22 Top biography books like The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad

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The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

By: Michael Azerrad

4.47

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A downright revolutionary 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the iconic bestselling biography of Ni…

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1. 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

Similar categories in Mark Yarm's Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction

2. Journals

By: Kurt Cobain

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The lyrics notebook and personal journals of Kurt Cobain, iconic singer of the band Nirvana. Kurt C… read more

Similar categories in Kurt Cobain's Journals book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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3. The Atrocity Exhibition

By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his… read more

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4. Batman: The Black Glove

By: Tony S. Daniel , Grant Morrison , J.H. Williams III , Jonathan Glapion

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Mysterious Batman impostors begin to appear on the streets of Gotham. One of these impostors begins… read more

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5. Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century

By: Simon Reynolds

4.18

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Againand Retromania--"the foremost popular music c… read more

Similar categories in Simon Reynolds's Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

6. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It

By: Lawrence S. Ritter

5.00

Format: 299 pages,

From the Preface: This new enlarged edition of The Glory of Their Times contains the complete text … read more

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7. 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

Similar categories in Geddy Lee's My Effin' Life book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • 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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9. Lou Reed: The King of New York

By: Will Hermes

4.23

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more

Similar categories in Will Hermes's Lou Reed: The King of New York book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Rob Harvilla's 60 Songs That Explain the '90s book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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11. Sonic Life: A Memoir

By: Thurston Moore

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more

Similar categories in Thurston Moore's Sonic Life: A Memoir book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused by Melissa Maerz

12. Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused

By: Melissa Maerz

4.40

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

“Melissa Maerz’s brilliant oral history is the definitive account of a cult-classic movie that took… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Maerz's Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pop culture
  • audiobook
"Richard Linklater: First, we became a midnight film. We would play for an entire year at certain theaters. They would turn it into a mini-concert where you go in the theater and you could smell the p…"

-Melissa Maerz, Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused

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13. 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

Similar categories in Mark Lanegan's Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

Similar categories in David Zucker's Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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

Similar categories in Lol Tolhurst's Goth: A History book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic by Daniel de Visé

16. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

Similar categories in Daniel de Visé's The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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18. All You Need Is Love: An Oral History of The Beatles

By: Peter Brown

3.53

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Beatles in their own words: unpublished, unvarnished, and told by The Beatles and their inner c… read more

Similar categories in Peter Brown's All You Need Is Love: An Oral History of The Beatles book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Joyful Recollections of Trauma

By: Paul Scheer

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more

Similar categories in Paul Scheer's Joyful Recollections of Trauma book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

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20. Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records

By: Jim Ruland

4.03

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker D… read more

Similar categories in Jim Ruland's Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pop culture
Cover of There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland by Steven Hyden

21. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland

By: Steven Hyden

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album,  Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more

Similar categories in Steven Hyden's There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain by Danny Goldberg

22. Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

By: Danny Goldberg

3.94

Format: 304 pages, ebook

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death comes a new perspective on one of the most c… read more

Similar categories in Danny Goldberg's Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I keep returning to the last chorus of All Apologies, where Kurt sang: 'In the sun, I feel as one / All in all is all we are.' And to these lines from his journals: 'No true talent is fully organic. …"

-Danny Goldberg, Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

Cover of Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion by Steve Turner

23. 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

Similar categories in Steve Turner's Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn't: The Story Of The Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band To Ever Come out Of The Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees by Barrett Martin

24. The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn't: The Story Of The Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band To Ever Come out Of The Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees

By: Barrett Martin

4.24

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

In 1992, the Screaming Trees were expected to become the next big band to come out of the Seattle m… read more

Similar categories in Barrett Martin's The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn't: The Story Of The Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band To Ever Come out Of The Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness by Andy McCullough

25. The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness

By: Andy McCullough

4.49

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, based on exclusive interviews with Kershaw… read more

Similar categories in Andy McCullough's The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Hit So Hard: A Memoir by Patty Schemel

26. 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

Similar categories in Patty Schemel's Hit So Hard: A Memoir book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad

27. The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

By: Michael Azerrad

4.47

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A downright revolutionary 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the iconic bestselling biography of Ni… read more

Similar categories in Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers

28. Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell

By: Ann Powers

3.51

Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition

For decades Joni Mitchell’s life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated ar… read more

Similar categories in Ann Powers's Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life by Helen   Fisher

29. Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life

By: Helen Fisher

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A thoroughly uplifting novel about a neurodivergent young man who unexpectedly builds a community a… read more

Similar categories in Helen Fisher's Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • audiobook
"Instead of fearing a thing, try to understand it. Because understanding can change everything about the way that you feel."

-Helen Fisher, Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life

Cover of Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs by Luis Elizondo

30. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

By: Luis Elizondo

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more

Similar categories in Luis Elizondo's Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs book and Michael Azerrad's The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Earth to Moon: A Memoir by Moon Unit Zappa

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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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook

24 must-read audiobook books like The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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Lou Reed: The King of New York

Will Hermes

4.23

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60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Rob Harvilla

3.92

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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

James L. Swanson

3.44

Transform Your Habits

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History

Bill Janovitz

4.29

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