The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir
By: Nick Flynn
3.88
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
"A beautiful, intelligent book that renders pain both ordinary and extraordinary into art."―Susanna…
Want to Read $ 9.99"What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into."-Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir
"What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into."-Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir
"disclaimer:This is a work of nonfiction, but it is also full of dreams, speculations, and shadows. Many names have been changed."-Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir
"disclaimer:This is a work of nonfiction, but it is also full of dreams, speculations, and shadows. Many names have been changed."-Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir
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1. Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
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2. Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
By: Grant Morrison , Dave McKean
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking, painted graphic novel, the inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over Gotham'… read more
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3. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
4. A Man Without a Country
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -Los Angeles… read more
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5. I Love Dick
By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more
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6. Light at the Edge of the World
By: Wade Davis
3.69
Format: 384 pages,
s/t: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures For renowned anthropologist and ethnobotanis… read more
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7. The Crucible
By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby
3.60
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more
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8. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
By: Roxane Gay
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image,… read more
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9. Already Dead
By: Denis Johnson
3.27
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A contemporary noir,Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scio… read more
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10. My Name Is Asher Lev
By: Chaim Potok
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono … read more
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11. M Train
By: Patti Smith
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, … read more
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"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."-Patti Smith, M Train
"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."-Patti Smith, M Train
"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."-Patti Smith, M Train
"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."-Patti Smith, M Train
12. The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
By: Renée Nault
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us. Offred is a Handmaid in… read more
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13. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
14. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
15. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
By: Heather McGhee
4.63
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the Am… read more
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"They have to make Americans afraid of one another. They're exploiting fear in America to sell guns."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Ultimately, an economy, the rules we abide by and set for what's fair and who merits what, is an expression of our moral understanding."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"It's often unconscious, but their perception of The Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart the web that supports everyone, includi…"-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
16. The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
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3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture Rachel Kushner has… read more
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17. Florida
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3.77
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
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"All things nauseating and deadly are American, apparently. Well, okay, she can't disagree."-Lauren Groff, Florida
"She's a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one woman card catalogue for useless knowledge."-Lauren Groff, Florida
"Of all the places in the world, she belongs in Florida. How dispiriting to learn this of herself."-Lauren Groff, Florida
"She is exhausting to everyone. She would take a break from herself, too, but she doesn't have that option."-Lauren Groff, Florida
18. Heavy
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4.48
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more
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"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
19. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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20. Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
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21. The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir
By: Nick Flynn
3.88
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
"A beautiful, intelligent book that renders pain both ordinary and extraordinary into art."―Susanna… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- politics
- war
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
"What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into."-Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir
"disclaimer:This is a work of nonfiction, but it is also full of dreams, speculations, and shadows. Many names have been changed."-Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir
"It’s the way I walk through the world, carrying that fear, that the beloved will go, will die, and that I will be the one to blame."-Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir
"My statement to Harris that his book contains much to admire is specious hyperbole. In The End of Faith , Harris rails against religious fundamentalism, which seems obvious, as well as against religi…"-Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir
