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A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

av C.A. Fletcher • 2019

When their dog is stolen, a young islander chases the stranger into an emptied Britain.

4.15

21 000+

🍃 Quiet Apocalypse 🐕 Dog As Family 🎭 Hidden Gender 👥 Sisters Reunited 🌅 Melancholy Hope

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

When their dog is stolen, a young islander chases the stranger into an emptied Britain.

av C.A. Fletcher 2019 365 sidor

4.15

21 000+ betyg

🍃 Quiet Apocalypse 🐕 Dog As Family 🎭 Hidden Gender 👥 Sisters Reunited 🌅 Melancholy Hope

45 Master Characters

av Victoria Lynn Schmidt • 2001

45 mythic archetypes: every character's hero side, shadow, and the journey that transforms them.

3.89

1 000+

🎭 Character Archetypes 🏛️ Mythic Structure 🌙 Feminine Journey ⚔️ Masculine Journey 🧠 Jungian Archetypes

45 Master Characters

45 mythic archetypes: every character's hero side, shadow, and the journey that transforms them.

av Victoria Lynn Schmidt 2001 304 sidor

3.89

1 000+ betyg

🎭 Character Archetypes 🏛️ Mythic Structure 🌙 Feminine Journey ⚔️ Masculine Journey 🧠 Jungian Archetypes

Polyglot

av Kató Lomb • 1970

How an interpreter learned 16 languages after age 30, using books instead of classrooms.

3.81

1 000+

🧠 Language Acquisition 📚 Self-Directed Learning 📖 Active Reading 🧩 Mnemonics 🌊 Language Immersion

Polyglot

How an interpreter learned 16 languages after age 30, using books instead of classrooms.

av Kató Lomb 1970 216 sidor

3.81

1 000+ betyg

🧠 Language Acquisition 📚 Self-Directed Learning 📖 Active Reading 🧩 Mnemonics 🌊 Language Immersion

Reading in the Wild

av Donalyn Miller • 2013

What separates lifelong readers from the rest? Five habits, and the classroom moves that build them.

4.45

5 000+

📚 Reading Workshop ⏱️ Independent Reading 📖 Classroom Libraries ❤️ Reading Motivation 👥 Reading Community

Reading in the Wild

What separates lifelong readers from the rest? Five habits, and the classroom moves that build them.

av Donalyn Miller 2013 304 sidor

4.45

5 000+ betyg

📚 Reading Workshop ⏱️ Independent Reading 📖 Classroom Libraries ❤️ Reading Motivation 👥 Reading Community

Consider This

av Chuck Palahniuk • 2020

Most writing advice avoids the craft that actually builds authority, tension, and voice.

4.37

5 000+

🖋️ Writing Craft 📖 Craft Memoir ✂️ Literary Minimalism 💔 Therapeutic Writing 🎤 Narrative Voice

Consider This

Most writing advice avoids the craft that actually builds authority, tension, and voice.

av Chuck Palahniuk 2020 256 sidor

4.37

5 000+ betyg

🖋️ Writing Craft 📖 Craft Memoir ✂️ Literary Minimalism 💔 Therapeutic Writing 🎤 Narrative Voice

Creating Character Arcs

av K.M. Weiland • 2016

Why your character believes a lie, and how that single flaw designs your entire plot.

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3 000+

🎭 Character Arcs 🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Three-Act Structure ⚔️ Inner Conflict 📖 Narrative Theory

Creating Character Arcs

Why your character believes a lie, and how that single flaw designs your entire plot.

av K.M. Weiland 2016 215 sidor

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3 000+ betyg

🎭 Character Arcs 🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Three-Act Structure ⚔️ Inner Conflict 📖 Narrative Theory

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor

av Thomas C. Foster • 2020

No one fact-checks the internet. A professor's method for reading critically and spotting the lies.

3.01

500+

🔍 Critical Reading 📱 Media Literacy 📚 Nonfiction Reading ⚖️ Bias Recognition ✅ Fact Checking

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor

No one fact-checks the internet. A professor's method for reading critically and spotting the lies.

av Thomas C. Foster 2020 336 sidor

3.01

500+ betyg

🔍 Critical Reading 📱 Media Literacy 📚 Nonfiction Reading ⚖️ Bias Recognition ✅ Fact Checking

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

av Italo Calvino • 1979

You, Reader, chase the missing pages of a defective novel into a labyrinth of interrupted stories.

