Geoffrey O'Brien

31 books

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by Justin Kaplan, John Bartlett

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Justin Kaplan, John Bartlett

1472 pages • first pub 1855 (editions)

nonfiction reference informative reflective medium-paced
Bartlett's Poems for Occasions by Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins

Bartlett's Poems for Occasions

Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins

544 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction poetry reference informative slow-paced
The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America by Geoffrey O'Brien

The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America

Geoffrey O'Brien

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks And The Masters Of Noir by Geoffrey O'Brien

Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks And The Masters Of Noir

Geoffrey O'Brien

214 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction reference informative fast-paced
The Little Black Book, Movies: Over a Century of the Greatest Films, Stars, Scenes, Speeches and Events That Rocked the Movie World by Chris Fujiwara

The Little Black Book, Movies: Over a Century of the Greatest Films, Stars, Scenes, Speeches and Events That Rocked the Movie World

Chris Fujiwara

800 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction reference informative medium-paced
The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century by Geoffrey O'Brien

The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century

Geoffrey O'Brien

288 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction art informative reflective medium-paced
Shoot the Piano Player by David Goodis

Shoot the Piano Player

David Goodis

158 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

fiction crime mystery mysterious fast-paced
Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears by Geoffrey O'Brien

Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears

Geoffrey O'Brien

328 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction memoir music reflective slow-paced
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss by L.J. Davis, Oliver Sacks, Vladimir Nabokov, Julio Cortázar, Philip K. Dick, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, Edmund White, Brian Fawcett, Lawrence Shainberg, Dennis Potter, Robert Sheckley, Flann O'Brien, Steve Ericson, Geoffrey O'Brien, Jorge Luis Borges, Valentine Worth, Martin Amis, Donald Barthelme, Cornell Woolrich, Kelly Link, David Grand, Thomas Palmer, Anna Kavan, Russell Hoban, Shirley Jackson, Haruki Murakami, Thomas M. Disch, Walker Percy

The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss

L.J. Davis, Oliver Sacks, Vladimir Nabokov, Julio Cortázar, Philip K. Dick, Karen Joy Fowler, Jonathan Lethem, Edmund White, Brian Fawcett, Lawrence Shainberg, Dennis Potter, Robert Sheckley, Flann O'Brien, Steve Ericson, Geoffrey O'Brien, Jorge Luis Borges, Valentine Worth, Martin Amis, Donald Barthelme, Cornell Woolrich, Kelly Link, David Grand, Thomas Palmer, Anna Kavan, Russell Hoban, Shirley Jackson, Haruki Murakami, Thomas M. Disch, Walker Percy

432 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction essays short stories challenging medium-paced
The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading by Geoffrey O'Brien

The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading

Geoffrey O'Brien

153 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction reflective slow-paced