Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship (Icon Editions)
By: Jack D. Flam
4.08
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cult…
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1. Play It As It Lays
By: Joan Didion , David Thomson
3.92
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more
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- 20th century
"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
2. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- 20th century
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
3. Rue des boutiques obscures
By: Patrick Modiano
3.63
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Que reste-t-il de la vie d'un homme ? Une photo, au fond d'une boîte ou d'un tiroir, des papiers ad… read more
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- france
- 20th century
"One has to retire eventually, Guy."-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
"The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I?"-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
"Did you see her again in France?" I asked him."-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
"Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away."-Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
4. Dora Bruder
By: Patrick Modiano , None
3.57
Format: 123 pages, Hardcover
Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal c… read more
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- france
"But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain."-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
"Existen casualidades, encuentros y coincidencias que se ignorarán siempre…"-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
"El éxtasis no dura mucho, sin embargo. No tiene porvenir. Pronto nuestro impulso es frenado en seco."-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
"That is her secret. A poor and precious secret that not even the executioners, the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, History, time-everything that defiles and de…"-Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder
5. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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6. Mark Rothko: From the Inside Out
By: Christopher Rothko
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
"The journey to understand the painting is also the journey to understand Rothko, because the work … read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
7. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
8. The Woman Destroyed
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian
3.75
Format: None pages,
Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more
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- france
9. Wishful Drinking
By: Carrie Fisher
3.82
Format: 163 pages, Hardcover
In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitabl… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two"-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
"And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual."-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
"You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously."-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
"No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away."-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
10. High Fidelity
By: Nick Hornby
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more
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11. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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12. Franny and Zooey
By: J.D. Salinger
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more
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13. Blue Nights
By: Joan Didion
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more
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14. The Stone Raft
By: José Saramago
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Paperback
What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating the Iberian peni… read more
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15. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
By: None
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a… read more
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16. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more
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17. Tender Is the Night
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.78
Format: 430 pages, Paperback
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young… read more
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- france
- 20th century
"My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"The price for his intactness was incompleteness."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
"New friends can often have a better time together than old friends."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
18. M Train
By: Patti Smith
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- biography
"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."-Patti Smith, M Train
"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."-Patti Smith, M Train
"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."-Patti Smith, M Train
"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."-Patti Smith, M Train
19. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
20. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
21. Van Gogh: The Life
By: Steven Naifeh
4.18
Format: 976 pages, Kindle Edition
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning bio… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- france
- nonfiction
"Me pregunto por qué los brillantes puntitos del cielo no nos resultan tan asequibles como los puntos negros que llenan el mapa de Francia. Cogemos un tren para ir de Tarascón a Ruán, pero para llegar…"-Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh: The Life
22. Milkman
By: Anna Burns
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attem… read more
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"how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man"-Anna Burns, Milkman
"It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so."-Anna Burns, Milkman
23. The Details
By: Ia Genberg
3.90
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more
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"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."-Ia Genberg, The Details
"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."-Ia Genberg, The Details
24. Happy Hour
By: Marlowe Granados
3.50
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil… read more
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"Being unattached is exhausting."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"being a muse is not for the weak"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"Money was limited, but my taste was not."-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour
25. Death in Her Hands
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.24
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she fi… read more
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"When you die, leave not a trace. Sweep up any evidence of your existence."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"Suspicion invites danger, doesn't it? Keep the imagination soft and happy, and only good things will come."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"But people lied all the time. It was a part of what kept us whole as individuals. A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
26. Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America
By: Hugh Eakin
4.36
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- france
- nonfiction
27. In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali
By: Sue Roe
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
'She vividly charts the birth of surrealism . . . a tale rich in absurdity and outlandish character… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- france
- nonfiction
- 20th century
28. Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship (Icon Editions)
By: Jack D. Flam
4.08
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cult… read more
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- art history
- biography
- history
- france
- nonfiction
- 20th century
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