20세기

격동의 20세기는 우리 자신과 사회를 바라보는 방식을 영원히 바꿔놓은 혁명적 사상과 급진적 예술 운동을 탄생시켰습니다. 두 차례의 세계대전과 사회적 격변 속에서 작가들은 실존주의, 의식의 흐름, 그리고 점점 드리워지는 전체주의의 그림자를 획기적인 작품들을 통해 탐구하며 현대 문학을 정의했습니다.

20세기 도서 요약

Neither Liberal nor Conservative

저자: Donald R. Kinder • 2017

Decades of surveys reveal what cable news won't: most Americans have no ideology at all.

3.90

🇺🇸 American Politics 📊 Public Opinion 🗳️ Political Behavior 🧠 Political Psychology 📖 Political Knowledge

Neither Liberal nor Conservative

Decades of surveys reveal what cable news won't: most Americans have no ideology at all.

저자: Donald R. Kinder 2017 224 페이지

3.90

61 개의 평점

🇺🇸 American Politics 📊 Public Opinion 🗳️ Political Behavior 🧠 Political Psychology 📖 Political Knowledge

The Golden Cup

저자: Belva Plain • 1986

A tenement fire, a radical reformer. She marries him anyway, then spends a lifetime reckoning.

4.02

1,000+

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🕍 Jewish American Family 💔 Marriage In Crisis 💰 Class Divide Romance 🪖 War Trauma

The Golden Cup

A tenement fire, a radical reformer. She marries him anyway, then spends a lifetime reckoning.

저자: Belva Plain 1986 608 페이지

4.02

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🕍 Jewish American Family 💔 Marriage In Crisis 💰 Class Divide Romance 🪖 War Trauma

Women of a Promiscuous Nature

저자: Donna Everhart • 2026

1931 North Carolina: solitary cells, forced sterilization. Three women in a reform colony resist.

3.89

8,000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🏛️ Institutional Horror ✊ Bodily Autonomy 💉 Medical Abuse 🤝 Women's Solidarity

Women of a Promiscuous Nature

1931 North Carolina: solitary cells, forced sterilization. Three women in a reform colony resist.

저자: Donna Everhart 2026 368 페이지

3.89

8,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🏛️ Institutional Horror ✊ Bodily Autonomy 💉 Medical Abuse 🤝 Women's Solidarity

Britain's Gulag

저자: Caroline Elkins • 2005

Britain ran a brutal camp system in Kenya, then spent decades hiding the bodies.

4.06

1,000+

👑 British Imperialism ✊ Mau Mau Uprising ⚖️ State Crimes 🕵️ Government Cover-Up ⛓️ Forced Labor Camps

Britain's Gulag

Britain ran a brutal camp system in Kenya, then spent decades hiding the bodies.

저자: Caroline Elkins 2005 496 페이지

4.06

1,000+ 개의 평점

👑 British Imperialism ✊ Mau Mau Uprising ⚖️ State Crimes 🕵️ Government Cover-Up ⛓️ Forced Labor Camps

The Shadows of Power

저자: James Perloff • 1988

A single network picks presidents and plans depressions. The Constitution is their last obstacle.

4.04

162

🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌐 Global Governance 🕸️ Elite Networks 📺 Manufactured Consent

The Shadows of Power

A single network picks presidents and plans depressions. The Constitution is their last obstacle.

저자: James Perloff 1988 273 페이지

4.04

162 개의 평점

🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌐 Global Governance 🕸️ Elite Networks 📺 Manufactured Consent

Operation Paperclip

저자: Annie Jacobsen • 2014

To beat the Soviets, America recruited 1,600 Nazi scientists and buried their crimes.

4.15

10,000+

🕰️ Postwar History 🕵️ Intelligence History 🧪 Nazi Scientists 🤫 Government Secrecy ⚖️ War Crimes

Operation Paperclip

To beat the Soviets, America recruited 1,600 Nazi scientists and buried their crimes.

