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The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
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avg rating 3.59 — 243,493 ratings — published 1962
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 700,977 ratings — published 2011
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade (ebook)
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avg rating 3.66 — 26,630 ratings — published 2014
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.51 — 10,127 ratings — published 2003
Anthem (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 170,120 ratings — published 1938
Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)
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avg rating 3.53 — 34,456 ratings — published 2009
Fatherland (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 59,264 ratings — published 1992
The Plot Against America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 71,477 ratings — published 2004
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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avg rating 4.07 — 115,159 ratings — published 2006
The High King of Montival (Emberverse, #7)
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avg rating 3.96 — 3,954 ratings — published 2010
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 81,696 ratings — published 2007
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 387,563 ratings — published 1971
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 15,880 ratings — published 1995
Fight Club (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 661,852 ratings — published 1996
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 77,663 ratings — published 1956
The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,258 ratings — published 1995
The Divine Spark: A Graham Hancock Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 368 ratings — published 2015
The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,956 ratings — published 2012
The Years of Rice and Salt (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 16,004 ratings — published 2002
The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 2,999 ratings — published 1992
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 789,985 ratings — published 1962
Island in the Sea of Time (Nantucket, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 8,617 ratings — published 1998
Prentice Alvin (Tales of Alvin Maker, #3)
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avg rating 3.81 — 19,018 ratings — published 1989
Darwinia (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.38 — 4,287 ratings — published 1998
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 535,247 ratings — published 2022
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 154,042 ratings — published 1999
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,111,915 ratings — published 1992
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 439,632 ratings — published 2019
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 6,842 ratings — published 1928
Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 38,861 ratings — published 2008
War God: Return of the Plumed Serpent (War God, #2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 673 ratings — published 2014
Choke (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 224,282 ratings — published 2001
The 12th Planet (Earth Chronicles, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 6,051 ratings — published 1976
Survivor (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 125,654 ratings — published 1999
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 274,414 ratings — published 2004
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 100,559 ratings — published 1959
The Alternative Hero (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 286 ratings — published 2009
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 324,402 ratings — published 1994
On the Road (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 458,711 ratings — published 1957
Dreadnought (The Clockwork Century, #2)
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avg rating 3.87 — 8,132 ratings — published 2010
The Dream of Perpetual Motion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2,018 ratings — published 2010
Fortune's Stroke (Belisarius, #4)
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avg rating 4.24 — 2,233 ratings — published 2000
Chariots of the Gods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.53 — 17,567 ratings — published 1968
American Psycho (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 379,697 ratings — published 1991
The Girl Who Chased the Moon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 64,549 ratings — published 2010
Against the Tide of Years (Nantucket, #2)
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avg rating 4.05 — 5,191 ratings — published 1999
The Crystal City (Tales of Alvin Maker, #6)
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avg rating 3.63 — 11,781 ratings — published 2003
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 909,845 ratings — published 2005
Emperor (Time's Tapestry, #1)
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avg rating 3.42 — 1,046 ratings — published 2006
The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 303,707 ratings — published 2003
“She had imagined all kinds of hellish scenarios that made getting eaten by the zombies sound like a pleasant alternative.”
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“I was once asked to pick a couple of records for an interview I was doing on Radio 2. I picked one by Will Oldham and one by Joanna Newsom. Someone on the production phoned me to say that I couldn't have either record because they were 'too alternative' and I could just pick two from their playlist. Now, personally, I think that Radio 2's listeners would dig both Joanna Newsom and Will Oldham if they heard their records, and that the fact they don't get to hear them contributes to the cultural wasteland we live in. I told them that I'd been to see Joanna Newsom in the Albert Hall a couple of weeks before and it had been sold out. How could she be 'too alternative'?
'Alternative' and 'mainstream' aren't strictly to do with whether things are popular or minority interest. They are ideological labels. Someone like Joe Pasquale would be called 'mainstream' and regularly pops up on TV, but would play the smaller end of the touring-theatre circuit. If Joanna Newsom can sell out Albert Hall, why can't she get played on Radio 2? I would agree that it's because her work is too layered, challenging and interesting. Think about that. What you get to hear about is filtered, and not filtered to get rid of useless cunts like Joe Pasquale, but of things that might enrich your life.”
― Work! Consume! Die!
'Alternative' and 'mainstream' aren't strictly to do with whether things are popular or minority interest. They are ideological labels. Someone like Joe Pasquale would be called 'mainstream' and regularly pops up on TV, but would play the smaller end of the touring-theatre circuit. If Joanna Newsom can sell out Albert Hall, why can't she get played on Radio 2? I would agree that it's because her work is too layered, challenging and interesting. Think about that. What you get to hear about is filtered, and not filtered to get rid of useless cunts like Joe Pasquale, but of things that might enrich your life.”
― Work! Consume! Die!
