18 Best biography books like Being John Lennon by Ray Connolly

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Being John Lennon

By: Ray Connolly

4.15

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

What was it like to be John Lennon? What was it like to be the castoff child, the clown at school, …

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1. Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year

By: Steve Turner

4.26

Format: 464 pages, ebook

A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose gr… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Love Me Do!: The Beatles' Progress by Michael Braun

2. Love Me Do!: The Beatles' Progress

By: Michael Braun

4.02

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

The year is 1963 and "Love Me Do" is the Beatles' first number one hit, closely followed by "Please… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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3. Apathy for the Devil: A 1970s Memoir

By: Nick Kent

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Chronicling Nick Kent's up-close, personal, often harrowing adventures with the Rolling Stones, Les… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. Big Sur

By: Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his min… read more

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5. Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

By: Mark Lewisohn

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Tune Inis the first volume of All These Years--a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical tr… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson

By: Peter Ames Carlin

3.70

Format: 24 pages,

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. 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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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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8. A Spaniard in the Works

By: John Lennon

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

"It is fascinating of course to climb inside a Beatle's head to see what's going on there, but what… read more

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  • music
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9. The Coming of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

10. The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)

By: Richard J. Evans

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implaca… read more

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11. Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story

By: Nick Tosches , Greil Marcus

3.33

Format: None pages,

The life of Jerry Lee Lewis is one of the most dramatic and tormented in rock 'n' roll history. "He… read more

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12. Nora Webster

By: Colm Tóibín

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed and beloved authors comes this magnificent new… read more

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13. The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)

By: Richard J. Evans

4.83

Format: 266 pages,

The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the r… read more

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14. A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603 (A History of Britain, #1)

By: Simon Schama

3.25

Format: 40 pages,

'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of… read more

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15. John

By: Julian Lennon , None

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Now in paperback, the New York Timesbestselling expose of the real John Lennon The time has come wh… read more

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16. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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17. One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By: Craig Brown

4.26

Format: 642 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinatin… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans

By: Kenneth Womack

4.16

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved friend, confidant, and roadie.  … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. The Lyrics

By: Paul McCartney

4.59

Format: 960 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Washington Post Notable Book Excerpted in The New Yorker A work of… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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20. The Wolf You Feed

By: Andrew Webster

4.20

Format: 459 pages, Kindle Edition

'the greatest coach in Australian sports history . . . an extraordinary man' Matthew JohnsWayne Ben… read more

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  • biography
Cover of Acid for the Children by Flea

21. 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
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"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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22. 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
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle

By: Philip Norman

3.91

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the premiere Beatles biographer—author of the New York Times bestseller John The Life and the… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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24. The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1: 1969-73

By: Allan Kozinn

4.46

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, The McCartney Legacy, Vol. 1: 1969-73 captures t… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2) by Emil Ferris

25. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

By: Emil Ferris

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more

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"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

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26. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

By: Joshua Robinson

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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27. The Beatles 1963: A Year in the Life

By: Dafydd Rees

4.33

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

At the start of 1963, The Beatles were a successful local Liverpool band with one hit single; twelv… read more

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  • music
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28. Being John Lennon

By: Ray Connolly

4.15

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

What was it like to be John Lennon? What was it like to be the castoff child, the clown at school, … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • music biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle by Anna Shechtman

29. The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

By: Anna Shechtman

3.38

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Tune In, Part 1 (The Beatles: All These Years, #1) by Mark Lewisohn

30. Tune In, Part 1 (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

By: Mark Lewisohn

4.84

Format: 1664 pages, Kindle Edition

'Mark Lewisohn knows the Fab Four better than they knew themselves' The GuardianThis extended speci… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Shake It Up, Baby!: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963 by Ken McNab

31. Shake It Up, Baby!: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963

By: Ken McNab

4.19

Format: 513 pages, Kindle Edition

When BEATLEMANIA seized the Relive the Mayhem of 1963The Beatles broke up more than half a century… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction

18 best-selling history books like Being John Lennon by Ray Connolly

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Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year

Steve Turner

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Love Me Do!: The Beatles' Progress

Michael Braun

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Apathy for the Devil: A 1970s Memoir

Nick Kent

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

Mark Lewisohn

3.63

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19 Best audiobook books like All You Need Is Love: An Oral History of The Beatles by Peter Brown

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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

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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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