4.01

100 000+

🧩 Fragmented Narratives 👤 Second-Person Narrative 💕 Bookish Romance ❤️ Love Of Reading 🔍 Literary Mystery

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

You, Reader, chase the missing pages of a defective novel into a labyrinth of interrupted stories.

av Italo Calvino 1979 260 sidor

4.01

100 000+ betyg

🧩 Fragmented Narratives 👤 Second-Person Narrative 💕 Bookish Romance ❤️ Love Of Reading 🔍 Literary Mystery

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks

av Wendy Laura Belcher • 2008

Short daily sessions beat weekend binges: twelve weeks to turn your draft into a published article.

4.12

500+

🖋️ Academic Writing 📚 Academic Publishing ⏰ Writing Productivity 🚫 Writer's Block 🧩 Argument Structure

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks

Short daily sessions beat weekend binges: twelve weeks to turn your draft into a published article.

av Wendy Laura Belcher 2008 376 sidor

4.12

500+ betyg

🖋️ Academic Writing 📚 Academic Publishing ⏰ Writing Productivity 🚫 Writer's Block 🧩 Argument Structure

Twilight and Philosophy

av Rebecca Housel • 2009

A vampire romance whose real subject is free will, personhood, and the cost of forever.

4.41

23 000+

🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧛 Vampire Studies ✊ Feminist Criticism 📖 Literary Analysis ⏳ Immortality

Twilight and Philosophy

A vampire romance whose real subject is free will, personhood, and the cost of forever.

av Rebecca Housel 2009 272 sidor

4.41

23 000+ betyg

🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧛 Vampire Studies ✊ Feminist Criticism 📖 Literary Analysis ⏳ Immortality

How to Read Literature Like a Professor

av Thomas C. Foster • 2003

Reading shortcuts that turn road trips into quests, weather into meaning, and meals into symbols.

3.58

34 000+

🔬 Literary Analysis 🔍 Close Reading 🏗️ Story Structure 🏛️ Archetypes In Literature 🌹 Literary Symbolism

How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Reading shortcuts that turn road trips into quests, weather into meaning, and meals into symbols.

av Thomas C. Foster 2003 314 sidor

3.58

34 000+ betyg

🔬 Literary Analysis 🔍 Close Reading 🏗️ Story Structure 🏛️ Archetypes In Literature 🌹 Literary Symbolism

Bokkvinnan från Troublesome Creek

av Kim Michele Richardson • 2019

A blue-skinned packhorse librarian in 1930s Kentucky delivers books while a preacher plots her ruin.

4.21

200 000+

🏔️ 1930s Appalachia 📚 Pack Horse Librarian 🏠 Found Family 👁️ Small-Town Prejudice 📖 Books As Refuge

Bokkvinnan från Troublesome Creek

A blue-skinned packhorse librarian in 1930s Kentucky delivers books while a preacher plots her ruin.

av Kim Michele Richardson 2019 309 sidor

4.21

200 000+ betyg

🏔️ 1930s Appalachia 📚 Pack Horse Librarian 🏠 Found Family 👁️ Small-Town Prejudice 📖 Books As Refuge

The Elements of Typographic Style

av Robert Bringhurst • 1992

Typography is an invisible art. Its rules: proportion, rhythm, and a five-century memory.

4.26

9 000+

🖋️ Typographic Design 📖 Book Design 🔤 Letterforms 📐 Page Layout 🏛️ Design History

The Elements of Typographic Style

Typography is an invisible art. Its rules: proportion, rhythm, and a five-century memory.

av Robert Bringhurst 1992 352 sidor

4.26

9 000+ betyg

🖋️ Typographic Design 📖 Book Design 🔤 Letterforms 📐 Page Layout 🏛️ Design History

Structuring Your Novel

av K.M. Weiland • 2013

How to structure your novel's scenes, acts, and plot points to keep readers turning pages.

