The Book of Drugs: A Memoir
By: Mike Doughty
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mike Doughty first came to prominence as the leader of the band Soul Coughing then did an abrupt so…
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1. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
By: Carrie Brownstein
3.83
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply persona… read more
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- music
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- biography memoir
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"I've always felt unclaimed."-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
"I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring."-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
"If someone didn’t feel included, if someone felt marginalised, they would form their own band, write their own fanzine, or just call you out on what they deemed racist or classist, sizeist, sexist, b…"-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
"I suppose we were better observers than communicators; we were all subjects to be worried over, complained about, even adored, but never quite people to be held or loved. There was an intellectual, a…"-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
2. NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories
By: Jeff Alulis , NOFX , Billy Joe Armstrong
4.55
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The candid, hilarious, shocking, occasionally horrifying, and surprisingly moving New York Times be… read more
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"From 111 Mike " I never travel with drugs because I don't want to get caught at the airport, so if I ever have any coke or ecstasy left over after night of partying I tuck it in the pages of the Bibl…"-Jeff Alulis, NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories
3. Election
By: Tom Perrotta
4.18
Format: None pages,
A suburban New Jersey high school teacher confronts a student-body election gone haywire in this da… read more
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4. Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana
By: Michael Azerrad
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Neve… read more
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5. Childhood’s End
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more
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"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
6. Magical Thinking: True Stories
By: Augusten Burroughs
4.26
Format: 192 pages,
From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry--a contagiously funny, heartwarming… read more
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7. The Book of Drugs: A Memoir
By: Mike Doughty
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mike Doughty first came to prominence as the leader of the band Soul Coughing then did an abrupt so… read more
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- music
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8. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Unknown , Christopher Tolkien
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Sir Gawain and the Green Knightand Pearlare two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. S… read more
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9. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
By: David Grann
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more
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10. Running With Scissors
By: Augusten Burroughs
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton… read more
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"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show ."-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
11. Lit
By: Mary Karr
3.44
Format: 216 pages,
Litfollows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness--and her astonishing resu… read more
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12. Miss Lonelyhearts / The Day of the Locust
By: Nathanael West
3.14
Format: 32 pages,
Miss Lonelyhearts Miss Lonelyhearts was a newspaper reporter, so named because he had been assigned… read more
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13. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
By: Tom Wolfe
3.57
Format: 416 pages,
For a start, Kesey's own life with the Merry Pranksters is perhaps the consummate example of a phen… read more
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14. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
By: Douglas Adams
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, t… read more
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15. The Score (Parker, #5)
By: Richard Stark
3.93
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more
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16. This Bird Has Flown
By: Susanna Hoffs
3.17
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song—written… read more
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17. Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
By: Frank Herbert
3.86
Format: 669 pages, Paperback
Book five in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more
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"Tedbirler al, ama onların gölgesinde yaşama."-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
"Hatred was as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for hatred was the capacity for its opposite."-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
"We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us, do we?"-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
18. The Mysteries
By: Bill Watterson
3.76
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more
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19. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
By: Andrew McCarthy
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following New York Times bestselling author and ac… read more
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20. The Baseball 100
By: Joe Posnanski
4.74
Format: 869 pages, Hardcover
A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singu… read more
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21. Harold
By: Steven Wright
3.48
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the t… read more
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"Looking at the wingless angel Harold firmly believed her shadow should be in color."-Steven Wright, Harold
"She smelled too. Like a 22 year old girl. He tried to place that smell but he couldn't. It seemed like a mixture of skin lotion and confidence."-Steven Wright, Harold
"In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called: 'Listen' The last lines were - I know you know you do it, it doesn't matter to you at all you just want to keep on talking a verbal waterfall"-Steven Wright, Harold
"Harold thought how weird and strange it must be to be a girl. He was glad he wasn’t one because he didn’t think he would be able to do that. Or he wouldn’t want to do that. It’s probably good that yo…"-Steven Wright, Harold
22. 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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23. The Bone Orchard Mythos: The Passageway (The Bone Orchard Mythos, #1)
By: Jeff Lemire
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
From the creative team of GIDEON FALLS and PRIMORDIAL comes the first book in a bold and ambitious … read more
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24. Acid for the Children
By: Flea
4.08
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more
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"Bein famous don't mean shit"-Flea, Acid for the Children
"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."-Flea, Acid for the Children
"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"-Flea, Acid for the Children
25. The Mars Room
By: Rachel Kushner
3.44
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Corr… read more
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"We loved life more than the future."-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room
"Where people are gone the night falls upward, black and unmanned."-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room
"I was assigned a public defender. We were all hopeful things would go differently. They did not go differently. They went this way."-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room
"You would not have gone. I understand that. You would not have gone up to his room. You would not have asked him for help. You would not have been wandering lost at midnight at age eleven. You would …"-Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room
26. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music
By: Jeff Tweedy
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more
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27. The Guide
By: Peter Heller
3.62
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, es… read more
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28. Congratulations, the Best is Over!
By: R. Eric Thomas
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more
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"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!
29. The Book of the Most Precious Substance
By: Sara Gran
3.57
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The highly anticipated new thriller from internationally renowned author Sara Gran, author of Come … read more
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"Book people aren't exactly silver-lining types."-Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substance
"Books were a dirty job, one of the black arts, along with witchcraft and printing."-Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substance
"I'd been so alone that I'd thought it was just the feeling of life when it went on too long."-Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substance
"Books are heavy and dirty and messy and have strong smells and leave your skin dry and dusty."-Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substance
30. The Horizon, Vol. 1 (The Horizon #1)
By: JH
4.33
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
A world where everything has been lost. A boy and a girl alone together. All they can do is move fo… read more
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31. How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters
By: Joshua Jay
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
There’s a saying: The door to magic is closed, but it’s not locked. In How Magicians Think, profess… read more
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