Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music
By: Matthew Collin
4.28
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
Electronic dance music was once the utopian frontier of pop culture. But three decades after the ac…
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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
2. The Sluts
By: Dennis Cooper
3.79
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more
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3. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
4. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
By: Christopher McDougall
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of al… read more
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5. Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey
By: Bill Brewster , Frank Broughton
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
From the first time a record was played over the airwaves in 1906, to a modern club economy that to… read more
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6. Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk
By: Dan Sicko
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The first authoritative American chronicle of the most innovative trend in contemporary music, this… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
7. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
By: Giulia Enders , Jill Enders
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A cheeky up-close and personal guide to the secrets and science of our digestive system. For too lo… read more
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8. Among the Thugs
By: Bill Buford
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quanti… read more
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9. The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
By: Bảo Ninh , None
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
Bao Ninh, a former North Vietnamese soldier, provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam W… read more
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10. Home Fire
By: Kamila Shamsie
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's de… read more
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11. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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12. The Master and Margarita
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None
4.29
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more
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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
13. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
14. Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture
By: Simon Reynolds
5.00
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-milleniu… read more
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15. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more
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"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
16. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
17. The Silence
By: Don DeLillo
2.66
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling nov… read more
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"What happens to people who live inside their phones?"-Don DeLillo, The Silence
18. Fleishman Is in Trouble
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.64
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Recently separated Toby Fleishman is suddenly, somehow – and at age forty-one, short as ever – surr… read more
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"I went back to the bench and lit a cigarette and inhaled, the smoke entering my body and filling it with poison, with something."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"They became sophisticated in a way that she wasn’t-in a way she’d never be because sophistication is either your first language or you always have an accent in it."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"I didn’t like the dark matter part. I feel like you can’t just decide something must exist because everything’s reacting to it. You can’t just give it a name and hope it’s true."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"He understood divorce in a macro way, of course. But he had not yet adjusted to it in a micro way, in the other-side-of-the-bed-being-empty way, in the nobody-to-tell-you-were-running-late way, in th…"-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
19. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
20. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
By: Shoshana Zuboff
4.06
Format: 691 pages, Hardcover
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more
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"This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Indivi…"-Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
21. Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
By: Sarah Jaffe
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a… read more
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"Freedom was there, the neoliberals argued, you just had to purchase it."-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
"Neoliberalism encourages us to think that everything we want and need must be found with a price tag attached."-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
"The majority of people who work in the arts will identify themselves as liberal to left wing, often radical left wing. This is going from the poorest artist to the highest paid curators in institutio…"-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
22. Tim― The Official Biography of Avicii
By: Måns Mosesson
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon. Tim Bergling was a musical visionar… read more
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"So, what is it that you want to do?' Racquel asked. 'I just wanna make music."-Måns Mosesson, Tim― The Official Biography of Avicii
"You can get out of the hole,' said Tim. 'When you turn your face up, you see the whole blue sky. The birds and the light."-Måns Mosesson, Tim― The Official Biography of Avicii
23. Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
By: Marlon James
3.45
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to… read more
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"What a day when a man tell me what to do."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
"You could have a family of one and still drive them apart."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
"Because at the end of a true story, there is nothing but waste."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
"Why should anybody want anybody? Just have nothing, just need nothing."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
24. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
By: Dan Charnas
4.56
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more
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"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
25. Raving
By: McKenzie Wark
3.81
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more
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- music
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26. Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
By: Marlon James
4.18
Format: 626 pages, ebook
From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, … read more
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"No thought is wise just because you have it, girl."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
"The world is fickle about witches.' 'The wold is fickle about women."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
"Third-eye magic? Only man need a third eye. Woman fine with two, sometimes one."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
"Word is divine wish, they say. Word is invisible to all but the gods. So when woman or man write words, they dare to look at the divine."-Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2)
27. Oh yes, oh yes!
By: Carl Cox
3.98
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
Carl Cox was instrumental in the birth of dance music culture and is still the heartbeat of the glo… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
28. Raised by Wolves
By: Jess Ho
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunct… read more
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29. Join the Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music
By: Matt Anniss
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Since the dawn of the 1990s, British dance music has been in thrall to the seductive power of weigh… read more
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30. Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music
By: Matthew Collin
4.28
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
Electronic dance music was once the utopian frontier of pop culture. But three decades after the ac… read more
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31. Holy Woman: a divine adventure
By: Louise Omer
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Louise Omer is a Pentecostal preacher and faithful wife. But when her marriage crumbles, so do her … read more
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