3.72

8,000+ 개의 평점

🏯 Postwar Japan 👯 Separated Twins 🍂 Elegiac Tone ⛩️ Old Kyoto 📖 Quiet Novel

In the Country of Others

저자: Leïla Slimani • 2021

A French bride follows her Moroccan husband to his farm. He is already married to the land.

3.78

21,000+

📜 Family Saga 💍 Intercultural Marriage 🇲🇦 Postwar Morocco 👧 Growing Up Mixed Race 🖋️ Lyrical Historical

In the Country of Others

A French bride follows her Moroccan husband to his farm. He is already married to the land.

저자: Leïla Slimani 2021 305 페이지

3.78

21,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Family Saga 💍 Intercultural Marriage 🇲🇦 Postwar Morocco 👧 Growing Up Mixed Race 🖋️ Lyrical Historical

Edge of Eternity

저자: Ken Follett • 2014

Three families fight the Cold War from their kitchens: East Berlin, Washington, and Moscow.

4.21

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🧱 Cold War Saga 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multi-Generational Epic 🏛️ Political Intrigue 💞 Interracial Romance 👁️ Surveillance State

Edge of Eternity

Three families fight the Cold War from their kitchens: East Berlin, Washington, and Moscow.

저자: Ken Follett 2014 36 페이지

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100,000+ 개의 평점

🧱 Cold War Saga 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multi-Generational Epic 🏛️ Political Intrigue 💞 Interracial Romance 👁️ Surveillance State

The Water Is Wide

저자: Pat Conroy • 1972

The island kids couldn't tell time. Their teacher drove them to Washington.

4.17

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📚 Teaching Memoir ⚖️ School Inequality 🌴 American South 🧑‍🏫 Progressive Education 🏛️ Teacher Vs Bureaucracy

The Water Is Wide

The island kids couldn't tell time. Their teacher drove them to Washington.

저자: Pat Conroy 1972 260 페이지

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27,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Teaching Memoir ⚖️ School Inequality 🌴 American South 🧑‍🏫 Progressive Education 🏛️ Teacher Vs Bureaucracy

Faking It

저자: Hugh Barker • 2007

Elvis was an imitator, punk was theater, and disco was realer than anyone admitted.

3.67

243

Faking It

Elvis was an imitator, punk was theater, and disco was realer than anyone admitted.

저자: Hugh Barker 2007 400 페이지

3.67

243 개의 평점

Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs

저자: Colin Wilson • 1964

The mad monk wasn't a fraud: his powers were real, and they brought down a dynasty.

3.41

234

🏛️ Imperial Russia 🕯️ Court Intrigue 🔮 Mystic Biography 🩸 Dynastic Collapse 🏥 Royal Illness

Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs

The mad monk wasn't a fraud: his powers were real, and they brought down a dynasty.

저자: Colin Wilson 1964

3.41

234 개의 평점

🏛️ Imperial Russia 🕯️ Court Intrigue 🔮 Mystic Biography 🩸 Dynastic Collapse 🏥 Royal Illness

The Perfect Mile

저자: Neal Bascomb • 2004

The four-minute mile was declared impossible. For three rivals, that was the starting line.

4.22

10,000+

🏃‍♂️ Track And Field 🧠 Sports Psychology 📜 History Of Sports 📋 Coaching Philosophies 🏟️ Amateur Athletics

The Perfect Mile

The four-minute mile was declared impossible. For three rivals, that was the starting line.

저자: Neal Bascomb 2004 322 페이지

4.22

10,000+ 개의 평점

🏃‍♂️ Track And Field 🧠 Sports Psychology 📜 History Of Sports 📋 Coaching Philosophies 🏟️ Amateur Athletics

In My Time

저자: Dick Cheney • 2011

From Yale dropout to the man who ran Desert Storm and picked himself for vice president.

3.79

2,000+

🐘 American Conservatism 🏛️ White House Insider 🌍 Gulf War 🗺️ Post-Cold War Era 🛡️ Defense Policy

In My Time

From Yale dropout to the man who ran Desert Storm and picked himself for vice president.

