12/14/2019

BEST BOOKS of 2019

1. Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser

2. Face It by Debbie Harry

3. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy

4. Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe by Will Birch

5. Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly by Jim DeRogatis

6. Nothing's Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon by C.M. Kushins

7. William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll by Casey Rae

8. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup by David Browne

9. Street Art (Art Essentials) by Simon Armstrong

10. Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim by Rob Kapilow

11. The Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering: A Visual Guide to Contemporary Styles and Designs by B.J. Betts, Nicholas Schonberger

12. Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry

13. This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History by Jon Savage

14. Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain by Danny Goldberg

15. Ludwig Bemelmans: The Illustrators by Quentin Blake, Laurie Britton-Newell

16. My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters with Lou Reed by Michael Heath

17. Will AI Replace Us: A Primer for the 21st Century (The Big Idea Series) by Shelly Fan

20. Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery