Mars by 1980: The Story of Electronic Music
By: David Stubbs
3.83
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Electronic music is now ubiquitous, from mainstream pop hits to the furthest reaches of the avant-g…
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1. Pig Iron
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Pig Iron is the story of John-John, a young man wrestling with the legacy of brutality left by his … read more
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2. El horror de Dunwich
By: H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito
3.81
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Deadly forces are about to be awakened! In the degenerate, unpopular backwater of Dunwich, Wilbu… read more
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3. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
4. The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more
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"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
5. Rip it Up and Start Again
By: Simon Reynolds
4.08
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
Punk's raw power rejuvenated rock, but by the summer of 1977 the movement had become a parody of it… read more
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- music
- cultural
- art
- history
- nonfiction
6. Can's Tago Mago
By: Alan Warner
3.80
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago. This hugely un… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
7. Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
By: David Toop
3.41
Format: 32 pages,
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- music
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- nonfiction
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8. How to Set a Fire and Why
By: Jesse Ball
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Lucia's father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; she's living in a garage-turned-bedroo… read more
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9. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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10. Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture
By: Simon Reynolds
5.00
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-milleniu… read more
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11. Chroma
By: Derek Jarman
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Chroma is a meditation on the color spectrum by the celebrated late artist and filmmaker Derek Jarm… read more
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12. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
13. Eartheater
By: Dolores Reyes
3.61
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young … read more
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"Solo el dolor parece no morir nunca."-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater
"No solo el amor acelera el ritmo cardíaco, también la música"-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater
"No se extraña a un hijo, un hermano, una madre o un amigo igual que a otro"-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater
14. Tesis sobre una domesticación
By: Camila Sosa Villada
4.11
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
La escritora y actriz trans cordobesa, Camila Sosa Villada, acaba de publicar su nueva novela, la s… read more
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15. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
By: Quentin Tarantino
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction — at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal —… read more
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- collections
"What’s the secret?"-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
"Sharon has such a sunny presence that whenever she blocks out the sun, the effect is chilling."-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
"Due to Cliff's good looks, he'd been manipulating women to do things against their best interests his whole life."-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
"Foreign films, Cliff thought, were more like novels. They didn't care if you liked the main character or not. And Cliff found that intriguing."-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
16. Lou Reed: The King of New York
By: Will Hermes
4.23
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more
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- music
- art
- nonfiction
- history
17. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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- music
- art
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"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
18. Sonic Life: A Memoir
By: Thurston Moore
3.81
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more
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19. Face It
By: Debbie Harry
3.61
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
‘I was saying things in songs that female singers didn’t really say back then. I wasn’t submissive … read more
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- nonfiction
"To this day, when the band separates at the airport and we all go our different ways, I still get that gut reaction. Separation. I hate parting with people and i hate goodbyes."-Debbie Harry, Face It
"I would just walk around, not looking for anything particular, looking for everything really, and ingesting and digesting it all. Art, music, theater, poetry, and the sense that everything was up for…"-Debbie Harry, Face It
"Coincidence: it's supposed to mean just these random, disconnected events that concur or collide. But coincidence is not that at all. It's the stuff that's meant to be. Things that are supposed to be…"-Debbie Harry, Face It
"I wanted to be platinum blond. On our black-and-white television and at the theater where they screened technicolor movies, there was something about platinum hair that was so luminescent and excitin…"-Debbie Harry, Face It
20. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- history
21. Hard by a Great Forest
By: Leo Vardiashvili
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the … read more
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22. 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
23. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
24. Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child
By: Frank Miller
2.81
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
It’s been three years since the events of The Dark Knight III: The Master Race. Lara has spent the … read more
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25. Thirst
By: Marina Yuszczuk
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more
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26. Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
By: Bruno Latour
3.77
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty yea… read more
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- nonfiction
"Man macht sich gar nicht klar genug, dass die gesamte Politik der Gegenwart auf das Problem der Klimaleugnung fokussiert ist."-Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
27. Después de la luz
By: Benjamín Labatut
3.95
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
"El autor describe un sistema de enlaces aparentes, constituido por una serie de notas científicas,… read more
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"un hombre a punto de ahogarse es un asesino en potencia"-Benjamín Labatut, Después de la luz
28. Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music
By: Joe Molloy
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Acid Detroit tells the story of Motor City through its revolutionary music past and present, in ord… read more
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- cultural
- nonfiction
29. Mars by 1980: The Story of Electronic Music
By: David Stubbs
3.83
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Electronic music is now ubiquitous, from mainstream pop hits to the furthest reaches of the avant-g… read more
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- cultural
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- history
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30. Después del Rock: Psicodelia, Postpunk, Electrónica y Otras Revoluciones Inconclusas
By: Simon Reynolds
4.02
Format: 224 pages, None
Desde las columnas de Melody Maker, The Wire, Spin, Rolling Stone, y en cada uno de sus libros publ… read more
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- music
31. A Sunny Place for Shady People
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more
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