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

Água Viva

저자: Clarice Lispector • 2012

A painter writes, chasing the instant that is always now and already gone.

4.25

26,000+

🖋️ Prose Poetry 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🧘 Philosophical Meditation 🎨 Artist Narrator 🇧🇷 Brazilian Modernism

Água Viva

A painter writes, chasing the instant that is always now and already gone.

저자: Clarice Lispector 2012 88 페이지

4.25

26,000+ 개의 평점

🖋️ Prose Poetry 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🧘 Philosophical Meditation 🎨 Artist Narrator 🇧🇷 Brazilian Modernism

The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Penguin Books]

저자: Arthur Conan Doyle • 1912

Trapped on an Amazon plateau, four explorers face dinosaurs, ape-men, and a traitor to escape.

3.93

73,000+

🦖 Prehistoric Expedition 🔬 Rival Scientists 🌴 Amazon Jungle 🎩 Gentleman Explorers 🦍 Ape Men

The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Penguin Books]

Trapped on an Amazon plateau, four explorers face dinosaurs, ape-men, and a traitor to escape.

저자: Arthur Conan Doyle 1912 239 페이지

3.93

73,000+ 개의 평점

🦖 Prehistoric Expedition 🔬 Rival Scientists 🌴 Amazon Jungle 🎩 Gentleman Explorers 🦍 Ape Men

우리는 운이 좋았다

저자: 조지아 헌터 • 2017

Scattered across continents by war, a Polish Jewish family fights to survive and reunite.

4.42

200,000+

🌳 Epic Family Saga 💔 Wartime Separation 📖 Based On A True Story 🎭 Hidden Identities 🇵🇱 Occupied Poland

우리는 운이 좋았다

Scattered across continents by war, a Polish Jewish family fights to survive and reunite.

저자: 조지아 헌터 2017 403 페이지

4.42

200,000+ 개의 평점

🌳 Epic Family Saga 💔 Wartime Separation 📖 Based On A True Story 🎭 Hidden Identities 🇵🇱 Occupied Poland

An Ordinary Man

저자: Paul Rusesabagina • 2006

Rwanda, 1994: a hotel manager faced militias with nothing but a telephone and saved 1,200.

4.19

6,000+

🇷🇼 Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Memoir 🕊️ Genocide Survival 🏛️ Colonial Legacy ⚔️ Ethnic Violence

An Ordinary Man

Rwanda, 1994: a hotel manager faced militias with nothing but a telephone and saved 1,200.

저자: Paul Rusesabagina 2006

4.19

6,000+ 개의 평점

🇷🇼 Rwandan Genocide 🌍 African Memoir 🕊️ Genocide Survival 🏛️ Colonial Legacy ⚔️ Ethnic Violence

India Wins Freedom

저자: Abul Kalam Azad • 1978

How the Congress leadership lost the fight for a united India: an insider's account.

4.21

1,000+

🇮🇳 Indian Independence 💔 Partition Of India 🏛️ Secular Nationalism ☪️ Indian Muslims 🤝 Hindu-Muslim Unity

India Wins Freedom

How the Congress leadership lost the fight for a united India: an insider's account.

저자: Abul Kalam Azad 1978 297 페이지

4.21

1,000+ 개의 평점

🇮🇳 Indian Independence 💔 Partition Of India 🏛️ Secular Nationalism ☪️ Indian Muslims 🤝 Hindu-Muslim Unity

Thousand Cranes

저자: Yasunari Kawabata • 1952

His late father's mistresses haunt a young man's search for love in postwar Japan.

3.69

15,000+

🍵 Tea Ceremony 🇯🇵 Postwar Japan 🍂 Mono No Aware 💔 Father's Mistress 🕰️ Generational Guilt

Thousand Cranes

His late father's mistresses haunt a young man's search for love in postwar Japan.

