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The City & the City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 82,514 ratings — published 2009
Germinal (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as disco)
avg rating 4.21 — 45,060 ratings — published 1885
Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as disco)
avg rating 4.01 — 533 ratings — published 2005
After Dark: Birth of the Disco Dance Party (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as disco)
avg rating 4.15 — 33 ratings — published 2021
The Taiga Syndrome (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as disco)
avg rating 3.43 — 2,842 ratings — published 2012
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as disco)
avg rating 4.11 — 95,225 ratings — published 1972
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as disco)
avg rating 3.72 — 81,827 ratings — published 2007
City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as disco)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,425 ratings — published 2002
Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as disco)
avg rating 4.51 — 611 ratings — published 2003
My Life in the Paradise Garage: Keep On Dancin' (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as disco)
avg rating 4.43 — 56 ratings — published 2000
Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as disco)
avg rating 3.80 — 39,919 ratings — published 2009
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as disco)
avg rating 3.69 — 101,896 ratings — published 1965
The Doomed City (Rediscovered Classics)
by (shelved 3 times as disco)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,571 ratings — published 1989
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as disco)
avg rating 4.09 — 102,319 ratings — published 1972
The Glass Key (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as disco)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,064 ratings — published 1931
The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as disco)
avg rating 3.77 — 36,465 ratings — published 2012
Disco: The Music, The Times, The Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as disco)
avg rating 4.16 — 19 ratings — published 2011
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as disco)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,365 ratings — published 2000
Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as disco)
avg rating 4.18 — 301 ratings — published
A Scanner Darkly (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as disco)
avg rating 4.02 — 113,286 ratings — published 1977
The Tartar Steppe (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as disco)
avg rating 4.20 — 47,042 ratings — published 1940
The Etched City (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as disco)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,922 ratings — published 2003
Sacred and Terrible Air (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as disco)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,620 ratings — published 2013
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as disco)
avg rating 3.98 — 77,504 ratings — published 2000
Finch (Ambergris, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as disco)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,461 ratings — published 2009
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as disco)
avg rating 3.97 — 150,938 ratings — published 1987
A Country of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as disco)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,519 ratings — published 2014
Snapshot (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 2 times as disco)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,891 ratings — published 2017
Disco: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Cover Art of Disco Records (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as disco)
avg rating 4.54 — 13 ratings — published 2014
Disco: The Bill Bernstein Photographs (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 6 ratings — published
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as disco)
avg rating 3.92 — 329 ratings — published 2010
Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as disco)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,178 ratings — published 2011
Discomania: Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as disco)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
I Cheerfully Refuse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as disco)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,421 ratings — published 2024
The World Politics of Disco Elysium (Popular Culture and World Politics)
by (shelved 1 time as disco)
avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published
17776: What football will look like in the future (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as disco)
avg rating 4.66 — 3,435 ratings — published 2017
20020: An American football story (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as disco)
avg rating 4.69 — 674 ratings — published
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as disco)
avg rating 4.01 — 116,965 ratings — published 1979
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as disco)
avg rating 3.50 — 215,726 ratings — published 2016
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as disco)
avg rating 4.02 — 332,266 ratings — published 1947
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as disco)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,138 ratings — published 2009
The Disco at the End of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as disco)
avg rating 3.31 — 215 ratings — published 2026
Last Night at the Disco (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as disco)
avg rating 3.86 — 133 ratings — published
Disco Witches of Fire Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as disco)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,492 ratings — published 2025
When Rock Met Disco (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.45 — 53 ratings — published
“I was sitting down hanging with the fellas them just for the girls, because really and truly this was bugging me. How could these fellas have the finest girls in the community, and they don’t work, they don’t have any money. Anytime something has to be purchased they would say, ‘Man, Scrooge, throw the blow; buy this and buy that.’
