The Ruins
By: Mat Osman
3.69
Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition
An extraordinary novel about the ubiquitous mysteries of family, memory and music.London, 2010: Ice…
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1. All The Wicked Girls
By: Chris Whitaker
3.86
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
"Raine sometimes complains that nothing exciting is ever gonna happen in Grace again. Daddy told he… read more
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"Sometimes endings came long before the story was told."-Chris Whitaker, All The Wicked Girls
"Nobody wants blood on their hands, not even the blood of a devil, because it's still just as red."-Chris Whitaker, All The Wicked Girls
"Just so sad you could shut the world out and cry and cry til all that's left of you is a pile of clothes on the floor."-Chris Whitaker, All The Wicked Girls
2. The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, #9)
By: Armistead Maupin
3.81
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Suspenseful, comic, and touching, the ninth and final novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales… read more
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3. I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music
By: Sylvia Patterson
4.06
Format: 360 pages,
This is a three-decade survivor's tale ... a scenic search for elusive human happiness through musi… read more
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- music
4. More Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #2)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The divinely human comedy that began with Tales of the Cityrolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliv… read more
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5. Tall Oaks
By: Chris Whitaker
3.50
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
For fans of Twin Peaksand The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, this brilliant debut is dark ye… read more
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6. Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave… read more
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"Small world, huh?"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists."-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"The thing that bugs me... is that you never really know what women are like... not for a long time, anyway. They only show you what they want you to see." Michael nodded. "So you fantasize over all t…"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. …"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
7. The Mars House
By: Natasha Pulley
4.02
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee a… read more
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- fiction
8. Herc
By: Phoenicia Rogerson
3.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favouri… read more
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- fiction
9. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more
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- fiction
10. Queen Macbeth
By: Val McDermid
3.77
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more
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11. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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- music
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
12. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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- music
13. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
By: Sady Doyle
4.10
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year This “witty, engaging analysis” of female monsters in pop c… read more
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"We would rather see girls stopped dead—stuck in a constant childhood that never decays—than let them grow into women who can pursue their desires."-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
"Once a woman is free to desire and pursue her own desires, she moves beyond the reach of our empathy; she's a threat that must be contained or destroyed."-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
"The ultimate violence patriarchy does to women is to make us believe we deserve what has been done to us—a loop forever closing, breaking us so that we will raise broken women."-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
"[...] ora le donne non possono più fermarsi. Ci riprenderemo il mondo, i nostri corpi e tutte le possibilità che ci sono state negate. Quando apriremo bocca, i nostri oppressori dovranno tacere e, qu…"-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
14. Factory Girls
By: Michelle Gallen
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory… read more
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- fiction
"I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
"No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
15. Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn
By: Brett Anderson
4.03
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The trajectory of Suede - hailed in infancy as both 'The Best New Band in Britain' and 'effete sout… read more
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- music
16. Coal Black Mornings
By: Brett Anderson
4.19
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Morni… read more
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- music
17. The Game
By: Martin Kemp
3.63
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose … A British icon delivers a powerful blockbuster in an exh… read more
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- thriller
18. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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19. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)
By: Richard Osman
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more
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20. The Ruins
By: Mat Osman
3.69
Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition
An extraordinary novel about the ubiquitous mysteries of family, memory and music.London, 2010: Ice… read more
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21. High John the Conqueror
By: Tariq Goddard
2.96
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
When children start going missing in a rural town, the investigation takes twists and turns into th… read more
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