Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
8 best books like Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story (Ray Charles): A Home at the End of the World, The City and the Pillar, England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, Poems 1962-2012, Shiloh and Other Stories, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, Yes I Can
| Author | Michael Cunningham |
| ISBN | 0312424086 |
From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate,...
| Author | Gore Vidal |
| ISBN | 1400030374 |
A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience.
Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake...
England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
| Author | Jon Savage |
| ISBN | 0312288220 |
England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States. Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of the Pistols through layers of rich detail, exclusive...
"I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die..." --John Lydon
Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols, and its sneering hero was Johnny Rotten.
Seventeen...
| Author | Louise Glück |
| ISBN | 0374126089 |
Even when collected, Louise Glück’s poetry resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems, like...
| Author | Bobbie Ann Mason |
| ISBN | 0375758437 |
"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky...
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0671203231 |
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom,...
| Author | Sammy Davis Jr. |
| ISBN | 0374293538 |
I read this in 7th grade. Imagine that, a little white suburban girl in 1973 COMPLETELY INFATUATED with the 40- or 50-something black member of the rat pack. I still remember huge parts of Yes I Can, especially the part where Sammy gets into a car accident and helps the lady out of the other car, all the while...
