Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
By: Nick Dunn
3.67
Format: 364 pages, ebook
Where now for the secret, the contemplative, the quiet and subterranean in our cities? The question…
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1. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
2. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
3. James Acaster's Classic Scrapes
By: James Acaster
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five timesand has appeared on prime… read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Colour Out of Space
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.03
Format: 78 pages, Mass Market Paperback
'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies … read more
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"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws."-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
"West of Arkham the hills rise wild and there are valleys with deep woods that no ax has ever cut. There are dark, narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, where thin brooklets trickle withou…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
5. Gyo
By: Junji Ito
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Something is rotten in Okinawa... The floating smell of death hangs over the island. What is it? A … read more
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6. America
By: Jean Baudrillard
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this, his most accessible and evocative book, France's leading philosopher of postmodernism take… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
7. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
8. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
9. The Hours
By: None , Michael Cunningham
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours" is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan,… read more
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10. Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
By: David Toop
3.41
Format: 32 pages,
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- nonfiction
11. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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12. The Trial
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir
3.95
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more
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"But I’m not guilty,"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"Asking questions were the most important thing."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
13. Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 11/23 to 12/14, 1974
By: Werner Herzog
3.40
Format: None pages,
In the winter of 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog made a three week solo journey from Munich to Paris … read more
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14. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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15. SCUM Manifesto
By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more
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16. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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17. The Woman in the Dunes
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
3.89
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more
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"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
18. Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
By: Nick Dunn
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines o… read more
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19. Gyo, Vol. 2
By: Junji Ito
4.17
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Horrifying Conclusion... Trapped on an island filled with the stench of mutating bodies, can t… read more
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20. The Weird and the Eerie
By: Mark Fisher
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more
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21. Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
By: John Howe , Marc Augé
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorw… read more
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22. Against Interpretation and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more
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23. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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24. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
25. No Country for Old Men
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more
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26. What to Listen for in Music
By: Alan Rich , Aaron Copland , William Schuman
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to music intelligently, Aaron Copland raises two basi… read more
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27. The Only Good Indians
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.70
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, c… read more
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"Names are stupid, though. Pretty soon he won't even need his."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"Lewis finds the fourteen-foot aluminum ladder under boxes in the garage, Three Stooges in into the backyard..."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because …"-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
28. Anéantir
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.84
Format: 734 pages, Hardcover
Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more
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"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir
29. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
30. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
31. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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