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20세기 도서 요약

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

14,000+

📚 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

A Moveable Feast

저자: Ernest Hemingway • 1964

Cafés as offices, hunger as discipline, and the 1920s Paris friends who become legends.

4.02

100,000+

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗼 1920s Paris 🇺🇸 American Expatriates ✍️ Writing Discipline 🎨 Literary Modernism

A Moveable Feast

Cafés as offices, hunger as discipline, and the 1920s Paris friends who become legends.

저자: Ernest Hemingway 1964 192 페이지

4.02

100,000+ 개의 평점

🖋️ Literary Memoir 🗼 1920s Paris 🇺🇸 American Expatriates ✍️ Writing Discipline 🎨 Literary Modernism

Churchill

저자: Andrew Roberts • 2018

Every adventure, failure, and speech was training for the day Britain had to stand alone.

4.39

11,000+

🏛️ Political Biography 🇬🇧 Britain At War ⚔️ Wartime Leadership 📜 Great Man History 🕊️ Appeasement

Churchill

Every adventure, failure, and speech was training for the day Britain had to stand alone.

저자: Andrew Roberts 2018 1105 페이지

4.39

11,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Political Biography 🇬🇧 Britain At War ⚔️ Wartime Leadership 📜 Great Man History 🕊️ Appeasement

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

저자: Agatha Christie • 1920

A wealthy matriarch is poisoned in her locked bedroom, and a Belgian detective finds only motives.

4.00

500,000+

🔍 Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Murder 🔒 Locked Room Puzzle ☠️ Poison Mystery 🕵️‍♂️ Detective Duo

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

A wealthy matriarch is poisoned in her locked bedroom, and a Belgian detective finds only motives.

저자: Agatha Christie 1920 174 페이지

4.00

500,000+ 개의 평점

🔍 Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Murder 🔒 Locked Room Puzzle ☠️ Poison Mystery 🕵️‍♂️ Detective Duo

Aleister Crowley

저자: Gary Lachman • 2014

Before the 1960s, a Victorian magician wrote the rulebook for sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

3.44

500+

🕯️ Occult Biography 📜 Western Esotericism ✨ Ceremonial Magic 🏛️ Magical Orders 🔥 Spiritual Rebellion

Aleister Crowley

Before the 1960s, a Victorian magician wrote the rulebook for sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

저자: Gary Lachman 2014 400 페이지

3.44

500+ 개의 평점

🕯️ Occult Biography 📜 Western Esotericism ✨ Ceremonial Magic 🏛️ Magical Orders 🔥 Spiritual Rebellion

Capitalism in America

저자: Alan Greenspan • 2018

America's 400-year economic experiment: why each era's solution becomes the next era's problem.

4.06

2,000+

🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏢 Business History 💵 Monetary History ⚖️ Government And Markets

Capitalism in America

America's 400-year economic experiment: why each era's solution becomes the next era's problem.

저자: Alan Greenspan 2018 496 페이지

4.06

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏢 Business History 💵 Monetary History ⚖️ Government And Markets

The Death of Artemio Cruz

저자: Carlos Fuentes • 1962

A dying tycoon's mind unravels across fifty years of love, betrayal, and a nation's lost revolution.

3.86

11,000+

🖤 Deathbed Reflection 💰 Corrupt Tycoon 🇲🇽 Mexican Revolution 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🧩 Fragmented Narrative

The Death of Artemio Cruz

A dying tycoon's mind unravels across fifty years of love, betrayal, and a nation's lost revolution.

저자: Carlos Fuentes 1962 307 페이지

3.86

11,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Deathbed Reflection 💰 Corrupt Tycoon 🇲🇽 Mexican Revolution 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🧩 Fragmented Narrative

게토

저자: 미첼 더네이어 • 2015

The ghetto was built in Venice. It took 500 years for America to perfect it.

3.75

500+

🏙️ Urban History 💡 Intellectual History 🧱 Racial Segregation 🏚️ Concentrated Poverty 🚫 Housing Discrimination

게토

The ghetto was built in Venice. It took 500 years for America to perfect it.

저자: 미첼 더네이어 2015 304 페이지

3.75

500+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban History 💡 Intellectual History 🧱 Racial Segregation 🏚️ Concentrated Poverty 🚫 Housing Discrimination

Of Human Bondage

저자: W. Somerset Maugham • 1915

A clubfoot medical student in Edwardian London destroys his life for a waitress who feels nothing.

