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Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It
Charlamagne Tha God
BPO
The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante
TSO
How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
Anne Berest
HTB
Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward
MWR
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante
TWL
Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen
Kavita Kané
KWT
Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
Lopez Lomong
RFM
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Hiro Arikawa
TTC
The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante
TSO
Broken Harbor
Tana French
BH
Elephant Whisperer
Lawrence Anthony
EW
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof
HTS
The Dark Forest
Liu Cixin
TDF
The Gift of Rain
Tan Twan Eng
TGO
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Immaculée Ilibagiza
LTT
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
Paul Rusesabagina
AOM
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami
BWS
Broken Verses
Kamila Shamsie
BV
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Michel Onfray
AMT
Twilight Watch
Sergei Lukyanenko
TW
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone
Kenneth Cain
ES(
Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
Sarah Turnbull
AFL
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Roméo Dallaire
SHW
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
TLP
The Bookseller of Kabul
Åsne Seierstad
TBO
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller
DLG
Alice, I Think
Susan Juby
AIT
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Philip Gourevitch
WWT
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
MOA
The Rape of Nanking
Iris Chang
TRO
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill
HTI
Best Of Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond
BOR
The Sorrow of War
Bảo Ninh
TSO
The Emperor
Ryszard Kapuściński
TE
The Great Railway Bazaar
Paul Theroux
TGR
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
TGA
Roadside Picnic
Arkady Strugatsky
RP
Nicholas and Alexandra
Robert K. Massie
NAA
The Forgotten Soldier
Guy Sajer
TFS
Cancer Ward
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
CW
The Medium is the Massage
Marshall McLuhan
TMI
The Clown
Heinrich Böll
TC
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
ODI
Prime of Life
Simone de Beauvoir
POL
The Devil's Advocate
Morris L. West
TDA
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
Anonymous
AWI
The Mis-Education of the Negro
Carter G. Woodson
TMO
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
JTT
Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore
G
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
TCO
The Ladies' Paradise
Émile Zola
TLP
The Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor Dostoevsky
TGI
Nobody's Boy
Hector Malot
NB
The Adolescent
Fyodor Dostoevsky
TA
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
TI
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
CAP
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky
TG
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NFU
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
FAS
Paris Spleen
Charles Baudelaire
PS
The Complete Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
TCF
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
WN
The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky
TD
Eugénie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac
EG
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
TB
The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
Arthur Schopenhauer
TWA
Dream of the Red Chamber
Cao Xueqin
DOT
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant
GOT
Candide
Voltaire
C
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
Miyamoto Musashi
ABO
Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri
VN
Hojoki: Ten Foot Square House
Kamo no Chōmei
HTF
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
Pierre Abélard
TLO
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
F
The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa
TFO
Honeybee: Poems Short Prose
Naomi Shihab Nye
HPS
Exercises in Style
Raymond Queneau
EIS
Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse
Nâzım Hikmet Ran
HLF
Residence on Earth
Pablo Neruda
ROE
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
IKW
A Long Way Gone
Ishmael Beah
ALW
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi
RLI
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride
TCO
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie
CTG
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
WST
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
TYA
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
WIT
My Life in France
Julia Child
MLI
Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I
A Year in Provence
Peter Mayle
AYI
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
LWT
Papillon
Henri Charrière
P
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
BGD
Black Boy
Richard Wright
BB
The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Mahatma Gandhi
TSO
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Ann Jacobs
IIT
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
AOA
A Long Way Home
Unknown
ALW
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
GKA
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
Joy Adamson
BFA
Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
WOF
King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild
KLG
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen
OOA
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Adeline Yen Mah
CCT
West with the Night
Beryl Markham
WWT
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Loung Ung
FTK
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder
RNA
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington
UFS
Geisha, a Life
Mineko Iwasaki
GAL
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
David McCullough
TGJ
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
William Kamkwamba
TBW
Seven Years in Tibet (Paladin Books)
Heinrich Harrer
SYI
Desert Flower
Waris Dirie
DF
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
Tracy Kidder
SIW
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable
MXA
Istanbul: Memories and the City
Orhan Pamuk
IMA
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Sarah L. Delany
HOS
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
TAO
Soul on Ice
Eldridge Cleaver
SOI
Peter the Great: His Life and World
Robert K. Massie
PTG
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
SM
Life and Death in Shanghai
Nien Cheng
LAD
Prisoner of Tehran
Marina Nemat
POT
Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
Isak Dinesen
OOA
Son of Hamas
Mosab Hassan Yousef
SOH
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
Xinran
TGW
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
NOS
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir
MOA
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Tupac Shakur
