6 must-read music books like Someone Who Isn’t Me by Geoff Rickly

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Someone Who Isn’t Me

By: Geoff Rickly

4.60

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone…

"He asks me to leave, turns to his manager and says, "The epidemic of our time," as if time were the epidemic and we're all subject to its disastrous effects."

-Geoff Rickly, Someone Who Isn’t Me

"He asks me to leave, turns to his manager and says, "The epidemic of our time," as if time were the epidemic and we're all subject to its disastrous effects."

-Geoff Rickly, Someone Who Isn’t Me

If you liked the music plot in Someone Who Isn’t Me by Geoff Rickly , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

By: Carrie Brownstein

3.83

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply persona… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Brownstein's Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl book and Geoff Rickly's Someone Who Isn’t Me

  • music
"I've always felt unclaimed."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"If someone didn’t feel included, if someone felt marginalised, they would form their own band, write their own fanzine, or just call you out on what they deemed racist or classist, sizeist, sexist, b…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I suppose we were better observers than communicators; we were all subjects to be worried over, complained about, even adored, but never quite people to be held or loved. There was an intellectual, a…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

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2. My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

By: Christian Wiman

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetrymagazine, wrote a now-f… read more

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3. The Sarah Book

By: Scott McClanahan

4.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the ch… read more

Similar categories in Scott McClanahan's The Sarah Book book and Geoff Rickly's Someone Who Isn’t Me

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. Rent Boy

By: Gary Indiana

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more

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5. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

By: Emmeline Clein

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more

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6. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. My First Book

By: Honor Levy

3.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

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8. None of This Rocks: A Memoir

By: Joe Trohman

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy shares personal stories from his youth and his experie… read more

Similar categories in Joe Trohman's None of This Rocks: A Memoir book and Geoff Rickly's Someone Who Isn’t Me

  • music
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9. Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

By: Chris Payne

4.41

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An explosive oral history of emo's takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FA… read more

Similar categories in Chris Payne's Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 book and Geoff Rickly's Someone Who Isn’t Me

  • music
  • contemporary
" Jonathan Daniel: I mean, people knew "Sins." That song was so big everywhere. But yeah, I don't think they knew the band as much. I remember Panic! went to see Kanye in Vegas, and Pete asked Kanye i…"

-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

" Jim Adkins: ...There was a girl who wrote us, explaining how she felt like an outsider at her school because the punk rock kids wouldn't accept her, even though she liked us and a lot of the really …"

-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

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10. Fuccboi

By: Sean Thor Conroe

3.07

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism from an electrifying… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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12. Anyone's Ghost

By: August Thompson

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men du… read more

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

13. 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

Similar categories in Dan Ozzi's Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007) book and Geoff Rickly's Someone Who Isn’t Me

  • music
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14. Bitter Water Opera

By: Nicolette Polek

4.03

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Teenager

By: Bud Smith

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

By: Chelsea Hodson

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshi… read more

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  • contemporary
"I’ve always liked men who look as if they’re from another time."

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

"I didn't keep a journal then. I was busy, or I thought I was, but mostly I thought anything important would stay with me."

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

"I’m trying to write something so good, so pure, so perfect that I’ll never have to have children; I’ll have created something that can stand in for me, that can live on after me.."

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

"Money can do that if you let it--if you close your eyes and enter its dream, the one where you are well dressed, fit, successful, in love with exactly the right person. The gym I used to belong to co…"

-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

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17. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

By: Danielle Dutton

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more

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  • contemporary
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18. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

Cover of Someone Who Isn’t Me by Geoff Rickly

19. Someone Who Isn’t Me

By: Geoff Rickly

4.60

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone… read more

Similar categories in Geoff Rickly's Someone Who Isn’t Me book and Geoff Rickly's Someone Who Isn’t Me

  • music
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"He asks me to leave, turns to his manager and says, "The epidemic of our time," as if time were the epidemic and we're all subject to its disastrous effects."

-Geoff Rickly, Someone Who Isn’t Me

Cover of Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006) by Amy Fleisher Madden

20. Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006)

By: Amy Fleisher Madden

4.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous hardcover time capsule of the emo music scene as it was from 1996 to 2006, featuring nev… read more

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  • music
Cover of Juliet the Maniac by Juliet Escoria

21. Juliet the Maniac

By: Juliet Escoria

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A shockingly dark, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young teenager's clash with mental illnes… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Scott McClanahan

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Tao Lin

3.33

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