4.16

62,000+

🔥 Obsessive Love 📖 Classic Bildungsroman 💔 Toxic Relationship 🤔 Philosophical Fiction ⏳ Edwardian England

Of Human Bondage

A clubfoot medical student in Edwardian London destroys his life for a waitress who feels nothing.

저자: W. Somerset Maugham 1915 684 페이지

4.16

62,000+ 개의 평점

🔥 Obsessive Love 📖 Classic Bildungsroman 💔 Toxic Relationship 🤔 Philosophical Fiction ⏳ Edwardian England

Doctor Zhivago

저자: Boris Pasternak • 1957

Amid revolution and war, a Russian doctor-poet loves a woman he was never meant to have.

4.01

100,000+

🚩 Russian Revolution ⭐ Star-Crossed Lovers 🩺 Doctor Protagonist 💣 Wartime Romance ✍️ Poet Protagonist

Doctor Zhivago

Amid revolution and war, a Russian doctor-poet loves a woman he was never meant to have.

저자: Boris Pasternak 1957 592 페이지

4.01

100,000+ 개의 평점

🚩 Russian Revolution ⭐ Star-Crossed Lovers 🩺 Doctor Protagonist 💣 Wartime Romance ✍️ Poet Protagonist

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

저자: Rosamunde Pilcher • 1987

Penelope Keeling, at sixty-four, is caught between her father's art and her children's greed.

4.20

100,000+

🏠 Generational Saga 💌 Wartime Romance ⚖️ Inheritance Drama 👨‍👩‍👧 Chosen Family ⏳ Dual Timeline

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

Penelope Keeling, at sixty-four, is caught between her father's art and her children's greed.

저자: Rosamunde Pilcher 1987

4.20

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Generational Saga 💌 Wartime Romance ⚖️ Inheritance Drama 👨‍👩‍👧 Chosen Family ⏳ Dual Timeline

An Inspector Calls

저자: J.B. Priestley • 1945

An inspector interrupts an engagement dinner to expose a family's role in a young woman's suicide.

3.82

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🎭 Morality Play 🔒 Family Secrets 🚪 Drawing Room Drama ⚖️ Class Divide 🏛️ Edwardian England

An Inspector Calls

An inspector interrupts an engagement dinner to expose a family's role in a young woman's suicide.

저자: J.B. Priestley 1945 117 페이지

3.82

46,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Morality Play 🔒 Family Secrets 🚪 Drawing Room Drama ⚖️ Class Divide 🏛️ Edwardian England

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

저자: D.T. Suzuki • 1934

Why Zen rejects logic, sacred books, and uses impossible questions to break the mind open.

3.95

5,000+

☸️ Zen Buddhism 📿 Mahayana Buddhism ☯️ Nonduality 🪵 Koan Practice 🌅 Spiritual Awakening

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Why Zen rejects logic, sacred books, and uses impossible questions to break the mind open.

저자: D.T. Suzuki 1934 132 페이지

3.95

5,000+ 개의 평점

☸️ Zen Buddhism 📿 Mahayana Buddhism ☯️ Nonduality 🪵 Koan Practice 🌅 Spiritual Awakening

Barbarians at the Gate

저자: Bryan Burrough • 1989

A CEO's bid to buy his company unleashes Wall Street's biggest takeover war.

4.29

44,000+

🏢 Corporate Takeover 📰 Business Journalism 🪑 Boardroom Politics 💰 Leveraged Buyouts 📈 1980s Wall Street

Barbarians at the Gate

A CEO's bid to buy his company unleashes Wall Street's biggest takeover war.

저자: Bryan Burrough 1989 592 페이지

4.29

44,000+ 개의 평점

🏢 Corporate Takeover 📰 Business Journalism 🪑 Boardroom Politics 💰 Leveraged Buyouts 📈 1980s Wall Street

Bitita's Diary

저자: Carolina Maria de Jesus • 1960

Seven years old, Black, and poor in rural Brazil: learning to read became her revenge.

4.49

10,000+

🇧🇷 Brazilian Literature 🏚️ Childhood Poverty ✍🏾 Black Women Writers 📖 Literacy As Liberation ⚖️ Racial Inequality

Bitita's Diary

Seven years old, Black, and poor in rural Brazil: learning to read became her revenge.