저자: Annie Jacobsen 2014 575 페이지

4.15

10,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Postwar History 🕵️ Intelligence History 🧪 Nazi Scientists 🤫 Government Secrecy ⚖️ War Crimes

It Didn't Happen Here

저자: Seymour Martin Lipset • 2000

Marx bet on America going socialist. Its political system, unions, and immigrants had other plans.

3.60

105

🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🌍 Comparative Politics 🏭 Labor Movement History 🗳️ Electoral Systems 🏛️ Party Systems

It Didn't Happen Here

Marx bet on America going socialist. Its political system, unions, and immigrants had other plans.

저자: Seymour Martin Lipset 2000 374 페이지

3.60

105 개의 평점

🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🌍 Comparative Politics 🏭 Labor Movement History 🗳️ Electoral Systems 🏛️ Party Systems

One Nation, Uninsured

저자: Jill Quadagno • 2005

Organized interests, not national values, killed universal health care in the United States.

3.61

123

🏥 Health Care Policy 📜 Public Health History 🏛️ Interest-Group Politics 🩺 Health Reform ⚖️ Racial Health Disparities

One Nation, Uninsured

Organized interests, not national values, killed universal health care in the United States.

저자: Jill Quadagno 2005 274 페이지

3.61

123 개의 평점

🏥 Health Care Policy 📜 Public Health History 🏛️ Interest-Group Politics 🩺 Health Reform ⚖️ Racial Health Disparities

Weimar Republic

저자: Captivating History • 2021

The republic that killed itself: how Germany's first democracy surrendered to Hitler in 14 years.

4.14

🇩🇪 Weimar Republic 📜 Treaty Of Versailles 💸 Hyperinflation ⚠️ Rise Of Nazism 🏛️ Democratic Collapse

Weimar Republic

The republic that killed itself: how Germany's first democracy surrendered to Hitler in 14 years.

저자: Captivating History 2021 230 페이지

4.14

28 개의 평점

🇩🇪 Weimar Republic 📜 Treaty Of Versailles 💸 Hyperinflation ⚠️ Rise Of Nazism 🏛️ Democratic Collapse

WASPS

저자: Michael Knox Beran • 2021

The WASPs had everything except wholeness. Their long pursuit of it built America, then broke them.

3.46

126

🏛️ American Aristocracy 💰 Old Money 🎩 Gilded Age 📊 Social Class 📉 Cultural Decline

WASPS

The WASPs had everything except wholeness. Their long pursuit of it built America, then broke them.

저자: Michael Knox Beran 2021 416 페이지

3.46

126 개의 평점

🏛️ American Aristocracy 💰 Old Money 🎩 Gilded Age 📊 Social Class 📉 Cultural Decline

The Economists' Hour

저자: Binyamin Appelbaum • 2019

How economists seized power and spent forty years unleashing markets, no matter the human cost.

4.10

1,000+

🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Political Economy 🏫 Chicago School 📈 Market Fundamentalism 🔓 Deregulation

The Economists' Hour

How economists seized power and spent forty years unleashing markets, no matter the human cost.

저자: Binyamin Appelbaum 2019 448 페이지

4.10

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Political Economy 🏫 Chicago School 📈 Market Fundamentalism 🔓 Deregulation

The Rise of Southern Republicans

저자: Black • 2002

Black Democrats and white Republicans made an unlikely alliance to redraw the South. It worked.

3.93

🗳️ Southern Politics 🔄 Electoral Realignment ⚖️ Racial Polarization ✊ Voting Rights 📐 Redistricting

The Rise of Southern Republicans

Black Democrats and white Republicans made an unlikely alliance to redraw the South. It worked.

저자: Black 2002 454 페이지

3.93

81 개의 평점

🗳️ Southern Politics 🔄 Electoral Realignment ⚖️ Racial Polarization ✊ Voting Rights 📐 Redistricting

Los árboles mueren de pie

저자: Alejandro Casona • 1949

Two strangers pose as a lost grandson and his wife, restoring an old woman's stolen happiness.

