Searching for Robert Johnson
By: Peter Guralnick
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Robert Johnson, while probably the most influential of all blues guitarists, is also one of the mos…
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1. The Drop
By: Dennis Lehane
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story … read more
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"Ella dijo: -Él...Le has disparado, joder. Acabas de... O sea, ¿te das cuenta? Bob pasó la fregona por la mancha. -Le dió una paliza a mi perro."-Dennis Lehane, The Drop
"Happiness made Marv anxious because he knew it didn't last. But happiness destroyed was worth wrapping your arms around because it always hugged you back."-Dennis Lehane, The Drop
2. The Land Where the Blues Began
By: Alan Lomax
4.31
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
A self-described “song-hunter,” the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 193… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- the united states of america
- nonfiction
- african american
3. The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)
By: Booth Tarkington
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersonschronicl… read more
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4. Miles: The Autobiography
By: Miles Davis , Quincy Troupe
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acc… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
5. Child of God
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more
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6. Dear Life: Stories
By: Alice Munro
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales abo… read more
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7. Searching for Robert Johnson
By: Peter Guralnick
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Robert Johnson, while probably the most influential of all blues guitarists, is also one of the mos… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- the united states of america
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
8. Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
By: Elijah Wald
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what ma… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
9. Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
By: Robert Palmer
3.68
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Music category type book. Paperback. Robert Palmer, Author. Lightly age toned pages. A Penquin Book… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- african american
10. Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time, #7)
By: Marcel Proust , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Char… read more
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11. Desperate Characters
By: Jonathan Franzen , Paula Fox
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen… read more
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12. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
By: Ron Hansen
3.99
Format: None pages,
One of the great classic tales ofThe Great American West... IT IS 1881. Jesse James, at the age of … read more
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13. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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14. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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15. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
16. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
17. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
18. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
19. 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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- music
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
20. Heat 2
By: Michael Mann
4.26
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more
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21. 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
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
22. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
By: Warren Zanes
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
23. Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
By: Benjamin Taylor
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant explorati… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
24. Small Mercies
By: Dennis Lehane
4.29
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more
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25. Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
By: Robert Mack McCormick
3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript … read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
26. Listen: On Music, Sound and Us
By: Michel Faber
3.31
Format: None pages, ebook
This book is, at its core, about music and the people who listen to it—your friends, your neighbors… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
27. The N'Gustro Affair
By: Jean-Patrick Manchette
3.51
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers. Mean, arrogant, naive, sadisti… read more
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28. Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson
By: Bruce Conforth
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert Johnson is the subject of the most famous myth about the history of the blues: he allegedly … read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- african american
29. Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
By: Annye C. Anderson
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his fam… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
30. Une sortie honorable
By: Éric Vuillard
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
La guerre d'Indochine est l'une des plus longues guerres modernes. Pourtant, dans nos manuels scola… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
31. Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
By: John F. Szwed
4.29
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
“The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides … read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
