After Henry
By: Joan Didion
3.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Ange…
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2. Sharks in the Rivers
By: Ada Limon
3.95
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more
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- nonfiction
3. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
By: Ezra F. Vogel
4.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no sc… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
4. Eve's Hollywood
By: Eve Babitz
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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5. 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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6. The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical Adventure
By: Jack Handey
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
The legendary Deep Thoughtsand New Yorkerhumorist Jack Handey is back with his very first novel-a h… read more
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7. No Name in the Street
By: James Baldwin
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seve… read more
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- history
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8. White Girls
By: Hilton Als
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
White Girls, Hilton Als's first book since The Womenfourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker… read more
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9. After Henry
By: Joan Didion
3.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Ange… read more
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- history
- memoir
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- nonfiction
- essays
- 20th century
- journalism
10. The Tolkien Reader
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Peter S. Beagle
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
An invitation to Tolkien's world. This rich treasury includes Tolkien's most beloved short fiction … read more
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- essays
11. The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
By: Tracy Daugherty
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
In New York Timesbestselling The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author o… read more
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12. Steal This Book
By: Abbie Hoffman
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
A driving force behind the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Hoffman inspired a generation … read more
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13. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more
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14. Speedboat
By: Renata Adler
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more
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16. When Angels Speak of Love
By: bell hooks
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This collection of 50 poems illuminates our experiences of love - tracing the links between seducti… read more
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17. The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy
By: Hillary Huber , Masha Gessen
3.29
Format: None pages, Audio CD
An important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the night… read more
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19. 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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- memoir
"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
20. The Last Stone
By: Mark Bowden
3.71
Format: 352 pages, None
On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, ages ten and twelve, vanished from a shoppin… read more
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21. 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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- 20th century
- essays
"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.
22. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
By: Alexandra Lange
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more
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- history
"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
23. Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
By: Lili Anolik
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world—a movie factory, a music … read more
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24. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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- history
- memoir
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
25. I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
By: Eve Babitz
4.15
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
An NYRB Classics Original With Eve’s Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books th… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"As far as I'm concerned, you can't have fun in a high neckline - I don't care how witty you are."-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
"I'm dying and use words like gaunt . When I weigh 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she's just murdered someone."-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
"When I weigh 130, my friends think I'm dying and use words like gaunt . When I weight 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she…"-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
26. Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir
By: Ai Weiwei
3.74
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei… read more
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27. The World According to Joan Didion
By: Evelyn McDonnell
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential w… read more
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28. Joan Didion: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
By: Melville House
4.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conver… read more
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29. Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
By: Mike Davis
4.38
Format: 1051 pages, Kindle Edition
A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting history of Los Angeles in the SixtiesHistories of the US Six… read more
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- history
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30. Tabula Rasa: Volume 1
By: John McPhee
3.91
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. … read more
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31. So to Speak (Penguin Poets)
By: Terrance Hayes
4.17
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–w… read more
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