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The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Charles Bukowski · back to the book
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Haruki Murakami · 179 pages
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · 186 pages
Meditations is a collection of personal reflections and notes by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned 161 to 180 AD), offering a profound look into the philosophy of Stoicism. It was never intended for publication, making it a raw and intimate self-help manual for the emperor during his campaigns and rule. The central theme revolves around living a good, rational, and virtuous life in harmon
Last Words: The Final Journals
William S. Burroughs · 304 pages
Blue Nights
Joan Didion · 188 pages
In this memoir, the author shares her observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent. It opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana's wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Helene Hanff · 137 pages
The Pillow Book
Sei Shonagon · 387 pages
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
David Sedaris · 528 pages
Diary of a Mad Diva
Joan Rivers · 299 pages
"A no-holds-barred ... look at the everyday life of the ultimate diva. Follow Joan on a family vacation in Mexico and on trips between New York and Los Angeles where she mingles with the stars, never missing a beat as she delivers blistering critiques on current events, and excoriating insights about life, pop culture, and celebrities (from A to D list), all in her ... signature style"--Dust cover
A View From The Foothills: The Diaries Of Chris Mullin
Chris Mullin · 416 pages
The Journals of John Cheever
John Cheever · 399 pages
Three decades of writer John Cheever's journals giving an account of his family life, literary life, and emotional life. An outstanding literary event: the journals--begun in the late 1940s and continued through more than three decades--of a great American writer. John Cheever's journals provide, of course, peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the re
The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke
Angela Nissel · 212 pages
The author describes her days as a broke college student and the misadventures she had trying to make money and survive.
Mortality
Christopher Hitchens
"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"--Provided by the publisher.
Ball Four
Jim Bouton · 472 pages
Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton. When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And seriou
7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
Jen Hatmaker · 228 pages
Disturbed by her family's comfortableness with American excess, Hatmaker writes with humor and depth about their unique social and spiritual decision to reduce material possessions and distractions in order to connect with God. Over seven months, she identified seven areas of excess, and made seven simple choices to fight back against the modern-day diseases of greed, materialism, and overindulgen
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
Michitsuna no Haha · 208 pages
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
Alec Guinness · 224 pages
Over the last few years Sir Alec Guinness has been keeping a diary, small portions of which have been appearing in the "Spectator". The diary is the basis of this book, though Guinness has taken the opportunity to go back and expand and revise his entries.
The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl
Belle de Jour, Brooke Magnanti · 336 pages
Closet Full of Coke A Diary of a Teenage Drug Queen
Indra Sena · 299 pages