8 must-read music books like Suicide by Andi Coulter

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Suicide

By: Andi Coulter

3.75

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

New York City in the 1970s was an urban destitute, dirty, and dangerous. As the country collective…

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1. White Tears

By: Hari Kunzru

3.68

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most talented fiction writers at work today: two ambitious young musicians are draw… read more

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  • music
"I wanted to avoid slippage."

-Hari Kunzru, White Tears

"Fuck humanity, was my basic position at that point."

-Hari Kunzru, White Tears

"People always look aroused when they’re acting violently."

-Hari Kunzru, White Tears

"Let me be clear. I play two kinds of music. God's and the other kind."

-Hari Kunzru, White Tears

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2. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.57

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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3. Albert Angelo

By: B.S. Johnson

3.82

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

A failed love affair, the failure to find work as an architect, and the difficulties of substitute … read more

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4. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll

By: Peter Bebergal

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

This epic cultural and historical odyssey unearths the full influence of occult traditions on rock … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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6. A Very Easy Death

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

4.04

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly… read more

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"«A ella le gustaba la vida mundana y lo seguía alegremente»."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"«No se muere de haber nacido, ni de haber vivido, ni de vejez. Se muere de "algo"»."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

"Sorumlusu olmadığım halde, benim olan, hiçbir zaman da bağışlatamayacağım bir günahın, umutsuzluk içinde, cezasını çekiyordum."

-Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

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7. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain

4.19

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

8. Radiance

By: Catherynne M. Valente

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

Radianceis a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood--and solar system-… read more

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9. The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more

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10. Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division

By: Deborah Curtis , Jon Savage

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is an account of the mesmerising life and tragic death of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Divis… read more

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11. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

12. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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13. The Lottery and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more

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14. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

By: Jon Ronson

4.19

Format: 45 pages,

They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed on on the street toda… read more

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15. Trainspotting

By: Irvine Welsh , None

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more

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16. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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17. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

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18. The Pallbearers Club

By: Paul Tremblay

3.10

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship, with blo… read more

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19. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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20. After Sappho

By: Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more

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"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

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21. Tomb of Sand

By: Geetanjali Shree

3.70

Format: 739 pages, Paperback

An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more

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"Anything worth doing transcends borders."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

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22. Create Dangerously

By: Albert Camus

3.84

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a respo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars without dying, if possible."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"Perhaps there is no peace for an artist other than the peace found in the heat of combat."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"But now the artist is in the amphitheatre. Of necessity, his voice is not quite the same; it is not nearly so firm."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

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23. Faith, Hope and Carnage

By: Nick Cave

4.44

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

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24. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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25. Record Play Pause

By: Stephen Morris

4.38

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer 'Gritty coming-of-age… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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26. Strega

By: Johanne Lykke Holm

3.20

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Powerfully inventive and atmospheric, a modern gothic story of nine young women sent to work at a r… read more

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"Hun åbnede munden og smagte på den væske, som dryppede fra månen."

-Johanne Lykke Holm, Strega

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27. Limitarianism

By: Ingrid Robeyns

3.99

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinso… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

28. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

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29. Suicide

By: Andi Coulter

3.75

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

New York City in the 1970s was an urban destitute, dirty, and dangerous. As the country collective… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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30. 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

Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

31. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

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11 must-read nonfiction books like Suicide by Andi Coulter

Transform Your Habits

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Hanif Abdurraqib

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll

Peter Bebergal

4.10

Transform Your Habits

A Very Easy Death

Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

4.04

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12 must-read audiobook books like Record Play Pause by Stephen Morris

Transform Your Habits

Set the Boy Free

Johnny Marr

2.50

Transform Your Habits

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

Owen Jones

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

Alan Partridge

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Face It

Debbie Harry

3.61

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