저자: Carolina Maria de Jesus 1960 180 페이지

4.49

10,000+ 개의 평점

🇧🇷 Brazilian Literature 🏚️ Childhood Poverty ✍🏾 Black Women Writers 📖 Literacy As Liberation ⚖️ Racial Inequality

The Warmth of Other Suns

저자: Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

4.48

100,000+

🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History 🗣️ Oral History 🏠 Housing Discrimination

The Warmth of Other Suns

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

저자: Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 페이지

4.48

100,000+ 개의 평점

🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History 🗣️ Oral History 🏠 Housing Discrimination

아우슈비츠의 문신사

저자: 헤더 모리스 • 2018

An Auschwitz prisoner forced to tattoo inmates falls for a woman he marks.

4.32

1,000,000+

🏚️ Auschwitz Setting 💔 Forbidden Romance 📖 Based On True Events 🕯️ Hope In Darkness ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

아우슈비츠의 문신사

An Auschwitz prisoner forced to tattoo inmates falls for a woman he marks.

저자: 헤더 모리스 2018 1 페이지

4.32

1,000,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Auschwitz Setting 💔 Forbidden Romance 📖 Based On True Events 🕯️ Hope In Darkness ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

비전을 가진 자들

저자: 볼프람 아일렌베르거 • 2020

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

3.91

1,000+

👥 Group Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🖤 Existentialism ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🗽 Radical Individualism

비전을 가진 자들

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

저자: 볼프람 아일렌베르거 2020 400 페이지

3.91

1,000+ 개의 평점

👥 Group Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🖤 Existentialism ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🗽 Radical Individualism

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

저자: Hunter S. Thompson • 1971

Journalist and attorney tear through Vegas on a drug-fueled hunt for the American Dream.

4.06

300,000+

📰 Gonzo Journalism 💊 Drug Trip 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😈 Dark Comedy 🇺🇸 1970s America

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Journalist and attorney tear through Vegas on a drug-fueled hunt for the American Dream.

저자: Hunter S. Thompson 1971 204 페이지

4.06

300,000+ 개의 평점

📰 Gonzo Journalism 💊 Drug Trip 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😈 Dark Comedy 🇺🇸 1970s America

On Tyranny

저자: Timothy Snyder • 2017

Why people obey tyrants before the order arrives, and the small acts that can stop it.

4.29

100,000+

🛡️ Resisting Tyranny 📜 Lessons From History ⚖️ Professional Ethics 💥 Political Violence 👥 Civil Society

On Tyranny

Why people obey tyrants before the order arrives, and the small acts that can stop it.

저자: Timothy Snyder 2017 128 페이지

4.29

100,000+ 개의 평점

🛡️ Resisting Tyranny 📜 Lessons From History ⚖️ Professional Ethics 💥 Political Violence 👥 Civil Society

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

저자: Thomas S. Kuhn • 1962

The textbook story of science is a myth: progress happens through upheavals that redefine reality.

4.03

30,000+

🔭 Philosophy Of Science 📜 History Of Science 🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge 🔄 Scientific Revolutions 🧪 Science Studies

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The textbook story of science is a myth: progress happens through upheavals that redefine reality.

저자: Thomas S. Kuhn 1962 226 페이지

4.03

30,000+ 개의 평점

🔭 Philosophy Of Science 📜 History Of Science 🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge 🔄 Scientific Revolutions 🧪 Science Studies

비밀의 수호자

저자: 케이트 모턴 • 2012

A girl saw her mother commit murder. Fifty years later, she unearths the wartime secret.

4.16

100,000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Secrets 💔 Love Triangle Tragedy 🎭 Assumed Identity 💣 Blitz Lit

비밀의 수호자

A girl saw her mother commit murder. Fifty years later, she unearths the wartime secret.

저자: 케이트 모턴 2012 484 페이지

4.16

100,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Secrets 💔 Love Triangle Tragedy 🎭 Assumed Identity 💣 Blitz Lit

배철러 걸

저자: 벳시 이스라엘 • 2002

The hidden history of single women: from spinsters to the women who refused to settle.

3.72

1,000+

💃 Single Women 📚 Cultural History 🏙️ Urban Life 🏭 Workplace History 💋 Sexual Revolution

배철러 걸

The hidden history of single women: from spinsters to the women who refused to settle.

