9 best-selling music books like Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge

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Nonbinary: A Memoir

By: Genesis P-Orridge

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and…

"If everything is an illusion, then our senses are sacred. Touching is sacred."

-Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

"If everything is an illusion, then our senses are sacred. Touching is sacred."

-Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

"We have to think of something new in order to wake people up. Because at the moment people have become so blasé. How do you get through this miasma of complacency and make people listen? How do we break through it and slap people’s faces—metaphorically—and say, “The world’s collapsing around you, and all you’re worried about is how many ‘likes’ you’ve got on your social media accounts. For fuck’s sake, wake up!"

-Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

"We have to think of something new in order to wake people up. Because at the moment people have become so blasé. How do you get through this miasma of complacency and make people listen? How do we break through it and slap people’s faces—metaphorically—and say, “The world’s collapsing around you, and all you’re worried about is how many ‘likes’ you’ve got on your social media accounts. For fuck’s sake, wake up!"

-Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

If you liked the music plot in Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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2. England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

By: David Keenan

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Based on several years' worth of exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands' … read more

Similar categories in David Keenan's England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground book and Genesis P-Orridge's Nonbinary: A Memoir

  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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3. Art Sex Music

By: Cosey Fanni Tutti

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Art Sex Musicis the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group … read more

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  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

4. Thee Psychick Bible: Thee Apocryphal Scriptures ov Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Thee Third Mind ov Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

By: Genesis P-Orridge , Carl Abrahamsson , None

3.57

Format: 416 pages,

Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) will be remembered for its crucial influence on youth culture … read more

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5. Girl in a Band

By: Kim Gordon

3.67

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

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6. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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7. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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8. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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9. Keeping Two

By: Jordan Crane

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan… read more

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10. Night Fever

By: Ed Brubaker

3.87

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind? In Europe o… read more

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11. Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

By: John Waters

3.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind o… read more

Similar categories in John Waters's Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance book and Genesis P-Orridge's Nonbinary: A Memoir

  • queer
  • lgbt
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12. Tunnels

By: Rutu Modan

3.75

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A race for the Ark of the Covenant finds an exploration into the ethics and world of the internatio… read more

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"In this confusing state of affairs when each fact is immediately contrasted with a counter-fact and everyone is branded a liar, when the word truth can be used only in apology and within quotation ma…"

-Rutu Modan, Tunnels

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13. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

By: Lou Sullivan

4.76

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Genesis P-Orridge's Nonbinary: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

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14. Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

By: Chris Frantz

3.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Chris Frantz’s memoir tells the story of his life with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and his life-lon… read more

Similar categories in Chris Frantz's Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina book and Genesis P-Orridge's Nonbinary: A Memoir

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Without adventures, we won’t have stories."

-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

"...the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is selfishness."

-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

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15. Faith, Hope and Carnage

By: Nick Cave

4.44

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

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16. Stone Fruit

By: Lee Lai

4.06

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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17. Brian

By: Jeremy Cooper

3.83

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community,  Brian  is also a tangential wor… read more

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  • art
Cover of Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge

18. Nonbinary: A Memoir

By: Genesis P-Orridge

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and… read more

Similar categories in Genesis P-Orridge's Nonbinary: A Memoir book and Genesis P-Orridge's Nonbinary: A Memoir

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"If everything is an illusion, then our senses are sacred. Touching is sacred."

-Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

"We have to think of something new in order to wake people up. Because at the moment people have become so blasé. How do you get through this miasma of complacency and make people listen? How do we br…"

-Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

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19. Raving

By: McKenzie Wark

3.81

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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20. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

By: Curtis Chin

3.80

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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21. Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

By: Cosey Fanni Tutti

3.72

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and se… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction

13 Best nonfiction books like Nonbinary: A Memoir by Genesis P-Orridge

Transform Your Habits

England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

David Keenan

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Art Sex Music

Cosey Fanni Tutti

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Girl in a Band

Kim Gordon

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Cookie Mueller

4.49

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10 best-selling nonfiction books like We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan by Lou Sullivan

Transform Your Habits

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

Kate Bornstein

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

Thomas Page McBee

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Hijab Butch Blues

Lamya H.

4.48

Transform Your Habits

We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Lou Sullivan

4.76

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