Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded
By: Jason Heller
3.67
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
A Hugo Award-winner explores the massive influence that science fiction has had on popular music, p…
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1. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
2. Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score
By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find… read more
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3. The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
By: Peter S. Beagle
4.16
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451450524 She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and comp… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
"I love whom I love."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
"The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart."-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
4. Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Joanna Macy , Anita Barrows
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he h… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain
4.19
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- pop culture
- nonfiction
"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
6. The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)
By: Richard Stark
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them… read more
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"Parker spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle."-Richard Stark, The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)
7. Making Movies
By: Sidney Lumet
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and … read more
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8. The Rider of Lost Creek (Kilkenny #1)
By: Louis L'Amour
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Lance Kilkenny has a debt to pay, and he isn’t about to let the friend who saved his life go down i… read more
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- historical
9. The Denial of Death
By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen
4.32
Format: 80 pages,
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more
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10. Fantastic Four: Full Circle
By: Alex Ross
3.79
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
An all-new Marvel Comics graphic novel starring the Fantastic Four, written and illustrated by reno… read more
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11. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
By: Ed Zwick
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- pop culture
"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
12. 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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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- criticism
"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
13. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- criticism
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
14. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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- music
- cultural
- history
- pop culture
- historical
- nonfiction
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
15. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
By: Seanan McGuire
4.32
Format: 208 pages, ebook
A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula… read more
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"They needed to know because a choice you make without knowing the consequences isn't any choice at all!"-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
"They have hearts. I can feel them beating. So I will build them a home and haven, as none was built for me, and I will care for them as long as I am able."-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
"Then you found a door that said to be sure, and you were sure, you were already sure, you were so sure that when you tried the knob, it wasn't locked, and you could walk right through."-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
"Some children need to escape from places that will only hurt them, or grind them away until they're nothing. And some children need to go somewhere else if they're ever going to grow into the people …"-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
16. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
By: Emily Tesh
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more
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- historical
"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
17. A Haunting on the Hill
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.35
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more
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18. 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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- music
- history
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"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
19. 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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- cultural
- history
- biography
- pop culture
- nonfiction
20. Bait and Witch (Witch Way Librarian Mysteries, #1)
By: Angela M. Sanders
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Librarian Josie Way moved to small-town Oregon to lay low. Instead, thanks to newfound magic abilit… read more
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21. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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- cultural
- history
- pop culture
- nonfiction
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
22. Into the West (The Founding of Valdemar, #2)
By: Mercedes Lackey
4.32
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited founding of Valdemar comes to life in this second book in the new series from a Ne… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
"a very complicated board game that used miniatures, stacks of books, and strange dice,"-Mercedes Lackey, Into the West (The Founding of Valdemar, #2)
"The malignancy of divisiveness, given the chance to creep deeper, would rot us. You need to truly consider that your neighbor's beliefs are as valid as yours and not disparage or impair those beliefs."-Mercedes Lackey, Into the West (The Founding of Valdemar, #2)
"An infatuation that runs deep enough can render somebody useless, and make everyone around them miserable. I am not sure you realized that with you there to think about, she wasn’t thinking about muc…"-Mercedes Lackey, Into the West (The Founding of Valdemar, #2)
23. Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
By: Chris Payne
4.41
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An explosive oral history of emo's takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FA… read more
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- music
- history
- pop culture
- historical
- nonfiction
" Jonathan Daniel: I mean, people knew "Sins." That song was so big everywhere. But yeah, I don't think they knew the band as much. I remember Panic! went to see Kanye in Vegas, and Pete asked Kanye i…"-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
" Jim Adkins: ...There was a girl who wrote us, explaining how she felt like an outsider at her school because the punk rock kids wouldn't accept her, even though she liked us and a lot of the really …"-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
24. Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
By: Alec Nevala-Lee
4.21
Format: 544 pages, ebook
“[Astounding] is a major work of popular culture scholarship that science fiction fans will devour.… read more
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- history
- biography
- science fiction fantasy
- nonfiction
- criticism
25. Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever
By: L. Jon Wertheim
4.10
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly … read more
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- music
- cultural
- history
- pop culture
- nonfiction
26. Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground
By: Dylan Jones
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, an… read more
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- history
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- pop culture
- nonfiction
27. The Incredible Hulk, Vol. 1: Age of Monsters
By: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
3.76
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A new era of Hulk begins here, from the mind of Phillip Kennedy Johnson! THE AGE OF MONSTERS HAS… read more
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28. Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics
By: Dylan Jones
3.84
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
David Bowie. Culture Club. Wham!. Soft Cell. Duran Duran. Sade. Spandau Ballet. The Eurythmics... … read more
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- history
- biography
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29. Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany
By: Uwe Schütte
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
'Highly stimulating ... Kraftwerk is a pleasure to read' Jon Savage, New StatesmanThe story of the … read more
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- cultural
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
30. Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop
By: Dave Rimmer
3.82
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Looks at the second British invasion in rock music, describes how pop quickly replaced punk, and de… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- pop culture
31. Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded
By: Jason Heller
3.67
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
A Hugo Award-winner explores the massive influence that science fiction has had on popular music, p… read more
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- pop culture
- historical
- science fiction fantasy
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