저자: 벳시 이스라엘 2002 324 페이지

3.72

1,000+ 개의 평점

💃 Single Women 📚 Cultural History 🏙️ Urban Life 🏭 Workplace History 💋 Sexual Revolution

Omerta

저자: Mario Puzo • 2000

When his Mafia uncle is murdered, the quiet nephew stops pretending.

3.78

19,000+

🏛️ Mafia Family Saga 🌍 International Crime 🤫 Code Of Silence 🎭 Secret Identity ⚖️ Revenge Narrative

Omerta

When his Mafia uncle is murdered, the quiet nephew stops pretending.

저자: Mario Puzo 2000 369 페이지

3.78

19,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Mafia Family Saga 🌍 International Crime 🤫 Code Of Silence 🎭 Secret Identity ⚖️ Revenge Narrative

The Words

저자: Jean-Paul Sartre • 1963

Philosopher's childhood: every gesture staged for adults, every written word a bid for freedom.

3.73

10,000+

🧠 Existentialist Memoir 📖 Philosophical Memoir 🇫🇷 French Existentialism ✍️ Writing As Survival 🎭 Family Projections

The Words

Philosopher's childhood: every gesture staged for adults, every written word a bid for freedom.

저자: Jean-Paul Sartre 1963 256 페이지

3.73

10,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Existentialist Memoir 📖 Philosophical Memoir 🇫🇷 French Existentialism ✍️ Writing As Survival 🎭 Family Projections

해는 또다시 떠오른다

저자: 어니스트 헤밍웨이 • 1926

A wounded journalist follows his love to Pamplona, where bullfights mirror their impossible desire.

3.79

400,000+

🕰️ Postwar Disillusionment 🗼 Paris Expat Scene 🍸 Dysfunctional Friends 💔 Impossible Love 🤕 Wounded Masculinity

해는 또다시 떠오른다

A wounded journalist follows his love to Pamplona, where bullfights mirror their impossible desire.

저자: 어니스트 헤밍웨이 1926 189 페이지

3.79

400,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Postwar Disillusionment 🗼 Paris Expat Scene 🍸 Dysfunctional Friends 💔 Impossible Love 🤕 Wounded Masculinity

Life and Death in Shanghai

저자: Nien Cheng • 1986

When Red Guards destroyed her Shanghai home, she used Mao's own words to survive prison.

4.33

14,000+

🔥 Cultural Revolution 👮 Totalitarian Regimes ⛓️ Political Imprisonment 🧱 Survival Memoirs 📜 Modern Chinese History

Life and Death in Shanghai

When Red Guards destroyed her Shanghai home, she used Mao's own words to survive prison.

저자: Nien Cheng 1986 547 페이지

4.33

14,000+ 개의 평점

🔥 Cultural Revolution 👮 Totalitarian Regimes ⛓️ Political Imprisonment 🧱 Survival Memoirs 📜 Modern Chinese History

Modern Times

저자: Paul Johnson • 1983

Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

4.29

2,000+

📅 Modern History 💡 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political History ⚖️ Moral Relativism 🚫 Totalitarianism

Modern Times

Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

저자: Paul Johnson 1983 880 페이지

4.29

2,000+ 개의 평점

📅 Modern History 💡 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political History ⚖️ Moral Relativism 🚫 Totalitarianism

The Great Crash 1929

저자: John Kenneth Galbraith • 1955

Authorities knew a crash was coming; five structural flaws ensured it became the Great Depression.

3.92

6,000+

📜 Financial History 📉 Stock Market Crashes 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🧠 Market Psychology 🏛️ Institutional Economics

The Great Crash 1929

Authorities knew a crash was coming; five structural flaws ensured it became the Great Depression.

저자: John Kenneth Galbraith 1955 206 페이지

3.92

6,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Financial History 📉 Stock Market Crashes 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🧠 Market Psychology 🏛️ Institutional Economics

I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912

저자: Lauren Tarshis • 2010

A curious boy aboard the Titanic must navigate chaos when an iceberg seals the ship's fate.

4.09

19,000+

🚢 Titanic Disaster 🌊 Shipwreck Survival 👫 Sibling Bond 👦 Boy Protagonist ⚡ Tense Survival

I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912

A curious boy aboard the Titanic must navigate chaos when an iceberg seals the ship's fate.

