12 Top nonfiction books like Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti by Cosey Fanni Tutti

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Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

By: Cosey Fanni Tutti

3.72

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and se…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti by Cosey Fanni Tutti , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Crash

By: J.G. Ballard

3.59

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more

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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

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2. Porcelain: A Memoir

By: Moby

3.90

Format: 49 pages,

From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

3. Cold Comfort Farm

By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more

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4. And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder

By: Deborah Spungen

3.50

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy… read more

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5. 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
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"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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6. Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

By: Chris Frantz

3.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Chris Frantz’s memoir tells the story of his life with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and his life-lon… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Without adventures, we won’t have stories."

-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

"...the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is selfishness."

-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

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7. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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8. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

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"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

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9. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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10. 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
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
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11. The Manningtree Witches

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the res… read more

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-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin.To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin. To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"My imps need no doors, sir. They go where I tell them. Through any crack, be it as narrow as a nun's or wide as your wife's."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

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12. Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZZT

By: Trevor Horn

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the '80s'. … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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13. Nonbinary: A Memoir

By: Genesis P-Orridge

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
"If everything is an illusion, then our senses are sacred. Touching is sacred."

-Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

"We have to think of something new in order to wake people up. Because at the moment people have become so blasé. How do you get through this miasma of complacency and make people listen? How do we br…"

-Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

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14. 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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Maybe We'll Make It: A Memoir (American Music Series) by Margo  Price

15. Maybe We'll Make It: A Memoir (American Music Series)

By: Margo Price

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When Margo Price was nineteen years old, she dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to becom… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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16. My Lady Parts: A Life Fighting Stereotypes

By: Doon MacKichan

4.06

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

The Feisty Feminist. The Hot Lesbian. The Desperate Cougar.The Deranged Mother. The Stupid Tart. Th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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17. Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

By: Cosey Fanni Tutti

3.72

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and se… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
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18. Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

By: Vashti Bunyan

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In 1968, Vashti Bunyan gave up everything and everybody she knew in London to take to the road with… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography by Will Birch

19. Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography

By: Will Birch

3.91

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Widely described as 'punk's poet laureate', Ian Dury is a cultural icon. With his band The Blockhea… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. 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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"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

12 must-read biography books like Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti by Cosey Fanni Tutti

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Porcelain: A Memoir

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3.90

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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Chris Frantz

3.50

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Warren Ellis

4.26

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Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

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