9 must-read history books like Renegade Snares: The Resistance And Resilience Of Drum & Bass by Ben Murphy

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Renegade Snares: The Resistance And Resilience Of Drum & Bass

By: Ben Murphy

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Renegade Snares is the definitive book on drum & bass music. Pieced together using original intervi…

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1. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

By: Owen Jones

4.09

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"High Priestess of the Slagocracy"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear thi…"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

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2. Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk

By: Dan Sicko

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The first authoritative American chronicle of the most innovative trend in contemporary music, this… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction

3. Narcissus and Goldmund

By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro

4.05

Format: 336 pages,

Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more

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4. Scar Tissue

By: Larry Sloman , Anthony Kiedis

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Now in paperback, the New York Timesbestseller by one of rock's most provocative figures Scar Tissu… read more

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5. Kill Your Friends

By: John Niven

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

It's not dog-eat-dog around here...it's dog-gang-rapes-dog-then-tortures-him-for-five-days-before-b… read more

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6. Turning the Tables: The Story of Extreme Championship Wrestling

By: John Lister

4.15

Format: 200 pages,

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7. Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

By: Raymond Carver

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extr… read more

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8. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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9. The Exorcist

By: William Peter Blatty

4.20

Format: 385 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficu… read more

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"Keep away. The sow is mine."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as a fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"In forgetting, they were trying to remember"

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

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10. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

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11. Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.54

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Wi… read more

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"Let's solve the extinction level threat first. Then we can all go back to killing each other at a civilized pace."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)

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12. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

By: Kelefa Sanneh

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty yea… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

By: Louis Theroux

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, pr… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays by Tom Segura

14. I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays

By: Tom Segura

4.01

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A #2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a massively successful stand-up comedian and co-host of chart-… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I'm also, depending on who you ask, VERY funny or not at all"

-Tom Segura, I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays

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15. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.47

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre,… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The things we do to stay close to the people we think will carry us through an entire lifetime..."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)

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16. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

By: Dan Charnas

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."

-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

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17. Renegade Snares: The Resistance And Resilience Of Drum & Bass

By: Ben Murphy

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Renegade Snares is the definitive book on drum & bass music. Pieced together using original intervi… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Bodies

By: Ian Winwood

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Money, freedom, adoring fans: professional musicians seem to have it all. But beneath the surface l… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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19. It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

By: Tom Scharpling

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the comedian, television writer, and host of the Best Show, a revealing and powerful memoir ex… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"It's so much more satisfying to watch someone punch above their weight, because when they win, all of us slobs win."

-Tom Scharpling, It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

"Being funny really is like a superpower because you can control situations with an offhand comment or wisecrack that kinda just falls from your brainpan without much effort. But like the Spider-Man s…"

-Tom Scharpling, It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

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20. Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor

By: Emma Warren

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Join the Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music by Matt Anniss

21. Join the Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music

By: Matt Anniss

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Since the dawn of the 1990s, British dance music has been in thrall to the seductive power of weigh… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. Junglist

By: Two Fingas

3.46

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

Back in print after two decades, Junglist tells the compelling, comic, stream-of-consciousness stor… read more

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23. Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music

By: Matthew Collin

4.28

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

Electronic dance music was once the utopian frontier of pop culture. But three decades after the ac… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

14 Best nonfiction books like Renegade Snares: The Resistance And Resilience Of Drum & Bass by Ben Murphy

Transform Your Habits

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

Owen Jones

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk

Dan Sicko

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Nineties

Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

Kelefa Sanneh

4.17

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16 Best nonfiction books like Bodies by Ian Winwood

Transform Your Habits

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

Craig Brown

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever

Nick de Semlyen

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

Warren Zanes

4.42

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