Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia
10 best books like Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia (Sandy Troy): The Eyes of the Dragon, What Is the What, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, Zeitoun, Life, Kastel Awan Burung Gereja, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Telegraph Avenue
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 0751504572 |
A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies, murdered by a strange and horrible poison. While the land of Delain mourns, the evil wizard Flagg, hatches an unscrupulous plot, which sees the King's eldest son Peter imprisoned for his father's murder, and the youngest son inherit the throne. Only Peter...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1932416641 |
From the bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds...
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0743264460 |
Building on the national bestselling success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, preeminent pop culture writer Chuck Klosterman unleashes his best book yet—the story of his cross-country tour of sites where rock stars have died and his search for love, excitement, and the meaning of death.
For...
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
| Author | Michael Chabon |
| ISBN | 0007149824 |
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews...
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0743236017 |
Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1934781630 |
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates...
| Author | Keith Richards |
| ISBN | 0297854399 |
Keith Richards was a clever kid, a talented artist, a choirboy who sang for the Queen and became an outstanding musician in one of the world's best bands. What is most on display in this book is his tremendous interest in music and musicians, not in rock, bands, money and fame - a lot of which he finds a bit...
Kastel Awan Burung Gereja
| Author | Takashi Matsuoka |
| ISBN | 9793269278 |
Pengetahuan bisa menghambat.
Ketidaktahuan justru membebaskan.
Tahu kapan untuk tahu dan kapan untuk tak tahu,sama pentingnya dengan pedang yang tajam.
Suzume-no-Kumo (1434)
Apakah kemampuan mengetahui masa depan bisa menguntungkan, atau justru membawa malapetaka?...
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
| Author | Tom Robbins |
| ISBN | 1842430246 |
Starring Sissy Hankshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bags...Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink, lascivious...
| Author | Michael Chabon |
| ISBN | 0061493341 |
Telegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, it is Michael Chabon's most dazzling book yet.
As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there - longtime...
Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley
| Author | Timothy White |
| ISBN | 0805080864 |
The classic biography of reggae legend Bob Marley, updated and revised for the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death
Bob Marley left an indelible mark on modern music, both as a reggae pioneer and as an enduring cultural icon. Catch a Fire, now a classic of rock biography, delves into the life...
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 0141184906 |
As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose of pure poetry, the life of the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; catching up with the beat night...
| Author | Tom Robbins |
| ISBN | 1842430343 |
I can't think of any other book I've read very recently that left my mind as thoroughly blown as Skinny Legs and All. I'd only read one other Tom Robbins book -- Still Life With Woodpecker -- so I was prepared for his playfulness, humor, intricate (but goofy) language, and overall trippy feel that all come...
