On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing
By: Katherine Dunn
3.82
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
F uck the Fuckity Fuckin’ Fucker. Readers of Katherine Dunn won’t be surprised that this was her fa…
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1. Trout Fishing in America
By: Richard Brautigan
3.76
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vi… read more
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- humor
- short stories
"His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
"USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
"We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
"You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed."-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
2. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
By: Toni Morrison
4.32
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensel… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
"What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"...Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time."-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und m…"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
3. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
By: Karen Russell
3.79
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magic… read more
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- short stories
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"The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things."-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
"Could we betray our parents by going back to them?"-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
"There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction."-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
"i haf the sownd of more words butt i coud not remember the shaps of the letters."-Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
4. Film Music: A Very Short Introduction
By: Kathryn Kalinak
4.06
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected m… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. The Vet's Daughter
By: Kathryn Davis , Barbara Comyns
3.90
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridde… read more
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"Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church."-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
"Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowin…"-Kathryn Davis, The Vet's Daughter
6. Tenth of December
By: George Saunders
3.98
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an u… read more
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- short stories
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"Ted, I swear to God, quothe he."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"Every step was a victory. He had to remember that."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
"The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven."-George Saunders, Tenth of December
7. Julia's House for Lost Creatures
By: Ben Hatke
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Julia and her walking house come to town, she likes everything about her new neighborhood exce… read more
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8. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
9. The Sea Around Us
By: Rachel Carson , Ann H. Zwinger
3.79
Format: 704 pages,
The Sea Around Usis one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural worl… read more
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10. Alma and How She Got Her Name
By: Juana Martinez-Neal
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In which the protagonist asks her father about the long name he gave her. read more
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11. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
By: Kelly Link
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more
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- short stories
- adult
- audiobook
"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
12. Migraine; Inside a World of Invisible Pain
By: Maria Konnikova
3.78
Format: None pages, Audiobook
New York Times best-seller (The Biggest Buff, The Confidence Game, Mastermind) and New Yorker write… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
13. Anaïs Nin - Sur la mer des mensonges
By: Léonie Bischoff
4.20
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Début des années 30. Anaïs Nin vit en banlieue parisienne et lutte contre l’angoisse de sa vie d’ép… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Pretend I'm Dead
By: Jen Beagin
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Miranda July meets Mary Karr in this brilliant debut novel from Jen Beagin, Whiting Award winner an… read more
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- humor
- adult
- audiobook
"You respect me?" Sheila asked, surprised. "As a person?" "No, as a pigeon."-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead
"She smiled. It was rare for her to find someone attractive physically and also to like what came out of their mouth."-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead
"He was one of the fortunate ones. He'd emerged from childhood a whole person and his past wasn't some vast immovable mass with its own weather system."-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead
15. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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16. Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger
4.04
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more
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- history
- audiobook
17. From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir (Turner Classic Movies)
By: Alain Silver
3.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder’s Double… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
18. You Better Be Lightning
By: Andrea Gibson
4.63
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
19. The Depth of the Lake and the Height of the Sky
By: Kim Jihyun
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
'Astonishing to behold.' — The New York Times It's summertime and a boy and his dog are leaving beh… read more
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20. On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing
By: Katherine Dunn
3.82
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
F uck the Fuckity Fuckin’ Fucker. Readers of Katherine Dunn won’t be surprised that this was her fa… read more
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- history
- language
- humor
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- adult
- audiobook
21. A Witch's Guide to Burning
By: Aminder Dhaliwal
4.24
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Dhaliwal creates a land ruled by magic and fire, where the sky is thick with witches A witch’s wor… read more
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