Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival
By: Mark Guarino
4.60
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of Chicago’s pivotal role as a country and folk music capital. Chicago is revere…
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1. Life Itself
By: Roger Ebert
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago … read more
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- nonfiction
2. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Gone Fishin'
By: Walter Mosley
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the beginning...there was Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander -- two young men … read more
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4. The Secret Hours
By: Mick Herron
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more
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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours
5. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
6. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)
By: Don Winslow
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more
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7. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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8. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
9. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
10. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)
By: James Lee Burke
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more
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11. London Rules (Slough House, #5)
By: Mick Herron
4.34
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more
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"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)
12. Slough House (Slough House, #7)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more
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"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)
13. 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
14. Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)
By: Mick Herron
4.37
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has… read more
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"Time, date, place, courtesy of social media. The old days, when you just rocked up to a car park near the stadium a few hours before kick-off, all of that was buried in history books and Channel 5 do…"-Mick Herron, Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)
15. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- nonfiction
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
16. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
By: Warren Zanes
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
17. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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- nonfiction
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
18. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
19. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
20. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
By: Don Winslow
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more
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21. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
22. Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
By: Chris Payne
4.41
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An explosive oral history of emo's takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FA… read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
" Jonathan Daniel: I mean, people knew "Sins." That song was so big everywhere. But yeah, I don't think they knew the band as much. I remember Panic! went to see Kanye in Vegas, and Pete asked Kanye i…"-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
" Jim Adkins: ...There was a girl who wrote us, explaining how she felt like an outsider at her school because the punk rock kids wouldn't accept her, even though she liked us and a lot of the really …"-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
23. Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
By: Darrell Hartman
3.84
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"Absolutely gripping… a perfectly splendid read—I highly, highly recommend it” -- Douglas Preston, … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
24. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
By: Steven Hyden
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
25. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)
By: Walter Mosley
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more
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26. Oh, Didn't They Ramble: Rounder Records and the Transformation of American Roots Music
By: David Menconi
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
What is American roots music? Any definition must account for a kaleidoscope of genres from bluegra… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
27. Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
By: John F. Szwed
4.29
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
“The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides … read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
28. Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival
By: Mark Guarino
4.60
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of Chicago’s pivotal role as a country and folk music capital. Chicago is revere… read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
29. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
By: Mick Herron
4.30
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the … read more
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"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
30. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more
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"...What did you say?"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
31. Sky Full of Elephants
By: Cebo Campbell
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more
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