Rubicon by Tom Holland
A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., …
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The Idiot by Фёдор Достоевский
Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul" colliding with the …
Leo rated The Master of Go: 4 stars
Leo rated My Name is Red: 3 stars
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
In Istanbul, in the late 1590's, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his …
Leo rated A Confederacy of Dunces: 3 stars
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, …
Leo rated Kafka on the Shore: 1 star
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka) is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Its 2005 English …
Leo rated A wild sheep chase: 2 stars
A wild sheep chase by Haruki Murakami
It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for …
Leo rated Standard operating procedure: 4 stars
Standard operating procedure by Philip Gourevitch
An utterly original literary and intellectual collaboration by two of our keenest moral and political observers has produced a nonfiction …
Leo rated The cloudspotter's guide: 4 stars
The cloudspotter's guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
This title teaches readers to appreciate the different varieties of clouds - the cumulus, nimbostratus and Morning Glory - and …
Leo rated The Twelve Chairs: 3 stars
The Twelve Chairs by Илья Ильф, Yevgeny Petrov, Ilf and Petrov
The Twelve Chairs (Russian: Двенадцать стульев, tr. Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a classic satirical novel by the Odessan Soviet authors Ilf …
Leo rated Altered Carbon: 5 stars
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
It's the twenty-fifth century, and advances in technology have redefined life itself. A person's consciousness can now be stored in …
Leo rated Singularity Sky: 2 stars
Leo rated Broken Angels: 4 stars
Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan
Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn't just for planet Earth …
Leo rated Stories of Your Life and Others: 5 stars
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of short stories by American writer Ted Chiang originally published in …