4.15

5,000+

🎭 Spanish Theatre 💝 Protective Lies 💍 Fake Marriage 🎪 Impostor Narrative 🎭 Play Within Play

Los árboles mueren de pie

Two strangers pose as a lost grandson and his wife, restoring an old woman's stolen happiness.

저자: Alejandro Casona 1949 136 페이지

4.15

5,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Spanish Theatre 💝 Protective Lies 💍 Fake Marriage 🎪 Impostor Narrative 🎭 Play Within Play

Paths Out of Dixie

저자: Robert Mickey • 2015

The Jim Crow South was authoritarian, not democratic. It fell along three distinct paths.

4.36

📍 Southern Politics 🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Racial Segregation 🏢 One-Party Rule

Paths Out of Dixie

The Jim Crow South was authoritarian, not democratic. It fell along three distinct paths.

저자: Robert Mickey 2015 584 페이지

4.36

39 개의 평점

📍 Southern Politics 🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🗳️ Voting Rights 🚫 Racial Segregation 🏢 One-Party Rule

The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse

저자: Frances Welch • 2024

Victoria's four Hesse granddaughters: two married Romanovs, revolutionaries killed both.

4.19

500+

🌍 Imperial Russia 👑 Romanov Dynasty 📚 Group Biography 🏰 Court Intrigue ⚡ Revolutionary Russia

The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse

Victoria's four Hesse granddaughters: two married Romanovs, revolutionaries killed both.

저자: Frances Welch 2024 303 페이지

4.19

500+ 개의 평점

🌍 Imperial Russia 👑 Romanov Dynasty 📚 Group Biography 🏰 Court Intrigue ⚡ Revolutionary Russia

Home and Away

저자: Rochelle Alers • 2024

Shut out of sportswriting, a journalist writes her great-grandfather's Negro Leagues story instead.

4.05

389

🏟️ Negro Leagues Baseball 📜 Dual Timeline Saga 👤 Women Behind The Men ✉️ Letters And Journals 🔓 Healing Family Secrets

Home and Away

Shut out of sportswriting, a journalist writes her great-grandfather's Negro Leagues story instead.

저자: Rochelle Alers 2024 368 페이지

4.05

389 개의 평점

🏟️ Negro Leagues Baseball 📜 Dual Timeline Saga 👤 Women Behind The Men ✉️ Letters And Journals 🔓 Healing Family Secrets

The Politics of Rage

저자: Dan T. Carter • 1995

A segregationist governor who never reached the White House gave the GOP its winning playbook.

4.23

363

🏛️ Political Biography 🌐 Southern Politics ⚡ White Backlash 🖤 Racial Politics 🎙️ Populist Politics

The Politics of Rage

A segregationist governor who never reached the White House gave the GOP its winning playbook.

저자: Dan T. Carter 1995 580 페이지

4.23

363 개의 평점

🏛️ Political Biography 🌐 Southern Politics ⚡ White Backlash 🖤 Racial Politics 🎙️ Populist Politics

The Ground Breaking

저자: Scott Ellsworth • 2021

Tulsa destroyed Black Wall Street in 1921, then spent a century burying the crime.

4.19

1,000+

🏚️ Tulsa Race Massacre 🤫 Suppressed History 🦴 Forensic Anthropology ⚖️ Reparations 🎙️ Oral History

The Ground Breaking

Tulsa destroyed Black Wall Street in 1921, then spent a century burying the crime.

저자: Scott Ellsworth 2021 323 페이지

4.19

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Tulsa Race Massacre 🤫 Suppressed History 🦴 Forensic Anthropology ⚖️ Reparations 🎙️ Oral History

Maya & Natasha

저자: Elyse Durham • 2025

Twin sisters, one Kirov spot. The rivalry that shatters them spans a lifetime and a continent.