저자: Dick Cheney 2011 576 페이지

3.79

2,000+ 개의 평점

🐘 American Conservatism 🏛️ White House Insider 🌍 Gulf War 🗺️ Post-Cold War Era 🛡️ Defense Policy

White Malice

저자: Susan Williams • 2021

Africa's Cold War was a lie. America's real mission: control the uranium, crush independent leaders.

4.17

1,000+

🕵️ Cia Covert Operations 🌍 African Decolonization ✊ Pan-Africanism 🔗 Neocolonialism ⛏️ Resource Extraction

White Malice

Africa's Cold War was a lie. America's real mission: control the uranium, crush independent leaders.

저자: Susan Williams 2021 651 페이지

4.17

1,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Cia Covert Operations 🌍 African Decolonization ✊ Pan-Africanism 🔗 Neocolonialism ⛏️ Resource Extraction

Covert Regime Change

저자: Lindsey A. O'Rourke • 2018

64 covert regime changes, a 39% success rate, and blowback that erased the gains.

4.14

🥶 Cold War History 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🕵️ Covert Operations 💣 Regime Change 💥 Blowback

Covert Regime Change

64 covert regime changes, a 39% success rate, and blowback that erased the gains.

저자: Lindsey A. O'Rourke 2018 330 페이지

4.14

85 개의 평점

🥶 Cold War History 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🕵️ Covert Operations 💣 Regime Change 💥 Blowback

The Pleasures of the Damned

저자: Charles Bukowski • 2007

A hard-drinking poet buries his tenderness in the grit of L.A.'s gutters and bars.

4.35

7,000+

🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🍺 Dirty Realism 🥃 Hard-Drinking Narrator 🖤 Gallows Humor 🌴 Mid-Century LA

The Pleasures of the Damned

A hard-drinking poet buries his tenderness in the grit of L.A.'s gutters and bars.

저자: Charles Bukowski 2007 557 페이지

4.35

7,000+ 개의 평점

🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🍺 Dirty Realism 🥃 Hard-Drinking Narrator 🖤 Gallows Humor 🌴 Mid-Century LA

Speedboat

저자: Renata Adler • 1976

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

3.75

7,000+

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🏙️ Urban Dislocation 📰 Journalist Narrator 😐 Deadpan Narrator

Speedboat

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

저자: Renata Adler 1976 192 페이지

3.75

7,000+ 개의 평점

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🏙️ Urban Dislocation 📰 Journalist Narrator 😐 Deadpan Narrator

The Age of Entitlement

저자: Christopher Caldwell • 2020

Civil rights built a rival constitution. Debt papered over the conflict. Now the bill is due.

4.04

1,000+

⚖️ Civil Rights Law 🇺🇸 Postwar America 🏛️ Constitutional Crisis 🎓 Political Correctness 🏰 Elite Capture

The Age of Entitlement

Civil rights built a rival constitution. Debt papered over the conflict. Now the bill is due.

저자: Christopher Caldwell 2020 352 페이지

4.04

1,000+ 개의 평점

⚖️ Civil Rights Law 🇺🇸 Postwar America 🏛️ Constitutional Crisis 🎓 Political Correctness 🏰 Elite Capture

The Great Influenza

저자: John M. Barry • 2004

Modern medicine was just being born. Then the deadliest pandemic hit and killed the young first.

3.98

42,000+

🏥 Medical History 🦠 Pandemic History 🧫 Viral Outbreaks 🛡️ Immune System 🧪 Germ Theory

The Great Influenza

Modern medicine was just being born. Then the deadliest pandemic hit and killed the young first.

저자: John M. Barry 2004 546 페이지

3.98

42,000+ 개의 평점

🏥 Medical History 🦠 Pandemic History 🧫 Viral Outbreaks 🛡️ Immune System 🧪 Germ Theory

What Is the What

저자: Dave Eggers • 2006

Robbed in Atlanta, a Sudanese refugee escapes into the war-torn villages and camps of his past.

4.15

87,000+

🎤 Fictionalized Memoir 🏃 Refugee Survival Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧳 Cultural Displacement 📖 Storytelling As Survival

What Is the What

Robbed in Atlanta, a Sudanese refugee escapes into the war-torn villages and camps of his past.

