Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
By: Greil Marcus
3.46
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s vision of the American Dream has been understood, portra…
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1. Every Day Is for the Thief
By: Teju Cole
3.70
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A young Nigerian writer living in New York City returns to Lagos in search of a subject-and himself… read more
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"Money, dished out in quantities fitting the context, is a social lubricant here. It eases passage even as it maintains hierarchies. Fifty naira for the man who helps you back out from the parking spo…"-Teju Cole, Every Day Is for the Thief
2. The Last Picture Show
By: Larry McMurtry
4.00
Format: 280 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is one of McMurtry's most memorable novels - the basis for the film of the same name. Set in a… read more
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"Hurry up and get changed, and don't call my daughter a bitch again.' 'No promises,' Lois said. 'You know what she's doing as well as I do, Gene. She doesn't give a damn about Sonny, she just wants to…"-Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
"You have to remember that I've been lonely for a long time. Loneliness is like ice. After you've been lonely long enough you don't realize you're cold, but you are... I don't know, maybe at the cente…"-Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
"Is growin' up always miserable?" Sonny asked. "Nobody seems to enjoy it much." "Oh, it ain't necessarily misearble," Sam replied. "About eighty percent of the time, I guess." They were silent again, …"-Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
3. Mother's Milk (The Patrick Melrose Novels, #4)
By: Edward St. Aubyn
3.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Writing with the scathing wit and bright perceptiveness for which he has become known, celebrated E… read more
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5. World of Wonders (The Deptford Trilogy, #3)
By: Robertson Davies , Wayne Johnston
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Hailed by the Washington Post Book Worldas "a modern classic," Robertson Davies's acclaimed Deptfor… read more
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6. Generation Loss (Cass Neary, #1)
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
Cass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in… read more
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7. Sometimes a Great Notion
By: Ken Kesey
4.26
Format: 628 pages, Paperback
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... Follo… read more
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"Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail"-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
"He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating."-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
"Cafe Owners are more frustrated than the common laborer," Draeger writes. "The common laborer answers only to the foreman; the cafe owner answers to every patron who stops in"-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
". . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words."-Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
8. The Aeneid
By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more
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9. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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10. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
11. Outer Dark
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more
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12. In a Lonely Place
By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more
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13. 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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- nonfiction
- criticism
- audiobook
"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
14. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
15. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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16. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
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
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"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. Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
By: Marisa Meltzer
3.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The bombshell exposé that reveals—for the first time—exactly what happened at Glossier, one of Amer… read more
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"Glossier is about much more than aesthetic appearance; it has become a way for people to feel connected to bigger beliefs, to feel like their daily choices are having an impact, and that they are put…"-Marisa Meltzer, Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
19. Pearl
By: Siân Hughes
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
A haunting debut novel inspired by the medieval poem of the same name Marianne is eight years ol… read more
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20. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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21. The Winner
By: Teddy Wayne
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more
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22. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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23. And Then? And Then? What Else?
By: Daniel Handler
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold, candid, vulnerable, and entertaining memoir of the literary life of Daniel Handler, the wri… read more
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"A universally loved rebel, an immensely popular loner, the imaginary writer is everyone's favorite, if only because you don't have to read anything to appreciate their work, although I must say I pre…"-Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?
"Surely all artistic output stems from something a little nobler than boredom. It’s why I like to dress it up and say ennui instead, to mean another kind of boredom, a French kind, more glamorous, bet…"-Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?
"There is, in fact, a whole planet of literary appreciation that is only distantly orbiting the actual texts. People declare themselves in favor of Jeffersonian democracy, or label a situation Kafkaes…"-Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?
24. Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon
By: Joel Selvin
4.27
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
The blazing rock opera of the greatest drummer of all-time, Jim Gordon, from the legendary Wrecking… read more
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25. Sweat: A History of Exercise
By: Bill Hayes
3.32
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, "who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and mak… read more
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- audiobook
26. God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth
By: David Leaf
4.02
Format: 469 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1978 as The Beach Boys and the California Myth, this groundbreaking study w… read more
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27. Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
By: Greil Marcus
3.46
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s vision of the American Dream has been understood, portra… read more
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- literature
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- books about books
- literary criticism
28. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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29. Sonic Boom: The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros. Records, from Hendrix to Fleetwood Mac to Madonna to Prince
By: Peter Ames Carlin
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From journalist Peter Ames Carlin, Sonic Boom captures the rollicking story of the most successful … read more
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30. Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
By: Renee DiResta
4.17
Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant, original investigation into the radical shift of power as invisible rulers create bes… read more
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31. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
By: Brenda Wineapple
4.40
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent history of the 1925 Scopes trial and how the teaching of evolution in public schools … read more
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