Keith Haring (Lives of the Artists)
By: Simon Doonan
4.04
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactf…
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1. Up in the Old Hotel
By: David Remnick , Joseph Mitchell
4.32
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
Saloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-yea… read more
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- nonfiction
"Mazie became interested in Catholicism in the winter of 1920. A drug addict on Mulberry Street, a prostitute with two small daughters, came to her cage one night and asked for help. The woman said he…"-David Remnick, Up in the Old Hotel
2. Keith Haring Journals
By: Keith Haring , Robert Farris Thompson
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
His own words and artwork follow the evolution of the late artist, from early chalk sketches to mas… read more
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- art
- art history
- nonfiction
- queer
"Children know something that most people have forgotten."-Keith Haring, Keith Haring Journals
"I am not a beginning. I am not an end. I am a link in a chain."-Keith Haring, Keith Haring Journals
"Touching people’s lives in a positive way is as close as I can get to an idea of religion."-Keith Haring, Keith Haring Journals
"Individuality is the enemy of this mass society. Individuality speaks for the individual and makes him a significant factor. Art is individuality."-Keith Haring, Keith Haring Journals
3. What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
By: Malcolm Gladwell
3.85
Format: 444 pages, Hardcover
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard … read more
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- nonfiction
"Self consciousness is the enemy of interestingness"-Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
"hey hey its Brooke im 12 and having trouble my teacher told me to get on here sooo yaaa see ya soon pic uplaodin soon!!!!!!!!!!!!"-Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
"But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it's just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen. (p313)"-Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
"The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sente…"-Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
4. Terror: Ein Theaterstück und eine Rede
By: Ferdinand von Schirach
4.21
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
Ein Terrorist kapert eine Passagiermaschine und zwingt die Piloten, Kurs auf ein voll besetztes Fuß… read more
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5. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
By: David Foster Wallace
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement a… read more
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- nonfiction
6. 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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- art
- nonfiction
7. Magical Thinking: True Stories
By: Augusten Burroughs
4.26
Format: 192 pages,
From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry--a contagiously funny, heartwarming… read more
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- nonfiction
8. The End of the Fucking World
By: Charles Forsman
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
TEotFW follows James and Alyssa, two teenagers living a seemingly typical teen experience as they f… read more
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9. Choke
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.25
Format: None pages,
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay eld… read more
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10. Well-Schooled in Murder (Inspector Lynley, #3)
By: Elizabeth George
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public sch… read more
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11. 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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12. Holding the Man
By: Timothy Conigrave
3.99
Format: 32 pages,
Los anos setenta seran recordados, entre otras cosas, por ser la epoca en que el "glam" irrumpe con… read more
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13. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
14. Radio Silence
By: Alice Oseman
2.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine wit… read more
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15. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
By: Tom O'Neill
4.03
Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more
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- nonfiction
16. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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- nonfiction
17. 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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- nonfiction
"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
18. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
By: Michael Schur
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-… read more
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- nonfiction
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. —MAYA ANGELOU"-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"Part of the wonder of being human is that we get to learn about the extraordinary levels of virtue of which other humans are capable."-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"Our behaviors create deep grooves in our personalities, like a heavy chair forming impressions in a shaggy rug, and it becomes harder and harder to escape them."-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"... There is no way to achieve a higher-level enjoyment from running, because there's no way to achieve any enjoyment from running, because there is nothing enjoyable about running. Running is awful,…"-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
19. 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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- nonfiction
"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
20. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- art
- art history
- nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
21. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
"Gay is the opium of the people."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
22. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
23. Sex and Lies
By: Leïla Slimani
3.96
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The first work of non-fiction in English from the prize-winning and internationally bestselling aut… read more
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- nonfiction
"Devenir une femme est un parcours semé d'humiliations. Face à la police, face à la justice comme dans l'espace public, être une femme est un inconvénient. Comme l'écrivait le romancier turc Livaneli …"-Leïla Slimani, Sex and Lies
24. Boy Parts
By: Eliza Clark
3.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more
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- queer
"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
25. The Factory
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.34
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Jap… read more
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"As I opened the basement-level door, I thought I could smell birds."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"I didn’t have to answer any weird questions about what I was reading, or hear anyone’s thoughts about which 7-Eleven bento they liked best."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"All I could see was a meaningless arrangement of squiggles and dots, symbols and patterns, running on endlessly. Words are such unstable things."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"Life has nothing to do with work and work has no real bearing on life. I used to think they were connected, but now I can see there’s just no way."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
26. What Artists Wear
By: Charlie Porter
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening and richly illustrated journey through the clothes worn by artists, and what they re… read more
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- art
- art history
- nonfiction
- queer
27. Keith Haring
By: Alexandra Kolossa
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
By the time of his death from AIDS at the age of 31, Keith Haring (1958-1990) was already a wildly … read more
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- art
- art history
- nonfiction
28. When I Dare to Be Powerful
By: Audre Lorde
4.40
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
'Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet,… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
29. Under a Rock: A Memoir
By: Chris Stein
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
At its heart, Under A Rock is a love story. The codependent bond between Chris Stein and Debbie Har… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Keith Haring (Lives of the Artists)
By: Simon Doonan
4.04
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactf… read more
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- art
- art history
- nonfiction
- queer
31. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
By: Ina Garten
4.60
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling co… read more
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- nonfiction
