A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
By: Carrie Rickey
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The first major biography of the French New Wave filmmaker hailed as “one of the Gods of Cinema” by…
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1. 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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- art
- nonfiction
- biography
2. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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- art
- biography
- memoir
- film
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
3. 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
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"(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
4. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
5. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
6. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
By: Carrie Courogen
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"A deeply researched, psychologically astute new biography of May by Carrie Courogen...The book is … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- film
7. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- nonfiction
8. El último sueño
By: Pedro Almodóvar
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
El libro más personal de Pedro Almodóvar: un autorretrato articulado en doce relatos que revelan su… read more
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- film
"No tengo inconveniente en escribir sobre mí mismo. Diría que es casi lo único que hago."-Pedro Almodóvar, El último sueño
"Me gustan los escritores que hablan sobre el hecho de escribir y citan continuamente frases de otros autores"-Pedro Almodóvar, El último sueño
"Si de algo estaba seguro cuando era joven era de que nunca me aburriría. Ahora me aburro. Y eso es una especie de derrota."-Pedro Almodóvar, El último sueño
"Chavela le respondió: «A veces, pero siempre acabo donde debo». Me tatuaría esa frase en su honor. ¡Cuántas veces la he visto terminar donde debía!"-Pedro Almodóvar, El último sueño
9. Health and Safety: A Breakdown
By: Emily Witt
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex (“introspective and breathtakin… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
10. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- film
11. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Playground
By: Richard Powers
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more
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13. Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order
By: Yuan Yang
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women stri… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
14. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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15. Ghostroots: Stories
By: 'Pemi Aguda
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more
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16. Season of the Swamp
By: Yuri Herrera
3.77
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of… read more
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17. Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning poet Vanessa Angélica Villarreal comes a brilliant, singular collection of essay… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
18. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
19. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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20. Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls
By: Susan Seidelman
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The funny and insightful first-person story of the trailblazing movie director of the 80s and 90s … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- film
"The biggest takeaway from my long-distance relationship with Floyd Byars was that I optioned an original screenplay he had co-written with his writing partner, Laurie. Another takeaway was a case of …"-Susan Seidelman, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls
21. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
22. Final Cut
By: Charles Burns
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The beloved and award-winning author of BLACK HOLE's haunting and visually arresting story of an ar… read more
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23. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- france
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
24. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
25. A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
By: Carrie Rickey
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The first major biography of the French New Wave filmmaker hailed as “one of the Gods of Cinema” by… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- film
- biography memoir
- france
- nonfiction
- 21st century
26. Women's Hotel
By: Daniel M. Lavery
3.37
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel a… read more
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27. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
28. Karla's Choice
By: Nick Harkaway
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, writ… read more
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29. Sonny Boy: A Memoir
By: Al Pacino
4.14
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- film
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Where do I go to get a director? I’ve never hired one in my life. I’ve only starred in three films. I said, “Marty, I don’t know how to interview anybody. This is completely crazy."-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir
"A strange and discordant mix of roles followed. I liked one film I did, The Humbling, because I did it with Barry Levinson. It was based on the novel by Philip Roth, who I met at a party in New York.…"-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir
"As I was heading back, I began to hear the sound of someone crying, which you sort of expect in a graveyard. I looked around to see where it was coming from. And there, sitting on a tombstone, was Fr…"-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir
"Another young actor in Charlie’s class with me was a guy by the name of Martin Sheen. In one session Marty did a monologue from The Iceman Cometh, and he blew the roof off—I said, this is it, this is…"-Al Pacino, Sonny Boy: A Memoir
30. The De Palma Decade: Redefining Cinema with Doubles, Voyeurs, and Psychic Teens
By: Laurent Bouzereau
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Journey with award-winning documentarian and author Laurent Bouzereau through acclaimed director Br… read more
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- nonfiction
- film
31. Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops
By: Tim Robey
3.64
Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition
From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adapt… read more
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- nonfiction
- film
