Thế kỷ 20

Thế kỷ 20 đầy biến động đã sinh ra những tư tưởng cách mạng và các phong trào nghệ thuật cấp tiến, mãi mãi thay đổi cách chúng ta nhìn nhận bản thân và xã hội. Giữa hai cuộc chiến tranh thế giới và những biến động xã hội, các nhà văn đã vật lộn với chủ nghĩa hiện sinh, dòng ý thức và bóng tối ngày càng lan rộng của chủ nghĩa toàn trị qua những tác phẩm đột phá định hình nền văn học hiện đại.

Thế kỷ 20 Tóm tắt sách

The Nine

của Jeffrey Toobin • 2007

The Supreme Court's decisions depend less on law than on the ideologies of nine political beings.

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18.000+

⚖️ Supreme Court 🇺🇸 American Politics 📰 Legal Journalism 🎭 Behind The Scenes 📜 Judicial Activism

The Nine

The Supreme Court's decisions depend less on law than on the ideologies of nine political beings.

của Jeffrey Toobin 2007 384 trang

4.09

18.000+ đánh giá

⚖️ Supreme Court 🇺🇸 American Politics 📰 Legal Journalism 🎭 Behind The Scenes 📜 Judicial Activism

Citizenship between Empire and Nation

của Frederick Cooper • 2014

France's African empire became sixteen nations. That was nobody's first choice for the region.

3.93

🇫🇷 French Colonialism 🗺️ Decolonization 📜 Imperial Citizenship 🌍 African Statehood 🏛️ Federalism

Citizenship between Empire and Nation

France's African empire became sixteen nations. That was nobody's first choice for the region.

của Frederick Cooper 2014 512 trang

3.93

30 đánh giá

🇫🇷 French Colonialism 🗺️ Decolonization 📜 Imperial Citizenship 🌍 African Statehood 🏛️ Federalism

Ask the Dust

của John Fante • 1939

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

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40.000+

🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 📉 Depression-Era America

Ask the Dust

An impoverished writer in 1930s Los Angeles meets a waitress whose scorn and need mirror his own.

của John Fante 1939 165 trang

4.10

40.000+ đánh giá

🏙️ 1930s Los Angeles 🎨 Starving Artist 💔 Obsessive Love 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 📉 Depression-Era America

Lorraine Hansberry

của Charles J. Shields • 2022

Closeted, radical, and a slumlord's daughter: the life that produced A Raisin in the Sun.

3.78

400

🎭 Literary Biography 🖤 Black Women Writers ✊🏿 Civil Rights Era 🌈 Queer Literary Lives 🎟️ Theater History

Lorraine Hansberry

Closeted, radical, and a slumlord's daughter: the life that produced A Raisin in the Sun.

của Charles J. Shields 2022 384 trang

3.78

400 đánh giá

🎭 Literary Biography 🖤 Black Women Writers ✊🏿 Civil Rights Era 🌈 Queer Literary Lives 🎟️ Theater History

The Sunrise

của Victoria Hislop • 2014

1974. A Cypriot city empties in war. Greek and Turkish neighbors hide inside a luxury hotel.

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12.000+

🇨🇾 Divided Cyprus 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🏠 Found Family 💔 Forbidden Love 🌅 Elegiac

The Sunrise

1974. A Cypriot city empties in war. Greek and Turkish neighbors hide inside a luxury hotel.

của Victoria Hislop 2014 481 trang

3.86

12.000+ đánh giá

🇨🇾 Divided Cyprus 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🏠 Found Family 💔 Forbidden Love 🌅 Elegiac

White Collar

của C. Wright Mills • 1951

Shop to office: the middle class got a salary, borrowed status, and a personality for sale.

4.04

269

🏢 Class Analysis ⚙️ Work Alienation 🗃️ Bureaucracy Critique 📊 Status Anxiety 🎭 Emotional Labor

White Collar

Shop to office: the middle class got a salary, borrowed status, and a personality for sale.

của C. Wright Mills 1951 416 trang

4.04

269 đánh giá

🏢 Class Analysis ⚙️ Work Alienation 🗃️ Bureaucracy Critique 📊 Status Anxiety 🎭 Emotional Labor

Sofia Petrovna

của Lydia Chukovskaya • 1965

When Stalin's purges take her son, a widowed typist learns loyalty offers no protection.

