I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen
By: Ray Padgett
4.18
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
When I'm Your The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted …
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. So You've Been Publicly Shamed
By: Jon Ronson
3.93
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more
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- nonfiction
"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
3. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
4. Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
By: Eddie Muller
4.26
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Dark City, urban landscape of the imagination. A place where the men and women who creat… read more
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"The collective sign of relief heaved on V-J Day ought to have inspired Hollywood to release a flood of "happily ever after" films. But some victors didn't feel too good about their spoils. They'd see…"-Eddie Muller, Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
5. The Penelopiad
By: Margaret Atwood
3.72
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more
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"the gods often mumble"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
6. The Killer Inside Me
By: Jim Thompson
3.60
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to … read more
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7. The Motel Life
By: Nate Beaty , Willy Vlautin
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
With "echoes of Of Mice and Men" (The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Lifeexplores the frustrations and … read more
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8. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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9. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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10. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness
By: Reinhard Kleist
4.14
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
The first and only illustrated biography of "The Man in Black", Johnny Cash, the most famous countr… read more
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12. Housekeeping
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.94
Format: 450 pages,
A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more
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13. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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14. In Our Time
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.74
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more
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"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
15. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
By: Jon Ronson
4.19
Format: 45 pages,
They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed on on the street toda… read more
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16. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
17. Niente di vero
By: Veronica Raimo
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more
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"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero
18. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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19. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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- nonfiction
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
20. The Pachinko Parlour
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.61
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more
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"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
21. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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22. 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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"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
23. Life Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more
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"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
24. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
25. 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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- nonfiction
"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
26. Goth: A History
By: Lol Tolhurst
3.68
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Following his memoir Cured , a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a mi… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Hex
By: Jenni Fagan
3.85
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more
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"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
28. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
By: Steven Hyden
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more
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- nonfiction
29. I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen
By: Ray Padgett
4.18
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
When I'm Your The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted … read more
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- nonfiction
30. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
31. Trip-Hop
By: R.J. Wheaton
4.03
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad… read more
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