16 Top biography books like A Likely Lad by Pete Doherty

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A Likely Lad

By: Pete Doherty

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enemy. To his d…

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1. Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

By: Irvine Welsh

4.05

Format: 548 pages, Paperback

Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at universit… read more

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"Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character."

-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

"but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up."

-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

"Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith."

-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

"Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked."

-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

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2. Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine

By: Carl Barât

3.79

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

'Looking back at The Libertines is like catching flashes of sunlight between buildings as you race … read more

Similar categories in Carl Barât's Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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3. Pete Doherty: My Prodigal Son

By: Jacqueline Doherty

3.31

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

For over three years Jacqueline Doherty has been watching her rock star son's messy descent into dr… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Doherty's Pete Doherty: My Prodigal Son book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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4. Set the Boy Free

By: Johnny Marr

2.50

Format: 32 pages, ebook

The long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The … read more

Similar categories in Johnny Marr's Set the Boy Free book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

5. The Story of The Streets

By: None

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

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6. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

Similar categories in Alan Partridge's Alan Partridge: Big Beacon book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • audiobook
Cover of Karma: My Autobiography by Boy George

7. Karma: My Autobiography

By: Boy George

3.62

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what mig… read more

Similar categories in Boy George's Karma: My Autobiography book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. O Brother

By: John Niven

4.64

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes… read more

Similar categories in John Niven's O Brother book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business …"

-John Niven, O Brother

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9. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Edmondson's Berserker! book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Paper Cuts

By: Ted Kessler

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'A great writer' Paul Weller 'A music journalist of integrity' Billy Childish ' There's only one … read more

Similar categories in Ted Kessler's Paper Cuts book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

Similar categories in Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Long Knives

By: Irvine Welsh

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Justice can be a blunt instrument "Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Medi… read more

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  • audiobook
"We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up."

-Irvine Welsh, The Long Knives

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13. My Thoughts Exactly

By: Lily Allen

3.97

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

So, this is me. Lily Allen. I am a mother, and I was a wife. I'm also a singer and a songwriter. I … read more

Similar categories in Lily Allen's My Thoughts Exactly book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Verse, Chorus, Monster!

By: Graham Coxon

3.70

Format: None pages, ebook

Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a… read more

Similar categories in Graham Coxon's Verse, Chorus, Monster! book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. A Likely Lad

By: Pete Doherty

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enemy. To his d… read more

Similar categories in Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. I Wanna Be Yours

By: John Cooper Clarke

4.17

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Poet Laureate of Punk, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. A… read more

Similar categories in John Cooper Clarke's I Wanna Be Yours book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn

By: Brett Anderson

4.03

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The trajectory of Suede - hailed in infancy as both 'The Best New Band in Britain' and 'effete sout… read more

Similar categories in Brett Anderson's Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Tenement Kid

By: Bobby Gillespie

4.02

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Gillespie’s vivid and evocative mem… read more

Similar categories in Bobby Gillespie's Tenement Kid book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter."

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"Those painful childhood memories we bury, that some of us try and drown out with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, all the usual crutches and distractions. These childhood experiences are going to be re…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"I began to question the world and other people from a young age. I suppose that gave me a sense of emotional distance, a lack of trust in future friendships and relationships; I would assume a friend…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

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19. Animal House

By: James Brown

3.93

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Music, Magazines & MayhemBetween 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the the must-b… read more

Similar categories in James Brown's Animal House book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • nonfiction
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20. Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars

By: Nick Duerden

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as… read more

Similar categories in Nick Duerden's Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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21. Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

By: Bez

3.84

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madches… read more

Similar categories in Bez's Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday book and Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

14 best-selling audiobook books like A Likely Lad by Pete Doherty

Transform Your Habits

Set the Boy Free

Johnny Marr

2.50

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Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

Alan Partridge

4.27

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Karma: My Autobiography

Boy George

3.62

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O Brother

John Niven

4.64

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19 Top nonfiction books like Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie

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Telling Stories

Tim Burgess

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Macrofestivales: El agujero negro de la música

Nando Cruz

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Sonic Life: A Memoir

Thurston Moore

3.81

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