New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
By: Thomas Dyja
3.91
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
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1. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
By: Dan Senor , Saul Singer
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What the world can learn from Israel's meteoric economic success. Start-Up Nation addresses … read more
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"A 2006 Harvard University study shows that entrepreneurs who have failed in their previous enterprise have an almost one-in-five chance of success in their next start-up"-Dan Senor, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
2. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
By: David McCullough
4.25
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Published on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book … read more
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"One has the feeling that if you could pick it up and turn it over, you would see MADE IN AMERICA stamped on it."-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"What I wanted-what I needed-was a story wherein the principal characters took on something big and admirable and difficult, and did it right."-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"Nothing lasts forever. The most unforseen circumstances will swamp you and baffle the wisest calculations. Only vitality and plenty of it helps you. Washington A. Roebling quoted by"-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"Everywhere about her, lesser men, witless, vulgar, corrupt, men of narrow ambition and the cheapest of values, were prospering as never before, grabbing up power, money, or just about anything else t…"-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
3. Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
By: Derek Thompson
3.90
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Nothing "goes viral." If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a wo… read more
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"Some consumers buy products not because they are ‘better"-Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
"Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success."-Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
"The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet."-Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
"First, understand how people behave; second, build products that match their habits."-Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
4. The Beatles: The Biography
By: Bob Spitz
4.09
Format: 983 pages, Paperback
Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend sm… read more
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5. Lush Life
By: Richard Price
3.84
Format: 179 pages,
"Price is the greatest writer of dialogue, living or dead, this country has ever produced. Wry, pro… read more
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6. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
By: Robert D. Putnam
3.77
Format: 67 pages,
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7. 1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year
By: David Hepworth
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A rollicking look at 1971 - the busiest, most innovative and resonant year of the 70s, defined by t… read more
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8. The Long Valley
By: John Steinbeck
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This classic collection of short stories serves as the ideal introduction to Steinbeck's work. Set … read more
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9. Essays and Aphorisms
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , R.J. Hollingdale
3.50
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer believed that human action… read more
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10. Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
By: Lizzy Goodman
4.16
Format: 622 pages, Hardcover
An intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of … read more
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11. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
By: Kenzaburō Ōe , None , Maki Sugiyama
2.76
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated in wart… read more
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12. Here Is New York
By: E.B. White , Barbara Cohen , Roger Angell , None
4.11
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential l… read more
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13. String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
By: David Foster Wallace , John Jeremiah Sullivan
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
An instant classic of American sportswriting--the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, "the best … read more
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14. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
By: Robert A. Caro
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more
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15. Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help
By: Robert D. Lupton
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has u… read more
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16. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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17. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
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"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
18. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
By: Kelefa Sanneh
4.17
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty yea… read more
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19. Beastie Boys Book
By: Michael Diamond
4.54
Format: 572 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself--b… read more
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20. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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21. Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
By: Rick Perlstein
4.34
Format: 1107 pages, Hardcover
A complex portrait of President Ronald Reagan that charts the rise of the modern conservative brand… read more
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22. The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
By: Eliot Brown
4.27
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what the company's epic unravelin… read more
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23. The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew
By: Maggie Bullock
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Vogue's most anticipated books of 2023. A quintessentially American fashion narrative abo… read more
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24. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
By: Kerry Howley
3.81
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more
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"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
25. Dandelions
By: Yasunari Kawabata
3.46
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions—exploring love and madness—is Kawabata’s final nov… read more
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"The bonds between men and women predate language, and while the words we have used to express those ties may have grown exceptionally subtle and refined since language first arose, they are still jus…"-Yasunari Kawabata, Dandelions
26. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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27. 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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28. New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
By: Thomas Dyja
3.91
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York… read more
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29. The Unpassing
By: Chia-Chia Lin
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through… read more
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30. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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31. The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family
By: Olivia Williams
3.61
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed bir… read more
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