저자: Yasunari Kawabata 1952 147 페이지

3.69

15,000+ 개의 평점

🍵 Tea Ceremony 🇯🇵 Postwar Japan 🍂 Mono No Aware 💔 Father's Mistress 🕰️ Generational Guilt

All My Sons

저자: Arthur Miller • 1947

A family's WWII secret threatens to tear them apart when the missing son's fiancee returns.

3.92

30,000+

🎭 Family Drama 🏚️ Domestic Tragedy ⚔️ Father-Son Conflict ⚖️ Moral Compromise 🤫 Family Secrets

All My Sons

A family's WWII secret threatens to tear them apart when the missing son's fiancee returns.

저자: Arthur Miller 1947 112 페이지

3.92

30,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Family Drama 🏚️ Domestic Tragedy ⚔️ Father-Son Conflict ⚖️ Moral Compromise 🤫 Family Secrets

길 위에서

저자: 잭 케루악 • 1957

A writer chases America with a drifter whose wild joy devours everyone close to him.

3.61

400,000+

🎒 Beat Generation 🛣️ Road Novel 🌪️ Charismatic Drifter 🤝 Male Friendship ⚡ Restless Youth

길 위에서

A writer chases America with a drifter whose wild joy devours everyone close to him.

저자: 잭 케루악 1957 307 페이지

3.61

400,000+ 개의 평점

🎒 Beat Generation 🛣️ Road Novel 🌪️ Charismatic Drifter 🤝 Male Friendship ⚡ Restless Youth

Violeta

저자: Isabel Allende • 2022

A letter to her grandson: one woman's journey through a century of love, ruin, and survival.

4.03

100,000+

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga ✉️ Epistolary Novel 👯‍♀️ Women Supporting Women 💔 Toxic Romance 🌊 Exile And Return

Violeta

A letter to her grandson: one woman's journey through a century of love, ruin, and survival.

저자: Isabel Allende 2022 322 페이지

4.03

100,000+ 개의 평점

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga ✉️ Epistolary Novel 👯‍♀️ Women Supporting Women 💔 Toxic Romance 🌊 Exile And Return

The Bomber Mafia

저자: Malcolm Gladwell • 2021

They believed a bombsight could make war humane. The jet stream laughed, and Tokyo burned.

4.02

65,000+

🎯 Strategic Bombing ✈️ Air Warfare ⚙️ Technological Hubris ⚖️ Ethics Of War 🔧 Military Innovation

The Bomber Mafia

They believed a bombsight could make war humane. The jet stream laughed, and Tokyo burned.

저자: Malcolm Gladwell 2021 320 페이지

4.02

65,000+ 개의 평점

🎯 Strategic Bombing ✈️ Air Warfare ⚙️ Technological Hubris ⚖️ Ethics Of War 🔧 Military Innovation

Immortality

저자: Milan Kundera • 1990

A novelist sees a woman wave at a pool. He invents Agnes, who yearns to disappear.

4.14

43,000+

📖 Philosophical Novel 🏛️ Fame And Posterity 🎭 Image And Reality 👯 Sibling Rivalry 💔 Marriage In Crisis

Immortality

A novelist sees a woman wave at a pool. He invents Agnes, who yearns to disappear.

저자: Milan Kundera 1990 400 페이지

4.14

43,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Philosophical Novel 🏛️ Fame And Posterity 🎭 Image And Reality 👯 Sibling Rivalry 💔 Marriage In Crisis

Kira-Kira

저자: Cynthia Kadohata • 2004

Katie's sister taught her the world could shimmer. Lymphoma tests whether she can still see it.

3.98

28,000+

💔 Terminal Illness 👭 Sisterly Bond 🫂 Young Caregiver 🏡 Immigrant Family Saga 🌅 Grief And Healing

Kira-Kira

Katie's sister taught her the world could shimmer. Lymphoma tests whether she can still see it.

저자: Cynthia Kadohata 2004 291 페이지

3.98

28,000+ 개의 평점

💔 Terminal Illness 👭 Sisterly Bond 🫂 Young Caregiver 🏡 Immigrant Family Saga 🌅 Grief And Healing

Ariel

저자: Sylvia Plath • 1965

A poet confronts a dead father, domestic suffocation, and the pull of death in blazing verse.

