13 Top music books like Animal House by James Brown

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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…

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Cover of Mr. Nice by Howard Marks

1. Mr. Nice

By: Howard Marks

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and owned 25 companies throughout… read more

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Cover of The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel

2. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

HILARY MANTEL is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly t… read more

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3. Money

By: Martin Amis

3.69

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Time Magazine included the book in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 20… read more

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"Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end."

-Martin Amis, Money

"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch."

-Martin Amis, Money

"Suffering doesn’t concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. It has no community sense. It isn’t relative, is it."

-Martin Amis, Money

"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback"

-Martin Amis, Money

4. I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan

By: Steve Coogan , Armando Iannucci , Alan Partridge , Rob Gibbons , Neil Gibbons

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Book by Partridge, Alan. Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder:… read more

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5. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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6. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Meantime

By: Frankie Boyle

3.54

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more

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8. Spaceships Over Glasgow

By: Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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9. 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

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10. 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
  • 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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11. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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12. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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13. 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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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14. 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

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  • nonfiction
"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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15. 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

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16. 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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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17. 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

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

-Irvine Welsh, The Long Knives

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19. T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen

By: Peter Kay

4.23

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch … Mastermind, Moonl… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That by Dylan Jones

20. Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That

By: Dylan Jones

3.74

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), p… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Verse, Chorus, Monster! by Graham Coxon

21. 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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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22. Bunnyman: A Memoir

By: Will Sergeant

4.23

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

The Sunday Times bestsellerGrowing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Echoes: A memoir continued . . . by Will Sergeant

23. Echoes: A memoir continued . . .

By: Will Sergeant

4.27

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERScenic Wye Valley isn't the typical place for a rock story to begin, but… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZZT by Trevor Horn

24. Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZZT

By: Trevor Horn

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the '80s'. … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Likely Lad by Pete Doherty

25. 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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Get It On: How the ’70s Rocked Football by Jon Spurling

26. Get It On: How the ’70s Rocked Football

By: Jon Spurling

4.31

Format: 444 pages, Kindle Edition

A decade after the abolition of the maximum wage, a new generation of footballers and managers beca… read more

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27. The Accidental Footballer

By: Pat Nevin

4.10

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

Pat Nevin never wanted to be a professional footballer. His future was clear, he'd become a teac… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success by Miki Berenyi

28. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

By: Miki Berenyi

4.46

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary and searingly honest personal story of musician Miki Berenyi, revealing the highs… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Animal House by James Brown

29. 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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Inshallah United: A story of faith and football by Nooruddean Choudry

30. Inshallah United: A story of faith and football

By: Nooruddean Choudry

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Manchester. Birthplace of industry, the Stone Roses, the Class of 92 and, in 1979, a small brown ma… read more

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Cover of Tony Gale: That's Entertainment: My Autobiography by Tony Gale

31. Tony Gale: That's Entertainment: My Autobiography

By: Tony Gale

3.95

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

In a footballing career spanning 21 years, Tony Gale played over 720 games on almost every league p… read more

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23 Top nonfiction books like Animal House by James Brown

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Mr. Nice

Howard Marks

3.60

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

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Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

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9 Best music books like Karma: My Autobiography by Boy George

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

Bernie Taupin

3.58

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My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand

4.20

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Karma: My Autobiography

Boy George

3.62

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Madonna: A Rebel Life

Mary Gabriel

4.03

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