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2.000+

🏚️ Stalinist Russia ❤️ Mother Son Bond 👁️ Ordinary Witness 📋 Bureaucratic Terror 🎭 Political Purges

Sofia Petrovna

When Stalin's purges take her son, a widowed typist learns loyalty offers no protection.

của Lydia Chukovskaya 1965 120 trang

4.07

2.000+ đánh giá

🏚️ Stalinist Russia ❤️ Mother Son Bond 👁️ Ordinary Witness 📋 Bureaucratic Terror 🎭 Political Purges

D-Day, June 6, 1944

của Stephen E. Ambrose • 1994

A weather window, a scattered airborne drop, and destroyers scraping sand reversed D-Day.

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31.000+

🏖️ Normandy Campaign ⚓ Amphibious Warfare 🎙️ Oral History 🪖 Citizen Soldiers 🗺️ Military Strategy

D-Day, June 6, 1944

A weather window, a scattered airborne drop, and destroyers scraping sand reversed D-Day.

của Stephen E. Ambrose 1994 656 trang

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31.000+ đánh giá

🏖️ Normandy Campaign ⚓ Amphibious Warfare 🎙️ Oral History 🪖 Citizen Soldiers 🗺️ Military Strategy

White Flight

của Kevin M. Kruse • 2005

How Atlanta's white flight invented modern conservatism, one homeowners' association at a time.

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1.000+

🏙️ Urban History 🌊 White Flight 🐘 Modern Conservatism ⚡ Civil Rights Backlash 🍑 Southern Politics

White Flight

How Atlanta's white flight invented modern conservatism, one homeowners' association at a time.

của Kevin M. Kruse 2005 352 trang

4.28

1.000+ đánh giá

🏙️ Urban History 🌊 White Flight 🐘 Modern Conservatism ⚡ Civil Rights Backlash 🍑 Southern Politics

Special Forces Pilot

của Richard Hutchings • 2014

A one-way flight into Argentina, an untested night-vision rig, and eight days on the run.

🎖️ Falklands War ✈️ Military Aviation 🎯 Special Operations 🚁 Helicopter Pilots 🌙 Night Operations

Special Forces Pilot

A one-way flight into Argentina, an untested night-vision rig, and eight days on the run.

của Richard Hutchings 2014 224 trang

🎖️ Falklands War ✈️ Military Aviation 🎯 Special Operations 🚁 Helicopter Pilots 🌙 Night Operations

The Mountains Sing

của Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai • 2020

A grandmother in Vietnam tells her granddaughter the story of a family that refused to break.

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🏮 Vietnamese History 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multigenerational Saga ⚔️ Women In Wartime 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 📖 Family Storytelling

The Mountains Sing

A grandmother in Vietnam tells her granddaughter the story of a family that refused to break.

của Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai 2020 342 trang

4.31

64.000+ đánh giá

🏮 Vietnamese History 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multigenerational Saga ⚔️ Women In Wartime 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 📖 Family Storytelling

Like Mother, Like Mother

của Susan Rieger • 2024

A trailblazing editor's death leaves her daughter to find the grandmother who walked away.

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19.000+

🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 👻 Absent Mother 🤫 Family Secrets 🧬 Generational Trauma 🔍 Investigating Family Past

Like Mother, Like Mother

A trailblazing editor's death leaves her daughter to find the grandmother who walked away.

của Susan Rieger 2024 336 trang

3.77

19.000+ đánh giá

🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 👻 Absent Mother 🤫 Family Secrets 🧬 Generational Trauma 🔍 Investigating Family Past

Near to the Wild Heart

của Clarice Lispector • 1943

An orphan girl who asked too many questions becomes a woman who abandons every answer.

