Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
By: Nick Hornby
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and…
Want to Read $ 4.99"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
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1. The Book of Eleven: An Itemized Collection of Brain Lint
By: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
3.85
Format: 122 pages, Hardcover
Presents random thoughts on different subjects, including movies, restaurants, death, olives, sex, … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- essays
2. William - An Englishman
By: Nicola Beauman , Cicely Hamilton
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Williamwas 'written in a rage in 1918; this extraordinary novel... is a passionate assertion of the… read more
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3. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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- art
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
4. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- art
- history
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
5. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- audiobook
6. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
7. The Philosophy of Modern Song
By: Bob Dylan
3.80
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more
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- music
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
8. Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- essays
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- audiobook
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
9. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By: Bono
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more
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- music
- history
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- biography memoir
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- audiobook
"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
10. I Must Be Dreaming
By: Roz Chast
3.65
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more
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- biography memoir
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11. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
By: Warren Zanes
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
12. 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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- music
- history
- pop culture
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"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
13. 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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- history
- biography
- pop culture
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
By: Susan Rogers
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more
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- music
- art
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
By: Nick Hornby
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and… read more
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- music
- art
- history
- biography
- pop culture
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
- audiobook
"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
16. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- pop culture
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. The Beautiful Ones
By: Prince
3.78
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the gre… read more
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- music
- art
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- biography
- biography memoir
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- audiobook
"Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented."-Prince, The Beautiful Ones
"A lot of people have the idea that I'm a wild sexual person...I've lectured quite a few people out there. I'll say, 'Think about what you're saying. How would you react if you were me?' I ask that qu…"-Prince, The Beautiful Ones
18. 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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- music
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19. Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
By: Robert Mack McCormick
3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript … read more
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- music
- history
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Get It On: How the ’70s Rocked Football
By: Jon Spurling
4.31
Format: 444 pages, Kindle Edition
A decade after the abolition of the maximum wage, a new generation of footballers and managers beca… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Here Goes Nothing: A Novel
By: Eamon McGrath
2.44
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Named a Fall 2020 Best Indie Read by the Globe and Mail From Eamon McGrath, award-winning musician … read more
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- music
- audiobook
22. The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
By: Tom Breihan
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through th… read more
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- music
- history
- pop culture
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
23. Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio
By: David Hepworth
4.06
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
With a foreword by Paul McCartney'It's semi-devotional -- a really special place' Florence Welch'Th… read more
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- music
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond
By: Sandra B. Tooze
3.97
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The life of the legendary drummer and singer is explored through extensive research and personal in… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
25. Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir
By: Denise Dorrance
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For fans of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? , an unputdownable debut graphic The what… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
26. Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
By: Louise Willder
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
This is the outside story of books. From blurbs to titles, quotes to (checks jacket) cute animal de… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- essays
- books about books
27. The Mystery of Charles Dickens
By: A.N. Wilson
3.60
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography A lively and insightful biographical celebration of… read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- books about books
- audiobook
28. Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography
By: Martyn Ware
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
29. 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left
By: Robyn Hitchcock
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
The great eccentric of British psychedelia—beloved by everyone from Led Zeppelin and R.E.M. to the … read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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- history
- books about books
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31. If this Isn't Nice, What Is?
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.99
Format: 123 pages, Hardcover
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