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Cultural References - New Additions
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Books (116)
- A & R by Bill Flanagan
- About a Boy by Nick Hornby
- American Purgatorio: A Novel by John Haskell
- Anything Goes by Madison Smartt Bell
- Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z: A Novel by Debra Weinstein
- The Arrival of Fergal Flynn by Brian Kennedy
- The Association by Bentley Little
- Bang! by A Collaboration
- Barlett's Familiar Quotations by Justin John/Kaplan Bartlett
- The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
- The Biography: Kate Bush by Rob Jovanovic
- Blackbird by Larry Duplechan
- The Body: A Novel by Hanif Kureishi
- Both Sides Now: Ecclesiastes and the Human Condition by Peter Barnes
- Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems by Camille Paglia
- Catching Heaven by Sands Hall
- Chain of Hearts by Maureen McCarthy
- City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver by Douglas Coupland
- The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
- Come in from the Cold by Marsha Qualey
- The Complaints by Ian Rankin
- Consumption: A Novel by G.S. Johnston
- Coyote by Lynn Vannucci
- The Dark-Eyed Girls by Judith Lennox
- Demonology by Rick Moody
- Dig Infinity! The Life and Art of Lord Buckley by Oliver Trager
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
- The Drifters by James A. Michener
- Economy of Errors: SatireWire Gives Business the Business by Andrew Marlatt
- Eight Days A Week by Larry Duplechan
- Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
- Engleby: A Novel by Sebastian Faulks
- Essays In Love by Alain de Botton
- Everything You Know by Zoe Heller
- Fight Club , A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
- A Firing Offence by David Ignatius
- The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa by Elizabeth Stuckey-French
- Flight: A Celebration of 100 Years in Art and Literature by Anne Colli Goodyear
- Forgive the Moon by Maryanne Stahl
- Fraud by David Rakoff
- Friction Shifting by Daniel Wesolowski
- Fury: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
- The Good People of New York by Thisbe Nissen
- The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage by Mark Klempner
- Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly by Greg Hrbek
- The Hissing Of The Silent Lonely Room by Paul Charles
- A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
- Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America by Donald Katz
- The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
- How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over by Theo Pauline Nestor
- Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit by Bark Editors
- I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
- Icarus by Russell Andrews
- In the City of Shy Hunters by Tom Spanbauer
- Inconceivable by Ben Elton
- Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret by James Gavin
- IPod, Therefore I Am by Dylan M. Jones
- Izzy and Eve by Neil Drinnan
- Kalki by Gore Vidal
- Killer Cocktail (A Molly Forrester Novel) by Sheryl J. Anderson
- Kiss the Sunset Pig by Laurie Gough
- Lawnboy by Paul Lisicky
- Looking Back by Thomas A. Becker
- Love Me by Garrison Keillor
- Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen
- Men May Come and Men May Go, But I've Still Got My Little Pink Raincoat: Life and Love In and Out of My Wardrobe by Gigi Anders
- Mercy by Jodi Picoult
- Mothers Are Dangerous With Knives (Moeders zijn gevaarlijk met messen) by Do van Ranst
- Murder at Cleaver Stadium by Douglas Lee Gibboney
- My Life by Bill Clinton
- My Sister from the Black Lagoon: A Novel of My Life by Laurie Fox
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
- No Regrets, Coyote by John Dufresne
- No Touch Monkey! (And other travel lessons learned too late) by Ayun Halliday
- The Official Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbach
- On the Road with Bob Dylan: Rolling with the Thunder by Larry Sloman
- One Day by David Nicholls
- Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
- Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures by Louise Rafkin
- Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source by Scott Dikkers and Staff of the Onion
- Paving Paradise by Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- Prince: Life and Times by Jason Draper
- Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg
- The Quality of Life Report by Meghan Daum
- Rapunzel: A Groovy Fairy Tale by Lynn Roberts
- Rhymes with Useless by Terence Young
- The Ruins of California by Martha Sherrill
- A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffet
- Salvo el Crepúsculo by Julio Cortázar
- The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, et al
- Seafood Lover's Guide by Rick Stein
- Sensing Others by Frank Tallis
- Shadow of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann, Ray Lawrence
- Shadow Tag: A Novel by Louis Erdich
- Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
- She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
- The Silk Road by Jane Summer
- Sky Full of Ribbons by Marilyn Arnold
- Spadework by Timothy Findley
- Speaking with the Angel by Various Writers
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up by Pamela Des Barres
- Tea by Stacey D'Erasmo
- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- A Traitor to Memory by Elizabeth George
- True Enough by Stephen McCauley
- An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey by Richard Brautigan
- Violets Are Blue by James Patterson
- Waist-high in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled by Nancy Mairs
- A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
- Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
- The World's Room by Todd London
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