There's Something About Jonathan: Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers
By: Tim Mitchell
3.48
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is the first biography of the unique American musician and songwriter Jonathan Richman whose c…
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1. Miss Lonelyhearts
By: Nathanael West
3.58
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
NYC. Height of Depression. The male Miss G columnist is weighted down by gloom. Obscene rhymes rep… read more
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"It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"Humanity...I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards..."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
"He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain."-Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
2. 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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- nonfiction
- biography
"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
3. The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
By: Andy Miller
3.76
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Ignored by virtually everyone upon its release in November 1968, 'The Kinks Are The Village Green P… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
4. On the Road
By: Jack Kerouac
3.61
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more
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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
5. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X
4.36
Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more
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- biography
"We all like chicken"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
6. A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
3.00
Format: None pages,
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more
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7. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more
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8. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
By: J.D. Salinger
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE H… read more
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9. Exile on Main St.
By: Bill Janovitz
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Thirty-Three and a Third is a series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved album… read more
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10. Born to Run
By: Bruce Springsteen
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The e… read more
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11. A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more
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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
12. The Modern Lovers' The Modern Lovers
By: None
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
From the "War on Hippies" to the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the story of Modern Lovers is a high … read more
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13. Paul's Boutique
By: Dan LeRoy
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Not only did "Paul's Boutique" transform the Beastie Boys from frat-boy novelty to critically laude… read more
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14. The Exorcist
By: William Peter Blatty
4.20
Format: 385 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficu… read more
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"Keep away. The sow is mine."-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
"The child was slender as fleeting hope."-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
"The child was slender as a fleeting hope."-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
"In forgetting, they were trying to remember"-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
15. Born in the U.S.A.
By: Geoffrey Himes
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
When Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, "one, t… read more
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16. Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
By: John Updike
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—… read more
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"You were never in Texas,"-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
"The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you’re going before you go there."-John Updike, Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
17. Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
By: Bob Odenkirk
3.60
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Nob… read more
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"The 'better angels of our nature' may be the ones we want leading us forward, but the worser angels are the ones that we seem to want to watch onscreen."-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
"I figured I'd work in forestry, since I like the outdoors. In fact, in high school I filled out some kind of career-planning assessment and it said just that: 'Go into the forest and don't come back."-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
"Cads kill me. Men who go through life making wisecracks, being overtly rude, taking advantage, being self-obsessed disasters. They're just funny to me. Because of this hobbyhorse, one of my favorite …"-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
18. 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
19. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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- nonfiction
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
20. Transformer
By: Ezra Furman
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition
Transformer, Lou Reed's most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it's often… read more
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21. There's Something About Jonathan: Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers
By: Tim Mitchell
3.48
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is the first biography of the unique American musician and songwriter Jonathan Richman whose c… read more
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