4.18

90,000+

🖊️ Confessional Poetry ✊ Feminist Classic 🔪 Female Rage 🔥 Death And Rebirth 👶 Motherhood Poetry

Ariel

A poet confronts a dead father, domestic suffocation, and the pull of death in blazing verse.

저자: Sylvia Plath 1965 128 페이지

4.18

90,000+ 개의 평점

🖊️ Confessional Poetry ✊ Feminist Classic 🔪 Female Rage 🔥 Death And Rebirth 👶 Motherhood Poetry

Life and Fate

저자: Vasily Grossman • 2006

At Stalingrad, a physicist discovers that mercy is the one thing no ideology can crush.

4.46

16,000+

🗡️ Soviet Era ⚔️ Epic War Fiction 🏴 Totalitarianism 🏠 Family Saga ⚖️ Moral Compromise

Life and Fate

At Stalingrad, a physicist discovers that mercy is the one thing no ideology can crush.

저자: Vasily Grossman 2006 864 페이지

4.46

16,000+ 개의 평점

🗡️ Soviet Era ⚔️ Epic War Fiction 🏴 Totalitarianism 🏠 Family Saga ⚖️ Moral Compromise

The Sheltering Sky

저자: Paul Bowles • 1949

Post-war North Africa: a drifting American couple finds the desert as empty as their marriage.

3.88

31,000+

🌫️ Existential Despair 💔 Marital Decay 🏜️ Desert Isolation 🎭 Identity Dissolution 🌀 Psychological Unraveling

The Sheltering Sky

Post-war North Africa: a drifting American couple finds the desert as empty as their marriage.

저자: Paul Bowles 1949 342 페이지

3.88

31,000+ 개의 평점

🌫️ Existential Despair 💔 Marital Decay 🏜️ Desert Isolation 🎭 Identity Dissolution 🌀 Psychological Unraveling

The First Man

저자: Albert Camus • 1994

A fatherless boy in Algiers. A silent mother. A teacher who sees what he could become.

3.96

12,000+

🖊️ Autofiction 🤔 Existentialism 👨‍👦 Absent Father 👨‍🏫 Mentorship 🌱 Coming Of Age

The First Man

A fatherless boy in Algiers. A silent mother. A teacher who sees what he could become.

저자: Albert Camus 1994 359 페이지

3.96

12,000+ 개의 평점

🖊️ Autofiction 🤔 Existentialism 👨‍👦 Absent Father 👨‍🏫 Mentorship 🌱 Coming Of Age

라듐 걸스

저자: 케이트 무어 • 2016

She taught in dugouts, flew biplanes, ranched 180,000 acres. Nothing broke her.

4.16

100,000+

🏜️ Pioneer Women 🏔️ American West 🏡 Frontier Life 💪 Resilience Stories 🌊 Survival Stories

라듐 걸스

She taught in dugouts, flew biplanes, ranched 180,000 acres. Nothing broke her.

저자: 케이트 무어 2016 479 페이지

4.16

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏜️ Pioneer Women 🏔️ American West 🏡 Frontier Life 💪 Resilience Stories 🌊 Survival Stories

So Long, See You Tomorrow

저자: William Maxwell • 1980

An old man revisits a 1920s murder, aching for the boy he failed to face.

3.85

17,000+

🏚️ Midwestern Gothic 🔪 Literary Crime 👦 Lost Friendship 📰 Small-Town Scandal 😔 Lifelong Regret

So Long, See You Tomorrow

An old man revisits a 1920s murder, aching for the boy he failed to face.

저자: William Maxwell 1980 135 페이지

3.85

17,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Midwestern Gothic 🔪 Literary Crime 👦 Lost Friendship 📰 Small-Town Scandal 😔 Lifelong Regret

포이즌우드 바이블

저자: 바버라 킹솔버 • 1998

Four sisters follow their father to the Congo, where his holy mission exacts a terrible price.

