 | Stupid White Men: ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore
Buy used from: £0.01 Read this now- Blair's UK is similar to Bush/Clinton USA with each day.
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 | Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Five Star) by Lester Bangs
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.88 Greil Marcus edited this collection together. It would be nice to see a companion collection. Lester Bangs was imitated in 'Almost Famous'. He was a great writer- 'Let it Blurt' tells you why.
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 | America by Jean Baudrillard
Buy new: £9.64 / Used from: £8.00 The dream-nightmare.
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 | Nothing by Paul Morley
Buy used from: £3.50 Family, Joy Division & Tragedy collide in this wonderful book.
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 | If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.43 Books everyone should read.
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 | Slayer: An Expanded and Updated Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" by Keith Topping
Buy used from: £0.01 What was once an entertaining indulgence is now obligatory!
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 | 24 Hour Party People by Tony Wilson
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.69 Postmodern novelisation of screemplay of film...
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 | A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: £2.29 I've referred to this so many times, how could anyone live without it?
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 | Head On/Repossesed by Julian Cope
Buy used from: £2.85 Two great books from St.Julian. This should be fiction- it's hilarious, terminally depressing,transcendent & really good to put a hangover in context to.
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 | On Film by Wim Wenders
Buy new: £19.00 / Used from: £9.23 Three volumes of Cinema & Wim Wenders.
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 | The Periodic Table (Essential Penguin) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £2.27 Existence tracked by the periodic table. Read this soon.
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 | American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story by Cynthia True
Buy used from: £0.01 Bill Hicks was a comic genius; find out here.
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 | Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties by Peter Biskind
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.22 Great 50's related tome
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 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-drugs-and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Changed Hollywood by Peter Biskind
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Best book on New Hollywood; praise Hal Ashby!
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 | Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture by Simon Reynolds
Buy used from: £10.24 Great book & CD on the history of dance music. Scan the DJ!
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 | Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
Buy used from: £1.40 The best toilet book ever!
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 | Andy Warhol Retrospective by Heiner Bastian
Buy used from: £18.87 Worth buying a coffee table to place on.
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 | My Dark Places: A L.A. Crime Memoir by James Ellroy
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £0.01 Superb exploration of the other side of life.
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 | The Drowned and the Saved (Abacus Books) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £5.85 / Used from: £0.99 Levi's suicide note?
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 | Polaroids from the Dead by Douglas Coupland
Buy used from: £0.60 Patchy- but worth it for the Cobain/'Harold& Maude' chapters.
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 | Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £7.46 / Used from: £4.88 The next step on from Proust
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 | The Penguin History of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan
Buy new: £8.90 / Used from: £6.59 Very readable history of dystopia/utopia.
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 | My Time with Antonioni by Wim Wenders
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £3.95 Auteur's collaboration with auteur. Put me off making films!
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 | The Complete Lynch by David Hughes
Buy used from: £0.94 Best book on Lynch- officially less talented than Ron Howard!!!!!!!!!????
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 | Krzysztof Kieslowski (Pocket Essentials) by Monika Maurer
Buy used from: £0.50 Great short tome. She's wrong about 'Red' though: 5/5!!!!!!
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