22 best-selling nonfiction books like In on the Kill Taker by Joe Gross

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In on the Kill Taker

By: Joe Gross

4.24

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

By June 1993, when Washington, D.C.'s Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill …

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1. Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements

By: Bob Mehr

4.55

Format: 488 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBased on a decade of research and reporting--as well as access to the Repl… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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2. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

By: Michael Azerrad

4.22

Format: 522 pages, Paperback

This is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spir…"

-Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

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3. Rip it Up and Start Again

By: Simon Reynolds

4.08

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

Punk's raw power rejuvenated rock, but by the summer of 1977 the movement had become a parody of it… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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4. Concrete Island

By: J.G. Ballard

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over th… read more

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5. Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

By: Henry Rollins

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a member of the seminal punk band Black Flag, Henry Rollins kept detailed tour diaries that form… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

6. The Thicket

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.97

Format: 649 pages, Paperback

ALA Reading List Award for History, Short List Love and vengeance at the dark dawn of the East Texa… read more

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7. Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God

By: Greg Graffin , Steve Olson

5.00

Format: 224 pages,

A provocative look at the collision between religion and science-by the founding member of the cult… read more

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8. 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
  • nonfiction
"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

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

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

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

-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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9. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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10. 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
  • 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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11. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

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12. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

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"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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13. The Philosophy of Modern Song

By: Bob Dylan

3.80

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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14. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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

By: Warren Zanes

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

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17. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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18. Sonic Life: A Memoir

By: Thurston Moore

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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19. Room to Dream

By: David Lynch

4.33

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Ultimately, each life is a mystery until we each solve the mystery, and that's where we are all headed whether we know it or not."

-David Lynch, Room to Dream

"I don't know how I got to that thing of not caring what other people think, but it's a good thing. The thing is, you fall in love with ideas and it's like falling in love with a girl. It could be a g…"

-David Lynch, Room to Dream

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20. How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song. But what if the goal w… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"To all of the songs like windows, open just enough for us to make our escape, and to all of the songs like windows, closed and clear enough in a dim light to see our own reflection and be reminded of…"

-Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

"When I'm on stage, my experience often goes something like this: Blankness . . . bliss . . . blankness . . . twinkle of awareness that rocking has been achieved . . . bliss . . . Voice of Observing E…"

-Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

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21. Skulldigger + Skeleton Boy

By: Jeff Lemire

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Spiral City finds itself trapped in a vicious cycle of crime, corruption, and violence. With the… read more

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22. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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23. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007) by Dan Ozzi

24. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)

By: Dan Ozzi

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well tol… read more

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

25. 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
  • 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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26. Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records

By: Jim Ruland

4.03

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker D… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland by Steven Hyden

27. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland

By: Steven Hyden

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album,  Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark    O'Connell

28. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. In on the Kill Taker

By: Joe Gross

4.24

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

By June 1993, when Washington, D.C.'s Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Punk Paradox: A Memoir by Greg Graffin

30. Punk Paradox: A Memoir

By: Greg Graffin

4.12

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock’s evolution, by the legendary singer-songwr… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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31. Cinema Purgatorio: This Is Sinerama

By: Alan Moore

3.69

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill invite you take a trip through the dark recesses of cinema, in their f… read more

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19 Best music books like In on the Kill Taker by Joe Gross

Transform Your Habits

Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements

Bob Mehr

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

Michael Azerrad

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Rip it Up and Start Again

Simon Reynolds

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

Henry Rollins

4.16

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Transform Your Habits

Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It

Bob Boilen

3.78

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

4.35

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