20 best-selling nonfiction books like Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage by Tori Amos

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Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

By: Tori Amos

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been o…

"Containment of your opinion is a must if you are going to nurture an artist's development"

-Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

"Containment of your opinion is a must if you are going to nurture an artist's development"

-Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

"Once she said to me, "One day, young lady, you will give your body and obedience to your husband your soul to God." And I whipped around and said, "And what, pray tell, Grandma, are you saying is left for me?"

-Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

"Once she said to me, "One day, young lady, you will give your body and obedience to your husband your soul to God." And I whipped around and said, "And what, pray tell, Grandma, are you saying is left for me?"

-Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

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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

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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. The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood, #1)

By: Starhawk

4.22

Format: 486 pages, Paperback

An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of … read more

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  • feminism
"The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequen…"

-Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood, #1)

"We hope for a harvest, we pray for rain, but nothing is certain. We say that the harvest will only be abundant if the crops are shared, that the rains will not come unless water is conserved and shar…"

-Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood, #1)

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3. The Hollow of the Hand

By: P.J. Harvey , Seamus Murphy

3.83

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Between 2011 and 2014, PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy set out on a series of journeys together to Koso… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
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4. Lips Unsealed: A Memoir

By: Belinda Carlisle

3.45

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

The women of the iconic eighties band the Go-Go’s will always be remembered as they appeared on the… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Flesh and Blood

By: Michael Cunningham

4.05

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

In Flesh and Blood, Michael Cunningham takes us on a masterful journey through four generations of … read more

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"Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth."

-Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood

"I've always maintained you can either cure your neuroses or you can just outwait them."

-Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood

"My little girl, oh, the daughter I never had. Now tell me, angel, are you fucking anybody new?"

-Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood

"Constantine, eight years old, was working in his father's garden and thinking about his own garden, a square of powdered granite he had staked out and combed into rows at the top of his family's land."

-Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood

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6. A Sick Life: TLC 'n Me: Stories from On and Off the Stage

By: Tionne Watkins

3.81

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Hailed by Rolling Stoneas "the most effervescent and soulful girl group anyone has seen since the S… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Goddess Pose

By: Michelle Goldberg

2.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When the woman who would become Indra Devi was born in Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown o… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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8. Under the Ivy: The Life & Music of Kate Bush

By: Graeme Thomson , Graeme Thompson

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

The first ever in-depth study of Kate Bush's life and career, Under The Ivy features over 70 unique… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction

9. Comic Book Tattoo

By: Neil Gaiman , Leah Moore , John Reppion , David W. Mack , Pia Guerra , Sara Ryan , Ethan Young , Mark Sable , Omaha Perez , None , Chris Arrant

3.10

Format: 151 pages, Hardcover

Over 80 of the best creators from every style and genre have contributed over 50 stories to this an… read more

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  • music
  • art

10. Possessing the Secret of Joy

By: Alice Walker

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Possessing the Secret of Joyis the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adu… read more

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11. Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love

By: Courtney Love , None

3.68

Format: 528 pages,

A multi-textual memoir chronicling the life of one of our most potent pop icons. Groundbreaking roc… read more

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12. Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

By: Jewel

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling poet and multiplatinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventio… read more

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13. The Secret of the Mansion (Trixie Belden #1)

By: Julie Campbell , Mary Stevens , None

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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14. Ani DiFranco: Verses

By: Ani DiFranco

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"She's got the gift of lyrical precision--nothing cuts to the core quite like the resolution of DiF… read more

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15. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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16. Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

By: Tarana Burke

4.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the founder and activist behind the largest movement of the twentieth and twenty-first centuri… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can't empathize with your own self? Is the core of…"

-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

"Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can’t empathize with your own self? Is the core of…"

-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

"Never let anyone touch your private parts, they’d say. But I wasn’t told why I had to protect my private parts, just that it was imperative that I did. Because of this, when I thought of my experienc…"

-Tarana Burke, Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

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17. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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18. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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20. Talking to My Angels

By: Melissa Etheridge

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

By: China Miéville

3.95

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"

-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

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22. The Paper Wasp

By: Lauren Acampora

3.32

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from the acclaimed author of The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp is a riv… read more

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23. Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell

By: Corbin Reiff

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"The new Chris Cornell biography is the book his legacy deserves." — Kerrang! "Reiff unearths pl… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Revolution of the Soul: Awaken to Love Through Raw Truth, Radical Healing, and Conscious Action

By: Seane Corn

4.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated yoga teacher and activist Seane Corn shares pivotal accounts of her life with raw honest… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Forgiveness is a process, a lifelong endeavor."

-Seane Corn, Revolution of the Soul: Awaken to Love Through Raw Truth, Radical Healing, and Conscious Action

"As long as we create separation, we will never be free."

-Seane Corn, Revolution of the Soul: Awaken to Love Through Raw Truth, Radical Healing, and Conscious Action

"Yoga has never been about the stretch; it’s always been about the reach."

-Seane Corn, Revolution of the Soul: Awaken to Love Through Raw Truth, Radical Healing, and Conscious Action

"Nothing is incidental or accidental. Everything, even the hard parts, are essential."

-Seane Corn, Revolution of the Soul: Awaken to Love Through Raw Truth, Radical Healing, and Conscious Action

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25. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

4.07

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. The author's objective is… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"To achieve creativity in an existing domain, there must be surplus attention available."

-Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

"Assimilating the style of predecessors is necessary before one can develop one's own. Only by immersing oneself in the domain can one find out whether there is room left for contributing creatively t…"

-Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

"After curiosity, this quality of concentrated attention is what creative individuals mention most often as having set them apart in college from their peers. Without this quality, they could not have…"

-Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

"Creative people are constantly surprised. They don’t assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they don’t assume that anybody else does either. They question the obvious—not out …"

-Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

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26. Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries

By: Kate Mosse

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate’s rich and detailed knowledge of unhear… read more

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  • biography
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

By: Tori Amos

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been o… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Containment of your opinion is a must if you are going to nurture an artist's development"

-Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

"Once she said to me, "One day, young lady, you will give your body and obedience to your husband your soul to God." And I whipped around and said, "And what, pray tell, Grandma, are you saying is lef…"

-Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

"Once she said to me, "One day, young lady, you will give your body and obedience to your husband and your soul to God." And I whipped around and said, "And what, pray tell, Grandma, are you saying is…"

-Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

"Certain relationships can just wear you down. So you mirror or reflect back- kind of like a pet, reflecting back what its master wants. This can seem easier in the moment: Whatever it takes to back t…"

-Tori Amos, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

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28. All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

By: Kathy Valentine

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction, 2021 Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentin… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir by Ani DiFranco

29. No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir

By: Ani DiFranco

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco In her new memoir,… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"For a girl, the fear of not being pretty is the fear of not being a valuable object, which is the fear of not being loved. It is a conflation that is instilled so early on and runs so deep that, even…"

-Ani DiFranco, No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir

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30. Dance Fever (Deluxe Edition)

By: Florence Welch

4.81

Format: 92 pages, Hardcover

'Dance Fever' was recorded predominately in London over the course of the pandemic in anticipation … read more

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  • music
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31. Penny Dreadful Vol. 1: The Awaking Artist's Edition

By: Chris King

3.88

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Relive the first volume of the ongoing Penny Dreadful comic series in this stunning black & white a… read more

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3.45

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3.81

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3.58

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Barbra Streisand

4.20

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3.62

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