4.33

3 000+

🏗️ Story Structure ✍️ Fiction Craft 🎬 Scene Craft 📈 Plot Development ⏱️ Pacing And Tension

Structuring Your Novel

How to structure your novel's scenes, acts, and plot points to keep readers turning pages.

av K.M. Weiland 2013 295 sidor

4.33

3 000+ betyg

🏗️ Story Structure ✍️ Fiction Craft 🎬 Scene Craft 📈 Plot Development ⏱️ Pacing And Tension

Steering The Craft

av Ursula K. Le Guin • 1998

Hear your prose, fix your grammar, and cut what drags: a master novelist's craft manual.

4.24

6 000+

✍️ Prose Style 📖 Narrative Craft ✏️ Grammar And Style 🏋️ Writing Exercises 👁️ Voice And Point Of View

Steering The Craft

Hear your prose, fix your grammar, and cut what drags: a master novelist's craft manual.

av Ursula K. Le Guin 1998 160 sidor

4.24

6 000+ betyg

✍️ Prose Style 📖 Narrative Craft ✏️ Grammar And Style 🏋️ Writing Exercises 👁️ Voice And Point Of View

Camino Ghosts

av John Grisham • 2024

An abandoned island. A dark legacy. A last descendant's legal fight to save it from developers.

4.18

64 000+

⚖️ Legal Thriller 🏛️ Courtroom Drama 🖋️ Writer Sleuth 🌳 Ancestral Land Fight 💼 Corporate Greed

Camino Ghosts

An abandoned island. A dark legacy. A last descendant's legal fight to save it from developers.

av John Grisham 2024 292 sidor

4.18

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⚖️ Legal Thriller 🏛️ Courtroom Drama 🖋️ Writer Sleuth 🌳 Ancestral Land Fight 💼 Corporate Greed

The Book Whisperer

av Donalyn Miller • 2009

Forty books a year per student: the method that works when worksheets and whole-class novels fail.

4.49

18 000+

🏗️ Reading Workshop 📖 Literacy Instruction 🔥 Reading Motivation 📝 Authentic Assessment 🏫 Classroom Culture

The Book Whisperer

Forty books a year per student: the method that works when worksheets and whole-class novels fail.

av Donalyn Miller 2009 240 sidor

4.49

18 000+ betyg

🏗️ Reading Workshop 📖 Literacy Instruction 🔥 Reading Motivation 📝 Authentic Assessment 🏫 Classroom Culture

The Little Paris Bookshop

av Nina George • 2013

A Paris bookseller heals heartache with novels. His own waited twenty years in an unopened letter.

3.50

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📚 Bibliotherapy 📖 Bookish Fiction 🚢 River Journey 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💕 Second Chance Love

The Little Paris Bookshop

A Paris bookseller heals heartache with novels. His own waited twenty years in an unopened letter.

av Nina George 2013 392 sidor

3.50

100 000+ betyg

📚 Bibliotherapy 📖 Bookish Fiction 🚢 River Journey 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💕 Second Chance Love

50 Philosophy Classics

av Tom Butler-Bowdon • 2013

Fifty masterworks, distilled into the real-world lessons on living well and thinking clearly.

4.09

1 000+

🧭 Philosophy Primers 💡 Applied Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 📚 Books About Books 🏛️ Stoic Philosophy

50 Philosophy Classics

Fifty masterworks, distilled into the real-world lessons on living well and thinking clearly.

av Tom Butler-Bowdon 2013 336 sidor

4.09

1 000+ betyg

🧭 Philosophy Primers 💡 Applied Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 📚 Books About Books 🏛️ Stoic Philosophy

Stein on Writing

av Sol Stein • 1995

The editor's craft: making dialogue bristle, scenes unfold in real time, and flab vanish.

4.28

4 000+

✍️ Fiction Craft 🔍 Editing Advice 👁️ Show Don't Tell 💬 Dialogue Writing ✂️ Self Editing

Stein on Writing

The editor's craft: making dialogue bristle, scenes unfold in real time, and flab vanish.

av Sol Stein 1995 320 sidor

4.28

4 000+ betyg

✍️ Fiction Craft 🔍 Editing Advice 👁️ Show Don't Tell 💬 Dialogue Writing ✂️ Self Editing

The Queens of Crime

av Marie Benedict • 2025

Five mystery novelists secretly solve a nurse's locked-room murder that the police buried.

