The Age of Anxiety
By: Pete Townshend
2.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a…
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1. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
By: Peter Guralnick
4.16
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of th… read more
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- music
- audiobook
2. Void Moon (Harry Bosch Universe, #9)
By: Michael Connelly
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly writes novels of brilliantly original suspense. … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
3. Mother Night
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.23
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more
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- fiction
"When you're dead you're dead."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night
4. Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan … read more
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- fiction
5. Welcome to the Monkey House
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House(1968) incorporates almost completely Vonneg… read more
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- fiction
6. Jailbird
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jailbirdtakes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in… read more
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- fiction
7. The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4)
By: T.H. White
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Once upon a time, a young boy called "Wart" was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation f… read more
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- fiction
8. From Hell
By: Alan Moore , Eddie Campbell , Pete Mullins
4.19
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
"I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim… read more
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"It would seem we are to suffer an apocalypse of cockatoos - William Gull"-Alan Moore, From Hell
"I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart. I am rain. I cannot be contained"-Alan Moore, From Hell
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."-Alan Moore, From Hell
"Where comes this dullness in your eyes? How has your century numbed you so? Shall man be given marvels only when he is beyond all wonder?"-Alan Moore, From Hell
9. Mr. Vertigo
By: Paul Auster
4.08
Format: 234 pages,
Auf einem Jahrmarkt in Kansas spaziert im Jahre 1927 der zwolfjahrige Waisenjunge Walter Clairborne… read more
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- fiction
10. The Luminaries
By: Eleanor Catton
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On… read more
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- fiction
11. The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1)
By: Jack Higgins
4.33
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Desperate Adolf Hitler orders the impossible: kidnap or kill Winston Churchill. A disgraced war her… read more
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12. The Commitments
By: Roddy Doyle
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the sou… read more
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13. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
By: Hunter S. Thompson
4.33
Format: 201 pages,
"California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists w… read more
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14. The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)
By: Terry Brooks
4.50
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Long ago, wars of ancient Evil ruined the world and forced mankind to compete with many other races… read more
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15. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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- audiobook
"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
16. Fourteen Days
By: Margaret Atwood
3.23
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- audiobook
17. Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story
By: Roger Daltrey
4.06
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
The frontman of one of the greatest bands of all time tells the story of his rise from nothing to r… read more
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- music
- audiobook
18. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
By: Patrik Svensson
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scie… read more
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- audiobook
19. The Mermaid of Black Conch
By: Monique Roffey
3.89
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
In 1976, David is fishing off the island of Black Conch when he comes upon a creature he doesn't ex… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Womanhood was a dangerous business if you didn't get it right."-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
"The sea was the giant woman of the planet, fluid and contrary."-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
"It was the magic that music makes, the song that lives within every creature on earth, including mermaids."-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
"Life change quick boy. Another planet so. Later I saw that change came as change always comes, from a chain of events with a long history, too long to see from back to front, till it come"-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
20. Sweet Sorrow
By: David Nicholls
3.78
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
One life-changing summer Charlie meets Fran... In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you do… read more
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- contemporary
- fiction
- audiobook
"... and it occurred to me then, just as it does now, that the greatest lie that age tells about youth is that it’s somehow free of care, worry or fear."-David Nicholls, Sweet Sorrow
"...but first love, I think it’s like a song, a stupid pop song that you hear and you think, well that is all I will ever want to listen to, it’s got everything, it’s clearly the greatest piece of mus…"-David Nicholls, Sweet Sorrow
21. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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- music
- audiobook
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
22. Fruit of the Dead
By: Rachel Lyon
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more
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- contemporary
23. Two Wrongs
By: Mel McGrath
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A brand-new psychological thriller from bestselling author Mel McGrath, about the lengths a mother … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
24. Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sunderban
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.02
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
Jungle Nama is Amitav Ghosh's verse adaptation of an episode from the legend of Bon Bibi, a tale po… read more
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- audiobook
25. My Wife is Missing
By: D.J. Palmer
3.88
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A family vacation turns into a nightmare for Michael Hart when he discovers his wife and two childr… read more
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- fiction
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26. Actress
By: Anne Enright
3.44
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter Norah retraces her mother’s celebrated… read more
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- fiction
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27. Mr Wilder & Me
By: Jonathan Coe
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England In the heady… read more
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- fiction
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"In circumstances this desperate there is only one thing that can console me. I always keep at least three different kinds of Brie in the kitchen for emergency situations."-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
"Mi hija tenía razón: la gente joven no se fija en los sentimientos de sus padres, ni siquiera es consciente de ellos la mayor parte del tiempo. Viven en un bendito estado de sociopatía en lo que resp…"-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
"The phallic symbolism of his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, is obvious. Lindbergh, in effect, is trapped inside an enormous penis which carries him onwards to an inevitable destination which cannot …"-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
"Here I sat down and closed my eyes, tilting my face towards the sun and listening to the gentle lap of the blue water against the rocks. Perhaps it was my destiny, after all, to be always alone: that…"-Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me
28. The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (Montague Siblings, #3)
By: Mackenzi Lee
4.15
Format: 592 pages, ebook
Return to the enchanting world of the Montague siblings in the finale to the New York Times bestsel… read more
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"Are you drunk?"-Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (Montague Siblings, #3)
"Who’s Felicity?"-Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (Montague Siblings, #3)
"For Christ’s sake."-Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (Montague Siblings, #3)
"Is he going to die?"-Mackenzi Lee, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks (Montague Siblings, #3)
29. A Room Made of Leaves
By: Kate Grenville
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney-had wr… read more
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"We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there."-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to la…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was …"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
"My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He h…"-Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves
30. The Age of Anxiety
By: Pete Townshend
2.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a… read more
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31. Earth to Moon: A Memoir
By: Moon Unit Zappa
4.42
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheis… read more
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- audiobook
