Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground
By: Ian F. Martin
3.86
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
From the sugar rush of Tokyo’s idol subculture to the discordant polyrhythms of its experimental pu…
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1. 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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- nonfiction
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"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
2. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
3. A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
3.94
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
His life was like a recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taki… read more
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"I’m forever realizing things too late."-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
"A friend to kill time is a friend sublime."-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
"The light of morning decomposes everything."-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
"Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you."-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
4. Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
By: Sara Gran
3.69
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world’s greates… read more
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"Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you. Where we’re unhurt is where we are false. Where we are wounded and healed is where our real self gets to show itself. That’s where you get to show who…"-Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
"There are no coincidences. Just opportunities you're too dumb to see, doors you've been too blind to step through. And for every one you miss there's some poor fucking soul who's been left behind, wa…"-Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
"My uncle, he used to say there was two Bibles," he said. "Or one, but it been split in half. He said half’s in the book, on paper. But the other half is inside people. You born with it, but it’s up t…"-Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
"There are no coincidences, only mysteries that haven't been solved, clues that haven't been placed. Most are blind to the language of the bird overhead, the leaf in our path, the phonographic record …"-Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries, #1)
5. 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
6. England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground
By: David Keenan
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Based on several years' worth of exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands' … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
7. Breakfast of Champions
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Breakfast of Champions,one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore … read more
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8. Kitchen
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more
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9. KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money
By: J.M.R. Higgs , John Higgs
3.32
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
They were the best-selling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial succ… read more
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10. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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11. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
By: Raymond Carver
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Alternate-cover edition can be found In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more
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12. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (The Dark Knight Saga, #1)
By: Frank Miller , Klaus Janson , Lynn Varley
4.32
Format: 650 pages, Hardcover
This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker… read more
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13. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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14. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
15. Less Than Zero
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more
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16. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
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17. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
18. Tokyo Express
By: Seichō Matsumoto
3.68
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more
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19. The Hole
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.49
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the cou… read more
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"I moved out here with my husband."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
20. Breasts and Eggs
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.86
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting e… read more
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"Then there are the real bastards, like my ex,"-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"Mi sentivo come un essere privato della carne e della pelle e ridotto a sole ossa. Un carapace enorme completamente cavo."-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"We could worry about tomorrow when it came. What mattered most right now is how we would spend the remainder of today, even if it was half over."-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"I could see people all around me, but I almost felt like nobody could see me. I heard a train go by, rumbling down the tracks, drawing a thick line between the world and my experience. I was getting …"-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
21. This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" and the Beginning of the 21st Century
By: Steven Hyden
3.69
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020"In this brilliant book, Steven Hyden goes deep into … read more
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22. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
By: Matt Baume
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more
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23. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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24. Life for Sale
By: Yukio Mishima
3.72
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will … read more
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"It's only the desire to live as long as possible that makes everything seem complicated and mysterious."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"Když si rozsvítíš v malém pokoji modrou lampu, taky ti všechno zmodrá, ale tím se z toho pokoje ještě moře nestane."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what’s inside pours out. It’s only natural."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
"To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness."-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale
25. Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Part 1 Volume 1
By: Miya Kazuki
4.29
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and i… read more
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26. Chainsaw Man: Buddy Stories
By: Tatsuki Fujimoto
3.91
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
Chainsaw Man's supernatural action returns in four new prose stories of devil-hunting partners!Powe… read more
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27. Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground
By: Dylan Jones
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, an… read more
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28. Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book
By: Thom Yorke
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In which the writings of the authors Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood are gathered together. This… read more
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29. Black Punk Now
By: James Spooner
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A canonizing, bold, and urgent anthology setting a new precedent for Black Punk Lit, created by gen… read more
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30. Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground
By: Ian F. Martin
3.86
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
From the sugar rush of Tokyo’s idol subculture to the discordant polyrhythms of its experimental pu… read more
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31. Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment
By: Jason Schreier
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and the gaming industry's preeminent investigative journalist Jas… read more
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