4.11

700,000+

🕊️ Missionary Fiction 📖 Postcolonial Fiction 🗣️ Multiple Narrators 👭 Sister Bonds ⚡ Cultural Clashes

포이즌우드 바이블

Four sisters follow their father to the Congo, where his holy mission exacts a terrible price.

저자: 바버라 킹솔버 1998 546 페이지

4.11

700,000+ 개의 평점

🕊️ Missionary Fiction 📖 Postcolonial Fiction 🗣️ Multiple Narrators 👭 Sister Bonds ⚡ Cultural Clashes

King Rat

저자: James Clavell • 1962

A black-market king rules a Japanese POW camp, but his empire cannot survive liberation.

4.20

44,000+

🏕️ Wwii Pow Camp 💰 Camp Black Market 😈 Charismatic Antihero 💎 Wartime Profiteering 📉 Rise And Fall Arc

King Rat

A black-market king rules a Japanese POW camp, but his empire cannot survive liberation.

저자: James Clavell 1962 368 페이지

4.20

44,000+ 개의 평점

🏕️ Wwii Pow Camp 💰 Camp Black Market 😈 Charismatic Antihero 💎 Wartime Profiteering 📉 Rise And Fall Arc

Black Hawk Down

저자: Mark Bowden • 1999

Two helicopters shot down in Mogadishu turned an hour-long mission into an 18-hour street battle.

4.31

69,000+

🏙️ Urban Warfare 🪖 Special Operations 📰 War Journalism 💥 Military Disaster 🏛️ Political Fallout

Black Hawk Down

Two helicopters shot down in Mogadishu turned an hour-long mission into an 18-hour street battle.

저자: Mark Bowden 1999 386 페이지

4.31

69,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Warfare 🪖 Special Operations 📰 War Journalism 💥 Military Disaster 🏛️ Political Fallout

Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"

저자: Patrick J. Buchanan • 2008

Britain's empire fell not to war but to a diplomatic blunder that handed the world to its rivals.

4.21

2,000+

🔄 World War Revisionism 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Imperial Decline 🤝 Appeasement 📜 Diplomatic Failures 🗺️ Political Realism

Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"

Britain's empire fell not to war but to a diplomatic blunder that handed the world to its rivals.

저자: Patrick J. Buchanan 2008 544 페이지

4.21

2,000+ 개의 평점

🔄 World War Revisionism 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Imperial Decline 🤝 Appeasement 📜 Diplomatic Failures 🗺️ Political Realism

Minima Moralia

저자: Theodor W. Adorno • 1951

A moral life is impossible in the modern world: even our private kindness is secretly deformed.

4.24

4,000+

🏛️ Critical Theory 📺 Mass Culture 💰 Late Capitalism 🏭 Modern Alienation 🔃 Dialectical Method

Minima Moralia

A moral life is impossible in the modern world: even our private kindness is secretly deformed.

저자: Theodor W. Adorno 1951 256 페이지

4.24

4,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Critical Theory 📺 Mass Culture 💰 Late Capitalism 🏭 Modern Alienation 🔃 Dialectical Method

A Scanner Darkly

저자: Philip K. Dick • 1977

An undercover agent addicted to a brain-splitting drug is assigned the target: himself.

4.02

100,000+

🏙️ Near-Future Dystopia 📖 Literary Sci-Fi 🎭 Dual Identity Crisis 👁️ Surveillance Paranoia 💊 Addiction Spiral

A Scanner Darkly

An undercover agent addicted to a brain-splitting drug is assigned the target: himself.

저자: Philip K. Dick 1977 217 페이지

4.02

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Near-Future Dystopia 📖 Literary Sci-Fi 🎭 Dual Identity Crisis 👁️ Surveillance Paranoia 💊 Addiction Spiral

Freedom's Forge

저자: Arthur Herman • 2012

The decisive American weapon in World War II wasn't the atomic bomb; it was the assembly line.