3.80

28 000+

🔍 Golden Age Mystery 📚 Real Authors As Characters 👩‍⚖️ Women Sleuths 🤫 Secret Society 🗝️ Locked Room Puzzle

The Queens of Crime

Five mystery novelists secretly solve a nurse's locked-room murder that the police buried.

av Marie Benedict 2025 310 sidor

3.80

28 000+ betyg

🔍 Golden Age Mystery 📚 Real Authors As Characters 👩‍⚖️ Women Sleuths 🤫 Secret Society 🗝️ Locked Room Puzzle

Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of the Little Prince

av Pierre Lassus • 2014

Beneath the fable, a secret self-portrait: his wife in the rose, his despair in the desert.

3.31

📖 Literary Analysis 🌌 Spiritual Allegory 🧒 Inner Child 🇫🇷 French Literature 📝 Literary Biography

Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of the Little Prince

Beneath the fable, a secret self-portrait: his wife in the rose, his despair in the desert.

av Pierre Lassus 2014 227 sidor

3.31

51 betyg

📖 Literary Analysis 🌌 Spiritual Allegory 🧒 Inner Child 🇫🇷 French Literature 📝 Literary Biography

The Society of Unknowable Objects

av Gareth Brown • 2025

Magic is real, hidden in a London bookshop. A killer knows, and he's coming for it.

3.84

15 000+

🕵️ Secret Magical Society 🗝️ Magical Artifacts 📚 Book About Books ☕ Cozy Bookshop Energy 🧵 Living Artifact

The Society of Unknowable Objects

Magic is real, hidden in a London bookshop. A killer knows, and he's coming for it.

av Gareth Brown 2025 352 sidor

3.84

15 000+ betyg

🕵️ Secret Magical Society 🗝️ Magical Artifacts 📚 Book About Books ☕ Cozy Bookshop Energy 🧵 Living Artifact

The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

av Mark Lawrence • 2023

A wasteland scholar and a time-lost enemy boy break the sentient library's cycle of war.

3.96

42 000+

📚 Literary Fantasy 📖 Sentient Library 🖤 Enemies To Lovers ♻️ Cyclical History 💀 Knowledge As Danger

The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

A wasteland scholar and a time-lost enemy boy break the sentient library's cycle of war.

av Mark Lawrence 2023 559 sidor

3.96

42 000+ betyg

📚 Literary Fantasy 📖 Sentient Library 🖤 Enemies To Lovers ♻️ Cyclical History 💀 Knowledge As Danger

Architectural Digest at 100

av Architectural Digest • 2019

One magazine's hundred-year archive reveals how the world lives, decorates, and dreams at home.

4.19

326

📰 Magazine History 🌟 Celebrity Homes 🌴 California Modernism 📐 Design History 🏡 Designers At Home

Architectural Digest at 100

One magazine's hundred-year archive reveals how the world lives, decorates, and dreams at home.

av Architectural Digest 2019 464 sidor

4.19

326 betyg

📰 Magazine History 🌟 Celebrity Homes 🌴 California Modernism 📐 Design History 🏡 Designers At Home

Writing the Breakout Novel

av Donald Maass • 2001

An agent's craft manual for fiction that breaks out: not talent, but specific, learnable choices.

4.08

4 000+

🖋️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development ⚡ Narrative Tension 🎯 Story Stakes

Writing the Breakout Novel

An agent's craft manual for fiction that breaks out: not talent, but specific, learnable choices.

av Donald Maass 2001 272 sidor

4.08

4 000+ betyg

🖋️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development ⚡ Narrative Tension 🎯 Story Stakes

Breakthrough Rapid Reading

av Peter Kump • 1979

Your eyes outpace your voice by miles. The hand-pacing drills that close the gap.