저자: Dave Eggers 2006 475 페이지

4.15

87,000+ 개의 평점

🎤 Fictionalized Memoir 🏃 Refugee Survival Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧳 Cultural Displacement 📖 Storytelling As Survival

Comfort Women

저자: Yoshimi Yoshiaki • 1995

Japan built the comfort stations itself, then spent decades claiming it did not.

3.96

152

🚨 Wartime Sexual Violence 🇯🇵 Imperial Japan ⚖️ State Accountability 📚 Feminist Historiography 🕊️ Transitional Justice

Comfort Women

Japan built the comfort stations itself, then spent decades claiming it did not.

저자: Yoshimi Yoshiaki 1995 262 페이지

3.96

152 개의 평점

🚨 Wartime Sexual Violence 🇯🇵 Imperial Japan ⚖️ State Accountability 📚 Feminist Historiography 🕊️ Transitional Justice

Operation Mincemeat

저자: Ben Macintyre • 2010

How a dead homeless man became a Royal Marines officer and deceived the entire Nazi war machine.

4.03

23,000+

🕵️ World War Ii Espionage 🪖 Military Deception 🎩 Eccentric Spies 🧠 Strategic Deception 🎲 Chance In Warfare

Operation Mincemeat

How a dead homeless man became a Royal Marines officer and deceived the entire Nazi war machine.

저자: Ben Macintyre 2010 416 페이지

4.03

23,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ World War Ii Espionage 🪖 Military Deception 🎩 Eccentric Spies 🧠 Strategic Deception 🎲 Chance In Warfare

The Forgotten Man

저자: Amity Shlaes • 2007

The 1929 crash didn't cause a decade of misery. Government experiments did, and the taxpayer paid.

3.91

6,000+

🏚️ Great Depression 🇺🇸 Us Economic History 📜 New Deal Criticism 📈 Free Market Economics 🗳️ Public Choice Theory

The Forgotten Man

The 1929 crash didn't cause a decade of misery. Government experiments did, and the taxpayer paid.

저자: Amity Shlaes 2007 390 페이지

3.91

6,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Great Depression 🇺🇸 Us Economic History 📜 New Deal Criticism 📈 Free Market Economics 🗳️ Public Choice Theory

Tune In

저자: Mark Lewisohn • 2013

Before Beatlemania, there was a songwriting rivalry, a visionary manager, and six-hour Hamburg sets.

4.72

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🇬🇧 British Invasion ⚓️ Merseybeat 🎤 Music Industry 💡 Creative Partnership 🤝 Artist Management

Tune In

Before Beatlemania, there was a songwriting rivalry, a visionary manager, and six-hour Hamburg sets.

저자: Mark Lewisohn 2013 944 페이지

4.72

4,000+ 개의 평점

🇬🇧 British Invasion ⚓️ Merseybeat 🎤 Music Industry 💡 Creative Partnership 🤝 Artist Management

Fate Is the Hunter

저자: Ernest K. Gann • 1961

Fifty feet kept a crowded airliner alive. That margin, in early aviation, never widened.

4.56

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✈️ Early Aviation 🛫 Commercial Aviation 🎲 Fate And Chance 👨‍✈️ Pilot Memoirs 💀 Risk And Mortality

Fate Is the Hunter

Fifty feet kept a crowded airliner alive. That margin, in early aviation, never widened.

저자: Ernest K. Gann 1961 416 페이지

4.56

3,000+ 개의 평점

✈️ Early Aviation 🛫 Commercial Aviation 🎲 Fate And Chance 👨‍✈️ Pilot Memoirs 💀 Risk And Mortality

Cat’s Eye

저자: Margaret Atwood • 1988

A painter's Toronto return forces a reckoning with the girlhood friend who nearly destroyed her.

3.95

73,000+

🎨 Artist Protagonist 👧 Girlhood Cruelty 🖼️ Art As Survival 🕰️ Memory And Trauma 🤔 Psychological Realism

Cat’s Eye

A painter's Toronto return forces a reckoning with the girlhood friend who nearly destroyed her.

