Twentieth-Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies
By: Duncan Hannah
4.11
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A celebrated New York City painter's rollicking and vividly immediate account of his life amid the …
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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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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"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. Ex-wife
By: Ursula Parrott
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and nev… read more
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3. What Belongs to You
By: Garth Greenwell
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's Na… read more
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4. The Postman Always Rings Twice
By: James M. Cain
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more
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5. Last Exit to Brooklyn
By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more
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6. The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk
By: Steven Lee Beeber
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
Based in part on recent interviews with more than 125 people--among them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein … read more
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7. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain
4.19
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more
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- music
- new york
- art
- biography
- memoir
- pop culture
- nonfiction
"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
8. 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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9. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
By: Cookie Mueller
4.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more
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- new york
- art
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
10. Chelsea Girls
By: Eileen Myles
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age n… read more
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11. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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12. M Train
By: Patti Smith
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, … read more
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- music
- art
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."-Patti Smith, M Train
"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."-Patti Smith, M Train
"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."-Patti Smith, M Train
"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."-Patti Smith, M Train
13. Just Kids
By: Patti Smith
4.21
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-befor… read more
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- music
- new york
- art
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"There's always new stuff, that's for sure."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
14. 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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- art
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"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
15. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- pop culture
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
16. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
By: Cynthia Carr
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more
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- art
- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
17. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
By: Lucy Sante
3.70
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
18. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more
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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
19. Lou Reed: The King of New York
By: Will Hermes
4.23
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more
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- music
- new york
- art
- biography
- autobiography
- nonfiction
20. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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21. A Book of Days
By: Patti Smith
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more
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- art
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
22. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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23. Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
By: Julia Wertz
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronic… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Go fuck yourself, melted spatula!"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"Do the stepwork and don't give me any of your excuses. We both know they're bullshit."-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"It's the fantasy of a life gone wrong. You've been doing the best you can, but it's hard and you're tired. Then something horrible happens and you get to give up and go be sad somewhere. There's some…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"...you're at a place in your life where you're trying to let people in, so you should have called someone to spend the afternoon with you instead of being a weirdo alone in a theater crying at a come…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
24. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir
By: Lucinda Williams
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
25. Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir
By: Alexandra Auder
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
26. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- pop culture
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
27. The Beautiful Ones
By: Prince
3.78
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the gre… read more
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- music
- art
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented."-Prince, The Beautiful Ones
"A lot of people have the idea that I'm a wild sexual person...I've lectured quite a few people out there. I'll say, 'Think about what you're saying. How would you react if you were me?' I ask that qu…"-Prince, The Beautiful Ones
28. Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
4.48
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"The violent white backlash to Obama’s victory will still be unlike anything we’d ever seen..."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Y'all taught me that unacknowledged scars accumulated in battles won often hurt more than battles lost."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"Even when I know you're lying to me, I just feel crazy sorry for you. Why? Because I can just tell you'll never let me carry what you're hiding."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
"The nation as it is currently constituted has never dealt with a yesterday or tomorrow where we were radically honest, generous, and tender with each other."-Kiese Laymon, Heavy
29. This Must Be the Place: Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City
By: Jesse Rifkin
4.26
Format: None pages, ebook
A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community and the highs and lo… read more
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- music
- new york
- art
- nonfiction
30. Rejection: Fiction
By: Tony Tulathimutte
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more
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"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction
31. Twentieth-Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies
By: Duncan Hannah
4.11
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A celebrated New York City painter's rollicking and vividly immediate account of his life amid the … read more
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- diary
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