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Description: Books I'd like to buy/borrow.

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

4,372 members

139 reviews

4.1

Member: bokai

2

The Nature of Middle-earth : Late Writings on the Lands, Inhabitants, and Metaphysics of Middle-earth

by J. R. R. Tolkien

900 members

6 reviews

4

Member: bokai

3

The World: A Family History of Humanity

by Simon Sebag-Montefiore

550 members

13 reviews

4.1

Member: bokai

4

The Desert Prince

by Peter V. Brett

370 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: bokai

5

The Physicians of Vilnoc

by Lois McMaster Bujold

332 members

15 reviews

4.1

Member: bokai

6

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

306 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: bokai
Explanations: bokai: I want to read anything related to language and Asia. However, this book got a poor review on Language Log, so approaching with caution

7

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

by Jennifer Wright

256 members

11 reviews

4

Member: bokai

8

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

by Caroline Dodds Pennock

246 members

8 reviews

4

Member: bokai

9

Man Made Language

by Dale Spender

244 members

2 reviews

4

Member: bokai

10

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

239 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bokai

11

Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy

by John DeFrancis

197 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: bokai

12

Latin: Or the Empire of a Sign

by Françoise Waquet

196 members

1 review

½ 4.4

Member: bokai

13

The Boy with the Porcelain Blade (The Erebus Sequence)

148 members

7 reviews

3

Member: bokai

14

by Eddie Robson

132 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: bokai

15

I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

by Kidada E. Williams

129 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: bokai

16

Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s

by Ivan Vartanian

72 members

1 review

4

Member: bokai

17

The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley

by Wesley Morgan

59 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: bokai

18

Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis

by Charles L. Marohn, Jr.

29 members

½ 3.5

Member: bokai

19

Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language

by James Griffiths

27 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: bokai

20

Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945

by Seiji Shirane

19 members

Member: bokai

21

A New History of Greek Mathematics

17 members

Member: bokai

22

Zero-Sum Victory: What We're Getting Wrong About War

by Christopher D. Kolenda

13 members

Member: bokai

23

The problem of the Missale speciale

by Allan Stevenson

9 members

1 review

5

Member: bokai

24

Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism

5 members

Member: bokai

25

Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo

by Paula Christensen

4 members

Member: bokai

26

Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism (Japanese Visual Culture)

by Erin Schoneveld

3 members

Member: bokai

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Started: bokai
May 2022
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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