저자: Margaret Atwood 1988 462 페이지

3.95

73,000+ 개의 평점

🎨 Artist Protagonist 👧 Girlhood Cruelty 🖼️ Art As Survival 🕰️ Memory And Trauma 🤔 Psychological Realism

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

저자: Milan Kundera • 1979

A dissident burns his letters, a widow chases hers, and a photograph holds a ghost.

3.94

54,000+

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🔗 Interlinked Stories 🗑️ Memory Erasure 📜 Political Erasure 🖤 Widowhood

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

A dissident burns his letters, a widow chases hers, and a photograph holds a ghost.

저자: Milan Kundera 1979 313 페이지

3.94

54,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🔗 Interlinked Stories 🗑️ Memory Erasure 📜 Political Erasure 🖤 Widowhood

Strong Inside

저자: Andrew Maraniss • 2014

The SEC's first black basketball player broke through in 1967. His own campus was the hardest arena.

4.21

317

🏀 College Basketball ✊ Civil Rights Movement 🤝 Sports Integration 🏆 Black Athletes 🏛️ Southern History

Strong Inside

The SEC's first black basketball player broke through in 1967. His own campus was the hardest arena.

저자: Andrew Maraniss 2014 480 페이지

4.21

317 개의 평점

🏀 College Basketball ✊ Civil Rights Movement 🤝 Sports Integration 🏆 Black Athletes 🏛️ Southern History

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

저자: Gabriel García Márquez • 1961

A veteran waits fifteen years for a pension. His wife starves. Only a rooster remains.

3.80

68,000+

🕰️ Endless Waiting 🏚️ Postwar Hardship 😔 Quiet Desperation 💔 Marital Strain 🔇 Political Repression

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

A veteran waits fifteen years for a pension. His wife starves. Only a rooster remains.

저자: Gabriel García Márquez 1961 104 페이지

3.80

68,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Endless Waiting 🏚️ Postwar Hardship 😔 Quiet Desperation 💔 Marital Strain 🔇 Political Repression

Devil's Game

저자: Robert Dreyfuss • 2005

The United States armed Islamism for sixty years. Al Qaeda was the bill that came due.

3.99

272

🌐 Cold War Geopolitics 🕌 Middle Eastern History 🕵️ Covert Foreign Policy ☪️ Islamism And The West 💥 Imperial Blowback

Devil's Game

The United States armed Islamism for sixty years. Al Qaeda was the bill that came due.

저자: Robert Dreyfuss 2005 400 페이지

3.99

272 개의 평점

🌐 Cold War Geopolitics 🕌 Middle Eastern History 🕵️ Covert Foreign Policy ☪️ Islamism And The West 💥 Imperial Blowback

Scandals of Classic Hollywood

저자: Anne Helen Petersen • 2014

Hollywood scandals were never just gossip. They were the culture's ugliest arguments, in public.

3.48

2,000+

🎬 Hollywood History 🎞️ Classic Cinema ⭐ Star System 💥 Celebrity Scandal 🚫 Film Censorship

Scandals of Classic Hollywood

Hollywood scandals were never just gossip. They were the culture's ugliest arguments, in public.

저자: Anne Helen Petersen 2014 289 페이지

3.48

2,000+ 개의 평점

🎬 Hollywood History 🎞️ Classic Cinema ⭐ Star System 💥 Celebrity Scandal 🚫 Film Censorship

Made in the USA

저자: Vaclav Smil • 2013

How the country that made a third of the planet's goods stopped making almost everything.

3.76

500+

🏛️ Economic History 🏭 American Industry ⚡ Energy Economics 📉 Deindustrialization 🔗 Supply Chains

Made in the USA

How the country that made a third of the planet's goods stopped making almost everything.

저자: Vaclav Smil 2013 263 페이지

3.76

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Economic History 🏭 American Industry ⚡ Energy Economics 📉 Deindustrialization 🔗 Supply Chains

The Lonely Londoners

저자: Sam Selvon • 1956

Moses Aloetta guides West Indian newcomers through a London of fog, poverty, and quiet exclusion.

3.70

14,000+

🛳️ Windrush Generation 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🏙️ Postwar London 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Quiet Melancholy

The Lonely Londoners

Moses Aloetta guides West Indian newcomers through a London of fog, poverty, and quiet exclusion.

