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Book Cover for: Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity, Lilliana Mason

Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity

Lilliana Mason
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"[Uncivil Agreement by Lilliana Mason] is the academic book on identity polarization. It’s a touchstone for understanding politics in this era, and one of the works that have done the most to shape my thinking." @ezraklein https://t.co/ehgJVLeKTs

Paperback, 2018

$23.00Member price:$23.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, Steve Martin

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Steve Martin
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"Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up is essential reading. I would recommend that to anyone starting out not only in comedy, but performing in general." -Bill Hader https://t.co/YYEJJNiTU5

Paperback, 2008

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Hunger, Knut Hamsun

Hunger

Knut Hamsun
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"[Hunger by Knut Hamsun] was, and still is, the ultimate bohemian novel to me. There is a certain young age when you feel that Hamsun, Dostoyevsky and Hemingway speak to you and only to you." -Jo Nesbø https://t.co/sZawW2r8VF

Paperback, 1998

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: My Struggle: Book 6, Karl Ove Knausgaard

My Struggle: Book 6

Karl Ove Knausgaard
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"[Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle] is the most honest expression of life that I’ve ever read." -Jeremy Strong https://t.co/8CILfetNRi

Paperback, 2019

$40.00Member price:$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Eric Hoffer

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Eric Hoffer
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"[Eric Hoffer's The True Believer] is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the way an individual becomes a fanatic.” -Yvon Chouinard https://t.co/eZyQzXsAJ7

Paperback, 2002

$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald

The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald
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"The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald is simultaneously the funniest and saddest book I have read. She is one of the great English writers of the 20th century." -Michael Ondaatje https://t.co/1i4XLzdW4W

Paperback, 2015

$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Hunger, Knut Hamsun

Hunger

Knut Hamsun
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"[Hunger by Knut Hamsun] was, and still is, the ultimate bohemian novel to me. There is a certain young age when you feel that Hamsun, Dostoyevsky and Hemingway speak to you and only to you." -Jo Nesbø https://t.co/sZawW2r8VF

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Book Cover for: The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West

The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West
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"I read [Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust] when I was young, and my admiration fueled my ambition to be a writer. It is funny, wicked, satirical, and wholly in the American grain." -Paul Theroux https://t.co/jOvJTHaSCe

Paperback, 2015

$13.95Member price:$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver

Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver
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"I read a few pages from [Mary Oliver's Devotions] every single day — often in the morning. It’s what I imagine a bird feels when they hop into a really beautiful birdbath with really clean water in it." @DevendraBanhart https://t.co/LDVUAV59SI

Paperback, 2020

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin
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"Giovanni’s Room is one of my all-time favorites by James Baldwin, a master of deconstructing the American character and social temperature during an era in which novels that explored race and queer love were few and far between, at best." -Kehinde Wiley https://t.co/BlhZx5Z9cf

Paperback, 2013

$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book