15 must-read nonfiction books like Leave The Capital: A History Of Manchester Music In 13 Recordings by Paul Hanley

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Leave The Capital: A History Of Manchester Music In 13 Recordings

By: Paul Hanley

4.24

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When British bands took the world by storm in the mid-sixties, the world turned and looked at Londo…

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1. Four Quartets

By: T.S. Eliot

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more

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2. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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3. I Swear I Was There

By: David Nolan

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Nolan's 'I Swear I Was There' describes the early days of the Sex Pistols, their first gig at… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon

By: Crystal Zevon

4.33

Format: 277 pages,

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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5. One Summer: America, 1927

By: Bill Bryson

4.09

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports read… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."

-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927

"He [Henry Ford] seldom let facts or logic challenge the certainty of his instincts"

-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927

"The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it."

-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927

"Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn't hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs."

-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927

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6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

7. The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall

By: None , None

4.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The first insider's account of life inside The Fall, Steve Hanley's story unfolds like a novel; fro… read more

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8. Renegade

By: Mark E. Smith

3.86

Format: None pages,

Reams of stuff have been written about me in the past, but never in my own words: this is the prope… read more

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9. The Fallen: Searching for the Missing Members of The Fall

By: Dave Simpson

4.15

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

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10. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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11. Meantime

By: Frankie Boyle

3.54

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more

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12. Slough House (Slough House, #7)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more

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"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

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13. Spaceships Over Glasgow

By: Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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14. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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15. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more

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16. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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18. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

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19. Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975

By: Richard Thompson

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Thompson is a master showman . . .  [ Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobi… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. You Must Get Them All: The Fall on Record

By: Steve Pringle

4.76

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

Comprehensive review of all of the recorded output of The Fall read more

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  • music
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21. Utopia Avenue

By: David Mitchell

4.00

Format: 574 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone C… read more

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  • music
"I is an Empire of I's."

-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

"Self-pity can lift one's mood."

-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

"America loves exclamation marks."

-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

"Crows tumble like socks in a drier."

-David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

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22. Bunnyman: A Memoir

By: Will Sergeant

4.23

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

The Sunday Times bestsellerGrowing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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23. Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records

By: Jim Ruland

4.03

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker D… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. I Wanna Be Yours

By: John Cooper Clarke

4.17

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Poet Laureate of Punk, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. A… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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25. Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? An Indie Odyssey

By: Nige Tassell

4.11

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In 1986, the NME released a cassette that would shape music for years to come. A collection of twen… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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26. The Lost Album of The Beatles: What if the Beatles hadn't split up?

By: Daniel Rachel

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An award-winning music author takes a serious look at a playful question of pop what if the Beatle… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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27. Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe

By: Will Birch

4.02

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, best-known for "Cruel to Be Kind" and "(Wh… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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28. Leave The Capital: A History Of Manchester Music In 13 Recordings

By: Paul Hanley

4.24

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When British bands took the world by storm in the mid-sixties, the world turned and looked at Londo… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. You Must Get Them All: The Fall On Record

By: Steve Pringle

4.58

Format: 718 pages, Kindle Edition

*** Louder Than War Book fo the Year ***You Must Get Them All is the first book to capture the full… read more

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30. Limited Edition of One

By: Steven John Wilson

4.23

Format: 320 pages, None

The King of Progressive Rock, a curator of talent and the reason behind Porcupine Tree's rise and f… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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31. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

By: Mick Herron

4.30

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.   In Slough House, the … read more

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"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

7 best-selling history books like Leave The Capital: A History Of Manchester Music In 13 Recordings by Paul Hanley

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I Swear I Was There

David Nolan

4.38

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One Summer: America, 1927

Bill Bryson

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

Chris Frantz

3.50

Transform Your Habits

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

4.38

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Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog

4.25

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Meantime

Frankie Boyle

3.54

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Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

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Alan Partridge

4.27

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