저자: Sam Selvon 1956 142 페이지

3.70

14,000+ 개의 평점

🛳️ Windrush Generation 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🏙️ Postwar London 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Quiet Melancholy

모스크바의 신사

저자: 에이모어 토울스 • 2016

A count confined to a Moscow hotel for life builds a world within its halls.

4.32

600,000+

🏨 Grand Hotel Drama 🇷🇺 Soviet Russia 🎩 Aristocratic Gentleman 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 👔 Unlikely Fatherhood

모스크바의 신사

A count confined to a Moscow hotel for life builds a world within its halls.

저자: 에이모어 토울스 2016 495 페이지

4.32

600,000+ 개의 평점

🏨 Grand Hotel Drama 🇷🇺 Soviet Russia 🎩 Aristocratic Gentleman 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 👔 Unlikely Fatherhood

Why Fish Don’t Exist

저자: Lulu Miller • 2020

The taxonomist who ranked fish also ranked humans. Neither hierarchy was real.

4.13

58,000+

🏷️ Taxonomy 🔴 Eugenics History 🍃 Natural History 🌀 Chaos And Order 🎭 Self-Deception

Why Fish Don’t Exist

The taxonomist who ranked fish also ranked humans. Neither hierarchy was real.

저자: Lulu Miller 2020 225 페이지

4.13

58,000+ 개의 평점

🏷️ Taxonomy 🔴 Eugenics History 🍃 Natural History 🌀 Chaos And Order 🎭 Self-Deception

The Last Greatest Magician in the World

저자: Jim Steinmeyer • 2011

Howard Thurston built the modern magic show. Houdini just got remembered for it.

3.84

477

🎭 Stage Magic 🎪 Vaudeville Era ✨ Illusion Design 🪄 Golden Age Of Magic 👻 Spiritualism And Magic

The Last Greatest Magician in the World

Howard Thurston built the modern magic show. Houdini just got remembered for it.

저자: Jim Steinmeyer 2011 386 페이지

3.84

477 개의 평점

🎭 Stage Magic 🎪 Vaudeville Era ✨ Illusion Design 🪄 Golden Age Of Magic 👻 Spiritualism And Magic

The Land of Green Plums

저자: Herta Müller • 1994

In Ceaușescu's Romania, a student's suicide pulls four friends into a secret pact to remember her.

3.67

6,000+

👁️ Life Under Dictatorship 🇷🇴 Communist Romania 🪢 Chain Of Suicides 🗡️ Betrayal By Friends 🖤 Bleak And Lyrical

The Land of Green Plums

In Ceaușescu's Romania, a student's suicide pulls four friends into a secret pact to remember her.

저자: Herta Müller 1994 256 페이지

3.67

6,000+ 개의 평점

👁️ Life Under Dictatorship 🇷🇴 Communist Romania 🪢 Chain Of Suicides 🗡️ Betrayal By Friends 🖤 Bleak And Lyrical

Black Like Me

저자: John Howard Griffin • 2003

A white journalist crossed the color line in 1959. The South stripped him of innocence.

4.11

70,000+

🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 📝 Participatory Journalism 👤 White Privilege ✊ Civil Rights Era

Black Like Me

A white journalist crossed the color line in 1959. The South stripped him of innocence.

저자: John Howard Griffin 2003 208 페이지

4.11

70,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 📝 Participatory Journalism 👤 White Privilege ✊ Civil Rights Era

History of Modern Art

저자: H. Harvard Arnason • 1968

How a century of painters dismantled perspective, freed color, and rebuilt art from scratch.

4.01

8,000+

🎨 Modern Art 🏛️ Western Art 🖼️ Art Movements 🔍 Formal Analysis 📚 Art Historiography

History of Modern Art

How a century of painters dismantled perspective, freed color, and rebuilt art from scratch.

저자: H. Harvard Arnason 1968 848 페이지

4.01

8,000+ 개의 평점

🎨 Modern Art 🏛️ Western Art 🖼️ Art Movements 🔍 Formal Analysis 📚 Art Historiography

India's Wars

저자: Arjun Subramaniam • 2016

Four wars forged modern India. The military history its own universities still don't teach.

