Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists
By: Lisa Slominski
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A global history of self-taught artists advocating for a nuanced understanding of modern and contem…
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1. Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art
By: Phoebe Hoban
3.96
Format: 393 pages, Paperback
Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world: in less than a decade he went f… read more
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2. The Artist's Way
By: Julia Cameron
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more
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- art
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3. The Crystal World
By: J.G. Ballard
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
J. G. Ballard's fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent … read more
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4. Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Ak… read more
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5. The Stepford Wives
By: Ira Levin
2.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost to… read more
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6. POPism: The Warhol Sixties
By: Andy Warhol , Pat Hackett
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPismis Warhol's personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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8. The Strange Library
By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen
4.36
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami--a fantastical illustrated short novel about … read more
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9. The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
By: Anne Rice
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the d… read more
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10. Naked
By: David Sedaris
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris tu… read more
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11. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
12. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
By: Ben McKenzie
None
Format: None pages, None
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more
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13. Notes on ‘Camp’
By: Susan Sontag
3.97
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more
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"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
14. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
By: Jessica Bruder
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780393356311 can be found here. From the beet fields of Nort… read more
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"a vast majority of us vandwellers are white. The reasons range from obvious to duh, but then there’s this."-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
"Some call them "homeless." The new nomads reject that label. Equipped with both shelter and transportation, they've adopted a new word. They refer to themselves, quite simply, as "houseless"-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
"The most widely accepted measure for calculating income inequality is a century-old formula called the Gini coefficient. It's a gold standard for economists around the globe, along with the World ban…"-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
15. Sonic Life: A Memoir
By: Thurston Moore
3.81
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more
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16. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By: Susan Magsamen
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brai… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
By: Neil Gaiman
4.30
Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition
A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gai… read more
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- nonfiction
"When things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art."-Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
"Physical books are tough, hard to destroy, bath resistant, solar operated, feel good in your hand: they are good at being books, and there will always be a place for them."-Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
"I love the way words and pictures work together on a page. I have also noticed how when wise words have visuals added to them, they seem to travel further online, like paper aeroplanes catching an up…"-Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
"I decided that I would do my best in future not to write books just for the money. If you didn't get the money, then you didn't have anything. If I did work I was proud of, and I didn't get the money…"-Neil Gaiman, Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
18. Parade
By: Hiromi Kawakami
3.81
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A brief, disquieting companion to the bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, set during a summer aft… read more
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19. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
By: Casey Cep
3.77
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on ob… read more
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"There’s no news in a newsroom"-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
"Vengeance is as old as violence."-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
"History isn’t what happens, but what gets written down."-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
"Monroeville was hard to get to and easy to get stuck in."-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
20. How to Be an Artist
By: Jerry Saltz
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for … read more
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- nonfiction
"Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"Surely, your crappy art can fake out twelve stupid people. I've seen it done with one or two."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"For now, make something, learn something, and move on. Or you’ll be buried waist-deep in the big muddy of perfectionism."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"But doubt is a sign of faith: it tests and humbles you, allows newness into your life. Best of all, doubt banishes the stifling effect of certainty. Certainty kills curiosity and change."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
21. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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22. Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas
By: Ed Brubaker
4.05
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Friday Fitzhugh spent her childhood solving crimes and digging up occult secrets with her best frie… read more
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23. The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are
By: Tariq Trotter
4.20
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
“Tariq Trotter . . . could be hip-hop’s Dostoyevsky. Like the Russian novelist, Mr. Trotter has ref… read more
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24. Friday, Book Two: On a Cold Winter's Night
By: Ed Brubaker
4.31
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
BOOK TWO is finally here! A young adult detective hero finally grows up in this second volume of th… read more
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25. Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
By: W. David Marx
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The book lays out how individuals in pursuit of status trigger the cultural mechanisms behind taste… read more
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26. The Life of Crime: Unravelling the Mysteries of Fiction’s Favourite Genre
By: Martin Edwards
4.02
Format: 724 pages, Hardcover
In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the Histor… read more
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27. Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
By: Adam Clair
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring, revelatory exploration of the genesis and impact of the fabled Elephant 6 collective … read more
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28. Bartleby & Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener
By: Gay Talese
3.84
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Gay Talese revisits his pioneering career profiling the many “nobodies” who make New York so fascin… read more
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29. Alte Zachen / Old Things
By: Ziggy Hanaor
4.03
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully illustrated and presented intergenerational graphic novel that follows 11-year-old Be… read more
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30. The Art and Life of Hilma af Klint
By: Ylva Hillström
4.17
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
The first children’s picture book on Hilma af Klint and her pioneering work. Hilma af Klint (1862–1… read more
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31. Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists
By: Lisa Slominski
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A global history of self-taught artists advocating for a nuanced understanding of modern and contem… read more
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