4.33

2,000+

🇺🇸 American Business History 🏭 Wartime Production 🏗️ Mass Production 📈 Economic History 📋 Government Contracting

Freedom's Forge

The decisive American weapon in World War II wasn't the atomic bomb; it was the assembly line.

저자: Arthur Herman 2012 432 페이지

4.33

2,000+ 개의 평점

🇺🇸 American Business History 🏭 Wartime Production 🏗️ Mass Production 📈 Economic History 📋 Government Contracting

눈먼 암살자

저자: 마거릿 애트우드 • 2000

Her sister drove off a bridge. Fifty years later, Iris Chase tells the real story.

3.96

100,000+

🖤 Gothic Family Saga 📖 Story Within A Story 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💍 Manipulative Marriage ✍️ Secret Authorship

눈먼 암살자

Her sister drove off a bridge. Fifty years later, Iris Chase tells the real story.

저자: 마거릿 애트우드 2000 641 페이지

3.96

100,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Gothic Family Saga 📖 Story Within A Story 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💍 Manipulative Marriage ✍️ Secret Authorship

The Story of the Integration of the Indian States

저자: V.P. Menon • 1956

Over 550 kingdoms. One new nation. The inside story of India’s impossible unification.

4.36

294

🏰 Indian Princely States 🕊️ Decolonization 🤝 Political Unification 🧭 Postcolonial Statecraft 📖 Insider History

The Story of the Integration of the Indian States

Over 550 kingdoms. One new nation. The inside story of India’s impossible unification.

저자: V.P. Menon 1956 511 페이지

4.36

294 개의 평점

🏰 Indian Princely States 🕊️ Decolonization 🤝 Political Unification 🧭 Postcolonial Statecraft 📖 Insider History

Infantry Attacks

저자: Erwin Rommel • 2006

A WWI officer's memoir that became a tactical bible: terrain and initiative decide every firefight.

4.2

3,000+

🎖️ World War I 🗺️ Military Tactics 🪖 Infantry Warfare 📖 Combat Memoir 🫡 Small Unit Leadership

Infantry Attacks

A WWI officer's memoir that became a tactical bible: terrain and initiative decide every firefight.

저자: Erwin Rommel 2006 265 페이지

4.2

3,000+ 개의 평점

🎖️ World War I 🗺️ Military Tactics 🪖 Infantry Warfare 📖 Combat Memoir 🫡 Small Unit Leadership

Angel of Greenwood

저자: Randi Pink • 2021

Two Black teens in 1921 Tulsa find first love on the eve of a massacre.

4.18

2,000+

🖤 Black Historical Fiction 👥 Dual Pov 💕 First Love 📖 Bookish Heroine 💔 Bittersweet Romance

Angel of Greenwood

Two Black teens in 1921 Tulsa find first love on the eve of a massacre.

저자: Randi Pink 2021 304 페이지

4.18

2,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Black Historical Fiction 👥 Dual Pov 💕 First Love 📖 Bookish Heroine 💔 Bittersweet Romance

Khomeinism

저자: Ervand Abrahamian • 1993

The Islamic Republic was never fundamentalist. It was populist, and that explains everything.

3.89

171

🏴 Iranian Revolution 🇮🇷 Modern Iran 🗳️ Populism ☪️ Political Islam ✊ Revolutionary Politics

Khomeinism

The Islamic Republic was never fundamentalist. It was populist, and that explains everything.

저자: Ervand Abrahamian 1993 200 페이지

3.89

171 개의 평점

🏴 Iranian Revolution 🇮🇷 Modern Iran 🗳️ Populism ☪️ Political Islam ✊ Revolutionary Politics

책 읽어주는 남자

저자: 베른하르트 슐링크 • 1997

At fifteen he loved an older woman; later he finds her on trial for war crimes.

3.79

200,000+

🖤 Postwar Guilt 💔 Age-Gap Affair ⚖️ Trial And Reckoning 🌧️ Melancholy 🤔 Moral Ambiguity

책 읽어주는 남자

At fifteen he loved an older woman; later he finds her on trial for war crimes.

