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

Doctor Faustus

của Thomas Mann • 1999

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

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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.

của Thomas Mann 1999 535 trang

4.08

14.000+ đánh giá

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

A Moveable Feast

của 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.

của Ernest Hemingway 1964 192 trang

4.02

100.000+ đánh giá

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

Churchill

của 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.

của Andrew Roberts 2018 1105 trang

4.39

11.000+ đánh giá

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

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

của Agatha Christie • 1920

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

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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.

của Agatha Christie 1920 174 trang

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500.000+ đánh giá

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

Aleister Crowley

của 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.

của Gary Lachman 2014 400 trang

3.44

500+ đánh giá

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

Capitalism in America

của 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.

của Alan Greenspan 2018 496 trang

4.06

2.000+ đánh giá

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

The Death of Artemio Cruz

của 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.

của Carlos Fuentes 1962 307 trang

3.86

11.000+ đánh giá

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

Ghetto

của Mitchell Duneier • 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

Ghetto

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

của Mitchell Duneier 2015 304 trang

3.75

500+ đánh giá

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

Of Human Bondage

của W. Somerset Maugham • 1915

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

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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.

của W. Somerset Maugham 1915 684 trang

4.16

62.000+ đánh giá

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

Doctor Zhivago

của 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.

của Boris Pasternak 1957 592 trang

4.01

100.000+ đánh giá

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

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

của 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.

của Rosamunde Pilcher 1987

4.20

100.000+ đánh giá

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

An Inspector Calls

của J.B. Priestley • 1945

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

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46.000+

🎭 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.

của J.B. Priestley 1945 117 trang

3.82

46.000+ đánh giá

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

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

của 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.

của D.T. Suzuki 1934 132 trang

3.95

5.000+ đánh giá

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

Barbarians at the Gate

của 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.

của Bryan Burrough 1989 592 trang

4.29

44.000+ đánh giá

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

Bitita's Diary

của Carolina Maria de Jesus • 1960

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

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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.

của Carolina Maria de Jesus 1960 180 trang

4.49

10.000+ đánh giá

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

The Warmth of Other Suns

của 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.

của Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 trang

4.48

100.000+ đánh giá

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

Thợ xăm ở Auschwitz

của Heather Morris • 2018

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

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

Thợ xăm ở Auschwitz

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

của Heather Morris 2018 1 trang

4.32

1.000.000+ đánh giá

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

The Visionaries

của Wolfram Eilenberger • 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

The Visionaries

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

của Wolfram Eilenberger 2020 400 trang

3.91

1.000+ đánh giá

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

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

của 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.

của Hunter S. Thompson 1971 204 trang

4.06

300.000+ đánh giá

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

On Tyranny

của 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.

của Timothy Snyder 2017 128 trang

4.29

100.000+ đánh giá

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

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

của 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.

của Thomas S. Kuhn 1962 226 trang

4.03

30.000+ đánh giá

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

Người giữ bí mật

của Kate Morton • 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

Người giữ bí mật

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

của Kate Morton 2012 484 trang

4.16

100.000+ đánh giá

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

Bachelor Girl

của Betsy Israel • 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

Bachelor Girl

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

của Betsy Israel 2002 324 trang

3.72

1.000+ đánh giá

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

Omerta

của 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.

của Mario Puzo 2000 369 trang

3.78

19.000+ đánh giá

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

The Words

của 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.

của Jean-Paul Sartre 1963 256 trang

3.73

10.000+ đánh giá

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

Mặt trời vẫn mọc

của Ernest Hemingway • 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

Mặt trời vẫn mọc

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

của Ernest Hemingway 1926 189 trang

3.79

400.000+ đánh giá

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

Life and Death in Shanghai

của 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.

của Nien Cheng 1986 547 trang

4.33

14.000+ đánh giá

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

Modern Times

của 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.

của Paul Johnson 1983 880 trang

4.29

2.000+ đánh giá

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

The Great Crash 1929

của 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.

của John Kenneth Galbraith 1955 206 trang

3.92

6.000+ đánh giá

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

I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912

của 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.

của Lauren Tarshis 2010 112 trang

4.09

19.000+ đánh giá

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

The White Castle

của 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.

của Orhan Pamuk 1985 145 trang

3.48

17.000+ đánh giá

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

Chúa trời của những chuyện vặt

của Arundhati Roy • 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

Chúa trời của những chuyện vặt

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

của Arundhati Roy 1997 321 trang

3.96

300.000+ đánh giá

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

The Fish That Ate the Whale

của Rich Cohen • 2012

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

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🍌 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.

của Rich Cohen 2012 288 trang

4.11

8.000+ đánh giá

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

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

của 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.

của Yukio Mishima 1963 181 trang

3.83

53.000+ đánh giá

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

Sweet Sixteen

của 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.

của Annelise Heurtier 2013 217 trang

3.92

1.000+ đánh giá

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

Bad Boy

của 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.

của Walter Dean Myers 2001 240 trang

3.73

3.000+ đánh giá

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

Màu Sắc Của Luật Pháp

của Richard Rothstein • 2017

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

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

Màu Sắc Của Luật Pháp

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

của Richard Rothstein 2017 368 trang

4.44

46.000+ đánh giá

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

Middlesex

của Jeffrey Eugenides • 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

Middlesex

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

của Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 529 trang

4.04

600.000+ đánh giá

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

R. N. Kao

của 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.

của Mr Nitin A Gokhale 2019 240 trang

3.92

456 đánh giá

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

The Oil Kings

của 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.

của Andrew Scott Cooper 2011 546 trang

4.10

500+ đánh giá

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

The Names

của 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.

của Don DeLillo 1982 339 trang

3.64

5.000+ đánh giá

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

A Peace to End All Peace

của 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.

của David Fromkin 1989 635 trang

4.22

9.000+ đánh giá

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

Reef

của 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.

của Romesh Gunesekera 1994 190 trang

3.76

2.000+ đánh giá

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

Âm thanh và cuồng nộ

của William Faulkner • 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

Âm thanh và cuồng nộ

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

của William Faulkner 1929 366 trang

3.86

100.000+ đánh giá

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

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

của 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.

của Harold G. Moore 1991 480 trang

4.34

33.000+ đánh giá

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

The Situation Room

của 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.

của George Stephanopoulos 2024 466 trang

4.33

11.000+ đánh giá

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

The Refugees

của 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.

của Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 209 trang

3.86

22.000+ đánh giá

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

When the Clock Broke

của 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.

của John Ganz 2024 420 trang

4.07

4.000+ đánh giá

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

Three Sisters

của 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.

của Heather Morris 2021 416 trang

4.37

95.000+ đánh giá

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

Birdsong

của 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.

của Sebastian Faulks 1993 483 trang

4.11

84.000+ đánh giá

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

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