Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
By: Hampton Hawes
4.35
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Hampton Hawes [1928–1977] was one of jazz's greatest pianists. Among his peers from California the …
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1. Men Explain Things to Me
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.83
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more
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- nonfiction
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"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
2. Heart of a Dog
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov
4.10
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more
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"A dog's spirit dies hard."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
3. Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper
By: Art Pepper , Laurie Pepper
4.32
Format: 675 pages, Paperback
Not for the faint-hearted, Art Pepper's autobiography is painfully honest as the great saxophonist … read more
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4. As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir
By: Chet Baker
3.52
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
The late jazz legend offers his memories of the jazz scene of the 1950s and his decline from drug u… read more
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"Every summer I'd spend a couple of months on the farm in Yale walking the dirt road that led to the highway, picking wild raspberries along the way. Often I'd walk out into the watermelons, pick one …"-Chet Baker, As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir
5. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
By: William Gibson
3.89
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more
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"Boy, I was daid."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"Things aren't different. Things are things."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
6. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
7. Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop
By: Frankie Manning , Cynthia Millman
4.41
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In the early days of swing dancing, Frankie Manning stood out for his moves and innovative routines… read more
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8. The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
9. The Sirens of Titan
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depr… read more
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10. Miles: The Autobiography
By: Miles Davis , Quincy Troupe
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acc… read more
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- music
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- nonfiction
11. The Comedians
By: Paul Theroux , Graham Greene
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt "Papa Doc" and the Ton… read more
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12. Treat It Gentle
By: Sidney Bechet
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
This autobiography was taken down in interviews with John Ciardi and Joan Reid, and put into book f… read more
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13. Lady Sings the Blues
By: Billie Holiday , William Dufty
3.32
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This work presents the Billie Holiday story - her rise to the top from the slums and the streets, t… read more
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14. Step Aside, Pops (Hark! A Vagrant, #3)
By: Kate Beaton
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The sequel to the hit comic collection Hark! a Vagrant, which appeared on best of lists from Time, … read more
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- history
15. Angels
By: Denis Johnson
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Adazzling and savage first novel' New York Times Angelstells the story of two born losers. Jamie h… read more
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16. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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17. Special Topics in Calamity Physics
By: Marisha Pessl
3.98
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinct… read more
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18. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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19. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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20. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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21. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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22. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
23. Cat's Cradle
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on o… read more
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24. Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King
By: David Ritz , B.B. King
4.28
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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25. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
26. Eastbound
By: Maylis de Kerangal
3.97
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more
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27. Post Office
By: Charles Bukowski
3.94
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more
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"It began as a mistake."-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"-Charles Bukowski, Post Office
28. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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29. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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30. Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
By: Hampton Hawes
4.35
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Hampton Hawes [1928–1977] was one of jazz's greatest pianists. Among his peers from California the … read more
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31. Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography Of Count Basie
By: Count Basie
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Count Basie (1904–1984), pianist, composer, and icon of big-band jazz, known for such classics as "… read more
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