11 must-read nonfiction books like Stranger Than Kindness by Nick Cave

Cover of Stranger Than Kindness by Nick Cave

Stranger Than Kindness

By: Nick Cave

4.21

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creativ…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Stranger Than Kindness by Nick Cave , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Yoshihiro Tatsumi

1. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Yoshihiro Tatsumi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the sou… read more

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Cover of Nick Cave: Mercy on Me by Reinhard Kleist

2. Nick Cave: Mercy on Me

By: Reinhard Kleist

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Musician, novelist, poet, actor: Nick Cave (b. 1957) is a Renaissance man. His wide-ranging artisti… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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3. Under Milk Wood

By: Dylan Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Woodis "ly… read more

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  • poetry

4. You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

By: Charles Bukowski

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry tha… read more

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5. Great Jones Street

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relev… read more

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6. Carpenter's Gothic

By: William Gaddis

3.50

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vie… read more

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7. Zen in the Art of Archery

By: R.F.C. Hull , None , Eugen Herrigel , Φοίβος Ι. Πιομπίνος

3.76

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Pro… read more

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8. The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more

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9. Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

By: Anne Carson

4.07

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and … read more

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  • poetry
"Oh my darlings, they tell you you’re born with a precious pearl. Truth is, it’s a disaster to be a girl."

-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

"Aristotle thought earthquakes were caused by winds trapped in subterranean caves. We’re more scientific now, we know it’s just five guys fracking the fuck out of the world while it’s still legal."

-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

"In ancient Greek you use the verb ἁρπάζειν, which comes over into Latin as rapio, rapper, raptus sum and gives us English rapture and rape—words stained with the very early blood of girls, with the v…"

-Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

Cover of Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Melville House

10. Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

By: Melville House

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Kurt Cobain burst into American consciousness with a vengeance with the release of Nevermind, an in… read more

Similar categories in Melville House's Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations book and Nick Cave's Stranger Than Kindness

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of House of Slaughter, Vol. 1: The Butcher's Mark by James Tynion IV

11. House of Slaughter, Vol. 1: The Butcher's Mark

By: James Tynion IV

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A BRAND NEW SERIES IN THE WORLD OF SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN!Discover the inner workings of… read more

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12. 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
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"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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13. 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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  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • 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

Cover of Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party by Michael Cragg

14. Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party

By: Michael Cragg

4.28

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will ex… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cragg's Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party book and Nick Cave's Stranger Than Kindness

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nina Simone's Gum by Warren  Ellis

15. Nina Simone's Gum

By: Warren Ellis

4.26

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina S… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst

16. Goth: A History

By: Lol Tolhurst

3.68

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Following his memoir  Cured , a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a mi… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri

17. What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

By: Emma Dabiri

4.41

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
"This racialized ordering of the world is endemic to a system that has inculcated us all with a scarcity mindset, which is a great deal at odds with the abundance that truly exists in the world."

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Racial categories were invented to enshrine the idea of white supremacy. They are the product of Eurocentrism and colonialism. To act in ways that reinforce their fixedness rather than undermine them…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Universal healthcare, free education, access to decent and affordable housing, safe working conditions, and occupations that provide a sense of fulfillment and meaning are all pretty basic and fundam…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Investment in the absoluteness of racial categories is in fact a conservative, fearful choice. What would be truly radical would be to sound the death knoll for the fiction that white people constitu…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

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18. Pigedyr

By: Cecilie Lind

3.72

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

En pige har en mor, en far, en veninde, en forelskelse, endnu en. Hun hedder Sara. I sit værelse gr… read more

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Cover of Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry by Florence Welch

19. Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

By: Florence Welch

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine. … read more

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  • music
  • poetry
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
"We are all too young to die."

-Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

"I am teaching myself how to be free"

-Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

"Maybe I’ve always been more comfortable in chaos."

-Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

"I like people who've seen some darkness. The haunted ones."

-Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

Cover of Stranger Than Kindness by Nick Cave

20. Stranger Than Kindness

By: Nick Cave

4.21

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creativ… read more

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  • music
  • poetry
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • photography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • australia
Cover of Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue

21. Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave

By: Mark Mordue

3.98

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling, award-winning and critically acclaimed biography of the young Nick Cave, by award-… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • australia

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3.61

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Richard Siken

3.67

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Ocean Vuong

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Lana Del Rey

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