4.02

18.000+

🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🌌 Existential Novel 🕯️ Female Solitude 💔 Marital Disillusionment 🌱 Female Awakening

Near to the Wild Heart

An orphan girl who asked too many questions becomes a woman who abandons every answer.

của Clarice Lispector 1943 192 trang

4.02

18.000+ đánh giá

🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🌌 Existential Novel 🕯️ Female Solitude 💔 Marital Disillusionment 🌱 Female Awakening

At the Hands of Persons Unknown

của Philip Dray • 2003

For a century, a single phrase in coroners' reports hid the machinery of American racial terror.

4.45

500+

🩸 Racial Violence 🚫 Jim Crow Era 📢 Anti-Lynching Activism ✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⚖️ Legal History

At the Hands of Persons Unknown

For a century, a single phrase in coroners' reports hid the machinery of American racial terror.

của Philip Dray 2003 560 trang

4.45

500+ đánh giá

🩸 Racial Violence 🚫 Jim Crow Era 📢 Anti-Lynching Activism ✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement ⚖️ Legal History

Lázár

của Nelio Biedermann • 2025

A boy is born of a secret affair in a Hungarian castle. His mother's lie outlasts the empire.

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10.000+

🏰 Family Saga 🤫 Family Secrets 🖤 Intergenerational Trauma 🏚️ Aristocratic Decline 🇭🇺 Hungarian History

Lázár

A boy is born of a secret affair in a Hungarian castle. His mother's lie outlasts the empire.

của Nelio Biedermann 2025 336 trang

3.79

10.000+ đánh giá

🏰 Family Saga 🤫 Family Secrets 🖤 Intergenerational Trauma 🏚️ Aristocratic Decline 🇭🇺 Hungarian History

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

của Daniel Bell • 1976

Capitalism demands discipline at work and hedonism at leisure. The contradiction is catching up.

3.83

301

📊 Political Economy 🎭 Cultural Criticism 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🏛️ Secularization 🏥 Welfare State

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Capitalism demands discipline at work and hedonism at leisure. The contradiction is catching up.

của Daniel Bell 1976 363 trang

3.83

301 đánh giá

📊 Political Economy 🎭 Cultural Criticism 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🏛️ Secularization 🏥 Welfare State

Demian / Siddhartha

của Hermann Hesse • 1998

To become himself, a young man must first lose every self he tries on.

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🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌅 Spiritual Journey 🎭 Duality Of Self 🔍 Search For Meaning 🌿 Introspective

Demian / Siddhartha

To become himself, a young man must first lose every self he tries on.

của Hermann Hesse 1998

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12.000+ đánh giá

🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌅 Spiritual Journey 🎭 Duality Of Self 🔍 Search For Meaning 🌿 Introspective

Hirošiman kukat

của Edita Morris • 1959

A Hiroshima housewife hides her husband's radiation sickness from the American lodger she takes in.

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1.000+

🏯 Postwar Japan ☢️ Nuclear Aftermath 🏥 Radiation Sickness 🎭 Survivor Stigma 💍 Arranged Marriage

Hirošiman kukat

A Hiroshima housewife hides her husband's radiation sickness from the American lodger she takes in.

của Edita Morris 1959 169 trang

4.05

1.000+ đánh giá

🏯 Postwar Japan ☢️ Nuclear Aftermath 🏥 Radiation Sickness 🎭 Survivor Stigma 💍 Arranged Marriage

Cobb's Anatomy

của Irvin S. Cobb • 1912

A 1912 comic anatomy of everything that aches, sheds, swells, or embarrasses you in public.

3.78

✍️ Humorous Essays 🤡 Self-Deprecating Humor 🫃 Body Humor 🎭 Social Satire 🇺🇸 American Humor

Cobb's Anatomy

A 1912 comic anatomy of everything that aches, sheds, swells, or embarrasses you in public.

của Irvin S. Cobb 1912 42 trang

3.78

60 đánh giá

✍️ Humorous Essays 🤡 Self-Deprecating Humor 🫃 Body Humor 🎭 Social Satire 🇺🇸 American Humor

These Blue Mountains

của Sarah Loudin Thomas • 2025

Seeking her lost fiancé’s grave, a German pianist unearths a stranger’s body in North Carolina.

