Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.70
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
Building on the national bestselling success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, preeminent pop culture…
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1. Visions of Gerard
By: Jack Kerouac
3.74
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
"His life...ended when he was nine and the nuns of St. Louis de France Parochial School were at his… read more
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2. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, … read more
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"Love is a skill you learn."-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
"We'll never be as young as we are tonight."-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
"A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit."-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
"What if reality is nothing but some disease?"-Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
3. Non-Fiction
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.57
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Chuck Palahniuk's world has been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Non… read more
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"I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is."-Chuck Palahniuk, Non-Fiction
"A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."-Chuck Palahniuk, Non-Fiction
"Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away."-Chuck Palahniuk, Non-Fiction
"That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version."-Chuck Palahniuk, Non-Fiction
4. Love Is a Mix Tape
By: Rob Sheffield
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning memoir, Rob Sheffield, a veteran rock and pop culture critic and staff writer for … read more
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5. No Dominion (Joe Pitt, #2)
By: Charlie Huston
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Joe Pitt's life sucks. He hasn't had a case or a job in God knows how long and his stashes are runn… read more
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6. The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
By: Jay Snyder , Oliver Wyman , Lauren Fortgang , Kevin T. Collins , None , Robert Fass , Jon Stewart , Chris Lutkin
4.13
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by i… read more
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7. Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke
By: Rob Sheffield
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
An emotional journey of hilarity and heartbreak with a karaoke soundtrack, in the spirit of Rob She… read more
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8. The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
By: Julie Sondra Decker
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What if you weren't sexually attracted to anyone? A growing number of people are identifying as ase… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
By: Hunter S. Thompson
3.65
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what F… read more
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10. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.70
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
Building on the national bestselling success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, preeminent pop culture… read more
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- essays
11. High Fidelity
By: Nick Hornby
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more
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12. Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1)
By: Charlie Huston
2.76
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on bloo… read more
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13. Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life
By: Steven Hyden
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of Amazon's Best Books of 2016 So Far Music critic Steven Hyden explores nineteen music rivalri… read more
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14. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more
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15. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
By: Hunter S. Thompson
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S.… read more
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16. You Shall Know Our Velocity!
By: Dave Eggers
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Paperback
In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly arou… read more
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17. Half the Blood of Brooklyn (Joe Pitt, #3)
By: Charlie Huston
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Paperback
"One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century." -Ste… read more
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18. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
By: James Kaplan
4.35
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more
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- nonfiction
19. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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- humor
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- essays
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
20. Survivor
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, … read more
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"Suicide is very contagious."-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"this is the upside of already being eternally damned"-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine."-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list."-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
21. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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- pop culture
22. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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- pop culture
23. Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
By: Tom Beaujour
4.07
Format: 535 pages, Hardcover
Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that pe… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- pop culture
24. Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation
By: Steven Hyden
4.14
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A leading music journalist’s riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and… read more
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- nonfiction
- pop culture
- essays
"One of the many musical distinctions of my lifetime that used to seem important and now is completely forgotten is the difference between “alternative"-Steven Hyden, Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation
25. Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)
By: Serj Tankian
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written debut memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead… read more
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- nonfiction
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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. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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28. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
By: Sam Wasson
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more
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- pop culture
29. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
By: Dan Ozzi
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well tol… read more
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- nonfiction
- pop culture
30. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
By: Steven Hyden
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more
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- memoir
- pop culture
31. Neurodiversity and the Myth of Normal
By: Kyler Shumway
3.77
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
We’ve all been told, at one point or another, to "just be yourself." Whether you are starting schoo… read more
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