3.73

1 000+

🏃 Speed Reading 👁️ Visual Reading 📖 Active Reading 📋 Reading Comprehension 👀 Eye Movement Training

Breakthrough Rapid Reading

Your eyes outpace your voice by miles. The hand-pacing drills that close the gap.

av Peter Kump 1979 276 sidor

3.73

1 000+ betyg

🏃 Speed Reading 👁️ Visual Reading 📖 Active Reading 📋 Reading Comprehension 👀 Eye Movement Training

Telling True Stories

av Mark Kramer • 2007

Finding true stories, reporting from the inside, and building scenes that read like novels.

4.08

1 000+

📰 Narrative Journalism 📖 Longform Storytelling ✍️ Feature Writing 🔍 Reporting Methods 🏗️ Story Structure

Telling True Stories

Finding true stories, reporting from the inside, and building scenes that read like novels.

av Mark Kramer 2007 317 sidor

4.08

1 000+ betyg

📰 Narrative Journalism 📖 Longform Storytelling ✍️ Feature Writing 🔍 Reporting Methods 🏗️ Story Structure

Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot

av Jane K. Cleland • 2016

A plotting grid that plants a jolt every 70 pages: the method for stories that grip.

4.05

500+

🖋️ Fiction Writing 🧩 Story Structure ⏳ Suspense Writing 🔄 Plotting Techniques 🎭 Narrative Tension

Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot

A plotting grid that plants a jolt every 70 pages: the method for stories that grip.

av Jane K. Cleland 2016 240 sidor

4.05

500+ betyg

🖋️ Fiction Writing 🧩 Story Structure ⏳ Suspense Writing 🔄 Plotting Techniques 🎭 Narrative Tension

The Library of Babel

av Jorge Luis Borges • 1941

An infinite library holds every book ever possible. One aging librarian still searches for meaning.

4.30

12 000+

🏛️ Philosophical Fantasy 🌀 Labyrinthine Spaces 📜 Forbidden Knowledge 🥀 Existential Despair 🌌 Indifferent Universe

The Library of Babel

An infinite library holds every book ever possible. One aging librarian still searches for meaning.

av Jorge Luis Borges 1941 36 sidor

4.30

12 000+ betyg

🏛️ Philosophical Fantasy 🌀 Labyrinthine Spaces 📜 Forbidden Knowledge 🥀 Existential Despair 🌌 Indifferent Universe

Speed Reading with the Right Brain

av David Butler • 2014

Read faster by understanding faster. No eye tricks, just brain training for ideas.

4.02

1 000+

🏃 Speed Reading 📖 Reading Comprehension 👁️ Visual Thinking 🧠 Right Brain Learning ✍️ Active Reading

Speed Reading with the Right Brain

Read faster by understanding faster. No eye tricks, just brain training for ideas.

av David Butler 2014 249 sidor

4.02

1 000+ betyg

🏃 Speed Reading 📖 Reading Comprehension 👁️ Visual Thinking 🧠 Right Brain Learning ✍️ Active Reading

You Are Fatally Invited

av Ande Pliego • 2025

A private island retreat for thriller writers turns deadly when murders copy their own novels.

3.56

21 000+

🗝️ Locked Room Mystery 🪞 Meta Thriller 🏝️ Isolated Island ✍️ Writers Retreat 🌫️ Creeping Dread

You Are Fatally Invited

A private island retreat for thriller writers turns deadly when murders copy their own novels.

av Ande Pliego 2025 371 sidor

3.56

21 000+ betyg

🗝️ Locked Room Mystery 🪞 Meta Thriller 🏝️ Isolated Island ✍️ Writers Retreat 🌫️ Creeping Dread

Fangirl

av Rainbow Rowell • 2013

When her twin chooses a different dorm, a shy freshman hides inside the fanfiction millions read.

3.93

700 000+

🎓 College Coming Of Age ✍️ Fanfiction Community 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Sibling Estrangement 😰 Anxious Protagonist

Fangirl

When her twin chooses a different dorm, a shy freshman hides inside the fanfiction millions read.

av Rainbow Rowell 2013 483 sidor

3.93

700 000+ betyg

🎓 College Coming Of Age ✍️ Fanfiction Community 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💔 Sibling Estrangement 😰 Anxious Protagonist

Well-Read Black Girl

av Glory Edim • 2018

Black women's literary lineage: how the books we inherit shape the selves we build.

