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Zero
The number Europe refused to accept for centuries, because admitting it meant admitting the void.
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Zero to One
Thiel's contrarian guide to building companies that create something new rather than copy what works, arguing that real progress comes from going from zero to one, not one to many.
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Zhou Enlai: A Life
Mao's premier survived every purge, and the question is what that survival actually cost.
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Zima Blue and Other Stories
Short science fiction from a writer known for enormous scale, with a title story about an artist, memory and one colour.
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Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
Oswalt's genre-hopping debut of essays, parodies, and lists, built around his theory that every teenage misfit escapes into a zombie, spaceship, or wasteland.
Zone
Mathias Énard's novel told largely in a single sentence across more than five hundred pages, translated by Charlotte Mandell for Open Letter in 2010.
Zorba the Greek
Kazantzakis's tale of a bookish young Greek and the boisterous Alexis Zorba, in a Simon & Schuster paperback.
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