Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads
By: David Shenk
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
For fifty years and more than two thousand shows, the Grateful Dead have been earning the "deadicat…
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1. Garcia : An American Life
By: Blair Jackson
4.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
He was there when Dylan went electric, when a generation danced naked at Woodstock, and when Ken Ke… read more
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"David Nelson says that one of the staples of his diet during this era was ketchup sandwiches"-Blair Jackson, Garcia : An American Life
"Hunter he had these big tins of crushed pineapple that he'd gotten from the army,' Garcia said, 'and i had this glove compartment full of plastic spoons, and we had this little cooperative scene, eat…"-Blair Jackson, Garcia : An American Life
"Speaking more generally about what attracted him to bluegrass banjo, he said it was 'just the sound of the instrument, and then the fire, you know; the speed and all that. I was attracted by the inte…"-Blair Jackson, Garcia : An American Life
2. Howl and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.13
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more
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"You too must seek the sun..."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"America this is quite serious"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
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)
4. The Log from the Sea of Cortez
By: John Steinbeck , Richard Astro
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An alternate edition can be found here. In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his grea… read more
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"One who was born by the ocean or has associated with it cannot ever be quite content away from it for very long"-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
"The paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership."-John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
5. 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
6. Miles: The Autobiography
By: Miles Davis , Quincy Troupe
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acc… read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
7. A Separate Peace
By: John Knowles
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peaceis timeless in its … read more
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8. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more
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"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
9. 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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- nonfiction
10. On the Road with Bob Dylan
By: Larry Sloman
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The War and Peace of Rock and Roll." --Bob Dylan In 1975, as Bob Dylan emerged from eight years of… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
11. You Can't Go Home Again
By: Thomas Wolfe
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that… read more
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12. Look Homeward, Angel
By: Thomas Wolfe
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning, classic coming-of-age novel written by one of America's foremost Southern writers A l… read more
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13. Absalom, Absalom!
By: William Faulkner
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more
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14. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
15. So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead
By: David Browne
3.27
Format: None pages, Audiobook
15 hours and 31 minutes The Grateful Dead's long, strange trip has been the subject of countless bo… read more
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16. Cash
By: Johnny Cash , None
4.43
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He w… read more
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17. Exile on Main St.
By: Bill Janovitz
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Thirty-Three and a Third is a series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved album… read more
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18. A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more
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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
19. Silence
By: Shūsaku Endō , William Johnston
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And… read more
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20. Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
By: Jake Adelstein
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Poli… read more
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21. Highway 61 Revisited
By: None
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
"In this book, Mark Polizzotti examines just what makes the songs on Highway 61 Revisited so affect… read more
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22. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more
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23. This Side of Paradise
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.64
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the a… read more
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"A squalid phantasmagoria of breath"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
24. The Unvanquished
By: William Faulkner
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartori… read more
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25. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
By: T.E. Lawrence
3.23
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
In his classic book, T.E. Lawrence--forever known as Lawrence of Arabia--recounts his role in the o… read more
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26. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
By: Alan Sillitoe , None
3.78
Format: None pages,
Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabits the no-man's-land of institutionalised Borstal. As his stead… read more
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27. Lou Reed: The King of New York
By: Will Hermes
4.23
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more
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28. Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
By: Melissa Maerz
4.40
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
“Melissa Maerz’s brilliant oral history is the definitive account of a cult-classic movie that took… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Richard Linklater: First, we became a midnight film. We would play for an entire year at certain theaters. They would turn it into a mini-concert where you go in the theater and you could smell the p…"-Melissa Maerz, Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused
29. After All is Said and Done: Taping the Grateful Dead, 1965-1995
By: Mark A. Rodriguez
4.84
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
"A breathtakingly impressive work, After All is Said and Done represents the kind of creative fanat… read more
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30. God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth
By: David Leaf
4.02
Format: 469 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1978 as The Beach Boys and the California Myth, this groundbreaking study w… read more
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- history
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31. Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads
By: David Shenk
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
For fifty years and more than two thousand shows, the Grateful Dead have been earning the "deadicat… read more
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