3.93

500+

✝️ Christian Historical ⚰️ Exhumation Mystery 💔 Lost Love Returns 🎨 Artist In Exile ⛰️ Mountain Town Secrets

These Blue Mountains

Seeking her lost fiancé’s grave, a German pianist unearths a stranger’s body in North Carolina.

của Sarah Loudin Thomas 2025 352 trang

3.93

500+ đánh giá

✝️ Christian Historical ⚰️ Exhumation Mystery 💔 Lost Love Returns 🎨 Artist In Exile ⛰️ Mountain Town Secrets

American Midnight

của Adam Hochschild • 2022

The war fought to secure democracy abroad nearly destroyed it at home, and America forgot.

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5.000+

🌍 World War I Home Front 🗽 Civil Liberties Erosion 🔥 Mob Violence History ⚠️ Red Scare Era ⚒️ Labor Suppression

American Midnight

The war fought to secure democracy abroad nearly destroyed it at home, and America forgot.

của Adam Hochschild 2022 422 trang

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5.000+ đánh giá

🌍 World War I Home Front 🗽 Civil Liberties Erosion 🔥 Mob Violence History ⚠️ Red Scare Era ⚒️ Labor Suppression

The Lacuna

của Barbara Kingsolver • 2009

He cooked for Kahlo, typed for Trotsky. In McCarthy's America, his past became his crime.

3.83

75.000+

📝 Writers And Writing 🪞 Outsider Protagonist 📜 Archival Fiction 👁️ Witness To History 🎙️ Mccarthy Era

The Lacuna

He cooked for Kahlo, typed for Trotsky. In McCarthy's America, his past became his crime.

của Barbara Kingsolver 2009 508 trang

3.83

75.000+ đánh giá

📝 Writers And Writing 🪞 Outsider Protagonist 📜 Archival Fiction 👁️ Witness To History 🎙️ Mccarthy Era

The Hot Rock

của Donald E. Westlake • 1970

After stealing a priceless emerald, a crew of thieves chases the vanishing stone across New York.

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7.000+

💰 Heist Caper 💎 Cursed Treasure 🧠 Reluctant Mastermind 👥 Found Family 🖤 Dark Comedy

The Hot Rock

After stealing a priceless emerald, a crew of thieves chases the vanishing stone across New York.

của Donald E. Westlake 1970 287 trang

3.95

7.000+ đánh giá

💰 Heist Caper 💎 Cursed Treasure 🧠 Reluctant Mastermind 👥 Found Family 🖤 Dark Comedy

Look Homeward, Angel

của Thomas Wolfe • 1929

A sensitive boy in a tumultuous Southern boardinghouse hungers for language, beauty, and belonging.

3.91

15.000+

🔰 American Bildungsroman 💔 Dysfunctional Family 🎨 Artistic Awakening 🏘️ Small Town Life ✨ Lyrical Prose

Look Homeward, Angel

A sensitive boy in a tumultuous Southern boardinghouse hungers for language, beauty, and belonging.

của Thomas Wolfe 1929 544 trang

3.91

15.000+ đánh giá

🔰 American Bildungsroman 💔 Dysfunctional Family 🎨 Artistic Awakening 🏘️ Small Town Life ✨ Lyrical Prose

The Game

của Jack London • 1905

A boxer promises his bride one last fight. She disguises herself as a man to watch.

3.73

1.000+

🖤 Tragic Romance 🥊 Boxing Drama 🎭 Naturalist Tragedy 💔 Doomed Athlete 🔀 Divided Loyalties

The Game

A boxer promises his bride one last fight. She disguises herself as a man to watch.

của Jack London 1905 47 trang

3.73

1.000+ đánh giá

🖤 Tragic Romance 🥊 Boxing Drama 🎭 Naturalist Tragedy 💔 Doomed Athlete 🔀 Divided Loyalties

Türkiye'nin Yakın Tarihi

của İlber Ortaylı • 2010

Two centuries, six constitutions, three coups: Turkey's struggle between empire and republic.

