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Reader lists

     

    Best Dystopian Novels, recommended by Aimee Dars Ellis

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    1

    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood

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    2

    On Such a Full Sea: A Novel
    by Chang-rae Lee

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    3

    Oryx and Crake
    by Margaret Atwood

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    4

    The Age of Miracles
    by Karen Thompson Walker

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    5

    The Last One: A Novel
    by Alexandra Oliva

Best Dystopian Novels

by Aimee Dars Ellis

     

    William Blake Scholarship, recommended by Roger Whitson

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    1

    Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
    by Northrop Frye

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    2

    Narrative Unbound : Re-Visioning William Blake's the Four Zoas
    by Donald Ault

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    3

    William Blake and the Art of Engraving (The History of the Book)
    by Mei-Ying Sung

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    4

    William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s
    by Saree Makdisi

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    5

    Beastly Blake
    by Helen P. Bruder (Editor), Tristanne Connolly (Editor)

William Blake Scholarship

by Roger Whitson

     

    Books on neo-Aristotelianism in Business Ethics, recommended by Caleb Bernacchio

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    1

    After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition
    by Alasdair MacIntyre

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    2

    Virtue at Work: Ethics for Individuals, Managers, and Organizations
    by Geoff Moore

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    3

    Organizational Ethics and the Good Life (The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics)
    by Edwin Hartman

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    4

    Virtue in Business: Conversations with Aristotle (Business, Value Creation, and Society)
    by Professor Edwin M. Hartman

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    5

    Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative
    by Alasdair MacIntyre

Books on neo-Aristotelianism in Business Ethics

by Caleb Bernacchio

     

    Occultism and Esoteric Religions in the U.S., recommended by Daniel_Gorman_Jr_

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    1

    Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candombl?
    by J. Matory

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    2

    A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion
    by Catherine L. Albanese

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    3

    Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Mag
    by John Patrick Deveney

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    4

    The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
    by John L. Brooke

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    5

    The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences
    by Jason A. Josephson-Storm

Occultism and Esoteric Religions in the U.S.

by Daniel_Gorman_Jr_

     

    Provincetown, recommended by Jessica Chapel

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    1

    Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown
    by Michael Cunningham

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    2

    Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort
    by Karen Christel Krahulik

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    3

    Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape
    by Peter Manso

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    4

    The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America’s Oldest Art Colony
    by Alexander J. Noelle

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    5

    Time and the Town: A Provincetown Chronicle
    by Mary Heaton Vorse

Provincetown

by Jessica Chapel

     

    Writing London, recommended by Peter Lowe

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    1

    Sketches by Boz (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    2

    London Labour and the London Poor (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Mayhew

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    3

    Modern Classics Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

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    4

    Modern Classics London Belongs To Me (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Norman Collins

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    5

    Hearts and Minds
    by Amanda Craig

Writing London

by Peter Lowe

     

    My favourite books on Football, recommended by Richard

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    1

    The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines
    by Michael Cox

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    2

    The Damned Utd: A Novel
    by David Peace

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    3

    The Illustrated History of Football
    by David Squires

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    4

    The Artist: Being Iniesta
    by Andres Iniesta

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    5

    I Am Zlatan: My Story On and Off the Field
    by Zlatan Ibrahimovic

My favourite books on Football

by Richard

     

    The Heart and the Horse, recommended by Jessica Chapel

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    1

    Laughing in the Hills: A Season at the Racetrack
    by Bill Barich

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    2

    Track Conditions: A Memoir
    by Michael Klein

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    3

    My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track
    by Nan Mooney

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    4

    Something for the Pain: A Memoir of the Turf
    by Gerald Murnane

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    5

    Ruffian: A Racetrack Romance
    by William Nack

The Heart and the Horse

by Jessica Chapel

     

    The Best Philosophy Books to Take on Holiday, recommended by Nigel Warburton

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    1

    American Philosophy: A Love Story
    by John Kaag

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    2

    At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
    by Sarah Bakwell

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    3

    What Does It All Mean?
    by Thomas Nagel

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    4

    Walden (Pocket Penguins)
    by Henry Thoreau

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    5

    The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul
    by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett

The Best Philosophy Books to Take on Holiday

by Nigel Warburton

     

    For an armchair travel to the Indian subcontinent, recommended by sivashakthia

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    1

    Chai, chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop but Never Get Off
    by Bishwanath Ghosh

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    2

    Following Fish: Travels around the Indian Coast
    by Samanth Subramanian

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    3

    Chasing The Monsoon: A Modern Pilgrimage Through India
    by Alexander Frater

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    4

    Korma,Kheer and Kismet; Five seasons in old Delhi
    by Timms

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    5

    On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India
    by Dervla Murphy

For an armchair travel to the Indian subcontinent

by sivashakthia

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