Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie (Ex:Centrics)
By: Leah Kardos
4.52
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Blackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowie's ambitious last his surprise 'comeback' projec…
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1. Closely Watched Trains
By: Bohumil Hrabal , Josef Škvorecký , Edith Pargeter
3.74
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Bohumil Hrabal's post-war classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovak… read more
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"آن غرش و سر و صدای یک قطار در حال حرکت،همیشه یکسان است،درست مثل زمان صلح که قطار، هر شب، مربعها و مستطیلهای نور را از پنجرههای درخشان خود میپراکند."-Bohumil Hrabal, Closely Watched Trains
2. Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
By: Anatole Broyard
3.74
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
What Hemingway's A Moveable Feast did for Paris in the 1920s, this charming yet undeceivable memoir… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other."-Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
"When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached."-Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
"I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings about books--I’m talking about my friends and myself--went beyond love. It was a…"-Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
3. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
5. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
By: John Ford , Martin Wiggins
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the most controversal plays in drama literature, this play's treatment of the subject of inc… read more
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6. V.
By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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7. Tony Visconti: The Autobiography: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy
By: Morrissey , Tony Visconti
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A name synonymous with ground-breaking music, Tony Visconti has worked with the most dynamic and in… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
8. The Ballad of Peckham Rye
By: Muriel Spark
3.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Ballad of Peckham Rye is the wickedly farcical fable of a blue-collar town turned upside down. … read more
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9. Dorian
By: Will Self
4.10
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Will Self's DORIAN is a "shameless imitation" of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray that reim… read more
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10. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New
3.90
Format: 256 pages,
Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more
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11. The Man Who Fell to Earth
By: Walter Tevis
4.33
Format: 700 pages, Paperback
T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead o… read more
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12. The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more
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13. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan
3.85
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more
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"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
14. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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15. The Complete David Bowie
By: Nicholas Pegg
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The career of David Bowie has been one of the most colorful and intriguing in modern rock history. … read more
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16. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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17. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
18. Madhouse at the End of the Earth
By: Julian Sancton
4.27
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
19. Elizabeth Finch
By: Julian Barnes
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more
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"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
20. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
21. A Book of Days
By: Patti Smith
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
22. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
23. Goth: A History
By: Lol Tolhurst
3.68
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Following his memoir Cured , a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a mi… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
24. We Could Be... Bowie and His Heroes
By: Tom Hagler
3.85
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
300 vignettes telling the stories of Bowie's encounters with fellow icons, from Dylan to Dali, Lenn… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
25. Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel after David Bowie
By: Lance Olsen
4.20
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last days An intricate collage-novel fusing … read more
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- music
26. The Art Of Darkness: The History Of Goth
By: John Robb
3.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
This is the first comprehensive history of Goth music and culture. Over 500 pages, John Robb explor… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Euphoric Recall: A Half Century as a Music Fan, Producer, DJ, Record Executive, and Tastemaker
By: Peter Jesperson
4.00
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
Record executive, producer, band manager, club DJ, booking advisor, record store manager—few people… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
28. Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie (Ex:Centrics)
By: Leah Kardos
4.52
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Blackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowie's ambitious last his surprise 'comeback' projec… read more
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- biography
29. Bowie Odyssey 71
By: Simon Goddard
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Britain, 1971. Strange land of hot pants, moral outrage, anarchist bombs and sexual revolution. As … read more
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- music
30. Bowie Odyssey 72
By: Simon Goddard
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A new year for David Bowie means new clothes, new boots, new hair and a new Ziggy Stardust. To the… read more
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31. Bowie Odyssey 74
By: Simon Goddard
4.25
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Darkness looms in 1974. It could be the winter energy crisis. It could be The Exorcist. Or it could… read more
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