3.74

1.000+

🇹🇷 Modern Turkey 🏛️ Ottoman Legacy 📜 Constitutional History ⚖️ Secular Reforms 🪖 Military Coups

Türkiye'nin Yakın Tarihi

Two centuries, six constitutions, three coups: Turkey's struggle between empire and republic.

của İlber Ortaylı 2010 240 trang

3.74

1.000+ đánh giá

🇹🇷 Modern Turkey 🏛️ Ottoman Legacy 📜 Constitutional History ⚖️ Secular Reforms 🪖 Military Coups

Time's Arrow

của Martin Amis • 1991

A soul trapped in a body watches time run backward, from American suburbia toward Auschwitz.

3.76

18.000+

🌀 Experimental Fiction 🕯️ Holocaust Fiction ⏪ Reverse Chronology 👁️ Perpetrator Perspective 🔒 Hidden Past

Time's Arrow

A soul trapped in a body watches time run backward, from American suburbia toward Auschwitz.

của Martin Amis 1991 165 trang

3.76

18.000+ đánh giá

🌀 Experimental Fiction 🕯️ Holocaust Fiction ⏪ Reverse Chronology 👁️ Perpetrator Perspective 🔒 Hidden Past

Precipice

của Robert Harris • 2024

When the prime minister's love letters fall under state surveillance, a young aristocrat faces ruin.

3.94

19.000+

🏛️ Political Thriller 📜 Epistolary Novel 💘 Secret Love Affair 👁️ State Surveillance 🕵️ WWI Espionage

Precipice

When the prime minister's love letters fall under state surveillance, a young aristocrat faces ruin.

của Robert Harris 2024 445 trang

3.94

19.000+ đánh giá

🏛️ Political Thriller 📜 Epistolary Novel 💘 Secret Love Affair 👁️ State Surveillance 🕵️ WWI Espionage

Origins of the New South, 1877–1913

của C. Vann Woodward • 1951

After 1877 the South was remade: industrialists allied with the North and made racial exclusion law

4.11

240

🏛️ Post-Reconstruction ⛓️ Jim Crow 🗳️ Voter Suppression 💰 Internal Colonialism 🌾 Agrarian Populism

Origins of the New South, 1877–1913

After 1877 the South was remade: industrialists allied with the North and made racial exclusion law

của C. Vann Woodward 1951 656 trang

4.11

240 đánh giá

🏛️ Post-Reconstruction ⛓️ Jim Crow 🗳️ Voter Suppression 💰 Internal Colonialism 🌾 Agrarian Populism

Against the World

của Tara Zahra • 2023

Globalism was not undone by accident. Voters, left out of its gains, dismantled it on purpose.

3.96

254

🌍 Interwar Europe 🏭 Economic Nationalism 🌐 Anti-Globalism 🗳️ Mass Politics ⚔️ Aftermath Of War

Against the World

Globalism was not undone by accident. Voters, left out of its gains, dismantled it on purpose.

của Tara Zahra 2023 384 trang

3.96

254 đánh giá

🌍 Interwar Europe 🏭 Economic Nationalism 🌐 Anti-Globalism 🗳️ Mass Politics ⚔️ Aftermath Of War

Killing Thatcher

của Rory Carroll • 2023

A Brighton hotel bomb, a five-ton chimney stack, and the single clue that unmasked a ghost.

4.46

7.000+

🍀 Irish History ☘️ The Troubles 🎯 Assassination Plots 🔍 Forensic Manhunt 💥 Political Violence

Killing Thatcher

A Brighton hotel bomb, a five-ton chimney stack, and the single clue that unmasked a ghost.

của Rory Carroll 2023 416 trang

4.46

7.000+ đánh giá

🍀 Irish History ☘️ The Troubles 🎯 Assassination Plots 🔍 Forensic Manhunt 💥 Political Violence

España partida en dos

của Julián Casanova • 2013

A coup meant to topple Spain's Republic failed. What followed was decided by Hitler and Mussolini.

4.16

249

🏴 Spanish Civil War 🌍 Twentieth Century Europe 🛩️ Foreign Intervention 🔨 Revolution And War ✝️ Religion And Conflict

España partida en dos

A coup meant to topple Spain's Republic failed. What followed was decided by Hitler and Mussolini.

của Julián Casanova 2013 272 trang

4.16

249 đánh giá

🏴 Spanish Civil War 🌍 Twentieth Century Europe 🛩️ Foreign Intervention 🔨 Revolution And War ✝️ Religion And Conflict

The Longest Day

của Cornelius Ryan • 1959

Hitler slept. Rommel was at a birthday party. Eisenhower stared at a weather map. Then Omaha.

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🌍 World War Ii 🪖 Military History 🎙️ Oral History ⚔️ Combat Narrative 📰 Journalistic History

The Longest Day

Hitler slept. Rommel was at a birthday party. Eisenhower stared at a weather map. Then Omaha.

của Cornelius Ryan 1959 350 trang

4.34

26.000+ đánh giá

🌍 World War Ii 🪖 Military History 🎙️ Oral History ⚔️ Combat Narrative 📰 Journalistic History

Irisches Tagebuch

của Heinrich Böll • 1957

A German novelist's 1950s Ireland: abandoned villages, endless rain, and time that costs nothing.

3.86

2.000+

🧳 Literary Travelogue 🍀 Irish Life And Culture 📚 Postwar German Literature 👁️ Outsider Perspectives 🏞️ Landscape And Identity

Irisches Tagebuch

A German novelist's 1950s Ireland: abandoned villages, endless rain, and time that costs nothing.

của Heinrich Böll 1957 137 trang

3.86

2.000+ đánh giá

🧳 Literary Travelogue 🍀 Irish Life And Culture 📚 Postwar German Literature 👁️ Outsider Perspectives 🏞️ Landscape And Identity

Through the Gates of Splendor

của Elisabeth Elliot • 1957

Five missionaries fly into the jungle to befriend a tribe that has always met outsiders with spears.

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📖 Missionary Biography 🙏 Radical Forgiveness 🤝 First Contact 🌴 Amazon Jungle 🩸 Modern Martyrs

Through the Gates of Splendor

Five missionaries fly into the jungle to befriend a tribe that has always met outsiders with spears.

của Elisabeth Elliot 1957

4.37

32.000+ đánh giá

📖 Missionary Biography 🙏 Radical Forgiveness 🤝 First Contact 🌴 Amazon Jungle 🩸 Modern Martyrs

A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons

của Kate Khavari • 2022

A 1920s botanist hunts a dinner-party poisoner among cutthroat London scholars to clear her mentor.

3.52

23.000+

🎓 Academic Mystery 🕰️ Historical Whodunit 🔍 Amateur Female Sleuth 🔬 Woman In Science 💕 Slow Burn Romance

A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons

A 1920s botanist hunts a dinner-party poisoner among cutthroat London scholars to clear her mentor.

của Kate Khavari 2022 262 trang

3.52

23.000+ đánh giá

🎓 Academic Mystery 🕰️ Historical Whodunit 🔍 Amateur Female Sleuth 🔬 Woman In Science 💕 Slow Burn Romance

When Money Dies

của Adam Fergusson • 1975

Savings, morals, democracy: hyperinflation broke them in that order; Nazis filled the vacuum.

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2.000+

🇩🇪 Weimar Germany 💸 Hyperinflation 📈 Economic History 🏦 Monetary Policy ⚔️ War Finance

When Money Dies

Savings, morals, democracy: hyperinflation broke them in that order; Nazis filled the vacuum.

của Adam Fergusson 1975 288 trang

3.78

2.000+ đánh giá

🇩🇪 Weimar Germany 💸 Hyperinflation 📈 Economic History 🏦 Monetary Policy ⚔️ War Finance

From Rebel to Ruler

của Tony Saich • 2021

Its ideology should have killed it, but the party survived by stealing ancient imperial habits.

