The Last Thing He Wanted
By: Joan Didion
4.72
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In her first novel in twelve years, the legendary author of Play It As It Laysand Slouching Toward …
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1. 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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2. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (VALIS Trilogy, #3)
By: Philip K. Dick
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes Valisand Th… read more
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3. The Land of Little Rain
By: Terry Tempest Williams , Mary Hunter Austin
3.71
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
"Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite--east and south over a very great assemblage of broke… read more
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4. Black Swans
By: Eve Babitz
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In nine stories that look back on a decade of dreams, drink, and stoned youth turning Republican, B… read more
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- literary fiction
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5. The Last Thing He Wanted
By: Joan Didion
4.72
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In her first novel in twelve years, the legendary author of Play It As It Laysand Slouching Toward … read more
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- literary fiction
- thriller
- politics
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- novels
6. The Names
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Namesis considered the book which began t… read more
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7. Monster: Living Off the Big Screen
By: John Gregory Dunne
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Hollywood, screenwriters are a curse to be borne, and beating up on them is an industry blood sp… read more
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10. The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
By: H.W. Brands
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of Gen… read more
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11. 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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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
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"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.
12. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- novels
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
13. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
14. 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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"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
15. 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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"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
16. 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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17. 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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18. The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
By: Cory Leadbeater
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer—struggling with depression, family issues, and addict… read more
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19. Like Love: Essays and Conversations
By: Maggie Nelson
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more
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20. 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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21. Ponyboy
By: Eliot Duncan
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more
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