17 must-read nonfiction books like 3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise by Zack O'Malley Greenburg

Cover of 3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise by Zack O'Malley Greenburg

3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise

By: Zack O'Malley Greenburg

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Tracing the careers of hip-hop's three most dynamic stars, this deeply reported history brilliantly…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in 3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise by Zack O'Malley Greenburg , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation

By: Susannah Gora

3.87

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

You can quote lines from Sixteen Candles (“Last night at the dance, my little brother paid a buck t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Gone 'Til November: A Journal of Rikers Island

By: Lil Wayne

2.78

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

From rap superstar Lil Wayne comes the long-awaited GONE 'TIL NOVEMBER, a deeply personal and revea… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

3. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

By: Clayton M. Christensen

3.92

Format: 368 pages,

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4. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

By: Geoffrey A. Moore , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. C… read more

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5. Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s

By: Jeff Pearlman

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

TheNew York Timesbestselling author of Sweetnessdelivers the first all-encompassing account of the … read more

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6. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

By: Roger Fisher , Bruce Patton , William Ury

3.95

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"Never yield to pressure, only to principle."

-Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

"Recast an attack on you as an attack on the problem."

-Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

"Sidestep their attack and deflect it against the problem."

-Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

"Rather than resisting the other side’s criticism, invite it."

-Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

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7. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

By: Michael Lewis

4.09

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waite… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
"The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them."

-Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

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8. Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

By: Rainn Wilson

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

**New York Times  Bestseller** Comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson, cofounder of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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

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  • 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

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  • 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. Mister Miracle

By: Tom King

4.42

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

No prison can hold him. No trap can contain him. He is Scott Free, the worldwide celebrity sensatio… read more

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"Mister Miracle: No one loves L.A. People just come here because they think they have to. Then they don't leave because they think they can't. Big Barda: Darling, please. After everything. Haven't you…"

-Tom King, Mister Miracle

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12. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

By: Sam Wasson

4.09

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelator… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

By: Jeff Bezos

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this collection of Jeff Bezos’s writings—his unique and strikingly original annual shareholder l… read more

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  • biography
  • business
  • audiobook
"You can invent your way to a better place."

-Jeff Bezos, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

"It's time to go back to the moon, this time to stay."

-Jeff Bezos, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

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14. The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History

By: Andy Greene

4.15

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The untold stories behind The Office, one of the most iconic television shows of the twenty-first c… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

4.39

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"[Trump] and his ideas are not exceptional. He and the people who support him are just the latest examples of the country's ongoing betrayal. . .When we make Trump exceptional, we let ourselves off th…"

-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

"Baldwin's words can sound harsh, as if he's throwing away millions of Americans and declaring them irrelevant to the life and future of our democracy. It's easy to read him that way, and sometimes, w…"

-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

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16. What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life

By: Billy Dee Williams

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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17. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

By: Sam Wasson

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more

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  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Let Love Rule

By: Lenny Kravitz

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connect… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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19. Hip-Hop Is History

By: Questlove

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Hip-Hop is History, Questlove, one of the major and most revolutionary figures of that genre, un… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. 3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise

By: Zack O'Malley Greenburg

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Tracing the careers of hip-hop's three most dynamic stars, this deeply reported history brilliantly… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • hip hop
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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21. The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power

By: Ben Schreckinger

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A deeply reported exploration of Joe Biden as told through his extended family. Coming off of the 2… read more

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14 best-selling audiobook books like 3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise by Zack O'Malley Greenburg

Transform Your Habits

You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation

Susannah Gora

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

Michael Lewis

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

Rainn Wilson

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Lou Reed: The King of New York

Will Hermes

4.23

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16 Best audiobook books like The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis

Transform Your Habits

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

Andrew Ross Sorkin

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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