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Generation X Books
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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.74 — 30,408 ratings — published 1991
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.74 — 72,869 ratings — published 2003
X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.45 — 636 ratings — published 2008
High Fidelity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.90 — 216,310 ratings — published 1995
Generation X Epic Collection, Vol. 1: Back to School (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.97 — 164 ratings — published 2021
The Nineties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,413 ratings — published 2022
The Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.99 — 99,964 ratings — published 1996
13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.69 — 596 ratings — published 1993
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as generation-x)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,049,973 ratings — published 1992
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.61 — 101,387 ratings — published 1985
JPod (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.71 — 20,358 ratings — published 2006
Generation X Epic Collection, Vol. 4: Pride and Penance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.40 — 40 ratings — published
Generation X Epic Collection, Vol. 3: The Secret of M (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.63 — 73 ratings — published 2023
Generation X Epic Collection, Vol. 2: Emplate's Revenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.83 — 103 ratings — published 2022
Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.40 — 50 ratings — published 1996
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,662 ratings — published 2020
Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,336 ratings — published 2020
Generation X, Vol. 1: Natural Selection (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.40 — 519 ratings — published 2017
Generation X #87 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 4.15 — 26 ratings — published
Generation X #86 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 4.04 — 26 ratings — published
Generation X #85 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.83 — 30 ratings — published
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 4.18 — 647,866 ratings — published 1996
Generation X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.22 — 122 ratings — published
Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,332 ratings — published 2014
Killing and Dying: Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,489 ratings — published 2015
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.85 — 558,221 ratings — published 2014
Shortcomings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.63 — 15,677 ratings — published 2007
Sleepwalk and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,694 ratings — published 1997
Generation X: Genogoths (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.45 — 71 ratings — published 2000
Eleanor Rigby (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,427 ratings — published 2004
Life After God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,275 ratings — published 1994
Shampoo Planet (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.51 — 10,133 ratings — published 1992
The Gum Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.51 — 11,035 ratings — published 2007
Miss Wyoming (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.50 — 6,854 ratings — published 1999
Glamorama (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.55 — 25,740 ratings — published 1998
The Informers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.40 — 20,049 ratings — published 1994
About a Boy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.80 — 141,789 ratings — published 1998
Microserfs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.89 — 24,631 ratings — published 1995
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.81 — 37,377 ratings — published 1984
Hey Nostradamus! (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,432 ratings — published 2003
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.78 — 418,960 ratings — published 1993
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.87 — 42,151 ratings — published 2007
How Soon Is Never? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as generation-x)
avg rating 3.74 — 963 ratings — published 2003
Shutter speed (Snapshot, #0.5)
by (shelved 1 time as generation-x)
avg rating 4.27 — 536 ratings — published 2017
Frosted (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as generation-x)
avg rating 3.93 — 468 ratings — published 2015
Not So Neighbourly (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as generation-x)
avg rating 3.59 — 76 ratings — published
Playing With Forever (Hollow Point Book 4)
by (shelved 1 time as generation-x)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,327 ratings — published 2025
Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as generation-x)
avg rating 3.76 — 315,629 ratings — published 2002
Trapped (Club Indigo #1)
by (shelved 1 time as generation-x)
avg rating 4.09 — 231 ratings — published 2019
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as generation-x)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,349 ratings — published 2024
“Between my generation and that of my students is an entire cohort of writers in their 30s and 40s. I think they’ve suffered most from the climate I’m describing. They prepared for their trade in the traditional way, by reading literature, learning something about history or foreign countries, training as reporters, and developing the habit of thinking in complexity. And now that they’ve reached their prime, these writers must wonder: Who’s the audience for all this? Where did the broad and persuadable public that I always had in mind go? What’s the point of preparation and knowledge and painstaking craft, when what the internet wants is volume and speed and the loudest voices? Who still reads books?
Some give in to the prevailing current, and they might enjoy their reward. Those who don’t are likely to withdraw. The greatest enemy of writing today might be despair.
From a speech made in January 2020 on receipt of the 2019 Hitchens Prize, also printed as an essay in The Atlantic.”
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Some give in to the prevailing current, and they might enjoy their reward. Those who don’t are likely to withdraw. The greatest enemy of writing today might be despair.
From a speech made in January 2020 on receipt of the 2019 Hitchens Prize, also printed as an essay in The Atlantic.”
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“I belong to the Generation X, which I prefer to call The Rolling Stone Generation.”
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