3.82

1,000+

🩰 Ballet Fiction 👯 Twin Sisters ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 🏙️ Siege Of Leningrad 🔴 Soviet Era

Maya & Natasha

Twin sisters, one Kirov spot. The rivalry that shatters them spans a lifetime and a continent.

저자: Elyse Durham 2025 384 페이지

3.82

1,000+ 개의 평점

🩰 Ballet Fiction 👯 Twin Sisters ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 🏙️ Siege Of Leningrad 🔴 Soviet Era

Mary Jane

저자: Jessica Anya Blau • 2021

A sheltered Baltimore teen spends one summer nannying for a family hiding a famous rock star.

4.12

100,000+

📅 1970s Coming Of Age 🏠 Bohemian Household 🩷 Found Family 👶 Nanny Protagonist 🔒 Sheltered Protagonist

Mary Jane

A sheltered Baltimore teen spends one summer nannying for a family hiding a famous rock star.

저자: Jessica Anya Blau 2021 320 페이지

4.12

100,000+ 개의 평점

📅 1970s Coming Of Age 🏠 Bohemian Household 🩷 Found Family 👶 Nanny Protagonist 🔒 Sheltered Protagonist

Negro League Baseball

저자: Neil Lanctot • 2004

Jackie Robinson's triumph was a death sentence for the Black-owned baseball world that produced him.

3.94

🖤 Negro Leagues ⚾ Segregation And Sport 📈 Black Business History 💸 Integration's Cost 🚂 Great Migration

Negro League Baseball

Jackie Robinson's triumph was a death sentence for the Black-owned baseball world that produced him.

저자: Neil Lanctot 2004 512 페이지

3.94

82 개의 평점

🖤 Negro Leagues ⚾ Segregation And Sport 📈 Black Business History 💸 Integration's Cost 🚂 Great Migration

Mariana

저자: Monica Dickens • 1940

Through a storm, Mary Shannon waits for her husband's ship and relives a lifetime of love.

3.90

2,000+

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Interwar Britain 🌅 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🌿 English Countryside 🎭 Artistic Ambition 💔 Unrequited Love

Mariana

Through a storm, Mary Shannon waits for her husband's ship and relives a lifetime of love.

저자: Monica Dickens 1940 377 페이지

3.90

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Interwar Britain 🌅 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🌿 English Countryside 🎭 Artistic Ambition 💔 Unrequited Love

Libro dell'acqua

저자: Eduard Limonov • 2003

At 48, a Russian exile finds his war and grins, documenting his self-made legend.

3.56

259

📖 Autofiction 🖤 Transgressive Literature 🇷🇺 Russian Memoir 🧳 Exile Writers 🏛️ Post-Soviet Politics

Libro dell'acqua

At 48, a Russian exile finds his war and grins, documenting his self-made legend.

저자: Eduard Limonov 2003 256 페이지

3.56

259 개의 평점

📖 Autofiction 🖤 Transgressive Literature 🇷🇺 Russian Memoir 🧳 Exile Writers 🏛️ Post-Soviet Politics

Crooked House

저자: Agatha Christie • 1949

When a patriarch is poisoned, his granddaughter's suitor must unmask the killer living among them.

4.08

94,000+

🔎 Golden Age Mystery 🏚️ Country House Mystery 🔪 Family Murder Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 👧 Child Villain

Crooked House

When a patriarch is poisoned, his granddaughter's suitor must unmask the killer living among them.

저자: Agatha Christie 1949 276 페이지

4.08

94,000+ 개의 평점

🔎 Golden Age Mystery 🏚️ Country House Mystery 🔪 Family Murder Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 👧 Child Villain

The Padre

저자: Jennifer O'Leary • 2023

Gaddafi's cash. A parking timer. A priest. These built the IRA's most reliable bombs.

4.02

455

⚔️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🔫 Arms Trafficking 🕵️ Clandestine Operations 🎭 Double Lives

The Padre

Gaddafi's cash. A parking timer. A priest. These built the IRA's most reliable bombs.

