Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly
By: Joshua Rivkin
3.88
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
This first biography of Cy Twombly, one of the most important and least understood American artists…
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1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
2. The Moon and Sixpence
By: W. Somerset Maugham
4.13
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerf… read more
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- art
"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."-W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
"Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money."-W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
"I shall beat you,' he said, looking at her. How else should I know you loved me,' she answered."-W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
"Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed."-W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
3. Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art
By: Phoebe Hoban
3.96
Format: 393 pages, Paperback
Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world: in less than a decade he went f… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
4. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)
By: China Miéville
3.80
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more
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5. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
6. Life with Picasso
By: Françoise Gilot
4.09
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she … read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
"And you, you’re an angel,’ he said, scornfully, ‘but an angel from a hot place. Since I’m the devil, that makes you one of my subjects. I think I’ll brand you."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
"My grandmother's death had given me a heightened sense of individual solitude, of each one of us walking towards his own death, with no one able to help us or hold us back."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
"As I was growing up, whenever anything frightened me in any degree, it fascinated me at the same time. I felt the need of going too far simply to prove to myself that I was capable of it."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
7. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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8. The Satanic Verses
By: Salman Rushdie
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Versesis Salman Rushdi… read more
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9. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
By: Austin Kleon
4.75
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
In his New York Timesbestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock the… read more
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10. Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
By: Sally Mann
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Man… read more
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11. The Drowned World
By: Martin Amis , J.G. Ballard
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terr… read more
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12. The Awakening and Selected Stories
By: Kate Chopin , Nina Baym , Kaye Gibbons
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, … read more
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13. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
By: Donna J. Haraway
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more
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14. Go, Went, Gone
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
4.13
Format: None pages,
One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent h… read more
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15. 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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- art
- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."-Patti Smith, M Train
"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."-Patti Smith, M Train
"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."-Patti Smith, M Train
"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."-Patti Smith, M Train
16. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
17. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
18. Seven Empty Houses
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more
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19. 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
20. The Pisces
By: Melissa Broder
3.30
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from th… read more
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"I would say I'm less afraid of dying than I am of life."-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
"He took off my flip-flops and began kissing my feet, sucking my toes."-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
"Feelings were a luxory of the young, or someone much stronger than me - someone more at ease with being human"-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
"I'd been wrong about death ... There was no gentle escape. When I had taken those Ambien in Phoenix I thought there was a peaceful way to just kind of disappear. But death wasn't gentle. It was a rob…"-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
21. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
22. 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
By: Weiwei Ai
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In Ai Weiwei's widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world … read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
23. Little Weirds
By: Jenny Slate
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Hello and welcome to my book. Inside you will find… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"If I deny that the root is in me, I will never change."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"I love myself. I think that I am a very top-quality person."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"If I could remember anything, I would remember my belief that my extra love could just be used on myself."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"I was born bucking the idea that I should have to be anywhere that I don’t like or talk to people who make me feel dead or trapped."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
24. Acts of Service
By: Lillian Fishman
3.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more
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"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service
25. The Factory
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.34
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Jap… read more
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"As I opened the basement-level door, I thought I could smell birds."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"I didn’t have to answer any weird questions about what I was reading, or hear anyone’s thoughts about which 7-Eleven bento they liked best."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"All I could see was a meaningless arrangement of squiggles and dots, symbols and patterns, running on endlessly. Words are such unstable things."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"Life has nothing to do with work and work has no real bearing on life. I used to think they were connected, but now I can see there’s just no way."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
26. The Book of Love
By: Kelly Link
3.50
Format: 628 pages, Hardcover
The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more
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27. Bitter Water Opera
By: Nicolette Polek
4.03
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more
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- art
28. Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
By: Michael Shnayerson
3.91
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A behind-the-scenes look at the egomaniacs, geniuses, and canny promoters who shaped the world of m… read more
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- art history
- history
- nonfiction
29. Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
By: Mary Gabriel
4.52
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and… read more
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- art
- art history
- biography
- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
30. Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
By: Salman Rushdie
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction--including many texts never previously in print--… read more
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- nonfiction
"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame."-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"…Shakespeare is both my door knocker and the owner of the domains to which the knock admits me, at once my Virgil opening the gates of hell and heaven, and the devil, and God, and I say this as a per…"-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"In America, if you dismiss religion from a lecture podium, you often hear noises of shock: gasps, sharp intakes of breath. In America, you can't be elected dogcatcher if you can't prove that you go t…"-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
"Christopher came to believe that the people who understood the dangers posed by radical Islam were on the right, that his erstwhile comrades on the left were arranging with one another to miss what s…"-Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
31. Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly
By: Joshua Rivkin
3.88
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
This first biography of Cy Twombly, one of the most important and least understood American artists… read more
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