저자: Lauren Tarshis 2010 112 페이지

4.09

19,000+ 개의 평점

🚢 Titanic Disaster 🌊 Shipwreck Survival 👫 Sibling Bond 👦 Boy Protagonist ⚡ Tense Survival

The White Castle

저자: Orhan Pamuk • 1985

Enslaved in Istanbul, a Venetian meets his exact double, master pulling him into the Sultan's games.

3.48

17,000+

🪞 Doppelganger 🔄 Identity Swap 🕌 Ottoman Empire 👑 Court Intrigue 🌍 East Meets West

The White Castle

Enslaved in Istanbul, a Venetian meets his exact double, master pulling him into the Sultan's games.

저자: Orhan Pamuk 1985 145 페이지

3.48

17,000+ 개의 평점

🪞 Doppelganger 🔄 Identity Swap 🕌 Ottoman Empire 👑 Court Intrigue 🌍 East Meets West

작은 것들의 신

저자: 아룬다티 로이 • 1997

A forbidden love leads to a drowning, trapping twins in a decades-long secret in 1969 Kerala.

3.96

300,000+

🪷 Postcolonial Fiction 💔 Intercaste Romance 🩹 Childhood Trauma 👯 Twin Protagonists 🖋️ Lyrical Prose

작은 것들의 신

A forbidden love leads to a drowning, trapping twins in a decades-long secret in 1969 Kerala.

저자: 아룬다티 로이 1997 321 페이지

3.96

300,000+ 개의 평점

🪷 Postcolonial Fiction 💔 Intercaste Romance 🩹 Childhood Trauma 👯 Twin Protagonists 🖋️ Lyrical Prose

The Fish That Ate the Whale

저자: Rich Cohen • 2012

Penniless at fourteen, he built a banana empire that toppled governments and coined banana republic.

4.11

8,000+

🍌 Banana Republics 🏛️ Corporate Imperialism 🧳 Immigrant Entrepreneurs 🇺🇸 American Imperialism 💼 Corporate Power

The Fish That Ate the Whale

Penniless at fourteen, he built a banana empire that toppled governments and coined banana republic.

저자: Rich Cohen 2012 288 페이지

4.11

8,000+ 개의 평점

🍌 Banana Republics 🏛️ Corporate Imperialism 🧳 Immigrant Entrepreneurs 🇺🇸 American Imperialism 💼 Corporate Power

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

저자: Yukio Mishima • 1963

A widowed mother's sailor lover becomes a boy's hero and his gang's next target.

3.83

53,000+

🏯 Post-War Japan 🖤 Nihilistic Youth 👥 Gang Mentality 👁️ Voyeurism ✍️ Detached Prose

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

A widowed mother's sailor lover becomes a boy's hero and his gang's next target.

저자: Yukio Mishima 1963 181 페이지

3.83

53,000+ 개의 평점

🏯 Post-War Japan 🖤 Nihilistic Youth 👥 Gang Mentality 👁️ Voyeurism ✍️ Detached Prose

Sweet Sixteen

저자: Annelise Heurtier • 2013

A Black teen integrates an Arkansas high school; a white classmate learns silence has a price.

3.92

1,000+

🏫 School Desegregation ✊🏾 Civil Rights Era 🏚️ Jim Crow South 👥 Dual Narratives 👁️ Racial Awakening

Sweet Sixteen

A Black teen integrates an Arkansas high school; a white classmate learns silence has a price.

저자: Annelise Heurtier 2013 217 페이지

3.92

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏫 School Desegregation ✊🏾 Civil Rights Era 🏚️ Jim Crow South 👥 Dual Narratives 👁️ Racial Awakening

Bad Boy

저자: Walter Dean Myers • 2001

He missed his own high school graduation. No arrest, no dropout. He simply stopped showing up.

3.73

3,000+

🧠 Intellectual Coming Of Age ✊🏾 Racial Identity 🏙️ Harlem Life 🥊 Urban Violence 🌧️ Depression Memoirs

Bad Boy

He missed his own high school graduation. No arrest, no dropout. He simply stopped showing up.

저자: Walter Dean Myers 2001 240 페이지

3.73

3,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Intellectual Coming Of Age ✊🏾 Racial Identity 🏙️ Harlem Life 🥊 Urban Violence 🌧️ Depression Memoirs

The Color of Law

저자: Richard Rothstein • 2017

Federal policy, not private prejudice, segregated America. The proof is in the mortgage manuals.

