12 must-read nonfiction books like Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD by Martin A. Lee

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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD

By: Martin A. Lee

4.29

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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1. Still Life with Woodpecker

By: Tom Robbins

4.04

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigare… read more

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"It’s never too late to have a happy childhood."

-Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

-Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

"Morality depends on culture. Culture depends on climate."

-Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

"If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done."

-Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

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2. Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas

By: Matthew O'Brien

3.53

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

The catacombs of ancient Rome served as houses of worship for Christians. When surveyed in the earl… read more

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3. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

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4. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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5. Jailbird

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jailbirdtakes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in… read more

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6. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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7. Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III

By: Robert Greenfield

3.94

Format: 338 pages,

Augustus Owsley Stanley III, better known by his nickname, Bear, was one of the most iconic figures… read more

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8. Snow Falling on Cedars

By: David Guterson

3.91

Format: None pages,

Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric -a masterpiece of suspense-- one that leaves us shaken an… read more

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9. High Fidelity

By: Nick Hornby

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more

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10. H is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more

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11. The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more

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12. The Long Secret (Harriet the Spy #2)

By: Louise Fitzhugh

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

Harriet the Spy refuses to become ruffled when an unidentified person starts leaving disturbing not… read more

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13. The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

By: Philip G. Zimbardo

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Renowned social psychologist and creator of the "Stanford Prison Experiment," Philip Zimbardo explo… read more

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14. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

By: Tom Wolfe

3.57

Format: 416 pages,

For a start, Kesey's own life with the Merry Pranksters is perhaps the consummate example of a phen… read more

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15. The Ultimate Evil: The Truth about the Cult Murders: Son of Sam and Beyond

By: Maury Terry

3.75

Format: None pages,

On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the "Son of Sam" murders that had terrori… read more

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16. Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island

By: Will Harlan

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She eats road kill, wrestles alligators, rides h… read more

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17. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

By: Melissa Bank

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Hailed by critics as the debut of a major literary voice, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishingda… read more

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18. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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19. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

By: Gary Webb

4.29

Format: 601 pages, Kindle Edition

In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One--the blockbuster story eve… read more

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"I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my blis…"

-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

"If we had met five years ago, you wouldn't have found a more staunch defender of the newspaper industry than me ... I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV sh…"

-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

"One of the questions I have been asked many times since this story broke is this: Now that the facts are out there, what can we do? My answer, depressing and cynical as it may be, is always the same.…"

-Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

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20. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

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21. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

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22. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

By: Stephen Kinzer

4.09

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the ma… read more

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23. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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24. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

By: Kristen Radtke

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more

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"Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the spa…"

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

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25. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

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26. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

By: Susan Rogers

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more

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27. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

By: Max Hastings

4.40

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more

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28. The Twilight World

By: Werner Herzog

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more

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29. Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last

By: Wright Thompson

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller! “A warm and loving reflection that, like good bourbon, will stand… read more

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"What became clear in Michigan was that Julian and Sissy have become the fully realized version of themselves through success. That's actually rare. I profile famous and successful athletes for a livi…"

-Wright Thompson, Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last

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30. The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third Reich

By: Daniel P. Bolger

4.12

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A general-turned-historian reveals the remarkable battlefield heroics of Major General Maurice Rose… read more

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31. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD

By: Martin A. Lee

4.29

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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