Geoffrey O'Brien

35 books

After Dark, My Sweet by Jim Thompson

After Dark, My Sweet

Jim Thompson

224 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

fiction crime thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, Justin Kaplan

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

John Bartlett, Justin Kaplan

1472 pages • first pub 1855 (editions)

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

Bartlett's Poems for Occasions

Billy Collins, Geoffrey O'Brien

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

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

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

432 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction essays short stories challenging medium-paced