18 best-selling biography books like Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense by Ronen Givony

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Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense

By: Ronen Givony

3.66

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

There has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded eleven studio albums; …

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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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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2. Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

By: Mark Blake

4.17

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

In July 2005 in Hyde Park, before a global audience of millions, Pink Floyd performed together on s… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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3. Not Dead Yet: The Memoir

By: Phil Collins

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Phil Collins pulls no punches--about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that's inspir… read more

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

4. Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana

By: Michael Azerrad

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Neve… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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5. Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music

By: John Fogerty

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The long-awaited memoir from John Fogerty, the legendary singer-songwriter and … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

6. No One Here Gets Out Alive

By: Danny Sugerman , Jerry Hopkins

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, cha… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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7. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

8. Life

By: Keith Richards

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the… read more

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9. Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

By: Steven Tyler

3.93

Format: None pages,

"I've been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I've been Cole-Portered and farmer's-… read more

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10. When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin

By: Mick Wall

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Veteran rock journalist Mick Wall unflinchingly tells the story of the band that pushed the envelop… read more

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11. It's So Easy: And Other Lies

By: Duff McKagan

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

A founding member of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver shares the story of his rise to the pinnacle… read more

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12. Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life

By: Steven Hyden

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of Amazon's Best Books of 2016 So Far Music critic Steven Hyden explores nineteen music rivalri… read more

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13. Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment

By: Yanis Varoufakis

3.00

Format: None pages,

'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) - The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestsell… read more

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14. Tostonazo

By: Santiago Lorenzo

3.26

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Un luminoso canto a la vida contra el aburrimiento. Leer esta novela es el mejor acto de resistenci… read more

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"Les recriminamos su actitud, no encontramos puntos de confluencia y volaron hostias como elepés (sobre nosotros, mayormente)"

-Santiago Lorenzo, Tostonazo

"Como buen tarugo, hacía lo de buscarse una pareja de clásicos coetáneos de nombre similar, y poner al uno por las nubes y al otro a caer de un burro."

-Santiago Lorenzo, Tostonazo

"Dejé el alcohol por segunda vez, por motivos nada heroicos. Porque no lo dejé por la salud, el civismo o la moral. Lo dejé por falta de eurines. Liquidez contra líquido"

-Santiago Lorenzo, Tostonazo

"Me eché cinco novias. Que, puestas en mi desértica biografía amorosa, me parecían cincuenta. Todas me dejaron en seguida, pero como para encima pretender que me duraran."

-Santiago Lorenzo, Tostonazo

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15. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

By: Stephanie Kelton

4.04

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" and the Beginning of the 21st Century by Steven Hyden

16. This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" and the Beginning of the 21st Century

By: Steven Hyden

3.69

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020"In this brilliant book, Steven Hyden goes deep into … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir by Mark Lanegan

17. 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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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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18. Malas mujeres

By: María Hesse

3.98

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

NI LOCAS, NI TONTAS, NI PROVOCADORAS, NI FATALES: ¡MUJERES, BIENVENIDAS AL AQUELARRE! Desde l… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Lilith era pérfida. Eva era débil. Esa es nuestra estirpe."

-María Hesse, Malas mujeres

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19. Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion

By: Tom Beaujour

4.07

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that pe… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Steven Hyden

20. Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By: Steven Hyden

4.14

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A leading music journalist’s riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"One of the many musical distinctions of my lifetime that used to seem important and now is completely forgotten is the difference between “alternative"

-Steven Hyden, Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation

Cover of Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee

21. Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

By: Abhijit V. Banerjee

4.23

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The bottom line is that, much as in rich countries, we have no accepted recipe for how to make growth happen in poor countries. Even the experts seem to have accepted this. In 2006, the World Bank as…"

-Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

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22. Acid for the Children

By: Flea

4.08

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Bein famous don't mean shit"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

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23. State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts

By: Nick Hornby

3.54

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

A heartbreaking, funny, and honest look inside of a marriage falling apart and the lengths a couple… read more

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"«E quanto alla Brexit… Alcuni sono convinti che i cambiamenti radicali offrano anche grandi opportunità.» «Quindi, secondo te, noi due staremmo meglio se ci separassimo?» «Oddio, no. Stavo parlando d…"

-Nick Hornby, State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts

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24. Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

By: Steven Hyden

3.93

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The author of the critically acclaimed Your Favorite Band is Killing Me offers an eye-opening explo… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Just try to find an uncompelling photo of Fleetwood Mac taken at any point between 1975 and 1987. I've spent hours scouring Google Images in search of a single Fleetwood Mac band photo to which I am …"

-Steven Hyden, Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

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25. 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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell by Corbin Reiff

26. 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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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

27. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

By: Dave Grohl

4.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questiona… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I'm bad enough at rolling joints, how could I successfully roll a child?"

-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

"What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create."

-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

"I stopped trying to understand fate and destiny a long time ago, but dumb luck seems to be my specialty."

-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

"There is no love like a Mother's love. It is life's greatest song. We are all indebted to the women who have given us life. For without them, there would be no music."

-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Cover of Janis: Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren

28. Janis: Her Life and Music

By: Holly George-Warren

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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29. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

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30. Breaking Through: My Life in Science

By: Katalin Karikó

4.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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31. Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense

By: Ronen Givony

3.66

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

There has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded eleven studio albums; … read more

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21 must-read nonfiction books like Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense by Ronen Givony

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Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

Mark Yarm

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

Mark Blake

4.17

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Not Dead Yet: The Memoir

Phil Collins

3.77

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Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana

Michael Azerrad

3.50

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Transform Your Habits

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

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

Bill Janovitz

4.29

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