4.19

500+

🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🕌 South Asian History ⚔️ Military Statecraft 🌍 Postcolonial Conflicts 🗺️ Border Wars

India's Wars

Four wars forged modern India. The military history its own universities still don't teach.

저자: Arjun Subramaniam 2016 576 페이지

4.19

500+ 개의 평점

🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🕌 South Asian History ⚔️ Military Statecraft 🌍 Postcolonial Conflicts 🗺️ Border Wars

Les Soleils des indépendances

저자: Ahmadou Kourouma • 1968

A Malinké prince begs at funerals, ruined by the independence that promised to restore his world.

3.58

500+

🏛️ Postcolonial Fiction ✨ Magical Realism 😤 Political Satire 🌑 End Of Lineage ⚖️ Cultural Upheaval

Les Soleils des indépendances

A Malinké prince begs at funerals, ruined by the independence that promised to restore his world.

저자: Ahmadou Kourouma 1968 196 페이지

3.58

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Postcolonial Fiction ✨ Magical Realism 😤 Political Satire 🌑 End Of Lineage ⚖️ Cultural Upheaval

This Side of Paradise

저자: F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1920

Amory falls in love, climbs Princeton's ladder, and learns every rung gives way beneath him.

3.63

80,000+

🎷 Jazz Age Fiction 🥀 Lost Generation 🏛️ Campus Novel 🪖 Post World War I 💔 Romantic Disillusionment

This Side of Paradise

Amory falls in love, climbs Princeton's ladder, and learns every rung gives way beneath him.

저자: F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 268 페이지

3.63

80,000+ 개의 평점

🎷 Jazz Age Fiction 🥀 Lost Generation 🏛️ Campus Novel 🪖 Post World War I 💔 Romantic Disillusionment

UFOs and the National Security State

저자: Richard M. Dolan • 2009

The Pentagon denied UFOs existed while spending secret billions to reverse-engineer the wreckage.

4.39

288

🛸 Ufo History 🏛️ National Security State 🙈 Ufo Cover-Up 🧬 Crash Retrievals 👽 Alien Abduction

UFOs and the National Security State

The Pentagon denied UFOs existed while spending secret billions to reverse-engineer the wreckage.

저자: Richard M. Dolan 2009 656 페이지

4.39

288 개의 평점

🛸 Ufo History 🏛️ National Security State 🙈 Ufo Cover-Up 🧬 Crash Retrievals 👽 Alien Abduction

Savarkar

저자: Vikram Sampath • 2021

A court cleared Savarkar of Gandhi's murder. History never did.

4.70

472

🚩 Hindu Nationalism 📖 Political Biography 🗺️ Partition Of India 🇮🇳 Anti-Colonial India ✊ Social Reform Movements

Savarkar

A court cleared Savarkar of Gandhi's murder. History never did.

저자: Vikram Sampath 2021 600 페이지

4.70

472 개의 평점

🚩 Hindu Nationalism 📖 Political Biography 🗺️ Partition Of India 🇮🇳 Anti-Colonial India ✊ Social Reform Movements

The Woman All Spies Fear

저자: Amy Butler Greenfield • 2021

She cracked Nazi spy rings and sank Prohibition crime empires. The government erased her name.

4.19

1,000+

🧩 Codebreaking History 🕵️ Women In Intelligence 🔐 Cryptanalysis 📡 Wartime Espionage 🥃 Prohibition Era

The Woman All Spies Fear

She cracked Nazi spy rings and sank Prohibition crime empires. The government erased her name.

저자: Amy Butler Greenfield 2021 328 페이지

4.19

1,000+ 개의 평점

🧩 Codebreaking History 🕵️ Women In Intelligence 🔐 Cryptanalysis 📡 Wartime Espionage 🥃 Prohibition Era

Churchill

저자: Winston S. Churchill • 2012

His speeches held Britain together when the bombs fell, then drew the Cold War's battle lines.

