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Martha C. Nussbaum has 162 books on Goodreads with 73838 ratings. Martha C. Nussbaum’s most popular book is Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Human...
- Anger and Forgiveness
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- Author of Not for Profit
Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service...
- Cultivating Humanity: a Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that...
- The Quality of Life
162 books 1,208 followers Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund...
- Saul Levmore
Saul Levmore is the William B. Graham Distinguished Service...
- Clones and Clones
162 books 1,207 followers Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund...
- Hiding From Humanity
A fascinating account of the deleterious effects of using...
- Cass R. Sunstein
Cass R. Sunstein is an American legal scholar, particularly...
- Anger and Forgiveness
- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, by Erik Larson. Goodreads Rating: 4.29 / 5. Released on February 25, 2020 by Crown.
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson. Goodreads Rating 4.11/5. Released on March 3, 2015 by Crown. You’ll be transported back to the fateful 1915 voyage of the Lusitania.
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson. Released on February 11, 2003 by Crown. Chicago’s dazzling 1893 World’s Fair, a testament to human progress, becomes a macabre stage for two contrasting figures: Daniel Burnham, a visionary architect striving for urban utopia, and H.H.
- In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, by Erik Larson. Goodreads Rating: 3.88 / 5. Released on May 10, 2011 by Crown.
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May 15, 2024 · 1. Blood Meridian. Cormac McCarthy. 102 votes. First Published: 1985-02. Subjects: Reference. Genres (Book): Western, Fiction, Historical novel. Original Language: English Language, Spanish Language. Buy on Amazon. Blood Meridian. #50 of 153 on The Greatest American Novels. #352 of 437 on The Best Novels Ever Written.
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When MARGARET NYMAN was a child, she wanted to become a writer. Though she pursued this through college and grad school, marrying Nate in 1969 and having seven children changed her story line significantly.
- The Road
- No Country For Old Men
- Blood Meridian
- All The Pretty Horses
- Suttree
- The Crossing
- Child of God
- Outer Dark
- Cities of The Plain
- The Orchard Keeper
The Road is a harrowing novel about a post-apocalyptic world. It follows a father and his sonas they attempt to survive in a starvation-ravaged wilderness. The industrial world has collapsed, and the human race appears to be on the brink of extinction. Dangers are posed by disease, starvation, and other human beings throughout. The novel is incredi...
No Country for Old Men is another of McCarthy’s better-known novels. It was written in 2005 after the author penned the screenplay by the same name. The story takes place around the Mexico/United States border in 1980 and follows a drug deal gone wrong. McCarthy focuses on three main characters, Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, and Ed Tom Bell, who de...
Blood Meridian is a McCarthy novel that follows a group of young men as they attempt to wipe out the Apache Native Americans in Mexico. It’s a notoriously violent novel that has also been cited as one of the best books of the 20th century. The men perusing the natives cite the latter’s savagery as the reason why they’re being hunted. But, as the no...
This novel was published in 1992 and takes place in the mid-1900s. It starts with the funeral of John Grady Cole’s grandfather and the choices to sell the family ranch and move. Grady runs away and moves towards the Mexican border with his friend Rawlins. They are joined by Jimmy Blevins and encounter an array of troubling adventures. The book has ...
Suttree is a 1979 novel and is usually described as semi-autobiographical. The novel follows a man named Cornelius Suttree, who has given up a life of privilege to work as a fisherman along the Tennessee River, an area that McCarthy knew well, having spent much of his life in the state. The novel includes flashbacks and shifts in perspective that s...
Published in 1994, The Crossing is the second part of the “Border Trilogy.” It follows All the Pretty Horses, published two years prior. The book is set between the United States and Mexico around the beginning and during the Second World War. Billy Parham serves as the main character. It is a darker novel and more melancholic than the first book i...
Child of God is McCarthy’s third novel. It follows a dark main character, a serial killer, operating in the 1960s in Appalachian, Tennessee. The novel did not bring McCarthy the economic success that he needed during this time in his life, but it did establish some of the primary themes that McCarthy would explore throughout the rest of his career....
Outer Dark was published in 1968 and was McCarthy’s second novel. It’s set somewhere, and readers are led to believe, in Appalachian Tennessee, like other novels McCarthy wrote throughout his life. It may be playing out around the turn of the 20th century. The novel features Rinthy, a woman who bears his brother’s child. The brother leaves the chil...
Cities of the Plain is the final novel in the “Border Trilogy.” It was published in 1998. The title, like many of McCarthy’s novels, has a biblical origin. It references Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19:29. The story takes place in the mid-1950s and follows John Grady Cole, who can also be found in the other two “Border” novels.
The Orchard Keeper is the first novel McCarthy wrote. It was published in 1966 and won the William Faulkner Foundation Award for a notable first novel. Critics often describe how similar McCarthy’s prose is to William Faulkner’s.
Jan 2, 2023 · Jan 2, 2023. Cormac McCarthy Novels Ranked. Jan 2, 2023. If Toni Morrison is described as “America’s Conscience”, Cormac McCarthy represents something closer to America’s unbridled id. His novels are vicious, unblinking reminders of the deep evils of genocide and violence America was born from, without the sheen of manifest destiny and ...
Martha Manning has 22 books on Goodreads with 6136 ratings. Martha Manning’s most popular book is Who Do I Lean On? (Yada Yada House of Hope, #3).