저자: Jennifer O'Leary 2023 272 페이지

4.02

455 개의 평점

⚔️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🔫 Arms Trafficking 🕵️ Clandestine Operations 🎭 Double Lives

I Was Anastasia

저자: Ariel Lawhon • 2018

From an asylum, she claims to be Anastasia, the Romanov who survived. Proving it takes decades.

3.70

39,000+

⏳ Dual Timeline 👑 Royal Impostor 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🇷🇺 Imperial Russia 🧠 Trauma And Memory

I Was Anastasia

From an asylum, she claims to be Anastasia, the Romanov who survived. Proving it takes decades.

저자: Ariel Lawhon 2018

3.70

39,000+ 개의 평점

⏳ Dual Timeline 👑 Royal Impostor 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🇷🇺 Imperial Russia 🧠 Trauma And Memory

On Desperate Ground

저자: Hampton Sides • 2018

Surrounded by eight divisions in brutal cold, the Marines didn't retreat: they attacked to the sea.

4.59

8,000+

⚔️ Korean War History ❄️ Winter Warfare 💥 Command Failures 🦅 Marine Corps History 🛡️ Fighting Retreats

On Desperate Ground

Surrounded by eight divisions in brutal cold, the Marines didn't retreat: they attacked to the sea.

저자: Hampton Sides 2018 394 페이지

4.59

8,000+ 개의 평점

⚔️ Korean War History ❄️ Winter Warfare 💥 Command Failures 🦅 Marine Corps History 🛡️ Fighting Retreats

Why the New Deal Matters

저자: Eric Rauchway • 2021

Democracies fell to fascism. America tried something different: paychecks and public works.

3.98

235

🏛️ New Deal 📜 Progressive Reform 🗳️ Democratic Resilience 🏗️ Public Works ⚖️ Racial Inequality

Why the New Deal Matters

Democracies fell to fascism. America tried something different: paychecks and public works.

저자: Eric Rauchway 2021 232 페이지

3.98

235 개의 평점

🏛️ New Deal 📜 Progressive Reform 🗳️ Democratic Resilience 🏗️ Public Works ⚖️ Racial Inequality

Five Little Pigs

저자: Agatha Christie • 1942

A woman asks Poirot to prove her mother innocent of murder, sixteen years after the execution.

4.03

95,000+

🕰️ Cold Case Mystery 🧠 Psychological Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery 🗣️ Conflicting Testimonies 🎨 Artist And Muse

Five Little Pigs

A woman asks Poirot to prove her mother innocent of murder, sixteen years after the execution.

저자: Agatha Christie 1942 216 페이지

4.03

95,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Cold Case Mystery 🧠 Psychological Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery 🗣️ Conflicting Testimonies 🎨 Artist And Muse

Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins

저자: Robert K. Murray • 1979

One man, trapped 55 feet underground, held a nation's attention for 18 days.

4.07

364

🔬 Microhistory 🕳️ Cave Exploration ⚠️ Disaster Narratives 📺 Media Sensationalism 🪢 Rescue Operations

Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins

One man, trapped 55 feet underground, held a nation's attention for 18 days.

저자: Robert K. Murray 1979 360 페이지

4.07

364 개의 평점

🔬 Microhistory 🕳️ Cave Exploration ⚠️ Disaster Narratives 📺 Media Sensationalism 🪢 Rescue Operations

Partisans

저자: Nicole Hemmer • 2022

Reagan's heirs built a media insurgency that ran on outrage and treated compromise as betrayal.

4.17

475

🏛️ American Conservatism 🔄 Political Realignment 📻 Conservative Media 🌾 Populist Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars

Partisans

Reagan's heirs built a media insurgency that ran on outrage and treated compromise as betrayal.

저자: Nicole Hemmer 2022 368 페이지

4.17

475 개의 평점

🏛️ American Conservatism 🔄 Political Realignment 📻 Conservative Media 🌾 Populist Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars

World War One

저자: Daniel Wrinn • 2021

Scuttling a ship, leaping from a train, fighting in Eden: the Great War you haven't read.

