Steven's Favorites of the Year

Achingly beautiful stories of loss, redemption, and the relentlessness and undeniability of the creative drive! Mind-bending journeys through the universe without and the universe within! Experimental jet set, trash, and fart jokes! No guilty pleasures ever!

Steven, Jersey City


 

The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter) By Thomas Harris Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9780312924584
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Published: St. Martin's Paperbacks - February 15th, 1991

An ingenious, masterfully written novel, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.


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The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories By Gloria Naylor Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780140066906
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Published: Penguin Books - June 30th, 1983

The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a foreword by Tayari Jones


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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies By Deesha Philyaw Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781949199734
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Published: West Virginia University Press - September 1st, 2020

*FINALIST for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction*
*WINNER of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award*
*WINNER of the 2020 Story Prize
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*WINNER of the 2020 L.A.


Children of Dune By Frank Herbert Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9780593098240
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Published: Ace - June 4th, 2019

Book Three in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time


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Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk By Sasha LaPointe Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9781640094147
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Published: Counterpoint - March 8th, 2022

Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award

An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent home


Nina Simone's Gum By Warren Ellis Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9780571365630
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Published: Faber & Faber - November 22nd, 2022

From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave.


Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance: A Novel By John Waters Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780374185725
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - May 3rd, 2022

A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind of John Waters, the legendary filmmaker and bestselling author of Mr. Know-It-All.


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The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Notorious Life By Robert Evans Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780062228321
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Published: It Books - June 4th, 2013

Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written.


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Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir By Kid Congo Powers, Chris Campion (With) Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780306828027
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Published: Hachette Books - October 18th, 2022

An intimate, coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers, detailing his experiences as a young, queer Mexican-American in 1970s Los Angeles through his rise in the glam rock and punk rock scenes.

Kid Congo Powers has been described as a “legendary guitarist and paragon of cool” with “the greatest resume ever of anyone in rock music." That u


The Invisibles Book One By Grant Morrison Cover Image
$24.99
ISBN: 9781401267957
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Published: Vertigo - April 4th, 2017

One of Grant Morrison's most controversial, trippiest and abstract comic book titles! Follow the adventures of the Invisibles, a secret organization out to battle against physical and psychic oppression brought upon humanity by the interdimensional alien gods of the Archons of Outer Church!