So we were sitting on a car one day. They were out to a disco the night before and this fella got chopped or stabbed. I didn’t know anything about it until the fellas came around looking for KC the next day. These fellas just yuck out their guns and started busting shots, and everybody just break off running for their lives. Afterwards I mumbled to myself that these are some crazy fellas. They just came shooting for no reason. The funny thing about it is this: guns were not even that common on the streets then. We’re talking around 1987, 1988. I believe the fella who fired those shots at us, goes by the nickname Dog and he lives in the US now.
I said to Ada, ‘What kind of thing this is? I mean, these fellas came and just started shooting.’
That sent a whole new way of thinking in my mind. Prior to that, I was just a person going to work, coming home, and chilling. I just happened to be sitting there one day. They didn’t know me and they didn’t care who I was. I never used to even be with KC and them. I just happened to be there that day. If I had known that those fellas were crazy like that, to come shooting at whoever they saw, I wouldn’t have been there hanging with KC and them. After that, my whole mindset changed. It was either shoot or be shot. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members.”
― The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
So we were sitting on a car one day. They were out to a disco the night before and this fella got chopped or stabbed. I didn’t know anything about it until the fellas came around looking for KC the next day. These fellas just yuck out their guns and started busting shots, and everybody just break off running for their lives. Afterwards I mumbled to myself that these are some crazy fellas. They just came shooting for no reason. The funny thing about it is this: guns were not even that common on the streets then. We’re talking around 1987, 1988. I believe the fella who fired those shots at us, goes by the nickname Dog and he lives in the US now.
I said to Ada, ‘What kind of thing this is? I mean, these fellas came and just started shooting.’
That sent a whole new way of thinking in my mind. Prior to that, I was just a person going to work, coming home, and chilling. I just happened to be sitting there one day. They didn’t know me and they didn’t care who I was. I never used to even be with KC and them. I just happened to be there that day. If I had known that those fellas were crazy like that, to come shooting at whoever they saw, I wouldn’t have been there hanging with KC and them. After that, my whole mindset changed. It was either shoot or be shot. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members.”
― The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“While I was getting boogers wiped in my hair during Biology, he was being spit on in Social Studies.
A common story.
But there was a day, a sunny day in May, I’m sure, when at exactly 2 P.M., we both looked out of the window of our different schools and … What?
We didn’t wish—wishes are wasted …
We didn’t hope—because our future was inevitable …
And we didn’t pray—we were on our own.
So we sent out energy bullets: “This is for New York.”
“This is for when I get there.”
Little pockets of energy, to be saved and accumulated and used upon arrival.
I was so scared it was all going to be gone by the time I got there. Ninth grade, tenth grade—can’t this thing go any faster?
In the magazine, there were funny people with funny names like John Sex, who had wild white hair and a snake!—and didn’t that just open up a kaleidoscope of new possibilities?
And how long the years are—endless! And the minutiae of your daily life! So tedious, when there are BIG THINGS happening a thousand miles away. And when you go to bed at night, it’s hard to believe those people, those fabulous, daunting people, are out there right now!
So we wait, and we endure, and someday we will be there, and we will make it.
And, by golly, we did.”
― Party Monster: A fabulous but true tale of murder in clubland
A common story.
But there was a day, a sunny day in May, I’m sure, when at exactly 2 P.M., we both looked out of the window of our different schools and … What?
We didn’t wish—wishes are wasted …
We didn’t hope—because our future was inevitable …
And we didn’t pray—we were on our own.
So we sent out energy bullets: “This is for New York.”
“This is for when I get there.”
Little pockets of energy, to be saved and accumulated and used upon arrival.
I was so scared it was all going to be gone by the time I got there. Ninth grade, tenth grade—can’t this thing go any faster?
In the magazine, there were funny people with funny names like John Sex, who had wild white hair and a snake!—and didn’t that just open up a kaleidoscope of new possibilities?
And how long the years are—endless! And the minutiae of your daily life! So tedious, when there are BIG THINGS happening a thousand miles away. And when you go to bed at night, it’s hard to believe those people, those fabulous, daunting people, are out there right now!
So we wait, and we endure, and someday we will be there, and we will make it.
And, by golly, we did.”
― Party Monster: A fabulous but true tale of murder in clubland