4.44

46,000+

🏘️ Residential Segregation 🔴 Redlining 🏛️ Housing Policy 🏙️ Urban Planning ⚖️ Systemic Racism

The Color of Law

Federal policy, not private prejudice, segregated America. The proof is in the mortgage manuals.

저자: Richard Rothstein 2017 368 페이지

4.44

46,000+ 개의 평점

🏘️ Residential Segregation 🔴 Redlining 🏛️ Housing Policy 🏙️ Urban Planning ⚖️ Systemic Racism

미들섹스

저자: 제프리 유제니디스 • 2002

In 1970s Detroit, teenage Calliope discovers her body's secret is her immigrant family's secret too.

4.04

600,000+

🏛️ Immigrant Family Saga 🦋 Gender Identity 🔒 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love 🌙 Adolescent Desire

미들섹스

In 1970s Detroit, teenage Calliope discovers her body's secret is her immigrant family's secret too.

저자: 제프리 유제니디스 2002 529 페이지

4.04

600,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Immigrant Family Saga 🦋 Gender Identity 🔒 Family Secrets 💔 Forbidden Love 🌙 Adolescent Desire

R. N. Kao

저자: Mr Nitin A Gokhale • 2019

How a gentle, artistic police officer built India's CIA and secretly redrew South Asia's map.

3.92

456

🕵️ Indian Intelligence 🥷 Covert Operations 📜 Intelligence History 🌏 South Asian Geopolitics ❄️ Cold War Espionage

R. N. Kao

How a gentle, artistic police officer built India's CIA and secretly redrew South Asia's map.

저자: Mr Nitin A Gokhale 2019 240 페이지

3.92

456 개의 평점

🕵️ Indian Intelligence 🥷 Covert Operations 📜 Intelligence History 🌏 South Asian Geopolitics ❄️ Cold War Espionage

The Oil Kings

저자: Andrew Scott Cooper • 2011

Secret U.S. deals armed the Shah and quadrupled oil prices. The world never recovered.

4.10

500+

🛢️ Oil Politics 🕌 Middle Eastern History 🤝 Secret Diplomacy 💰 Economic Warfare 🔫 Arms Trade

The Oil Kings

Secret U.S. deals armed the Shah and quadrupled oil prices. The world never recovered.

저자: Andrew Scott Cooper 2011 546 페이지

4.10

500+ 개의 평점

🛢️ Oil Politics 🕌 Middle Eastern History 🤝 Secret Diplomacy 💰 Economic Warfare 🔫 Arms Trade

The Names

저자: Don DeLillo • 1982

An American risk analyst in Athens traces a cult whose murders obey the alphabet.

3.64

5,000+

🧩 Postmodern Mystery 🔤 Alphabetical Murder 🔍 Cult Investigation 🍸 Expatriate Ennui 👨‍👦 Father-Son Journey

The Names

An American risk analyst in Athens traces a cult whose murders obey the alphabet.

저자: Don DeLillo 1982 339 페이지

3.64

5,000+ 개의 평점

🧩 Postmodern Mystery 🔤 Alphabetical Murder 🔍 Cult Investigation 🍸 Expatriate Ennui 👨‍👦 Father-Son Journey

A Peace to End All Peace

저자: David Fromkin • 1989

The modern Middle East was drawn in European offices; a century of instability is the result.

4.22

9,000+

🕌 Ottoman Empire 🌍 Middle Eastern History ✍️ Diplomatic History 🗺️ Colonial Borders 🎭 Imperial Overreach

A Peace to End All Peace

The modern Middle East was drawn in European offices; a century of instability is the result.

저자: David Fromkin 1989 635 페이지

4.22

9,000+ 개의 평점

🕌 Ottoman Empire 🌍 Middle Eastern History ✍️ Diplomatic History 🗺️ Colonial Borders 🎭 Imperial Overreach

Reef

저자: Romesh Gunesekera • 1994

A servant boy masters cooking in a Sri Lankan beach house on the brink of war.

3.76

2,000+

📚 Postcolonial Literature 🧹 Servant's Perspective 🍳 Cooking And Memory 💭 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🇱🇰 Sri Lankan Fiction

Reef

A servant boy masters cooking in a Sri Lankan beach house on the brink of war.

