16 Best biography books like We Could Be... Bowie and His Heroes by Tom Hagler

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We Could Be... Bowie and His Heroes

By: Tom Hagler

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

300 vignettes telling the stories of Bowie's encounters with fellow icons, from Dylan to Dali, Lenn…

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1. Morvern Callar

By: Alan Warner

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town … read more

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2. Casino

By: Nicholas Pileggi

4.09

Format: 148 pages, Mass Market Paperback

From the author of the best-selling Mafia expose, Wiseguy, comes this inside story of the billion-d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

3. Goodbye to Berlin

By: Christopher Isherwood

3.95

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more

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4. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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5. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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6. Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more

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"I can’t believe this!"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

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7. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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8. Face It

By: Debbie Harry

3.61

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I was saying things in songs that female singers didn’t really say back then. I wasn’t submissive … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"To this day, when the band separates at the airport and we all go our different ways, I still get that gut reaction. Separation. I hate parting with people and i hate goodbyes."

-Debbie Harry, Face It

"I would just walk around, not looking for anything particular, looking for everything really, and ingesting and digesting it all. Art, music, theater, poetry, and the sense that everything was up for…"

-Debbie Harry, Face It

"Coincidence: it's supposed to mean just these random, disconnected events that concur or collide. But coincidence is not that at all. It's the stuff that's meant to be. Things that are supposed to be…"

-Debbie Harry, Face It

"I wanted to be platinum blond. On our black-and-white television and at the theater where they screened technicolor movies, there was something about platinum hair that was so luminescent and excitin…"

-Debbie Harry, Face It

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9. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness

By: Christian Lewis

4.40

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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10. 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
  • biography
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11. One: My Autobiography

By: Peter Schmeichel

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Peter Schmeichel is an undisputed giant of the global game. He was a serial winner with Manchester… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I would say to any adult who stands on the sides yelling at players in a kids' game: grab hold of yourself. Remember the obvious. THESE ARE KIDS. These are little, vulnerable human beings with underd…"

-Peter Schmeichel, One: My Autobiography

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12. Kubrick: An Odyssey

By: Robert P. Kolker

4.26

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey , The Shining , and A Clockwork Or… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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13. Coal Black Mornings

By: Brett Anderson

4.19

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Morni… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of We Could Be... Bowie and His Heroes by Tom Hagler

14. We Could Be... Bowie and His Heroes

By: Tom Hagler

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

300 vignettes telling the stories of Bowie's encounters with fellow icons, from Dylan to Dali, Lenn… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. Me and Mr. Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars

By: Suzi Ronson

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A luminescent memoir from the stylist who created David's iconic Ziggy Stardust look, painting a da… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul by Kit Holden

16. Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul

By: Kit Holden

4.54

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

Beyond the booze and the what football really tells us about Germany, the UEFA Euro 2024 hosts––––… read more

Similar categories in Kit Holden's Played in Germany: A Footballing Journey Through a Nation's Soul book and Tom Hagler's We Could Be... Bowie and His Heroes

  • nonfiction
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17. Dancing on the Edge: A Journey of Living, Loving, and Tumbling through Hollywood

By: Russ Tamblyn

4.00

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Actor. Artist. Cultural Icon. Dancing on the Edge A bold memoir of an extraordinary, singular life … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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18. We Can Be Heroes: A Survivor's Story

By: Paul Burston

4.08

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Activist. Journalist. Survivor. One man’s journey from prejudice to Pride. Paul Burston wasn’t alwa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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19. Bowie Odyssey 72

By: Simon Goddard

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A new year for David Bowie means new clothes, new boots, new hair and a new Ziggy Stardust. To the… read more

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  • music
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20. Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power

By: Sasha Swire

3.47

Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition

What is it like to be a wife of a politician in modern-day Britain? Sasha Swire finally lifts the l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Other Fab Four: The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain’s First Female Rock Band by Mary McGlory

21. The Other Fab Four: The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain’s First Female Rock Band

By: Mary McGlory

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When John Lennon told the four members of The Liverbirds—Britain’s first female rock band—​that gir… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

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