9 best-selling music books like Souvenir by Michael Bracewell

Souvenir

By: Michael Bracewell

3.46

Format: None pages, None

'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued…

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Cover of Night Train by Martin Amis

1. Night Train

By: Martin Amis

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walki… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music by Sylvia Patterson

2. I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music

By: Sylvia Patterson

4.06

Format: 360 pages,

This is a three-decade survivor's tale ... a scenic search for elusive human happiness through musi… read more

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  • music
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3. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • british literature

4. Here Is New York

By: E.B. White , Barbara Cohen , Roger Angell , None

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential l… read more

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5. We Think the World of You

By: J.R. Ackerley , P.N. Furbank

3.43

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R.… read more

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6. The Debut

By: Anita Brookner

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

Since childhood Ruth Weiss has been escaping from life into books, and from the hothouse attentions… read more

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7. The Looking Glass War

By: John Le Carré

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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8. Ten Storey Love Song

By: Richard Milward

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

Spanning one dynamite paragraph, Ten Storey Love Song follows Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom an… read more

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Cover of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

9. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • essays
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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10. 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
"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

Cover of Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker

11. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

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  • music
  • british literature
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12. The Wall

By: John Lanchester

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous … read more

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  • fiction
"There would be a new life, and we would be living a new life. It felt like too much to hope for, but not in a bad way, more the kind of thing you stop yourself thinking about for superstitious reason…"

-John Lanchester, The Wall

"Home: it didn’t just seem as if home was a long way away, it actually felt as if the whole concept of home was strange, a thing you used to believe in, an ideology you’d once been passionate about bu…"

-John Lanchester, The Wall

Cover of Nina Simone's Gum by Warren  Ellis

13. 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
Cover of Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That by Dylan Jones

14. Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That

By: Dylan Jones

3.74

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), p… read more

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  • music
Cover of The Horse by Willy Vlautin

15. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

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  • music
  • fiction
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16. Fire Rush

By: Jacqueline Crooks

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more

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  • music
  • fiction
  • british literature
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17. Standing Heavy

By: Gauz

3.58

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile. The securit… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman

18. Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

By: Ian Penman

4.02

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thou… read more

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  • essays
"The problem with making art to wake people up: your ideal reader/viewer is therefore by definition probably asleep, and not the least bit interested in your kind of wake-up-you-sleepwalkers art."

-Ian Penman, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

19. Souvenir

By: Michael Bracewell

3.46

Format: None pages, None

'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued… read more

Similar categories in Michael Bracewell's Souvenir book and Michael Bracewell's Souvenir

  • music
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • essays
Cover of Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers

20. Rare Singles

By: Benjamin Myers

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more

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  • music
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

21. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

9 Top fiction books like Souvenir by Michael Bracewell

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Night Train

Martin Amis

3.75

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Barbara Pym

3.90

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The Wall

John Lanchester

3.58

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The Horse

Willy Vlautin

4.26

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13 Best audiobook books like Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis

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The Death of Bunny Munro

Nick Cave

3.80

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The Sick Bag Song

Nick Cave

3.95

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog

4.25

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