From the Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society
By: Taylor Markarian
3.50
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
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1. Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums
By: Travis Barker , Gavin Edwards
4.08
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Travis Barker’s soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and lowlights of the renowned drummer’… read more
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"Fuck being bored. You shouldn't ever be bored. You can always read and be smarter. You can always work out and be in better shape. You can always play your instrument and get better at it. Your space…"-Travis Barker, Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums
2. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
By: John Taylor Gatto
4.15
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
A highly praised bestseller for over a decade, Dumbing Us Down is a radical treatise on public educ… read more
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"… nothing important can ever really be boring."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"As redes operacionais tornam as pessoas solitárias."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"I assign a type of extended schooling called “homework,"-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"Networks like schools are not communities, just as school training is not education."-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
3. X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (Marvel Graphic Novel, #5)
By: Chris Claremont , None
4.18
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
The Uncanny X-Men. Magneto, master of magnetism. The bitterest of enemies for years. But now they m… read more
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4. Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana
By: Michael Azerrad
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Neve… read more
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5. Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
By: Laura Jane Grace
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME" The provocative transgender advocate and … read more
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6. Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life
By: Steven Hyden
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of Amazon's Best Books of 2016 So Far Music critic Steven Hyden explores nineteen music rivalri… read more
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7. The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)
By: Erik J. Brown
4.24
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
THEY FOUND EACH OTHER. NOW THEY MUST RESCUE WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND. The highly-anticipated sequel to… read more
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"He sets the rifle down and we close the gap in between us in half a second. His arms around me, mine around him. Holding tight, as though we're trying to fuse ourselves together. It's familiar and lo…"-Erik J. Brown, The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)
8. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
By: Susan Rogers
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more
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9. None of This Rocks: A Memoir
By: Joe Trohman
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy shares personal stories from his youth and his experie… read more
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10. Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
By: Chris Payne
4.41
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An explosive oral history of emo's takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FA… read more
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" Jonathan Daniel: I mean, people knew "Sins." That song was so big everywhere. But yeah, I don't think they knew the band as much. I remember Panic! went to see Kanye in Vegas, and Pete asked Kanye i…"-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
" Jim Adkins: ...There was a girl who wrote us, explaining how she felt like an outsider at her school because the punk rock kids wouldn't accept her, even though she liked us and a lot of the really …"-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
11. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
By: Dan Ozzi
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well tol… read more
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12. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
By: Maggie Nelson
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture… read more
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"Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"This is one of the things I’ve learned about happiness: when you feel it, it’s good to say so. That way, if and when you say later in depression or despair, “I’ve just never been happy,"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"The reparative turn, as applied to art, is in many ways a continuation of the orthopedic aesthetic, with the difference being that the twentieth-century model imagined the audience as numb, constrict…"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
13. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
By: Amanda Leduc
4.09
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more
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"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
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"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
14. Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
By: Mallory O'Meara
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“At last, the feminist history of booze we’ve been waiting for!” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunke… read more
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"It's hilarious that having a cushion on a barstool to make it more comfortable is considered a feminine touch, but there you go. Maybe it's a mark of masculine virility to have a sore butt."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"The Western world entered a new era: medieval times. Unfortunately, it wasn't anything like the themed restaurant. There were a lot less roasted turkey legs and a lot more open-air latrines."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"So many names and stories have been lost to time. Having a legacy is a privilege afforded only to a few. Often, it's about class. . . . sometimes it's just about when and were you were born."-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
"Generally, the gendering of alcohol is only found where women have access to drinking space. If you can't keep women out of the space where drinking happens, you keep them out of the drinks themselve…"-Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
15. Someone Who Isn’t Me
By: Geoff Rickly
4.60
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone… read more
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"He asks me to leave, turns to his manager and says, "The epidemic of our time," as if time were the epidemic and we're all subject to its disastrous effects."-Geoff Rickly, Someone Who Isn’t Me
16. Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.21
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Th… read more
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"Measured over too short a span, change becomes imperceptible; people mistake today's peculiarities for eternal verities."-Rebecca Solnit, Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
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"Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action. Among the virtues that matter are those tr…"-Rebecca Solnit, Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
17. Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006)
By: Amy Fleisher Madden
4.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous hardcover time capsule of the emo music scene as it was from 1996 to 2006, featuring nev… read more
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18. Dear Hanna
By: Zoje Stage
3.73
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Bab… read more
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19. From the Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society
By: Taylor Markarian
3.50
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Explore the cultural, social, and psychological factors surrounding the genres. Though songs can be… read more
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20. Killing It
By: Mike Bockoven
3.21
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
Since the late 1980's, The Square had been one of the most important clubs in New York for the alt-… read more
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21. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
By: Chris Nashawaty
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more
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