Duck Soup (BFI Film Classics)
By: J. Hoberman
4.11
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Marx Brothers are universally considered to be classic Hollywood's preeminent comedy team and D…
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1. The Notorious Byrd Brothers
By: Ric Menck
3.67
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
By the time Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke entered the studio to be… read more
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2. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
By: Marshall Berman
4.31
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a dazzling exploration of modern consciousness. In this unparal… read more
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- nonfiction
"Get off the Expressway, and go south a mile or so, or half a mile north toward the Zoo; drive in and out through streets whose names are posted at the soul’s intersections — Fox, Kelly, Longwood, Hon…"-Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
3. Gringos
By: Charles Portis
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
With an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd details that comprise your average American, Charles P… read more
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"Being a facetious person I got no credit for any depth of feeling."-Charles Portis, Gringos
"You put things off and then one morning you wake up and say—today I will change the oil in my truck."-Charles Portis, Gringos
4. The Thin Man
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve h… read more
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5. Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life
By: Peter Ackroyd
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A brief yet definitive new biography of one of film's greatest legends: perfect for readers who wan… read more
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- nonfiction
- film
6. Something Like an Autobiography
By: Akira Kurosawa , Audie Bock
2.62
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"A first rate book and a joy to read...It's doubtful that a complete understanding of the director'… read more
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- film
7. Alien
By: Roger Luckhurst
1.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, Alien (1979) is one of the most enduring modern m… read more
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- nonfiction
- film
8. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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10. John Wayne: The Life and Legend
By: Scott Eyman
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on interviews that author Scott Eyman conducted with John Wayne before his death and more t… read more
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11. Se7en
By: Richard Dyer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Gluttony, greed, sloth, lust, pride, envy, wrath. A serial killer on a warped moral mission who tur… read more
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12. Do The Right Thing
By: Ed Guerrero
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
This text discusses how the film, "Do The Right Thing" epitomises Spike Lee's powerful impact on th… read more
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13. Three to Kill
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Jean-Patrick Manchette
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Businessman Georges Gerfaut witnesses a murder--and is pursued by the killers. His conventional lif… read more
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14. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
15. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
16. 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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"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
17. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
18. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
By: Warren Zanes
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more
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"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
19. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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20. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
By: Will Sommer
4.09
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Duck Soup (BFI Film Classics)
By: J. Hoberman
4.11
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Marx Brothers are universally considered to be classic Hollywood's preeminent comedy team and D… read more
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22. Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies
By: Lara Gabrielle
4.20
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The comprehensive critical biography of silent-screen star Marion Davies, who fittingly referred to… read more
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- film
23. Mean Streets (BFI Film Classics)
By: Demetrios Matheou
4.15
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Mean Streets was Martin Scorsese's third feature film, and the one that confirmed him as a major ne… read more
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24. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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25. Rushmore (BFI Film Classics)
By: Kristi Irene McKim
3.69
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Earning critical acclaim and commercial success upon its 1998 release, Rushmore- the sophomore film… read more
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26. Sunset Boulevard (BFI Film Classics)
By: Steven Cohan
4.06
Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and re… read more
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27. The Deer Hunter (BFI Film Classics)
By: Brad Prager
3.89
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release… read more
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28. Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite: The Unauthorized Biography of Looney Tunes
By: Jaime Weinman
4.05
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Looney Tunes cartoons, writes celebrated television critic Jaime Weinman, are the high-water mark o… read more
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29. The Thing (BFI Film Classics)
By: Anne Billson
4.17
Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition
An alien entity that can take any living form invades an isolated scientific research station in th… read more
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30. A Matter of Life and Death
By: Ian Christie
4.16
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A dazzling fantasy produced in the aftermath of WWII, A Matter of Life and Death (1946), directed b… read more
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