4.36

6 000+

🖤 Black Feminism 👭 Literary Sisterhood 📖 Reading And Identity 📚 African American Literature ✍🏿 Writing As Resistance

Well-Read Black Girl

Black women's literary lineage: how the books we inherit shape the selves we build.

av Glory Edim 2018 201 sidor

4.36

6 000+ betyg

🖤 Black Feminism 👭 Literary Sisterhood 📖 Reading And Identity 📚 African American Literature ✍🏿 Writing As Resistance

The Glamour of Grammar

av Roy Peter Clark • 2010

How the comma, the semicolon, and the well-chosen verb become instruments of style.

3.84

1 000+

✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Grammar Guides 📝 Style Manuals 🎤 Voice And Style 🔤 Word Choice

The Glamour of Grammar

How the comma, the semicolon, and the well-chosen verb become instruments of style.

av Roy Peter Clark 2010

3.84

1 000+ betyg

✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Grammar Guides 📝 Style Manuals 🎤 Voice And Style 🔤 Word Choice

Writers & Lovers

av Lily King • 2020

A grieving waitress pours everything into her novel while two men offer her different futures.

3.99

100 000+

🖊️ Aspiring Novelist 🍽️ Restaurant Fiction 🕯️ Grieving A Parent 💕 Complicated Romance 🎨 Artistic Ambition

Writers & Lovers

A grieving waitress pours everything into her novel while two men offer her different futures.

av Lily King 2020 320 sidor

3.99

100 000+ betyg

🖊️ Aspiring Novelist 🍽️ Restaurant Fiction 🕯️ Grieving A Parent 💕 Complicated Romance 🎨 Artistic Ambition

The Death of Virgil

av Hermann Broch • 1945

Dying and feverish, Virgil resolves to burn his epic; Augustus needs it to sanctify an empire.

4.15

1 000+

🖋️ Modernist Novel 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🕯️ Deathbed Reckoning 🌡️ Fever Dream 🎭 Artistic Crisis

The Death of Virgil

Dying and feverish, Virgil resolves to burn his epic; Augustus needs it to sanctify an empire.

av Hermann Broch 1945 493 sidor

4.15

1 000+ betyg

🖋️ Modernist Novel 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🕯️ Deathbed Reckoning 🌡️ Fever Dream 🎭 Artistic Crisis

A Novel Love Story

av Ashley Poston • 2024

She finds the town from her favorite books, its characters real and their stories unresolved.

3.61

100 000+

✨ Magical Realism Romance 📚 Bookstore Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🏡 Forced Proximity 💔 Heartbreak Healing

A Novel Love Story

She finds the town from her favorite books, its characters real and their stories unresolved.

av Ashley Poston 2024 368 sidor

3.61

100 000+ betyg

✨ Magical Realism Romance 📚 Bookstore Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🏡 Forced Proximity 💔 Heartbreak Healing

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

av Pablo Neruda • 1951

How love, exile, and revolution forged a Nobel laureate whose poetry still crosses every border.

4.43

20 000+

📖 Literary Criticism 🌎 Latin American Poetry 🏆 Nobel Laureates ✊ Poetry And Politics 🌐 Translation Studies

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

How love, exile, and revolution forged a Nobel laureate whose poetry still crosses every border.

av Pablo Neruda 1951 1040 sidor

4.43

20 000+ betyg

📖 Literary Criticism 🌎 Latin American Poetry 🏆 Nobel Laureates ✊ Poetry And Politics 🌐 Translation Studies

Read Dangerously

av Azar Nafisi • 2022

Why reading a novel can be more dangerous to a regime than marching in the street.

4.04

2 000+

📝 Literary Criticism 🗳️ Political Essays 📚 Book Censorship 📖 Reading And Resistance ⚠️ Authoritarian Critique

Read Dangerously

Why reading a novel can be more dangerous to a regime than marching in the street.

av Azar Nafisi 2022 225 sidor

4.04

2 000+ betyg

📝 Literary Criticism 🗳️ Political Essays 📚 Book Censorship 📖 Reading And Resistance ⚠️ Authoritarian Critique

The World of All Souls

av Deborah Harkness • 2018

Every character, spell, and secret from the All Souls trilogy, catalogued for the obsessed fan.