3.91

🌍 World War I ⚔️ Military History 🚢 Naval Warfare ✈️ Aerial Warfare 💣 Trench Warfare

World War One

Scuttling a ship, leaping from a train, fighting in Eden: the Great War you haven't read.

저자: Daniel Wrinn 2021 420 페이지

3.91

54 개의 평점

🌍 World War I ⚔️ Military History 🚢 Naval Warfare ✈️ Aerial Warfare 💣 Trench Warfare

Rule and Ruin

저자: Geoffrey Kabaservice • 2011

A major American party became a purity machine. The inside story of the moderates it eliminated.

4.00

401

🏛️ Rockefeller Republicans 🐘 American Conservatism 🧲 Political Polarization 🗺️ Party Realignment 🗳️ Primary Elections

Rule and Ruin

A major American party became a purity machine. The inside story of the moderates it eliminated.

저자: Geoffrey Kabaservice 2011 482 페이지

4.00

401 개의 평점

🏛️ Rockefeller Republicans 🐘 American Conservatism 🧲 Political Polarization 🗺️ Party Realignment 🗳️ Primary Elections

Bournville

저자: Jonathan Coe • 2022

In a chocolate-maker's utopian village, one family mirrors Britain's long argument with itself.

3.78

8,000+

🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 🕰️ Postwar Britain 🏛️ State Of The Nation 🔑 Family Secrets 🇬🇧 English Identity

Bournville

In a chocolate-maker's utopian village, one family mirrors Britain's long argument with itself.

저자: Jonathan Coe 2022 354 페이지

3.78

8,000+ 개의 평점

🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 🕰️ Postwar Britain 🏛️ State Of The Nation 🔑 Family Secrets 🇬🇧 English Identity

The Long Southern Strategy

저자: Angie Maxwell • 2019

White grievance, anti-feminism, and evangelicalism fused in the South, then nationalized the GOP.

4.13

136

🗳️ Southern Politics 🔄 Political Realignment 🎭 Racial Politics 🤍 White Identity Politics ✝️ American Evangelicalism

The Long Southern Strategy

White grievance, anti-feminism, and evangelicalism fused in the South, then nationalized the GOP.

저자: Angie Maxwell 2019 560 페이지

4.13

136 개의 평점

🗳️ Southern Politics 🔄 Political Realignment 🎭 Racial Politics 🤍 White Identity Politics ✝️ American Evangelicalism

The Irish Boarding House

저자: Sandy Taylor • 2022

Mary Kate Ryan's inheritance becomes a Dublin boarding house where lost women find a home.

4.13

14,000+

🏠 Found Family 🚪 Boarding House Fiction 💌 Unexpected Inheritance 💔 Childhood Abandonment 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Reconciliation

The Irish Boarding House

Mary Kate Ryan's inheritance becomes a Dublin boarding house where lost women find a home.

저자: Sandy Taylor 2022 330 페이지

4.13

14,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Found Family 🚪 Boarding House Fiction 💌 Unexpected Inheritance 💔 Childhood Abandonment 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Reconciliation

The Resistance Girl

저자: Mandy Robotham • 2022

A grieving Norwegian woman teams up with a British spy to sabotage Bergen's Nazi occupation.

4.10

3,000+

🥷 Wwii Resistance 🇳🇴 Occupied Norway 🏠 Forced Proximity 💔 Second Chance Love 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family

The Resistance Girl

A grieving Norwegian woman teams up with a British spy to sabotage Bergen's Nazi occupation.

저자: Mandy Robotham 2022 410 페이지

4.10

3,000+ 개의 평점

🥷 Wwii Resistance 🇳🇴 Occupied Norway 🏠 Forced Proximity 💔 Second Chance Love 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family

The Day Wall Street Exploded

저자: Beverly Gage • 2008

Wall Street, 1920: thirty-eight dead, none caught. The failed investigation that built the FBI.

