8 must-read music books like Tokyo Jazz Joints by Philip Arneill

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Tokyo Jazz Joints

By: Philip Arneill

4.76

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Documenting a vanishing world of Japanese jazz culture Japanese jazz bars and coffee shops are insu…

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1. King Kong théorie

By: Virginie Despentes

4.01

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more

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"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

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2. Gordon Parks: Segregation Story

By: Gordon Parks

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In September 1956, "Life" magazine published a photo-essay by Gordon Parks entitled "The Restraints… read more

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3. Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

By: Jennifer Clement

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and th… read more

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4. Miles: The Autobiography

By: Miles Davis , Quincy Troupe

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acc… read more

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5. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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6. Il giorno della civetta

By: Leonardo Sciascia

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

Di questo romanzo breve sulla mafia, apparso per la prima volta nel 1961, ha scritto Leonardo Scias… read more

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7. Gratitude

By: Oliver Sacks

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. In January 2015, Oliver Sacks was… read more

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8. Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead

By: Steve Parish , Joe Layden , Bob Weir

1.80

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

The untold story of life on the road with the Grateful Dead, written by an insider who lived it fro… 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. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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11. Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

By: Jake Adelstein

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Poli… read more

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12. 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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13. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more

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14. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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15. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more

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16. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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17. 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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18. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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19. The Philosophy of Modern Song

By: Bob Dylan

3.80

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more

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"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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20. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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21. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

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Cover of Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir by Sly Stone

22. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir

By: Sly Stone

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more

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  • music
Cover of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again by Shigeru Kayama

23. Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again

By: Shigeru Kayama

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaijū Godzilla Godzilla em… read more

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24. Widespread Panic

By: James Ellroy

3.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the modern master of noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood un… read more

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Cover of High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape by Marc Masters

25. High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape

By: Marc Masters

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle ch… read more

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26. Bocchi the Rock!, Vol. 1 (Volume 1) (Bocchi the Rock!, 1)

By: はまじあき

4.06

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Hitori Gotoh just wants to be popular, but the thought of interacting with her classmates makes her… read more

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Cover of Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John F. Szwed

27. 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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28. Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5

By: Sigrid Rausing

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Granta 163: Best of Young British Novelists 5 celebrates the twenty most significant writers under … read more

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29. Tokyo Jazz Joints

By: Philip Arneill

4.76

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Documenting a vanishing world of Japanese jazz culture Japanese jazz bars and coffee shops are insu… read more

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30. Varieties of Melancholy: A Hopeful Guide to Our Sombre Moods

By: The School of Life

3.94

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can melancholy. Melancho… read more

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31. TO:KY:OO

By: Liam Wong

4.57

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Featuring evocative and stunning color photographs of contemporary Tokyo, this book brings together… read more

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4.35

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4.26

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