Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part 1 (Popular Music History)
By: Brad Mehldau
4.20
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
As an innovative and constantly inventive jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau has attracted a sizable follow…
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1. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
2. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
3. 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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4. This Is How You Lose Her
By: Junot Díaz
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital la… read more
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5. Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
By: Lisa Dickey , Herbie Hancock
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our time In Herbie … read more
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6. The English Patient
By: Michael Ondaatje
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more
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7. Moon Palace
By: Paul Auster
3.90
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to hi… read more
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8. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
9. Man in the Dark
By: Paul Auster
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
Man in the Dark is Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit a… read more
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10. 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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"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
11. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
By: Peter Attia
4.37
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challeng… read more
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12. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
13. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
14. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
By: James Kaplan
4.35
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more
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15. My Name Is Barbra
By: Barbra Streisand
4.20
Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra St… read more
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"Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"There are some things I hope we can all agree upon: The antidote to lies is truth, the remedy to war is peace, and the solution to hate is love."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society . . . A man is commanding—a woman is demanding. A man is forceful—a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising—a wo…"-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
16. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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17. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
18. The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City
By: Anna Sherman
3.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residents From 1632 until 1854, Japan’s rulers rest… read more
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19. How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
By: Jeff Tweedy
4.22
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song. But what if the goal w… read more
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"To all of the songs like windows, open just enough for us to make our escape, and to all of the songs like windows, closed and clear enough in a dim light to see our own reflection and be reminded of…"-Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
"When I'm on stage, my experience often goes something like this: Blankness . . . bliss . . . blankness . . . twinkle of awareness that rocking has been achieved . . . bliss . . . Voice of Observing E…"-Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
20. Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part 1 (Popular Music History)
By: Brad Mehldau
4.20
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
As an innovative and constantly inventive jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau has attracted a sizable follow… read more
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21. Keith Jarrett: A biography
By: Wolfgang Sandner
3.58
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Keith Jarrett is one of the great pianists of our times. Before achieving worldwide fame for his so… read more
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