The Swerve

The Swerve

By
Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt
2011 • 356 pages

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57 books

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Cabins in the Laurel
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
The Second Amendment
The Half Has Never Been Told
Factory Man
Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father

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7 books

Science

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The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Revised and Updated For 2020
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Spying on Whales
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration
Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

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Maybe Someday

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American Psycho
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Wrong Place Wrong Time
You're Invited
Reckless Girls
The Escape Room
The Island
The Plot
Hidden Pictures

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489 books

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Bruno, Chief of Police
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Anna Karenina
28 Summers
A Convenient Fiction
A Girl Called Samson

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391 books

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Bruno, Chief of Police
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
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A Convenient Fiction
A Girl Called Samson
Alaska

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286 books

Nonfiction Gen

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Don't Shoot, We're Republicans: The True Story of the FBI Agent Who Did Things His Way
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Terrorism: A History
Danse Macabre
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
J.R.R. Tolkien
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58 books

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The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
A Gentle Madness

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Renaissance

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On the Imagination: The Latin Text with an Introduction, English Translation and Notes
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Renaissance Thought and its Sources
Edebiyat Cumhuriyeti
The Prince
Republicanism: Volume 1, Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe: A Shared European Heritage

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21 books

Intellectual History

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The Swerve
The Culture of Classicism
The Old World and the New: 1492 - 1650
A Little History of Literature
Republicanism: Volume 1, Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe: A Shared European Heritage

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History

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Torture and the Law of Proof: Europe and England in the Ancien Régime
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Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics

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The Rosie Project
The Bone Clocks
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Foundation
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A Hologram for the King
Dear Life

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48 books

Philosophy

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The Republic
The Art of War
Leviathan
The History of Western Philosophy
Civilization and Its Discontents
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A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution
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American Wolf
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Strategy: A History
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3 books

History Enlightenment Era

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How to Live

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Pulitzer Prize

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Toms River
The Sympathizer
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51 books

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Deep Economy
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Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
The Last American Man

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Between the World and Me
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Greenlights

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126 books

Science

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