3.83

119

🏯 Modern China 🛡️ Authoritarian Resilience 🏛️ One-Party Rule ✊ Revolutionary Politics 🧱 State Building

From Rebel to Ruler

Its ideology should have killed it, but the party survived by stealing ancient imperial habits.

của Tony Saich 2021 560 trang

3.83

119 đánh giá

🏯 Modern China 🛡️ Authoritarian Resilience 🏛️ One-Party Rule ✊ Revolutionary Politics 🧱 State Building

La tregua

của Mario Benedetti • 1960

A widowed bureaucrat counting days to retirement falls for a young coworker and dares to hope.

4.17

45.000+

📖 Epistolary Novel 💕 Late In Life Love 💼 Office Romance 🕯️ Widower Protagonist 🌧️ Melancholic Fiction

La tregua

A widowed bureaucrat counting days to retirement falls for a young coworker and dares to hope.

của Mario Benedetti 1960 215 trang

4.17

45.000+ đánh giá

📖 Epistolary Novel 💕 Late In Life Love 💼 Office Romance 🕯️ Widower Protagonist 🌧️ Melancholic Fiction

JFK and Mary Meyer

của Jesse Kornbluth • 2020

A divorced artist's affair with the president fills her diary with passion and political crisis.

3.69

144

🏛️ Political Intrigue 📖 Diary Narrative 🕵️ JFK Assassination 💘 Forbidden Romance 🎨 Artist Protagonist

JFK and Mary Meyer

A divorced artist's affair with the president fills her diary with passion and political crisis.

của Jesse Kornbluth 2020 192 trang

3.69

144 đánh giá

🏛️ Political Intrigue 📖 Diary Narrative 🕵️ JFK Assassination 💘 Forbidden Romance 🎨 Artist Protagonist

Liberty and Coercion

của Gary Gerstle • 2015

Federal liberty, state coercion: the two-hundred-year paradox at the heart of American governance.

4.04

🏛️ Constitutional History 🌐 Federalism ⚖️ States' Rights 🇺🇸 American Political Development 🗽 Classical Liberalism

Liberty and Coercion

Federal liberty, state coercion: the two-hundred-year paradox at the heart of American governance.

của Gary Gerstle 2015 472 trang

4.04

77 đánh giá

🏛️ Constitutional History 🌐 Federalism ⚖️ States' Rights 🇺🇸 American Political Development 🗽 Classical Liberalism

Freedom’s Dominion

của Jefferson R. Cowie • 2022

One Alabama county's 'freedom' meant the right to dominate. The history and the national fallout.

4.50

500+

🏛️ Southern History 🔥 White Supremacy 🏗️ Reconstruction History 🩸 Racial Violence 🏴 Anti-Statism

Freedom’s Dominion

One Alabama county's 'freedom' meant the right to dominate. The history and the national fallout.

của Jefferson R. Cowie 2022 512 trang

4.50

500+ đánh giá

🏛️ Southern History 🔥 White Supremacy 🏗️ Reconstruction History 🩸 Racial Violence 🏴 Anti-Statism

At Last

của Marisa Silver • 2025

Two rival matriarchs, bound by a wedding and a secret, orbit each other for decades.

3.52

500+

🧬 Multigenerational Women 📖 Quiet Literary Novel 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds ✉️ Hidden Letters 🍂 Wistful Tone

At Last

Two rival matriarchs, bound by a wedding and a secret, orbit each other for decades.

của Marisa Silver 2025 288 trang

3.52

500+ đánh giá

🧬 Multigenerational Women 📖 Quiet Literary Novel 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds ✉️ Hidden Letters 🍂 Wistful Tone

Curse of The Narrows

của Laura M. MacDonald • 2005

Before Hiroshima, the largest manmade blast leveled a Canadian city. Oppenheimer studied its ruins.

3.99

1.000+

🚢 Maritime Disasters 🏠 World War I Home Front 💥 Disaster Narratives 🤝 Community Resilience 🏥 Medical History

Curse of The Narrows

Before Hiroshima, the largest manmade blast leveled a Canadian city. Oppenheimer studied its ruins.

của Laura M. MacDonald 2005 355 trang

3.99

1.000+ đánh giá

🚢 Maritime Disasters 🏠 World War I Home Front 💥 Disaster Narratives 🤝 Community Resilience 🏥 Medical History

Heavier Than Heaven

của Charles R. Cross • 2001

Childhood trauma, punk ambition, and heroin fueled his rise and his meticulously planned fall.

