6 must-read music books like Weird Music That Goes on Forever: A Punk's Guide to Loving Jazz by Bob Suren

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Weird Music That Goes on Forever: A Punk's Guide to Loving Jazz

By: Bob Suren

4.05

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Once you've collected every 7" from your favorite label, broken your back in the mosh pit, and beco…

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1. Mr. Vertigo

By: Paul Auster

4.08

Format: 234 pages,

Auf einem Jahrmarkt in Kansas spaziert im Jahre 1927 der zwolfjahrige Waisenjunge Walter Clairborne… read more

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2. I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and… read more

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"Su misma superioridad lo perdió"

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

"There is no Master but the Master,"

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

"No hay manera de diferenciar un robot de un ser humano bueno"

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

"There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power."

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

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3. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

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4. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

5. 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
"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

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6. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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7. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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8. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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9. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

By: James Kaplan

4.35

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • jazz
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10. The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

By: N.K. Jemisin

3.86

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city. Every city has a soul. Some … read more

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"Dread works best in complete silence."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"The world might be awful, but we don't have to like it that way."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"Home isn't where the heart is; it's wherever the wind feels right."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"You're very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

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11. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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12. Be Here Now

By: Ram Dass

4.33

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

The enhanced edition of Be Here Now Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty mi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Be here now."

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"Be here, now!"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down th…"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

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13. Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more

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"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

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14. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

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15. The Book of Goose

By: Yiyun Li

3.71

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, heartbreaking new novel about female friendship, art, and memory by the award-winning a… read more

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"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though is has ti meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

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16. The Bullet Swallower

By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The… read more

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17. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

By: Dan Charnas

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."

-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

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18. Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

By: Sheree Renée Thomas

3.79

Format: 514 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning team of editors comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing … read more

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19. Goodnight Tokyo

By: Atsuhiro Yoshida

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A symphony of interconnected lives that offers a compelling reflection on life in modern-day metrop… read more

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20. Weird Music That Goes on Forever: A Punk's Guide to Loving Jazz

By: Bob Suren

4.05

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Once you've collected every 7" from your favorite label, broken your back in the mosh pit, and beco… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • jazz
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21. Sandinista!

By: Micajah Henley

3.96

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In 1979, the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua overthrew the Somoza dynasty and rep… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

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Margaret Renkl

4.37

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Claire Dederer

3.79

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Geddy Lee

4.58

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Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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4.37

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4.54

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