6 best-selling history books like Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today by Simon Reynolds

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Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today

By: Simon Reynolds

3.89

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From celebrated music journalist Simon Reynolds, a collection of thought-provoking essays that expl…

If you liked the history plot in Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today by Simon Reynolds , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

By: Lol Tolhurst

4.16

Format: 1342 pages, Hardcover

"On our first day of school, Robert and I stood at the designated stop at Hevers Avenue with our mo… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. 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
  • audiobook
"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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3. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By: Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

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5. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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6. Sonic Life: A Memoir

By: Thurston Moore

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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7. The Rocking Chair Prophet

By: Matthew Kelly

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THERE IS A VOICE WITHIN YOU. Listening to that voice is the difference between happiness and mis… read more

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"Can you say it?" Daniel prompted. Samantha sighed. "I'm not what has happened to me," she mumbled. It was barely audible. "I can hear in your voice that you don't believe it yet," he said. And that's…"

-Matthew Kelly, The Rocking Chair Prophet

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8. Goth: A History

By: Lol Tolhurst

3.68

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Following his memoir  Cured , a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a mi… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies that Broke Television

By: Peter Biskind

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

We are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called Peak TV, in which television, in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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10. Dateable: Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down While Chronically Ill and Disabled

By: Jessica Slice

4.79

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A much-needed guide to dating--from apps to hooking up, sex, long-term relationships and more--from… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. A Pair of Wings

By: Carole Hopson

4.29

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woma… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2)

By: Mark Billingham

4.41

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from m… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today by Simon Reynolds

13. Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today

By: Simon Reynolds

3.89

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From celebrated music journalist Simon Reynolds, a collection of thought-provoking essays that expl… read more

Similar categories in Simon Reynolds's Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today book and Simon Reynolds's Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today

  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

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15. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

By: Jasmin Graham

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Windsor Conspiracy: A Novel of the Crown, a Conspiracy, and the Duchess of Windsor

By: Georgie Blalock

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl, delivers an enchantingly reimagine… read more

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17. Swap and Smell the Roses (The Swap, #1)

By: Karen Booth

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When Willow Moore’s lifelong dream of music stardom goes bust she’s burned out enough to need drast… read more

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18. The Melancholy of Untold History

By: Minsoo Kang

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold Hi… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. Calder Country

By: Janet Dailey

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

1920s, Blue Moon, Montana. The small cattle town is alight with the excitement of cars, telephones,… read more

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20. California Dreaming

By: Noa Silver

4.15

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Having grown up on stories of her mother's wild youth in California, Elena Berg relocated from New … read more

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21. Perfume's GAME (33 1/3 Japan)

By: Patrick St. Michel

4.15

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Released in 2008, J-pop trio Perfume's GAME shot to the top of Japanese music charts and turned the… read more

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