저자: 베른하르트 슐링크 1997 216 페이지

3.79

200,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Postwar Guilt 💔 Age-Gap Affair ⚖️ Trial And Reckoning 🌧️ Melancholy 🤔 Moral Ambiguity

세계의 겨울

저자: 켄 폴릿 • 2012

Five interconnected families fight for love, survival, and justice as fascism engulfs the world.

4.39

100,000+

📖 Wwii Historical Saga 👪 Family Saga ✊ Nazi Resistance 🪖 Disillusioned Soldier 💘 Forbidden Love

세계의 겨울

Five interconnected families fight for love, survival, and justice as fascism engulfs the world.

저자: 켄 폴릿 2012 940 페이지

4.39

100,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Wwii Historical Saga 👪 Family Saga ✊ Nazi Resistance 🪖 Disillusioned Soldier 💘 Forbidden Love

Suite Française

저자: Irène Némirovsky • 2004

A French wife and the German officer billeted in her home share a forbidden intimacy.

3.86

78,000+

🇫🇷 Occupied France 💘 Enemies To Lovers ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity 👩 Women In War 🎩 Class And Status

Suite Française

A French wife and the German officer billeted in her home share a forbidden intimacy.

저자: Irène Némirovsky 2004 431 페이지

3.86

78,000+ 개의 평점

🇫🇷 Occupied France 💘 Enemies To Lovers ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity 👩 Women In War 🎩 Class And Status

파운틴헤드

저자: 아인 랜드 • 1943

An architect who refuses to imitate faces a society determined to crush his vision.

3.89

300,000+

🧠 Philosophical Novel 🏛️ Architectural Fiction ⚔️ Genius Vs Society 🖤 Self-Destructive Love 📰 Media Mogul

파운틴헤드

An architect who refuses to imitate faces a society determined to crush his vision.

저자: 아인 랜드 1943 704 페이지

3.89

300,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Philosophical Novel 🏛️ Architectural Fiction ⚔️ Genius Vs Society 🖤 Self-Destructive Love 📰 Media Mogul

Twelve Angry Men

저자: Reginald Rose • 1954

A teenager faces the electric chair. Eleven jurors vote guilty. One refuses to rush.

4.07

38,000+

🏛️ Courtroom Drama 🗳️ Lone Dissenter 🎭 One Room Drama ⚖️ Jury Room Tension 🔍 Hidden Biases

Twelve Angry Men

A teenager faces the electric chair. Eleven jurors vote guilty. One refuses to rush.

저자: Reginald Rose 1954 96 페이지

4.07

38,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Courtroom Drama 🗳️ Lone Dissenter 🎭 One Room Drama ⚖️ Jury Room Tension 🔍 Hidden Biases

Rebound

저자: Kwame Alexander • 2018

His father dies. Sent to his grandparents, a boy discovers basketball and a path through loss.

4.30

14,000+

📖 Novel In Verse 🏀 Sports Fiction 👴 Grandparent Summer 🕊️ Loss Of A Parent 🖤 Black Boyhood

Rebound

His father dies. Sent to his grandparents, a boy discovers basketball and a path through loss.

저자: Kwame Alexander 2018 416 페이지

4.30

14,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Novel In Verse 🏀 Sports Fiction 👴 Grandparent Summer 🕊️ Loss Of A Parent 🖤 Black Boyhood

The Spy and the Traitor

저자: Ben Macintyre • 2018

Soviet golden boy, MI6's greatest mole, and the desperate 1985 escape that saved him.

4.52

90,000+

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🇷🇺 Soviet Intelligence 👥 Double Agents 🏃 Defection Stories ☢️ Nuclear Brinkmanship

The Spy and the Traitor

Soviet golden boy, MI6's greatest mole, and the desperate 1985 escape that saved him.

저자: Ben Macintyre 2018 384 페이지

4.52

90,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🇷🇺 Soviet Intelligence 👥 Double Agents 🏃 Defection Stories ☢️ Nuclear Brinkmanship

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine

저자: Rashid Khalidi • 2020

Palestine 1917-2017: how a settler-colonial war dispossessed a people, and why they still resist.