4.25

3 000+

📖 Fantasy Reference 📚 Series Companions 👻 Paranormal Fiction 🧹 Witch Fiction 🧛 Vampire Fiction

The World of All Souls

Every character, spell, and secret from the All Souls trilogy, catalogued for the obsessed fan.

av Deborah Harkness 2018 484 sidor

4.25

3 000+ betyg

📖 Fantasy Reference 📚 Series Companions 👻 Paranormal Fiction 🧹 Witch Fiction 🧛 Vampire Fiction

The Giver of Stars

av Jojo Moyes • 2019

An English bride joins a packhorse library in 1930s Kentucky and discovers a sisterhood under siege.

4.29

500 000+

🏔️ 1930s Appalachia 📚 Packhorse Librarians 🫂 Found Family 🤝 Sisterhood 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance

The Giver of Stars

An English bride joins a packhorse library in 1930s Kentucky and discovers a sisterhood under siege.

av Jojo Moyes 2019 390 sidor

4.29

500 000+ betyg

🏔️ 1930s Appalachia 📚 Packhorse Librarians 🫂 Found Family 🤝 Sisterhood 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance

How to Live Like the Little Prince

av Stéphane Garnier • 2021

Recover the wonder, curiosity, and imagination adulthood erased, with help from the Little Prince.

3.51

500+

🧒 Inner Child Work 🌟 Everyday Wonder 🎯 Life Priorities 🎨 Adult Play 🚫 Nonconformity

How to Live Like the Little Prince

Recover the wonder, curiosity, and imagination adulthood erased, with help from the Little Prince.

av Stéphane Garnier 2021 128 sidor

3.51

500+ betyg

🧒 Inner Child Work 🌟 Everyday Wonder 🎯 Life Priorities 🎨 Adult Play 🚫 Nonconformity

100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

av Gary Provost • 1985

Concrete techniques that turn stiff sentences into music and hesitant writers into confident ones.

4.03

1 000+

✍️ Writing Craft 🪶 Plain Style ✂️ Concision 🎵 Sentence Rhythm 📖 Storytelling Techniques

100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

Concrete techniques that turn stiff sentences into music and hesitant writers into confident ones.

av Gary Provost 1985 176 sidor

4.03

1 000+ betyg

✍️ Writing Craft 🪶 Plain Style ✂️ Concision 🎵 Sentence Rhythm 📖 Storytelling Techniques

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

av Alan Jacobs • 2011

Your to-read pile is a tyrant. Follow curiosity instead, and reading becomes alive again.

3.94

3 000+

📚 Bibliophilia 🐌 Slow Reading 🕊️ Reading Freedom ✍️ Active Reading 🎯 Attention Management

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

Your to-read pile is a tyrant. Follow curiosity instead, and reading becomes alive again.

av Alan Jacobs 2011 162 sidor

3.94

3 000+ betyg

📚 Bibliophilia 🐌 Slow Reading 🕊️ Reading Freedom ✍️ Active Reading 🎯 Attention Management

Danse Macabre

av Stephen King • 1981

What scares a society tells you what ails it. King dissects three decades of American nightmare.

3.67

31 000+

🎬 Horror Criticism 🧠 Psychology Of Fear 🧟 Monster Theory 🎥 Horror Film History ✍️ Horror Writing

Danse Macabre

What scares a society tells you what ails it. King dissects three decades of American nightmare.

av Stephen King 1981 400 sidor

3.67

31 000+ betyg

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4.04

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The Book Woman's Daughter

Kentucky, 1953: her parents jailed for their marriage, sixteen-year-old Honey fights to stay free.

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4.23

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A teacher's aide must win a reclusive author's island contest to adopt the boy she loves.

4.02

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The Wishing Game

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av Meg Shaffer 2023 278 sidor

4.02

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av Dav Pilkey • 2020

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3.96

58 000+

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Cat Kid Comic Club

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av Dav Pilkey 2020 176 sidor

3.96

58 000+ betyg

🎨 Making Comics 📖 Stories Within A Story 🤝 Creative Collaboration 🌀 Playful Chaos 😜 Irreverent Humor

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