When Stuff Started Being Original
1. 
A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels
by:
Caspar Henderson
3.72 avg rating β 196 ratings 2. 
Divine Vintage: Following the Wine Trail from Genesis to the Modern Age
by:
Joel Butler
3.32 avg rating β 40 ratings 3. 
Die Wiener Gruppe/ The Vienna Group: A Moment of Modernity, 1954-1960/ The Visual Works and the Actions
by:
Peter Weibel
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 4. 
A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan (Volume 64) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)
by:
Aaron Gerow
3.92 avg rating β 12 ratings 4. 
Treating the Public: Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World
by:
Rachael Ball
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 
4. 
Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror
by:
Jason Zinoman
3.86 avg rating β 2,604 ratings 4. 
The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Short Stories
by:
Wayne Grady
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 9 ratings 9. 
Encyclopedia of the Modern Elongated: A Complete and Authentic Description of Modern Elongated Coins, 1960-1978
by:
Angelo A. Rosato
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 9. 
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Behind the Front Fence : 30 Modern Australian Short Stories
by:
Barry Oakley
3.87 avg rating β 15 ratings 12. 
Mock Modernism: An Anthology of Parodies, Travesties, Frauds, 1910-1935 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them
by:
Larry Gonick
4.30 avg rating β 400 ratings 12. 
The Race to Save Our Century: Five Core Principles to Promote Peace, Freedom, and a Culture Of Life
by:
Jason Jones
4.33 avg rating β 18 ratings 
16. 
Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America 3.10 avg rating β 10 ratings
16. 
China Modern: 100 recepten voor de eenentwintigste eeuw
by:
Ching-He Huang
3.68 avg rating β 41 ratings 
20. 
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by:
Jack Weatherford
4.06 avg rating β 81,022 ratings 
24. 
The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde
by:
Ruth Jennison
4.71 avg rating β 7 ratings 
27. 
The Art of Writing Badly: Valentin Kataev's Mauvism and the Rebirth of Russian Modernism 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
27. 
Dutch Cooking Today : 60 modern and tradtional dishes of favourite Dutch foods
by:
Chantel Veer
3.44 avg rating β 9 ratings 31. 
Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity (Great Comics Artists Series)
by:
Thomas Andrae
3.84 avg rating β 37 ratings 31. 
The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society 3.86 avg rating β 192 ratings
31. 
Grimm's Anew: A Quintet of Fairy Tales Rewritten For Adults of the Modern Age
by:
Peter Johnson
it was ok 2.00 avg rating β 4 ratings 
34. 
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
by:
Barry Estabrook
3.96 avg rating β 4,507 ratings 34. 
Degenerate Moderns: Modernity As Rationalized Sexual Misbehavior
by:
E. Michael Jones
4.04 avg rating β 138 ratings 
37. 
Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World: Complementary Dualism in Modern Peru
by:
Hillary S. Webb
4.30 avg rating β 23 ratings 37. 
Dining With the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts With Modernity (Hourglass Books)
by:
Os Guinness
3.83 avg rating β 121 ratings 40. 
40. 
Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
by:
Wendell Berry
4.21 avg rating β 1,240 ratings 
43. 
H. C. Artmann's Structuralist Imagination: A Semiotic Study of His Aesthetic and Postmodernity 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age
by:
Roger Kimball
3.70 avg rating β 50 ratings 46. 
Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism
by:
Eric White
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 46. 
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
by:
Kevin M. Kruse
4.27 avg rating β 1,015 ratings 46. 
Retreat of Reason: Political Correctness & the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain
by:
Anthony Browne
4.09 avg rating β 66 ratings 49. 
Aspects of Freemasonry in Modern Mexico: An Example of Social Cleavage
by:
Thomas B. Davis
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 49. 
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
by:
Mark Harris
4.14 avg rating β 687 ratings 
52. 
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
by:
David W. Anthony
3.99 avg rating β 3,775 ratings 52. 
It May Be Called Modernism, Neo-Orthodoxy, Religious Liberalism or Plain Infidelity
by:
John R. Rice
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 55. 
The Museum of Drawers 1970-1977: Five Hundred Works of Modern Art
by:
Herbert Distel
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
55. 
Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought
by:
Louis A. Sass
4.43 avg rating β 218 ratings 58. 
58. 
How We Got Here: The 1970s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life
by:
David Frum
3.57 avg rating β 247 ratings 
64. 
Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France
by:
Jennifer L. Shaw
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 64. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicβand How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating β 55,260 ratings 
67. 
Origamic Architecture Goes Modern: Building Masterpieces
by:
Masahiro Chatani
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 
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God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
by:
Cullen Murphy
3.76 avg rating β 826 ratings 72. 
Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art
by:
Dario Gamboni
4.43 avg rating β 7 ratings 72. 
The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947
by:
Tsering Shakya
3.97 avg rating β 221 ratings 74. 
74. 
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage 3.76 avg rating β 1,413 ratings
76. 
Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture: On the Threshold of German Modernism
by:
Marsha Morton
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 
78. 
Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic
by:
Nevill Drury
3.80 avg rating β 44 ratings 80. 
A Private Volcano: A modern novel of science and imagination
by:
Lance Sieveking
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 80. 
Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South
by:
Richard Starnes
3.57 avg rating β 7 ratings 
82. 
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
by:
Laney Salisbury
3.92 avg rating β 6,615 ratings 84. 
Modern Art in Portugal, 1910-1939: the artist contemporaries of Fernando Pessoa
by:
JoΓ£o Serra
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 84. 
Gifts from the Pharaohs: How Ancient Egyptian Civilization Shaped the Modern World 3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
by:
Joshua Zeitz
3.84 avg rating β 3,433 ratings 
88. 
Spiritualism Identical With Ancient Sorcery, New Testament Demonology, And Modern Witchcraft
by:
William McDonald
did not like it 1.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 90. 
Urban Underground Space Design in China: Vernacular and Modern Practice
by:
Gideon S. Golany
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 90. 
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
by:
Wade Davis
4.23 avg rating β 4,079 ratings 92. 
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III: Europe 1880 - 1940
by:
Peter Brooker
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating 92. 
The New Roadside America: The Modern Traveler's Guide to the Wild and Wonderful World of America's Tourist Attractions
by:
Mike Wilkins
4.01 avg rating β 185 ratings 94. 
Xuxa: The Mega-Marketing of Gender, Race, and Modernity
by:
Amelia Simpson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 11 ratings 94. 
A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans? 3.61 avg rating β 1,098 ratings
96. 
Dark Trophies: Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War
by:
Simon Harrison
4.44 avg rating β 9 ratings 96. 
Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World
by:
Mark F. Dewitt
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 98. 
The Modern Satiric Grotesque and Its Traditions
by:
John R. Clark
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 8 ratings 
100. 
Three-Dimensional Reading: Stories of Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Fiction, 1911-1932
by:
Angela Yiu
4.47 avg rating β 19 ratings