Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street
By: Preston Fassel
4.13
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
At the dawn of the 1980s, there was one serious name in horror and exploitation film criticism: Bil…
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1. Wise Blood
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more
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"Jesus died to redeem you,"-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
2. Postcards from the Edge
By: Carrie Fisher
3.62
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Fisher beautifully brings readers the inside of Hollywood through a web of humor, drugs, relationsh… read more
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"It’s like I’ve got a visa for happiness, but for sadness I’ve got a lifetime pass."-Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
"Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir"-Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
" Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously."-Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
"I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere."-Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
3. The Reaping
By: Bernard Taylor
3.16
Format: 288 pages,
Commissioned to paint a portrait at the Woolvercombe House, painter Tom Rigsby is drawn into the se… read more
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4. The Killer Inside Me
By: Jim Thompson
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to … read more
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5. Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square
By: Bill Landis , Michelle Clifford
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Warning: Watch your wallets and stay out of the bathroom! In a bygone era, when Times Square was cr… read more
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6. Last Exit to Brooklyn
By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more
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7. The Room
By: Hubert Selby Jr.
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Secluded in his remand cell, a small-time criminal surrenders himself to sadistic fantasies of hatr… read more
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8. The Auctioneer
By: Ed Gorman , Joan Samson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Harrowing tensions explode in a series of events that could happen anywhere, to anyone, just as the… read more
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10. Daredevil: Born Again
By: Frank Miller , David Mazzucchelli
4.89
Format: 78 pages,
"And I -- I have shown him... that a man without hope is a man without fear." The definitive Darede… read more
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12. Go Now
By: Richard Hell
4.28
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
On the road with the Blank Generation, "Go Now" takes readers on a wild trip across the country and… read more
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13. The Complete Eightball 1-18
By: Daniel Clowes
4.20
Format: None pages, Boxed Set
Before he rose to fame as a filmmaker and the author of the best-selling graphic novels Ghost World… read more
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14. Snuff
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.35
Format: None pages,
From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where n… read more
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15. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin
By: Kevin Eastman
4.41
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Who is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks o… read more
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16. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
17. 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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18. Notes on ‘Camp’
By: Susan Sontag
3.97
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more
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"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
19. Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance
By: John Waters
3.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind o… read more
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20. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more
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21. MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
By: Joanna Robinson
4.22
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A superb chronicle of how Marvel Studios conquered Hollywood…. T… read more
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22. Survivor
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, … read more
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"Suicide is very contagious."-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"this is the upside of already being eternally damned"-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine."-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list."-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
23. Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir
By: Mark Lanegan
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Sou… read more
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24. Frankenstein
By: Junji Ito
4.01
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the a… read more
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25. Negative Space
By: B.R. Yeager
3.72
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more
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"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
26. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
By: Rick Emerson
3.96
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more
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27. Hell Hound
By: Ken Greenhall
3.91
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
‘What are the possibilities of my strength? That is a thought I have never had before. What if some… read more
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"Does everyone have to have an obsession?' 'Certainly. It's your choice of one that determines whether you're sane or not."-Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound
"As Jason drove through the twilight he wondered weather people really could love animals. No, he thought. What they love is themselves; a part of themselves they see reflected in the animal."-Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound
"Trust is the ultimate weakness and a kind of madness.... It may be inevitable that anyone who lives in the town, even I, must become afflicted with moments of trust. It is something one must accept. …"-Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound
28. Evidence of Things Not Seen
By: James Baldwin
4.06
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atla… read more
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"A Black policeman could completely demolish you. He knew far more about you than a White policeman could and you were without defense before this Black brother in uniform whose entire reason for brea…"-James Baldwin, Evidence of Things Not Seen
29. The Invention of Sound
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.48
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A father's decades-long search for his missing daughter. A young woman about to engineer the perfe… read more
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"My job,"-Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound
"Haunting her was the idea that we each summon our own death."-Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound
"...[T]he only way a person had to process an experience so troubling was by sharing it."-Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound
"Her body continued to be the black box of a jetliner that had crashed with no survivors."-Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound
30. Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
By: Mark Bowden
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Balti… read more
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31. Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street
By: Preston Fassel
4.13
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
At the dawn of the 1980s, there was one serious name in horror and exploitation film criticism: Bil… read more
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