Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
By: Colin Asher
4.51
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels…
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1. The Neon Wilderness
By: Nelson Algren , Studs Terkel , Terry Southern , None , Colin Asher
4.19
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Algren's short stories are now generally acknowledged to be literary triumphs - The New York Times … read more
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"Well, I may get drunk," the Widow admitted, "but I don't stagger. Sometimes I fall down. But I don't stagger."-Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness
"In this neighborhood, with only forty-five cents, you're a bum. But Sobotnik, even with two dollars, he's still a bum."-Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness
"That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me."-Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness
"Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They fought—not because the liquor was in them, but because it did not fill them enough."-Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness
2. Player Piano
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way t… read more
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3. Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway
By: Michael Riedel
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Are You My Mother?
By: Alison Bechdel
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
5. Paul McCartney: The Life
By: Philip Norman
4.14
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
6. The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
By: Eric Weiner
3.37
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent reporting from such discontented locales as Iraq, … read more
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7. The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
By: Richard McGregor
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening investigation into china's communist party and its integral role in the country's ri… read more
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8. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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9. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
10. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
11. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
By: Ari Shapiro
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
12. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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- history
- biography
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
13. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
14. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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- history
- biography
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
15. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
By: Jenny Odell
3.61
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more
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- nonfiction
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
16. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
17. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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18. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
19. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
20. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
21. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
22. How Beautiful We Were
By: Imbolo Mbue
3.95
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping, … read more
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"But my father used to say we can’t do only what we’re at ease with, we must do what we ought to do."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"much of the suffering in the world was because of those who had forgotten that they too were once children."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"Only with him did I come to realize how much noise there is in the world, and how marvelous it is not to be a part of it."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"... if everyone only did what they ought to do, who would do the things no one thought they had to do? What did enjoyment have to do with duty?"-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
23. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
24. Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren
By: Colin Asher
4.51
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels… read more
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- history
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- politics
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- nonfiction
25. Year of the Monkey
By: Patti Smith
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully reali… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"I could feel the gravitational pull of home, which when I'm home too long becomes the gravitational pull of somewhere else."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow. A tomorrow following a whole succession of tomorrows."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
26. 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
By: Eric Klinenberg
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A renowned sociologist and bestselling author examines a year of upheaval and conflict, showing how… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
27. Wait
By: Gabriella Burnham
3.36
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A young woman reunites with her teenage sister in their childhood home on Nantucket Island after th… read more
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28. Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
By: Sam Wasson
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Fosse, a sweeping yet intimate—and often hilarious—history of a uni… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Improvisors connect for the same basic reason you and your friends connect. Say you meet someone. You like something about them and they like something about you. Your mutual interest begets mutual p…"-Sam Wasson, Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
29. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
30. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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- history
- biography
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
31. We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything
By: Arionne Nettles
4.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Journalist Arionne Nettles believes it is time Black Chicagoans receive the acclaim, the honor, and… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