저자: Romesh Gunesekera 1994 190 페이지

3.76

2,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Postcolonial Literature 🧹 Servant's Perspective 🍳 Cooking And Memory 💭 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🇱🇰 Sri Lankan Fiction

음향과 분노

저자: 윌리엄 포크너 • 1929

Four voices: an innocent, a suicide, a miser, a servant, tell of a Southern family's ruin.

3.86

100,000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌀 Stream Of Consciousness 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Decline 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 😶 Disabled Narrator

음향과 분노

Four voices: an innocent, a suicide, a miser, a servant, tell of a Southern family's ruin.

저자: 윌리엄 포크너 1929 366 페이지

3.86

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌀 Stream Of Consciousness 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Decline 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 😶 Disabled Narrator

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

저자: Harold G. Moore • 1991

The first helicopter assault of the Vietnam War became the template for every battle that followed.

4.34

33,000+

🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🏛️ Military History ⚔️ Battle Narratives 🥾 Infantry Combat 🔫 Close-Quarters Battle

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

The first helicopter assault of the Vietnam War became the template for every battle that followed.

저자: Harold G. Moore 1991 480 페이지

4.34

33,000+ 개의 평점

🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🏛️ Military History ⚔️ Battle Narratives 🥾 Infantry Combat 🔫 Close-Quarters Battle

The Situation Room

저자: George Stephanopoulos • 2024

Twelve presidents. One basement room. The crises that revealed who they really were.

4.33

11,000+

🏛️ Presidential History 🏠 White House History ⚡ Crisis Decision Making 🌍 American Foreign Policy 🔒 National Security

The Situation Room

Twelve presidents. One basement room. The crises that revealed who they really were.

저자: George Stephanopoulos 2024 466 페이지

4.33

11,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Presidential History 🏠 White House History ⚡ Crisis Decision Making 🌍 American Foreign Policy 🔒 National Security

The Refugees

저자: Viet Thanh Nguyen • 2017

Eight Vietnamese refugees find the past crossed the ocean with them and demands its due.

3.86

22,000+

🖇️ Linked Short Stories 🌊 Refugee Experience 🛶 Vietnamese American 👻 Ghosts As Metaphor 💔 Divided Family

The Refugees

Eight Vietnamese refugees find the past crossed the ocean with them and demands its due.

저자: Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 209 페이지

3.86

22,000+ 개의 평점

🖇️ Linked Short Stories 🌊 Refugee Experience 🛶 Vietnamese American 👻 Ghosts As Metaphor 💔 Divided Family

When the Clock Broke

저자: John Ganz • 2024

David Duke, Ross Perot, and the early 1990s road from the Cold War to Trump.

4.07

4,000+

🏛️ Political History 🐘 Right-Wing Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars 💸 Economic Anxiety 📻 Media Fragmentation

When the Clock Broke

David Duke, Ross Perot, and the early 1990s road from the Cold War to Trump.

저자: John Ganz 2024 420 페이지

4.07

4,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Political History 🐘 Right-Wing Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars 💸 Economic Anxiety 📻 Media Fragmentation

Three Sisters

저자: Heather Morris • 2021

Three sisters walk into Auschwitz with only a childhood promise and each other.

4.37

95,000+

🔥 Holocaust Survival 👭 Sisterhood 🇮🇱 Postwar Israel 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🏕️ Auschwitz

Three Sisters

Three sisters walk into Auschwitz with only a childhood promise and each other.

저자: Heather Morris 2021 416 페이지

4.37

95,000+ 개의 평점

🔥 Holocaust Survival 👭 Sisterhood 🇮🇱 Postwar Israel 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🏕️ Auschwitz

Birdsong

저자: Sebastian Faulks • 1993

A young Englishman's forbidden affair haunts his command in the tunnels of the Somme.

4.11

84,000+

🪖 WWI Fiction 💔 Forbidden Affair ⛑️ Trench Warfare ⏳ Dual Timeline 🩸 War Trauma

Birdsong

A young Englishman's forbidden affair haunts his command in the tunnels of the Somme.

저자: Sebastian Faulks 1993 483 페이지

4.11

84,000+ 개의 평점

🪖 WWI Fiction 💔 Forbidden Affair ⛑️ Trench Warfare ⏳ Dual Timeline 🩸 War Trauma

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