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Gen X Books
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Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.62 — 104,384 ratings — published 1985
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.74 — 30,563 ratings — published 1991
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.80 — 374,186 ratings — published 1991
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.18 — 655,895 ratings — published 1996
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,426,139 ratings — published 2022
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,086,017 ratings — published 1992
The Rules of Attraction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.72 — 52,651 ratings — published 1987
13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.70 — 594 ratings — published 1993
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,042,422 ratings — published 1999
Prozac Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.64 — 64,391 ratings — published 1994
X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.44 — 639 ratings — published 2008
Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,422 ratings — published 2020
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,352 ratings — published 1989
High Fidelity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.90 — 217,979 ratings — published 1995
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.74 — 73,122 ratings — published 2003
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.81 — 37,989 ratings — published 1984
Say Everything: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,684 ratings — published
Lips Like Sugar (Bluebird Basin, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,234 ratings — published 2024
Slaves of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.51 — 4,012 ratings — published 1986
Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,247 ratings — published 2013
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.65 — 28,584 ratings — published 1988
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.12 — 183,874 ratings — published 1993
Zero Hour for Gen X: How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from Millennials (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.53 — 146 ratings — published
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk – A New York Times Bestselling Memoir of the Riot Grrrl Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,222 ratings — published 2024
All Fours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.39 — 235,206 ratings — published 2024
Wellness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.97 — 86,773 ratings — published 2023
Come As You Are (Bluebird Basin, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,172 ratings — published 2021
Role Playing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.90 — 16,753 ratings — published 2023
Wonder Boys (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,343 ratings — published 1995
Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.97 — 132 ratings — published
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.43 — 171,653 ratings — published 2021
The Informers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.40 — 20,168 ratings — published 1994
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,507,837 ratings — published 1985
City of Boys: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.05 — 260 ratings — published 1992
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.68 — 244,688 ratings — published 1984
People in Trouble (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,064 ratings — published 1990
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,550 ratings — published 1982
The Broom of the System (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,853 ratings — published 1987
Chelsea Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,282 ratings — published 1994
Anywhere But Here (Mayan Stevenson, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.56 — 3,345 ratings — published 1986
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.19 — 283,624 ratings — published 1993
The Sexual Outlaw: A Documentary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.86 — 271 ratings — published 1976
Blood and Guts in High School (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,344 ratings — published 1984
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,612 ratings — published 1992
The Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.00 — 103,030 ratings — published 1996
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.69 — 184,489 ratings — published 2000
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,328,253 ratings — published 2011
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,211 ratings — published 2010
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gen-x)
avg rating 4.10 — 558,482 ratings — published 1984
“In between one heartbeat and the next, I know my time in Boomertown is at an end.
And not even for my sake or Bailey’s, but for Ace’s. I came, I saw, and unlike Caesar, I did not conquer. But then, I never could have done that, anyway.
I think that’s the real secret to the Boomer generation.
They gave us a rigged game from the start. Gen X, Millennials and Zoomers played against the house. We were told we could win if we just worked hard enough, but most of us have lost out in some way or another.”
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And not even for my sake or Bailey’s, but for Ace’s. I came, I saw, and unlike Caesar, I did not conquer. But then, I never could have done that, anyway.
I think that’s the real secret to the Boomer generation.
They gave us a rigged game from the start. Gen X, Millennials and Zoomers played against the house. We were told we could win if we just worked hard enough, but most of us have lost out in some way or another.”
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“A meta-analysis of almost two hundred studies conducted in more than fifteen countries found that women are more physically and emotionally exhausted than men, accounting for their higher rates of burnout in many sectors, such as media. "An awful lot of middle-aged women are furious and overwhelmed," wrote Ada Calhoun in a 2016 article titled "The New Midlife Crisis: Why (and How) It's Hitting Gen X Women." "What we don't talk about enough is how the deck is stacked against their feeling any other way.”
― Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
― Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