4.28

500+

🎤 Political Oratory 🌍 World War Ii 🫡 Wartime Leadership 📢 Crisis Communication 🇬🇧 British History

Churchill

His speeches held Britain together when the bombs fell, then drew the Cold War's battle lines.

저자: Winston S. Churchill 2012 688 페이지

4.28

500+ 개의 평점

🎤 Political Oratory 🌍 World War Ii 🫡 Wartime Leadership 📢 Crisis Communication 🇬🇧 British History

Six Characters in Search of an Author

저자: Luigi Pirandello • 1921

Six characters abandoned by their creator storm a rehearsal and demand their tragic story be staged

3.83

22,000+

🎭 Metatheatrical Play 🖤 Dark Family Drama 🤔 Philosophical Theater 🎪 Modernist Drama 🧩 Fragmented Storytelling

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six characters abandoned by their creator storm a rehearsal and demand their tragic story be staged

저자: Luigi Pirandello 1921 86 페이지

3.83

22,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Metatheatrical Play 🖤 Dark Family Drama 🤔 Philosophical Theater 🎪 Modernist Drama 🧩 Fragmented Storytelling

Den of Spies

저자: Craig Unger • 2024

The Reagan campaign's secret pact with Iran: keep the hostages captive and win the White House.

3.84

264

🇺🇸 American Political History 🇮🇷 Iran-Us Relations 🗳️ Election Manipulation 🕵️ Covert Operations 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Den of Spies

The Reagan campaign's secret pact with Iran: keep the hostages captive and win the White House.

저자: Craig Unger 2024 368 페이지

3.84

264 개의 평점

🇺🇸 American Political History 🇮🇷 Iran-Us Relations 🗳️ Election Manipulation 🕵️ Covert Operations 🔍 Investigative Journalism

The Stonewall Riots

저자: Gayle E. Pitman • 2019

A 1969 police raid ignited a rebellion that launched the modern fight for LGBT equality.

4.04

1,000+

🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History ✊ Civil Rights History 🌃 Underground Subcultures 👮 Police Brutality 📢 Community Activism

The Stonewall Riots

A 1969 police raid ignited a rebellion that launched the modern fight for LGBT equality.

저자: Gayle E. Pitman 2019 224 페이지

4.04

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏳️‍🌈 Lgbtq History ✊ Civil Rights History 🌃 Underground Subcultures 👮 Police Brutality 📢 Community Activism

The Lieutenants

저자: W.E.B. Griffin • 1986

From North Africa to Cold War Berlin, officers navigate war, captivity, and the shadow war.

4.34

8,000+

🔗 Pow Escape 🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🏜️ North African Campaign 🏚️ Post-War Germany 🤝 Officer Camaraderie

The Lieutenants

From North Africa to Cold War Berlin, officers navigate war, captivity, and the shadow war.

저자: W.E.B. Griffin 1986 416 페이지

4.34

8,000+ 개의 평점

🔗 Pow Escape 🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🏜️ North African Campaign 🏚️ Post-War Germany 🤝 Officer Camaraderie

The Son

저자: Philipp Meyer • 2013

A Comanche captive builds a Texas empire, and every generation after him pays the debt.

4.03

38,000+

🐂 Texas Family Saga 🏛️ Generational Saga 🪶 Frontier Captivity ⚔️ Inherited Violence 💔 Love Across Borders

The Son

A Comanche captive builds a Texas empire, and every generation after him pays the debt.

저자: Philipp Meyer 2013 561 페이지

4.03

38,000+ 개의 평점

🐂 Texas Family Saga 🏛️ Generational Saga 🪶 Frontier Captivity ⚔️ Inherited Violence 💔 Love Across Borders

Science Fiction

저자: David Seed • 2011

How space voyages, aliens, and time travel turned science fiction into the literature of ideas.

3.31

500+

📖 Literary Criticism 📜 Science Fiction History 👽 Alien Encounters ⏳ Time Travel 🚀 Space Exploration

Science Fiction

How space voyages, aliens, and time travel turned science fiction into the literature of ideas.

저자: David Seed 2011 147 페이지

3.31

500+ 개의 평점

📖 Literary Criticism 📜 Science Fiction History 👽 Alien Encounters ⏳ Time Travel 🚀 Space Exploration

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