4.12

35.000+

🎸 Grunge Era 🎨 Troubled Artists 💉 Heroin Addiction 🧒 Childhood Trauma 🔦 Fame's Dark Side

Heavier Than Heaven

Childhood trauma, punk ambition, and heroin fueled his rise and his meticulously planned fall.

của Charles R. Cross 2001 381 trang

4.12

35.000+ đánh giá

🎸 Grunge Era 🎨 Troubled Artists 💉 Heroin Addiction 🧒 Childhood Trauma 🔦 Fame's Dark Side

The Hercules Text

của Jack McDevitt • 1986

A pulsar signal brings alien knowledge with the power to remake civilization or end it entirely.

3.67

1.000+

🛸 First Contact 🧑‍🔬 Hard Science Fiction 📜 Dangerous Knowledge ⚖️ Scientific Ethics 🏛️ Bureaucratic Obstacles

The Hercules Text

A pulsar signal brings alien knowledge with the power to remake civilization or end it entirely.

của Jack McDevitt 1986 307 trang

3.67

1.000+ đánh giá

🛸 First Contact 🧑‍🔬 Hard Science Fiction 📜 Dangerous Knowledge ⚖️ Scientific Ethics 🏛️ Bureaucratic Obstacles

Spontaneous Activity in Education

của Maria Montessori • 1916

The case against teaching. What freedom and the right tools unlock in a child's mind.

4.01

146

🧒 Child Development 📚 Progressive Education 🧭 Self-Directed Learning 💡 Intrinsic Motivation 🏗️ Constructivist Education

Spontaneous Activity in Education

The case against teaching. What freedom and the right tools unlock in a child's mind.

của Maria Montessori 1916 262 trang

4.01

146 đánh giá

🧒 Child Development 📚 Progressive Education 🧭 Self-Directed Learning 💡 Intrinsic Motivation 🏗️ Constructivist Education

A Sport and a Pastime

của James Salter • 1967

An American in rural France reconstructs a passionate love affair from fragments, envy, and desire.

3.64

11.000+

👁️ Unreliable Narrator 👀 Voyeuristic Narrator 💔 Melancholy Romance ✍️ Sensual Prose 🏘️ Provincial France

A Sport and a Pastime

An American in rural France reconstructs a passionate love affair from fragments, envy, and desire.

của James Salter 1967 185 trang

3.64

11.000+ đánh giá

👁️ Unreliable Narrator 👀 Voyeuristic Narrator 💔 Melancholy Romance ✍️ Sensual Prose 🏘️ Provincial France

Một vụ giết người được báo trước

của Agatha Christie • 1950

The local paper predicts a murder. When neighbors gather at dusk, the shooting is real.

4.01

88.000+

🕰️ Golden Age Detective 🎭 Identity Swap 💰 Inheritance Plot 👁️ Unreliable Witness 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Một vụ giết người được báo trước

The local paper predicts a murder. When neighbors gather at dusk, the shooting is real.

của Agatha Christie 1950 288 trang

4.01

88.000+ đánh giá

🕰️ Golden Age Detective 🎭 Identity Swap 💰 Inheritance Plot 👁️ Unreliable Witness 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

The Treaty of Versailles

của Captivating History • 2020

The treaty that ended World War I did not end war. It scheduled a bigger one.

4.16

🏛️ Versailles Treaty 🕰️ Interwar Period 🇩🇪 German History 💰 War Reparations 🌍 Geopolitics

The Treaty of Versailles

The treaty that ended World War I did not end war. It scheduled a bigger one.

của Captivating History 2020 103 trang

4.16

94 đánh giá

🏛️ Versailles Treaty 🕰️ Interwar Period 🇩🇪 German History 💰 War Reparations 🌍 Geopolitics

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