3.75

318

🏭 Labor History 🏴 Anarchist Movements 🔴 Red Scare 💥 Terrorism History 🔒 Political Repression

The Day Wall Street Exploded

Wall Street, 1920: thirty-eight dead, none caught. The failed investigation that built the FBI.

저자: Beverly Gage 2008 400 페이지

3.75

318 개의 평점

🏭 Labor History 🏴 Anarchist Movements 🔴 Red Scare 💥 Terrorism History 🔒 Political Repression

Evil Under the Sun

저자: Agatha Christie • 1941

Poirot's island holiday is shattered by a strangled beauty and a circle of unbreakable alibis.

3.98

90,000+

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🏝️ Island Mystery 🖤 Scheming Couple ✨ Glamorous Victim

Evil Under the Sun

Poirot's island holiday is shattered by a strangled beauty and a circle of unbreakable alibis.

저자: Agatha Christie 1941 220 페이지

3.98

90,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🏝️ Island Mystery 🖤 Scheming Couple ✨ Glamorous Victim

That Woman

저자: Anne Sebba • 2011

History cast her as the villain. The real story: a king who wouldn't let her leave.

3.44

4,000+

👑 Royal Biography 📖 Revisionist Biography 🪜 Social Climbing 🔥 Royal Scandal 🫖 British High Society

That Woman

History cast her as the villain. The real story: a king who wouldn't let her leave.

저자: Anne Sebba 2011 344 페이지

3.44

4,000+ 개의 평점

👑 Royal Biography 📖 Revisionist Biography 🪜 Social Climbing 🔥 Royal Scandal 🫖 British High Society

Bad Faith

저자: Randall Balmer • 2021

The Religious Right was born not from Roe but from a fight to defend segregated Christian schools.

4.25

500+

📖 American Evangelicalism ⚖️ Abortion Politics 🚫 Racial Segregation 🏛️ Movement Conservatism 🔍 Historical Revisionism

Bad Faith

The Religious Right was born not from Roe but from a fight to defend segregated Christian schools.

저자: Randall Balmer 2021 144 페이지

4.25

500+ 개의 평점

📖 American Evangelicalism ⚖️ Abortion Politics 🚫 Racial Segregation 🏛️ Movement Conservatism 🔍 Historical Revisionism

101 Montunos

저자: Rebeca Mauleón • 2005

Master Afro-Caribbean piano through 101 patterns, grounded in clave and built for the bandstand.

4.47

🎵 Afro-Cuban Music 🎹 Latin Piano 📖 Piano Method 💃 Salsa Music 🎷 Latin Jazz

101 Montunos

Master Afro-Caribbean piano through 101 patterns, grounded in clave and built for the bandstand.

저자: Rebeca Mauleón 2005 151 페이지

4.47

17 개의 평점

🎵 Afro-Cuban Music 🎹 Latin Piano 📖 Piano Method 💃 Salsa Music 🎷 Latin Jazz

Doctor Glas

저자: Hjalmar Söderberg • 1905

His diary holds a Stockholm summer, a woman's despair, and the murder he prescribed as mercy.

3.67

17,000+

📖 Diary Novel 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Classic 🔪 Justified Murder 💔 Unattainable Love ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Doctor Glas

His diary holds a Stockholm summer, a woman's despair, and the murder he prescribed as mercy.

저자: Hjalmar Söderberg 1905 160 페이지

3.67

17,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Diary Novel 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Classic 🔪 Justified Murder 💔 Unattainable Love ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

El ancho mundo

저자: Pierre Lemaitre • 2022

Four siblings, two continents, one deadly secret: a family saga of love, crime, and corruption.

4.08

6,000+

🏠 Family Saga 🌴 Colonial Indochina 💔 Forbidden Love 🏛️ Corrupt Institutions 🔥 Dysfunctional Family

El ancho mundo

Four siblings, two continents, one deadly secret: a family saga of love, crime, and corruption.

