Powell's 50 Books for 50 Years

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From a Powells.com email: "We're celebrating Powell's 50th anniversary in our favorite way: with a curated list of 50 essential books that have seen us through the last half-century. These books explore who we've been, who we're becoming, and the better future we hope to build."
1
De beproeving
door Stephen King
19,796 leden
366 besprekingen
½ 4.3
3 Members
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2
How Long 'Til Black Future Month?
door N. K. Jemisin
1,430 leden
50 besprekingen
½ 4.3
2 Members
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3
Parable of the Sower
door Octavia E. Butler
8,083 leden
237 besprekingen
4.1
2 Members
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4
Naked
door David Sedaris
12,324 leden
121 besprekingen
4
2 Members
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5
Waterschapsheuvel
door Richard Adams
24,863 leden
471 besprekingen
4.2
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6
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
door Bill Watterson
5,399 leden
36 besprekingen
½ 4.6
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7
The Princess Bride
door William Goldman
24,795 leden
530 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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8
The Ministry for the Future
door Kim Stanley Robinson
1,545 leden
67 besprekingen
3.8
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9
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
door Jennifer Finney Boylan
1,379 leden
32 besprekingen
4
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10
De duivelsverzen
door Salman Rushdie
12,035 leden
138 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Member
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11
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
door Michelle Alexander
5,281 leden
139 besprekingen
½ 4.4
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12
De rest van de dag
door Kazuo Ishiguro
16,334 leden
475 besprekingen
4.2
Member
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13
Sula
door Toni Morrison
7,649 leden
98 besprekingen
3.8
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14
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
door Randy Shilts
2,915 leden
63 besprekingen
½ 4.4
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15
De kleur paars
door Alice Walker
19,695 leden
334 besprekingen
4.1
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16
Het einde van de rode mens
door Svetlana Alexievich
1,608 leden
62 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Member
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17
America: The Farewell Tour
door Chris Hedges
248 leden
7 besprekingen
4.1
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ManWithAnAgenda
18
When My Brother Was an Aztec
door Natalie Diaz
273 leden
10 besprekingen
4.2
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19
The House on Mango Street
door Sandra Cisneros
10,616 leden
230 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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20
Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Space
door Carl Sagan
2,914 leden
30 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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21
Wat ze droegen
door Tim O'Brien
14,323 leden
393 besprekingen
4.2
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22
Nationaliteit geen
door Dubravka Ugrešić
60 leden
1 bespreking
½ 4.3
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23
American War
door Omar El Akkad
1,833 leden
96 besprekingen
3.8
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24
De geheimzinnige Noordpool
door Barry Lopez
1,944 leden
40 besprekingen
4.1
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25
Assata: An Autobiography
door Assata Shakur
1,287 leden
19 besprekingen
½ 4.4
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26
Autobiografie van rood
door Anne Carson
2,113 leden
36 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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27
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
door Steven Greenhouse
116 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.6
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28
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
door Jeff Chang
870 leden
19 besprekingen
4.1
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29
Ceremonie
door Leslie Marmon Silko
3,553 leden
60 besprekingen
3.8
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30
Een geschiedenis van de wereld door moslimse ogen
door Tamim Ansary
1,025 leden
36 besprekingen
4.2
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31
Erosion: Essays of Undoing
door Terry Tempest Williams
158 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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32
Exit West
door Mohsin Hamid
3,603 leden
231 besprekingen
3.8
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33
The Hate U Give
door Angie Thomas
9,232 leden
475 besprekingen
½ 4.5
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34
Een huishouden
door Marilynne Robinson
6,356 leden
213 besprekingen
3.9
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35
Een tijdelijk ongemak
door Jhumpa Lahiri
12,099 leden
266 besprekingen
4.1
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36
Jezus' Zoon
door Denis Johnson
2,811 leden
79 besprekingen
4.1
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37
Know My Name: A Memoir
door Chanel Miller
1,493 leden
69 besprekingen
½ 4.6
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38
Lonesome Dove
door Larry McMurtry
8,319 leden
239 besprekingen
½ 4.6
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39
Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays
door Leslie Jamison
246 leden
9 besprekingen
4
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40
The Monkey Wrench Gang
door Edward Abbey
2,949 leden
54 besprekingen
3.9
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41
No One Is Talking About This
door Patricia Lockwood
1,109 leden
59 besprekingen
½ 3.5
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42
Over tirannie : twintig lessen uit de twintigste eeuw
door Timothy Snyder
2,918 leden
124 besprekingen
4.1
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43
The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming
door Masanobu Fukuoka
997 leden
21 besprekingen
4.2
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44
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
door Garrett M. Graff
729 leden
38 besprekingen
½ 4.6
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45
Sinaasappels zijn niet de enige vruchten
door Jeanette Winterson
6,252 leden
143 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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46
Pachinko
door Min Jin Lee
6,419 leden
281 besprekingen
4.1
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47
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
door Valeria Luiselli
649 leden
28 besprekingen
½ 4.3
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48
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
door Nicholas D. Kristof
365 leden
21 besprekingen
4.2
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49
Witte tanden
door Zadie Smith
13,644 leden
247 besprekingen
½ 3.7
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50
Women, Race, and Class
door Angela Y. Davis
2,065 leden
19 besprekingen
½ 4.4
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