William Blake vs the World
By: John Higgs
4.17
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William B…
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1. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
2. Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist
By: Phil Baker
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Fascinated with mysticism and spiritualism from an early age, Austin Spare practiced automatic draw… read more
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3. The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness
By: Walter Benjamin , Paul Klee , Esther Leslie , Sam Dolbear , None
3.72
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker's short stories The Storytellergathers for the firs… read more
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4. I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary
By: J.M.R. Higgs
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
President Nixon called him the most dangerous man in America, while Terence McKenna believed he mad… read more
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5. Infinite Ground
By: Martin MacInnes
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A luminous debut novel of modern alienation, of the sinister beauty of the human body and of the en… read more
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6. This Is Memorial Device
By: David Keenan
3.64
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of La… read more
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7. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By: William Blake
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and lit… read more
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8. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
9. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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10. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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11. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
By: Andrea Wulf
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarka… read more
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12. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
13. The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
By: Brian Evenson
4.10
Format: 254 pages, ebook
“Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurkin… read more
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14. Jerusalem
By: Alan Moore
4.01
Format: 1266 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post , Kir… read more
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"splashed amidst a pillow-fight of pigeons"-Alan Moore, Jerusalem
"It was as if life was one great big impersonal piece of machinery."-Alan Moore, Jerusalem
"This had been before the war on drugs, of course, when launching military campaigns against abstract emotions or inanimate materials would have been seen as the behaviour of highly-strung and over-re…"-Alan Moore, Jerusalem
"His sister, in a big turquoise Angora sweater, leaned upon the wood frame of the open nursery door, anxiously looking out to see if he was really going to show, beaming and waving like a pastel color…"-Alan Moore, Jerusalem
15. The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography
By: Benjamin Zephaniah
4.33
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the … read more
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16. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
By: George Monbiot
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more
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17. William Blake vs the World
By: John Higgs
4.17
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William B… read more
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18. Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
By: John F. Szwed
4.29
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
“The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides … read more
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19. Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy
By: Benjamin Balint
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka’s… read more
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20. Bonding
By: Mariel Franklin
3.37
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
'Audacious, hot, deeply uncomfortable and genuinely thrilling' - Saba Sams, author of Send NudesAdr… read more
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21. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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