The Citizen Kane book
By: Pauline Kael
3.99
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Raising Kane / by Pauline Kael --The shooting script / by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles --N…
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1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
2. Octopussy and the Living Daylights (James Bond, #14)
By: Ian Fleming
3.57
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note #1: this entry is for one of the editions that includes the fourth story, "007 in … read more
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3. The Boys from Brazil
By: Ira Levin
4.06
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Alive and hiding in South America, Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for … read more
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"I say in my talks it takes two things to make it happen again, a new Hitler and social conditions like in the thirties. But that's not true. It takes three things: the Hitler, the conditions, and the…"-Ira Levin, The Boys from Brazil
4. Hollywood Babylon
By: Kenneth Anger
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hollywood Babylonwas originally published in Paris, and quickly became an underground legend. Not a… read more
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- history
- biography
- film
- media tie in
- nonfiction
5. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1)
By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill
3.42
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
Alan Moore's familiar cast of Victorian literary characters enters the brave new world of the 20th … read more
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7. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing co… read more
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8. Something Wicked This Way Comes
By: Ray Bradbury
None
Format: None pages, None
One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now feat… read more
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9. I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)
By: Mickey Spillane
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Here's Mickey Spillane and Mike Hammer in their roughest and readiest--a double-strength shot of se… read more
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10. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969
By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues,… read more
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11. All the President’s Men
By: Bob Woodward , Carl Bernstein
4.18
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The full account of the Watergate scandal from the two Washington Post reporters who broke the stor… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the hist…"-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
"Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward's rapid rise at the Post had less to do with his ability than his Establishment c…"-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
"Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has promised the front office results, pleading, yelling, cajoling, p…"-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
"Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching Bradlee grind his cigarrettes out in a demitasse cup during a formal dinner party. Bradlee was one …"-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
12. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more
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"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
13. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
By: John Le Carré
4.06
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more
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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
14. A Visit from the Goon Squad
By: Jennifer Egan
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging f… read more
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15. The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin… read more
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16. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more
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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
17. Breakfast at Tiffany's
By: Truman Capote
3.83
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the Am… read more
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18. 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
- history
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- film
- media tie in
- nonfiction
- criticism
"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
19. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
20. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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21. The Death of Mrs. Westaway
By: Ruth Ware
3.81
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial… read more
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"The magpies are back."-Ruth Ware, The Death of Mrs. Westaway
"Reading the cards (tarot) was revealing, and not only for the client."-Ruth Ware, The Death of Mrs. Westaway
"I'm not superstitious. I don't believe in knocking on wood, or crossing fingers, or crystal gazing, or any of that. I don't think the cards have any special occult power, though I'm not sure I'd say …"-Ruth Ware, The Death of Mrs. Westaway
22. The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter
By: Josef Lewkowicz
4.20
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
WINNER OF THE CANADIAN JEWISH LITERARY AWARD FOR HOLOCAUST LITERATURE An amazing, untold story of … read more
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- biography
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23. The Citizen Kane book
By: Pauline Kael
3.99
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Raising Kane / by Pauline Kael --The shooting script / by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles --N… read more
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