Hit So Hard: A Memoir
By: Patty Schemel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A stunningly candid and inspiring memoir of recovery from addiction and the '90s, by Hole drummer P…
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1. More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
By: Elizabeth Wurtzel
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary accla… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"When she walks in that first Monday, of course I am awake - I am always up these days - I decide to lay it down. “Look"-Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
"I don't much like my life, but for some dumb reason, I want to be alive, because sooner or later, I figure it will work out."-Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
2. 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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"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
3. Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
By: Sara Marcus
3.97
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of Riot Grrrl, the radical feminist uprising tha… read more
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"i want to scream because no matter how much I scream, no one will listen."-Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
"The girls couldn't block out these things and they didn't want to; they wanted to stay acutely aware of the war against them so they could fight back."-Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
4. Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
By: Mark Yarm
4.27
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Twenty years after the release of Nirvana’s landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town… read more
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5. Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a wor… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We are winning,"-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"The moon is profound except when we land on it."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
6. The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
By: Neil Strauss , Marilyn Manson
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
The 150,000-copy national bestselling autobiography of Marilyn Manson, America's most controversial… read more
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7. Courtney Love: The Real Story
By: Poppy Z. Brite
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Courtney Love. The girl with the most cake. The girl with the loudest mouth and the fiercest guitar… read more
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- rock n roll
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9. Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
By: Charles R. Cross
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure a… read more
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10. Lonely Boy
By: Ben Thompson , Steve Jones
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Without the Sex Pistols there would be no Punk. And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pisto… read more
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- audiobook
11. American Junkie
By: Tom Hansen , Sean Beaudoin
3.47
Format: 288 pages,
In American Junkie, Tom Hansen takes us on a non-stop into a land of desperate addicts, failed punk… read more
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- biography
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- mental health
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12. Alice in Chains: The Untold Story
By: None
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Alice in Chains were among the loudest voices out of Seattle. They were iconic pioneers who mixed g… read more
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13. The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"
By: Alan Light
3.40
Format: None pages, ebook
"A venerated creator. An adored, tragic interpreter. An uncomplicated, memorable melody. Ambiguous,… read more
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14. Not Dead and Not for Sale
By: Scott Weiland , David Ritz
4.20
Format: 192 pages, ebook
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15. The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
By: Nikki Sixx
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of Motley Crue offers an… read more
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16. 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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- autobiography
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"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
17. Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
By: Peter Hook
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Joy Division changed the face of music. Godfathers of alternative rock, they reinvented music in th… read more
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18. 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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- 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
19. 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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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"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
20. 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
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- 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
21. Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir
By: Mark Lanegan
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Sou… read more
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22. Brave
By: Rose McGowan
3.86
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Rose McGowan was born in one cult and came of age in another, more visible cult: Hollywood. In a… read more
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"It's time men realized their semen isn't all that."-Rose McGowan, Brave
"Don't gaslight me motherfucker. My vagina remembers. My body remembers."-Rose McGowan, Brave
"Women have interests, hopes, dreams, aspirations. Beyond being fuckable."-Rose McGowan, Brave
"Being brave doesn't mean you are not scared, it just means you do the scary thing anyway."-Rose McGowan, Brave
23. The High Desert
By: James Spooner
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Winner of a 2022 ALA Alex Award Winner of the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Print Comics One of … read more
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24. Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes
By: Moshe Kasher
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics … read more
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25. 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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- rock n roll
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26. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir
By: Owen Elliot-Kugell
3.96
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more
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27. Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion
By: Steve Turner
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene—from backyard ska… read more
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28. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
By: Mannie Murphy
3.56
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel, what begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author’s 1990s teenage in… read more
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29. Horror Stories: A Memoir
By: Liz Phair
3.71
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyvi… read more
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"Childhood is a time of curiosity and peril, and nobody comes out of it unscarred."-Liz Phair, Horror Stories: A Memoir
30. Hit So Hard: A Memoir
By: Patty Schemel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A stunningly candid and inspiring memoir of recovery from addiction and the '90s, by Hole drummer P… read more
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- nonfiction
- rock n roll
- audiobook
31. Earth to Moon: A Memoir
By: Moon Unit Zappa
4.42
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheis… read more
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