Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One
By: Rickey Vincent
4.04
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
FUNK: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell…
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1. Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
By: Patricia Cornwell
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of st… read more
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2. V for Vendetta
By: Alan Moore , David Lloyd
3.50
Format: 92 pages, Hardcover
"Remember, remember the fifth of November..." A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedo… read more
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3. In the Miso Soup
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
3.83
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on… read more
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4. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
By: Joseph Brodsky , William T. Vollmann , Danilo Kiš , None , None , Danilo Kies
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovichpresents variations on the theme of politi… read more
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5. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more
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6. Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
By: Richard Adams
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage an… read more
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7. Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
By: Walter Mosley
4.36
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this cycle of 14 bittersweet stories, Walter Mosley breaks out of the genre--if not the setting-… read more
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8. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
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9. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
10. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
11. The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
By: Julia Galef
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Ju… read more
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"The scout isn’t indifferent. A scout might hope to learn that the path is safe, that the other side is weak, or that there’s a bridge conveniently located where his forces need to cross the river. Bu…"-Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
12. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
13. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
By: Elie Mystal
4.59
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First… read more
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14. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
By: Dan Charnas
4.56
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
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15. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success
By: Miki Berenyi
4.46
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
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16. Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One
By: Rickey Vincent
4.04
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
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