Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
By: D.J. Waldie
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Best-selling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a col…
Want to Read"Getting here had become part of what being here meant."-D.J. Waldie, Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
"Getting here had become part of what being here meant."-D.J. Waldie, Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
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1. The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
By: Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen
4.41
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by China… read more
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2. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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3. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
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4. A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
By: Anthony Bourdain
4.60
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
From the star of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain's New York Times-bestselling chronicle of travel… read more
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5. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
By: None , Ben R. Rich
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind the high… read more
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6. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more
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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
7. 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
- nonfiction
- essays
"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
8. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
9. The Darkness Outside Us
By: Eliot Schrefer
4.32
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Two boys, alone in space. After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither re… read more
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"Wow, that was salty. I kind of like it,"-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us
"Today he smells like motor oil. It's sort of exotic-erotic."-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us
"Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power."-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us
"I can manually debug a few hundred thousand lines. It won't be fun, but I ... who am I kidding, it will be fun."-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us
10. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
By: J. Ryan Stradal
3.63
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more
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"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
11. In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain
By: Tom Vitale
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
**Nominated for the 2022 BookTube Prize in Nonfiction** Anthony Bourdain's long time director and … read more
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- nonfiction
12. Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more
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"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
13. Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
By: Danny Trejo
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For the first time, the full, fascinating, and inspirational true story of Danny Trejo’s journey fr… read more
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"...even in prison I could be free."-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
"...it's hard to teach anyone anything when they think they know everything already."-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
"When you're an addict you think the only person you're hurting is you. And that's not true."-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
"Once you know where drugs and alcohol will take you, you can never enjoy them the same way again."-Danny Trejo, Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
14. Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2)
By: Andrew Sean Greer
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the follow-up to the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, the awkward and lovable Arthu… read more
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15. Ten Steps to Nanette
By: Hannah Gadsby
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more
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- nonfiction
"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette
16. The Lager Queen of Minnesota
By: J. Ryan Stradal
4.01
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.… read more
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"Young man"-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"Her mother told her once that the nicest thing you can do for someone is be happy to see them,"-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"Money allows people to survive their mistakes, she knew from having observed that phenomenon from a distance, and people like her were fucked."-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"She held the bottle to her lips and tilted, slightly. It tasted the like how she'd imagine dirt would taste if someone burned it on the grill. Nope she said, and handed the bottle back."-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota
17. 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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- history
- 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
18. The Library Book
By: Susan Orlean
3.89
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more
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- nonfiction
"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
19. L.A. Weather
By: María Amparo Escandón
3.18
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon … read more
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20. All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business
By: Mel Brooks
4.24
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, a… read more
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- nonfiction
"I didn’t realize it but I might have created the first cell phone. Had I patented it, I probably would have made so much money that I wouldn’t have had to write this book."-Mel Brooks, All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business
21. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
22. Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
By: Maureen Ryan
3.88
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
An exposé of patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and th… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Clytemnestra
By: Costanza Casati
4.25
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious vi… read more
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"She will bow to no one. Her destiny will be what she wants it to be."-Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra
"It is unwise to let a man who isn't king sit on a throne for too long."-Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra
"As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her better. Let her be hated forever."-Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra
24. Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
By: Eric Nusbaum
4.15
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big le… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
By: Rupa Marya
4.31
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, … read more
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- nonfiction
26. Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
By: D.J. Waldie
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Best-selling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a col… read more
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- essays
"Getting here had become part of what being here meant."-D.J. Waldie, Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