4.49

36,000+

🗺️ Settler Colonialism 🇵🇸 Palestinian History 💥 Ethnic Cleansing ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🪖 Military Occupation

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine

Palestine 1917-2017: how a settler-colonial war dispossessed a people, and why they still resist.

저자: Rashid Khalidi 2020 319 페이지

4.49

36,000+ 개의 평점

🗺️ Settler Colonialism 🇵🇸 Palestinian History 💥 Ethnic Cleansing ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🪖 Military Occupation

What Is Existentialism?

저자: Simone de Beauvoir • 1944

No fixed nature, no cosmic plan, no excuses: what existentialism actually says about being human.

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🔓 Existentialism 📚 Continental Philosophy 🇫🇷 French Philosophy 🔑 Authentic Living 🕊️ Radical Freedom

What Is Existentialism?

No fixed nature, no cosmic plan, no excuses: what existentialism actually says about being human.

저자: Simone de Beauvoir 1944

3.91

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🔓 Existentialism 📚 Continental Philosophy 🇫🇷 French Philosophy 🔑 Authentic Living 🕊️ Radical Freedom

서부 전선 이상 없다

저자: 에리히 마리아 레마르크 • 1987

When German schoolboys enlist for glory in 1914, the trenches strip away every ideal but survival.

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🪖 Trench Warfare ✋ Anti-War Novel 🕊️ Loss Of Innocence 🤝 Soldiers' Brotherhood 🏠 Alienation From Home

서부 전선 이상 없다

When German schoolboys enlist for glory in 1914, the trenches strip away every ideal but survival.

저자: 에리히 마리아 레마르크 1987 296 페이지

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500,000+ 개의 평점

🪖 Trench Warfare ✋ Anti-War Novel 🕊️ Loss Of Innocence 🤝 Soldiers' Brotherhood 🏠 Alienation From Home

Hopscotch

저자: Julio Cortázar • 1963

An Argentine in Paris obsesses over a woman whose intuition escapes his restless, overthinking mind.

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🎭 Bohemian Expatriates 🚶 Existential Wandering 📖 Nonlinear Storytelling 🧠 Fragmented Consciousness 🪞 Metafictional Play

Hopscotch

An Argentine in Paris obsesses over a woman whose intuition escapes his restless, overthinking mind.

저자: Julio Cortázar 1963 564 페이지

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🎭 Bohemian Expatriates 🚶 Existential Wandering 📖 Nonlinear Storytelling 🧠 Fragmented Consciousness 🪞 Metafictional Play

슈독

저자: 필 나이트 • 2016

A $35 logo, a waffle iron, a $25 million bill: the chaotic birth of Nike.

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👟 Sports Business 🏗️ Brand Origin Stories 📖 Founder Memoirs 🤹 Misfit Teams 💸 Bootstrapping

슈독

A $35 logo, a waffle iron, a $25 million bill: the chaotic birth of Nike.

저자: 필 나이트 2016 400 페이지

4.46

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👟 Sports Business 🏗️ Brand Origin Stories 📖 Founder Memoirs 🤹 Misfit Teams 💸 Bootstrapping

추정 무죄

저자: 스콧 터로 • 1987

A prosecutor investigates his lover's murder, then the evidence points straight back at him.

4.09

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🏛️ Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🚨 Wrongfully Accused 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 💔 Marriage In Crisis

추정 무죄

A prosecutor investigates his lover's murder, then the evidence points straight back at him.

저자: 스콧 터로 1987 496 페이지

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🏛️ Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🚨 Wrongfully Accused 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 💔 Marriage In Crisis

The Greatest Salesman in the World II

저자: Og Mandino • 1968

A mother's faith holds her family through revolution, exile, and brutal California fields.

