To Be Someone
By: Ian Stone
4.29
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
By: Irvine Welsh
4.05
Format: 548 pages, Paperback
Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at universit… read more
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"Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
"Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked."-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
2. 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
3. Porno
By: Irvine Welsh
3.31
Format: None pages,
Diez anos despues de Trainspotting, Sick Boy esta en franca decadencia. Acaba de dejar su piso en u… read more
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4. Set in Darkness (Inspector Rebus, #11)
By: Ian Rankin
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
On the eve of the first Scottish parliament in three hundred years, Edinburgh is a city rife with p… read more
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5. That's Entertainment: My Life in The Jam
By: Rick Buckler
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
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- music
6. The Blade Artist
By: Irvine Welsh
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A succ… read more
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7. Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1)
By: Ian Rankin , Mircea Pricăjan
3.00
Format: None pages,
Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied … read more
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8. Crime
By: Irvine Welsh
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Welsh's sizzling new novel, Crime, is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine S… read more
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9. A Crafty Cigarette – Tales of a Teenager Mod: Foreword by John Cooper Clarke
By: Matteo Sedazzari
4.00
Format: 300 pages,
Anybody who is anybody has worn the three button uniform and that's official. Mod is a train of tho… read more
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10. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more
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11. Trainspotting
By: Irvine Welsh , None
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more
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12. The Mother
By: T.M. Logan
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Framed for murder. Now she's free . . . A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and w… read more
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13. The Dream Home
By: T.M. Logan
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
IF YOU HAD NEVER OPENED THE DOOR, YOUR FAMILY WOULD BE SAFE . . . THE UNMISSABLE NEW THRILLER FR… read more
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14. A Terrible Kindness
By: Jo Browning Wroe
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more
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- music
15. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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- nonfiction
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
16. Geneva
By: Richard Armitage
3.64
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has started to show the same tell-tale signs of the Alz… read more
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17. Picture You Dead (Roy Grace, #18)
By: Peter James
4.21
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
Harry and Freya, an ordinary couple, dreamed for years of finding something priceless buried amongs… read more
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18. Mayflies
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more
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- music
- coming of age
"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies
19. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
By: Ronan Farrow
4.40
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered abou… read more
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- nonfiction
"All the women before feel I am their fault," she said. "And if there were women after me, I feel that is my fault."-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
"Trying to get ahold of Davis later on, i asked Jonathan, "Who would have Lanny Davis's number?" He replied, I don't know, Pol Pot?"-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
20. The Night Ship
By: Jess Kidd
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars tha… read more
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21. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more
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22. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- nonfiction
23. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
24. Meredith, Alone
By: Claire Alexander
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Meredith Maggs has everything a person needs.A best friend in Sadie.A beloved cat in Fred.Jigsaws t… read more
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25. A Song of Me and You
By: Mike Gayle
3.95
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
Helen and Ben parted as heartbroken 18-year-olds and went their very separate ways.Twenty years lat… read more
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26. Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)
By: Irvine Welsh
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A spectacular return of the wild, dissolute gang from Trainspotting, from the author the New York T… read more
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"Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite."-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)
"I'm glad our slivers of existence intersected in a Venn diagram between the crushing slabs of oblivion on either side of them"-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)
"I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs."-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)
27. Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
By: The Secret Barrister
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who c… read more
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"We deceive ourselves, our cognitive dissonance only resolved by our brains reassuring us that, in spite of what anyone else might think, we know we're in the right."-The Secret Barrister, Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
28. Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back
By: Oliver Bullough
4.20
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, som… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Motherwell: A Girlhood
By: Deborah Orr
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Just shy of 18, Deborah Orr left Motherwell - the town she both loved and hated - to go to universi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Is memoir therapy? Or is it vengeance?"-Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood
"When the letters came, offering me places at university, that was when it all blew up - for ever."-Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood
"Narcissism is not self-love. It's the opposite of that. It's a nagging horror that you are, deep down, unloveable. A narcissist needs the love, attention and admiration of others to survive because h…"-Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood
30. To Be Someone
By: Ian Stone
4.29
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
'Ian Stone has one of the sharpest comic minds in the country. I would read anything he’s written a… read more
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- music
- punk
- nonfiction
- coming of age
31. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more
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"...What did you say?"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
