A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs vol 1: From Savoy Stompers to Clock Rockers
By: Andrew Hickey
4.59
Format: 553 pages, Kindle Edition
In this series of books, based on the hit podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, Andrew Hick…
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1. Geek Love
By: Katherine Dunn
3.95
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out ― wi… read more
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"You must have wished a million times to be normal."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
"A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
"There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
"It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
2. 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
- 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
3. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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4. The Go-Between
By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley
3.99
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more
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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
5. Rumours of Glory: A Memoir
By: None
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Following the success of I'm Your Man and Just Kids, legendary Canadian singer and songwriter Bruce… read more
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6. H is for Hawk
By: Helen Macdonald
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more
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7. You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack
By: Tom Gauld
4.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Precise and wryly hilarious...Gauld's both a literature nerd and a science-fiction nerd whose dead… read more
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8. Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life
By: Graham Nash
3.77
Format: 230 pages, Audio CD
From Graham Nash the legendary musician and founding member of the iconic bands Crosby, Stills & Na… read more
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9. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
By: C.S. Lewis
4.00
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more
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"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
10. One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
By: Craig Brown
4.26
Format: 642 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinatin… read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
11. My Effin' Life
By: Geddy Lee
4.58
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
12. Limberlost
By: Robbie Arnott
4.25
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more
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"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
13. The Philosophy of Modern Song
By: Bob Dylan
3.80
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
14. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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- nonfiction
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
15. 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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- nonfiction
16. The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
By: John Lisle
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch― The Dirty Tricks De… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
18. Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio
By: David Hepworth
4.06
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
With a foreword by Paul McCartney'It's semi-devotional -- a really special place' Florence Welch'Th… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
19. A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs vol 1: From Savoy Stompers to Clock Rockers
By: Andrew Hickey
4.59
Format: 553 pages, Kindle Edition
In this series of books, based on the hit podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, Andrew Hick… read more
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20. The Endless Journey: 50 Years of Pink Floyd
By: Mick Wall
3.95
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
Mick Wall is the UK’s best-known rock writer, author and TV and radio programme maker, and is the a… read more
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21. Too Late To Stop Now: More Rock’n’Roll War Stories
By: Allan Jones
3.78
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
More than 40 stories from the glory days of rock'n'roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and … read more
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- nonfiction
