A selection of US authors and stories is available for 25% off until the end of the week (Sept 10). Use code ‘ReadaBookDay’ at checkout!
Read a Book Day
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4,00 €by Arthur Miller
Powerful, passionate and frighteningly relevant, the drama of Arthur Miller deals in the hard currency of ‘social’ realism and tragedy.
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5,00 €by Jakob Guanzon
A wrenching debut about the causes and effects of poverty, as seen by a father and son living in a pickup. -
2,00 €Penguin Great Journeys
by Isabella Lucy Bird
A vanished world of grizzly hunters, cowboys, isolated cabins and plagues of rattlesnakes is here beautifully brought back to life.
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5,00 €by Richard McGregor
A history of the combative military, diplomatic, and economic relations among China, Japan, and the United States since the 1970s–and the potential crisis that awaits them.
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6,00 €Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
by Patricia Hill Collins
Drawing from fiction, poetry, music and oral history, the result is a superbly crafted and revolutionary book that provided the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought and its canon.
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9,00 €by Joseph Heller
Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel’s strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller’s classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage.
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5,00 €
BreakBeat Poets
by José Olivarez
Citizen Illegal is a revealing portrait of life as a first generation immigrant, a celebration of Chicano joy, a shout against erasure, and a vibrant re-imagining of Mexican American life.
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5,00 €
by Rainbow Rowell
Set over one school year in 1986, Eleanor & Park is the story of two star-crossed misfits – smart enough to know first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. -
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by Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman (Illustrator)
‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive …”‘
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7,00 €
by Harper Lee
From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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7,00 €
by Jamie Ford
Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope.
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6,00 €
by Jon Krakauer
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless.
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6,00 €
by Hope Jahren
Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together.
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6,00 €
by Ken Kesey
Out of the mists of Oregon lore, Ken Kesey has summoned a long-remembered story he first heard as a boy from his father around a campfire …
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7,00 €
by Becky Albertalli
Straight people should have to come out too. And the more awkward it is, the better. Simon Spier is sixteen and trying to work out who he is – and what he’s looking for.
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5,00 €
by John Updike
A deftly satirical portrait of life and love in a suburban town as only Updike can paint it.
No one else comes even close to Heinlein in consistently fusing scientific thinking with fictional form.
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8,00 €
by Herman Melville
One of the great American novels, if not even the greatest, Moby Dick epically combines rip-roaring adventure, a meticulously realistic portrayal of the whaling trade and a profound philosophical disquisition on the nature of good and evil.
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6,00 €
by Angie Thomas
On the Come Up is an ode to hip hop from one of the most influential literary voices of a generation. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; and about how, especially for young black people, freedom of speech isn’t always free.
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5,00 €
by Ken Kesey
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy.
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4,00 €
by Kent Haruf
A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. -
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12,90 €
by Charles Bukowski
Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski’s poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature.
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4,00 €
Rabbit Angstrom #2
by John Updike
The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. -
6,00 €
by John Updike
On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York.
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6,00 €
by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s tales and poems draw the reader into an unsettling world of mystery and fear. -
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7,00 €
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Two novels – six years separate Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon, the novel Fitzgerald left unfinished at his death in December 1940.
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6,00 €
by Louis Theroux
For ten years Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the things they believe, and to find out what has happened to them since he last saw them.
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7,00 €
by Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph – a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate. -
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by Upton Sinclair
One of the most powerful, provocative and enduring novels to expose social injustice ever published in the United States.
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6,00 €
The Leatherstocking Tales #2
by James Fenimore Cooper‘Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.’
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7,00 €
by Christian White
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White’s internationally bestselling debut thriller of psychological suspense about a woman uncovering devastating secrets about her family—and her very identity…