저자: Pierre Lemaitre 2022 592 페이지

4.08

6,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Family Saga 🌴 Colonial Indochina 💔 Forbidden Love 🏛️ Corrupt Institutions 🔥 Dysfunctional Family

The Loser

저자: Thomas Bernhard • 1983

After his friend's suicide, a failed pianist revisits the Glenn Gould summer that ruined them both.

4.02

13,000+

🎹 Musical Obsession 🎭 Genius And Rivalry 💔 Destructive Friendship 🎨 Failed Artist ⚰️ Suicide And Guilt

The Loser

After his friend's suicide, a failed pianist revisits the Glenn Gould summer that ruined them both.

저자: Thomas Bernhard 1983 208 페이지

4.02

13,000+ 개의 평점

🎹 Musical Obsession 🎭 Genius And Rivalry 💔 Destructive Friendship 🎨 Failed Artist ⚰️ Suicide And Guilt

Wealth, War and Wisdom

저자: Barton Biggs • 2008

Markets spotted WWII's turning points before the generals. The lesson for keeping wealth alive.

3.96

408

📜 Financial History ⚔️ Wartime Economics 👥 Wisdom Of Crowds 🌍 Geopolitical Risk 🥇 Safe Haven Assets

Wealth, War and Wisdom

Markets spotted WWII's turning points before the generals. The lesson for keeping wealth alive.

저자: Barton Biggs 2008 368 페이지

3.96

408 개의 평점

📜 Financial History ⚔️ Wartime Economics 👥 Wisdom Of Crowds 🌍 Geopolitical Risk 🥇 Safe Haven Assets

Değişim

저자: Michel Butor • 1957

Aboard the Rome express, a husband plans to leave his wife. Hours alone test his resolve.

3.57

1,000+

👤 Second Person Narration 🚂 Train Journey 📖 Nouveau Roman 😔 Midlife Crisis 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness

Değişim

Aboard the Rome express, a husband plans to leave his wife. Hours alone test his resolve.

저자: Michel Butor 1957 320 페이지

3.57

1,000+ 개의 평점

👤 Second Person Narration 🚂 Train Journey 📖 Nouveau Roman 😔 Midlife Crisis 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness

Red Dawn Over China

저자: Frank Dikötter • 2026

China never wanted communism. A marginal Soviet proxy conquered it through terror and deceit.

3.81

183

🀄 Chinese Communism ☭ Maoist China 🇷🇺 Soviet Influence ⚔️ Chinese Civil War 🩸 Political Violence

Red Dawn Over China

China never wanted communism. A marginal Soviet proxy conquered it through terror and deceit.

저자: Frank Dikötter 2026 384 페이지

3.81

183 개의 평점

🀄 Chinese Communism ☭ Maoist China 🇷🇺 Soviet Influence ⚔️ Chinese Civil War 🩸 Political Violence

Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy

저자: Daniel Ziblatt • 2017

Democracy depends less on its fans than on the party organization built by its old-guard opponents.

4.00

🏛️ Comparative Politics 🗳️ Democratic Transitions 🏢 Party Organization 💼 Elite Politics 📜 Historical Institutionalism

Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy

Democracy depends less on its fans than on the party organization built by its old-guard opponents.

저자: Daniel Ziblatt 2017 439 페이지

4.00

88 개의 평점

🏛️ Comparative Politics 🗳️ Democratic Transitions 🏢 Party Organization 💼 Elite Politics 📜 Historical Institutionalism

Inharmonious

저자: Tammye Huf • 2025

A Black soldier passes as white while his sister builds the home America denies them.

4.41

500+

🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 🪖 WWII Black Soldiers 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏡 Housing Discrimination

Inharmonious

A Black soldier passes as white while his sister builds the home America denies them.

저자: Tammye Huf 2025 360 페이지

4.41

500+ 개의 평점

🎭 Racial Passing 🏚️ Jim Crow South 🪖 WWII Black Soldiers 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏡 Housing Discrimination

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