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📚 Family Saga 🇲🇽 Mexican American 👩‍👧‍👦 Matriarchal Strength 🌱 Immigrant Resilience 🙏 Faith In Hard Times

The Greatest Salesman in the World II

A mother's faith holds her family through revolution, exile, and brutal California fields.

저자: Og Mandino 1968 144 페이지

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📚 Family Saga 🇲🇽 Mexican American 👩‍👧‍👦 Matriarchal Strength 🌱 Immigrant Resilience 🙏 Faith In Hard Times

Diana

저자: Andrew Morton • 1993

The secret tapes: a princess bingeing, purging, and sharing her husband with another woman.

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👑 British Monarchy 🎤 Celebrity Memoir 🍽️ Eating Disorders 💔 Emotional Neglect 📸 Tabloid Culture

Diana

The secret tapes: a princess bingeing, purging, and sharing her husband with another woman.

저자: Andrew Morton 1993 432 페이지

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👑 British Monarchy 🎤 Celebrity Memoir 🍽️ Eating Disorders 💔 Emotional Neglect 📸 Tabloid Culture

The Billion Dollar Spy

저자: David E. Hoffman • 2015

A Soviet engineer's note gave the CIA billions in secrets; a single betrayal took it all away.

4.23

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🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🇺🇸 Cia History 📡 Intelligence Tradecraft 🤝 Agent Handling 🪞 Counterintelligence

The Billion Dollar Spy

A Soviet engineer's note gave the CIA billions in secrets; a single betrayal took it all away.

저자: David E. Hoffman 2015 336 페이지

4.23

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🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🇺🇸 Cia History 📡 Intelligence Tradecraft 🤝 Agent Handling 🪞 Counterintelligence

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

저자: Albert Camus • 1942

The only real philosophical question is suicide. The answer is not hope, but revolt.

4.21

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📚 Continental Philosophy 🎭 Absurdism 🧱 Existentialism 🌍 Search For Meaning 🪦 Confronting Mortality

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

The only real philosophical question is suicide. The answer is not hope, but revolt.

저자: Albert Camus 1942 212 페이지

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📚 Continental Philosophy 🎭 Absurdism 🧱 Existentialism 🌍 Search For Meaning 🪦 Confronting Mortality

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

저자: Herbert P. Bix • 2000

Hirohito was no puppet. A hidden record of how Japan's emperor directed the Pacific War.

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🗾 Japanese History 🏯 Imperial Japan ⚔️ Pacific War 🎌 Japanese Militarism ⚖️ War Responsibility

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Hirohito was no puppet. A hidden record of how Japan's emperor directed the Pacific War.

저자: Herbert P. Bix 2000 832 페이지

3.86

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🗾 Japanese History 🏯 Imperial Japan ⚔️ Pacific War 🎌 Japanese Militarism ⚖️ War Responsibility

I Must Betray You

저자: Ruta Sepetys • 2022

Blackmailed by the secret police, a Romanian teen must spy on Americans or lose his family.

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🏚️ Communist Romania 📹 Surveillance Paranoia 🕵️ Forced Informant ✍️ Writing As Resistance ⚖️ Moral Compromise

I Must Betray You

Blackmailed by the secret police, a Romanian teen must spy on Americans or lose his family.

저자: Ruta Sepetys 2022 321 페이지

4.40

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🏚️ Communist Romania 📹 Surveillance Paranoia 🕵️ Forced Informant ✍️ Writing As Resistance ⚖️ Moral Compromise

Doctor Faustus

저자: Thomas Mann • 1999

A scholar writes the life of a composer friend whose genius came from a devil's pact.

4.08

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📚 German Modernism 🤔 Philosophical Fiction 🤝 Devil's Bargain 🎼 Doomed Composer 🎭 Artistic Sacrifice

Doctor Faustus

A scholar writes the life of a composer friend whose genius came from a devil's pact.

저자: Thomas Mann 1999 535 페이지

4.08

14,000+ 개의 평점

📚 German Modernism 🤔 Philosophical Fiction 🤝 Devil's Bargain 🎼 Doomed Composer 🎭 Artistic Sacrifice

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