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Urban Decay Books
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The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.96 — 496 ratings — published 2014
Skeletal Remains (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2014
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.11 — 176,125 ratings — published 1993
What I Ate in One Year (And Related Thoughts)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.84 — 21,046 ratings — published 2024
The Waterfront Journals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.21 — 760 ratings — published 1996
Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published
Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,373 ratings — published 2019
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,086 ratings — published 1975
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.11 — 972 ratings — published 2010
The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,400 ratings — published 2015
Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.13 — 415 ratings — published
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,315 ratings — published 2006
Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,071 ratings — published 2023
Now or Never (Stephanie Plum, #31)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.25 — 43,785 ratings — published 2024
Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.07 — 309 ratings — published 2024
The Anti Society An Account of the Victorian Underworld (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published
Drawing on the Inside: Kowloon Walled City 1985 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 2021
City of Darkness: Revisited (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.82 — 110 ratings — published 2014
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.82 — 545 ratings — published 2011
Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,146 ratings — published 2004
Crack in the Wall: The Life and Death of Kowloon Walled City (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.65 — 88 ratings — published 1989
Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.60 — 772 ratings — published 2011
Signs and Wonders: The Commercial Face of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 1998
On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.38 — 29 ratings — published 2006
The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.05 — 144 ratings — published
Fall Guy (Rachel Alexander & Dash, #7)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.09 — 343 ratings — published 2004
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.09 — 98,921 ratings — published 1933
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.04 — 49,800 ratings — published 1997
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,348 ratings — published 1842
Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,864 ratings — published 2022
The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.90 — 129 ratings — published 2013
A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,317 ratings — published 2024
Last Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.26 — 719 ratings — published 2024
Lost Youngstown (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.09 — 56 ratings — published
Abandoned Malls of America: Crumbling Commerce Left Behind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.73 — 121 ratings — published
Abandoned: Hauntingly Beautiful Deserted Theme Parks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.83 — 163 ratings — published
Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences (Jonglez photo books)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.37 — 273 ratings — published 2014
Autopsy of America: The Death of a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.38 — 116 ratings — published 2014
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,629 ratings — published 2022
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,871 ratings — published 2018
Homicide: The Graphic Novel, Part Two (Homicide: The Graphic Novel, 2)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.33 — 233 ratings — published
The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.31 — 372 ratings — published 2021
Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.89 — 359 ratings — published 2023
Dirty Thirty (Stephanie Plum, #30)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.20 — 54,042 ratings — published 2023
Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.22 — 102,008 ratings — published 2007
Conneaut Lake Park (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.96 — 26 ratings — published 2005
Backpacking Through Bedlam (InCryptid, #12)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,332 ratings — published 2023
Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-decay)
avg rating 3.99 — 926 ratings — published 2023
“I also liked the ocean, and I found staring at it had a calming effect. The air was so clean, so fresh, while the world back beyond the border was what it had always been during the modern era: dirty, tired, imperfect, winding down, at war with itself. Back there, I had always felt as if my work amounted to a futile attempt to save us from who we are.”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“The Wasteland was an empty car park behind a long abandoned pub. Minah like it because she said it reminded her of the permanence of concrete in stark contrast to the entropy of humanity. Harrison had dubbed it the Wasteland after the TS Eliot poem, because it was full of disillusionment and despair.”
― The Boundless Sublime
― The Boundless Sublime