TRT
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Amos Oz
ATO
M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
Unknown
MTM
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
Elspeth Huxley
TFT
Iran Awakening
Shirin Ebadi
IA
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Laurie Lee
AIW
Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Maziar Bahari
TTC
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
John Carlin
PTE
My Feudal Lord
Tehmina Durrani
MFL
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
Stefan Zweig
MAT
Autobiography of a Geisha
Unknown
AOA
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
Unknown
TLR
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
Vasily Grossman
AWA
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
Unknown
TNT
The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
Kien Nguyen
TUA
Hitler
Joachim Fest
H
The Story of San Michele
Axel Munthe
TSO
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
Vanessa Woods
BHA
It Does Not Die
Maitreyi Devi
IDN
The Journal of Hélène Berr
Hélène Berr
TJO
The White Rose
Unknown
TWR
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72
Molly Peacock
TPG
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
LAT
First Person
Vladimir Putin
FP
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition
Czesław Miłosz
NRA
Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin
Jan Valtin
OOT
Esperanza Rising
Pam Muñoz Ryan
ER
Anne of Ingleside
L.M. Montgomery
AOI
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
Linda Sue Park
ALW
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
TTL
Emily's Quest
L.M. Montgomery
EQ
Seedfolks
Paul Fleischman
S
Standout lines
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If you don't have anything nice to say- say it anyway
Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It
Charlamagne Tha God
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In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.
The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante
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Enjoy the face you have today. It's the one you'll wish you have ten years from now.
How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
Anne Berest
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I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.
Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward
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Each of us narrates our life as it suits us.
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante
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Princess, you have decided to follow the hard path. I cannot promise you the life a royal princess deserves,' he began slowly. 'I am a wandered myself, stuck in an eternal search. I am a vagabond who doesn't know where I am going. My past beckons my present, but I can see only a blurred future. All my life, I have been slighted as a person of low birth- and the stigma will rub off on you as well. Yet, I am not ashamed of who I am...
Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen
Kavita Kané
Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It
The Story of the Lost Child
How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
Men We Reaped
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen
Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Story of a New Name
Broken Harbor
Elephant Whisperer
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
The Dark Forest
The Gift of Rain
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Broken Verses
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Twilight Watch
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone
Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
The Little Prince
The Bookseller of Kabul
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alice, I Think
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Rape of Nanking
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Best Of Ruskin Bond
The Sorrow of War
The Emperor
The Great Railway Bazaar
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Roadside Picnic
Nicholas and Alexandra
The Forgotten Soldier
Cancer Ward
The Medium is the Massage
The Clown
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Prime of Life
The Devil's Advocate
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
The Mis-Education of the Negro
Journey to the End of the Night
Gitanjali
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Ladies' Paradise
The Grand Inquisitor
Nobody's Boy
The Adolescent
The Idiot
Crime and Punishment
The Gambler
Notes from Underground
Fathers and Sons
Paris Spleen
The Complete Fairy Tales
White Nights
The Double
Eugénie Grandet
The Betrothed
The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
Dream of the Red Chamber
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Candide
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
Vita Nuova
Hojoki: Ten Foot Square House
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
Faust
The Feast of the Goat
Honeybee: Poems Short Prose
Exercises in Style
Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse
Residence on Earth
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A Long Way Gone
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Twelve Years a Slave
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
My Life in France
Infidel
A Year in Provence
Long Walk to Freedom
Papillon
Brown Girl Dreaming
Black Boy
The Story of My Experiments With Truth
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Autobiography of a Yogi
A Long Way Home
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
King Leopold's Ghost
Out of Africa
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
West with the Night
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Up from Slavery
Geisha, a Life
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
Seven Years in Tibet (Paladin Books)
Desert Flower
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Istanbul: Memories and the City
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Soul on Ice
Peter the Great: His Life and World
Speak, Memory
Life and Death in Shanghai
Prisoner of Tehran
Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
Son of Hamas
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
A Tale of Love and Darkness
M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
Iran Awakening
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
My Feudal Lord
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
Autobiography of a Geisha
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
Hitler
The Story of San Michele
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
It Does Not Die
The Journal of Hélène Berr
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
First Person
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition
Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin
Esperanza Rising
Anne of Ingleside
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Emily's Quest
Seedfolks