9 Best nonfiction books like Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life by John O'Connell

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Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life

By: John O'Connell

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Part epic reading guide and part biography of a music legend, Bowie’s Bookshelf is a collection of …

"Aging changes your relationship with history."

-John O'Connell, Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life

"Aging changes your relationship with history."

-John O'Connell, Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life

"Aging changes your relationship with history."

-John O'Connell, Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life by John O'Connell , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Un barrage contre le Pacifique by Marguerite Duras

1. Un barrage contre le Pacifique

By: Marguerite Duras

3.76

Format: 370 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Les barrages de la mère dans la plaine, c'était le grand malheur et la grande rigolade à la fois, … read more

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  • literature
"Comme quoi une idée est toujours une bonne idée, du moment qu'elle fait faire quelque chose, même si tout est entrepris de travers."

-Marguerite Duras, Un barrage contre le Pacifique

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2. Claudine at School

By: Colette Gauthier-Villars

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the … read more

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  • literature
"Les beaux yeux qui ne demandent qu’à sourire !"

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Claudine at School

"Je sais très bien, depuis longtemps, que j’ai un cœur déraisonnable, mais, de le savoir, ça ne m’arrête pas du tout."

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Claudine at School

"I've known perfectly well, for a long time, that I have an irrational heart. But knowing it doesn't stop me in the least."

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Claudine at School

"When does one stop writing? . . . I thought in the past that the work of writing was like other tasks; the tool is laid down and one cries out in delight: ‘Finished!’ and you clap your hands, from wh…"

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Claudine at School

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3. Tarantula

By: Bob Dylan

3.68

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction--a combinatio… read more

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  • music
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4. The Infernal Machine and Other Plays

By: None , E.E. Cummings , Jean Cocteau , Dudley Fitts , Albert Bermel , None , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Among the great figures who pioneered the modern movement in world literature, none showed himself … read more

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5. A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

By: Arthur Rimbaud , Louise Varèse

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Although he stopped writing at the age of 19, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) possessed the most revolutio… read more

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  • literature

6. Journals

By: Kurt Cobain

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The lyrics notebook and personal journals of Kurt Cobain, iconic singer of the band Nirvana. Kurt C… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

7. I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick

By: Emmanuel Carrère , Timothy Bent

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

From the master chronicler of psychological extremes, an unforgettable portrait of the "Shakespeare… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir

8. Essays and Aphorisms

By: Arthur Schopenhauer , R.J. Hollingdale

3.50

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer believed that human action… read more

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9. On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious

By: Douglas E. Harding

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Headlessness, the experience of "no-self" that mystics of all times have aspired to, is an instanta… read more

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10. You Talkin' To Me?

By: Sam Leith

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of persuasion, beginning in ancient Syracuse… read more

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11. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series

By: Stephen Jay Gould , None

3.56

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigan… read more

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12. PopCo

By: Scarlett Thomas

4.23

Format: 690 pages, Paperback

PopCo tells a story of twenty-nine-year-old Alice Butler, a quirky, fiercely intelligent loner with… read more

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13. The Colossus of New York

By: Colson Whitehead

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates… read more

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14. Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life

By: John O'Connell

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Part epic reading guide and part biography of a music legend, Bowie’s Bookshelf is a collection of … read more

Similar categories in John O'Connell's Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life book and John O'Connell's Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life

  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • books about books
"Aging changes your relationship with history."

-John O'Connell, Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life

Cover of Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond by Geezer Butler

15. Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

By: Geezer Butler

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Being in Black Sabbath felt like being an actor in a soap opera. It’s a minor miracle all four of the original lineup survived beyond the 1970s, let alone that we’re all still here. Along the way, we…"

-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

"Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age,…"

-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

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16. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People

By: Stuart Maconie

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. Vento da est

By: Stefania Bertola

3.74

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

Dopo il successo di Le cure della casa , Stefania Bertola torna con un nuovo, irresistibile romanzo… read more

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Cover of Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams by Mike Allred

18. Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams

By: Mike Allred

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the one and only superhero, extraterrestrial, and rock and roll deity in history, Bowie… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ by Annie Nightingale

19. Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ

By: Annie Nightingale

3.60

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hey Hi Hello is a greeting we have all become familiar with, as Annie Nightingale cues up another s… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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20. Contra la lectura

By: Mikita Brottman

3.34

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Te dijeron que no podías subrayar ni doblar las páginas de los libros. Te dijeron que tenías que l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • books about books
Cover of Starman - David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Years by Reinhard Kleist

21. Starman - David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Years

By: Reinhard Kleist

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

1972 erlebte die Geburt des Rock'n'Roll-Messias Ziggy Stardust, dessen provokantes Spiel mit sexuel… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

6 Best history books like Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life by John O'Connell

I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick

Emmanuel Carrère , Timothy Bent

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life

John O'Connell

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

Geezer Butler

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People

Stuart Maconie

4.08

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14 must-read fiction books like A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud, Louise Varèse

Transform Your Habits

Crash

J.G. Ballard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Howl and Other Poems

William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Les Chants de Maldoror

Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

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Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

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