10 must-read biography memoir books like Warhol by Blake Gopnik

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Warhol

By: Blake Gopnik

4.08

Format: 962 pages, Hardcover

When critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the Pop artist was happy to prese…

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1. John Lennon: The Life

By: Philip Norman

4.04

Format: 851 pages, Hardcover

For more than a quarter century, biographer Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has … read more

Similar categories in Philip Norman's John Lennon: The Life book and Blake Gopnik's Warhol

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"You know...give peace a chance, not shoot people for peace. All we need is love. I believe it. it's damned hard but I absolutely believe it. We're not the first to say 'Imagine no countries' or 'Give…"

-Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life

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2. Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

By: Mary V. Dearborn

3.67

Format: 230 pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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3. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)

By: Robert A. Caro

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill… read more

Similar categories in Robert A. Caro's The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1) book and Blake Gopnik's Warhol

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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4. POPism: The Warhol Sixties

By: Andy Warhol , Pat Hackett

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPismis Warhol's personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1… read more

Similar categories in Andy Warhol's POPism: The Warhol Sixties book and Blake Gopnik's Warhol

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction

5. The Years of Rice and Salt

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.73

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occu… read more

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6. And the Pursuit of Happiness

By: Maira Kalman

4.06

Format: None pages,

Inspired by the 2008 elections, artist Maira Kalman set out across these great states with pen and … read more

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7. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

By: Annie Proulx

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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8. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

By: Cynthia Carr

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Lou Reed: The King of New York

By: Will Hermes

4.23

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more

Similar categories in Will Hermes's Lou Reed: The King of New York book and Blake Gopnik's Warhol

  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See by Bianca Bosker

10. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

By: Bianca Bosker

4.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more

Similar categories in Bianca Bosker's Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See book and Blake Gopnik's Warhol

  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."

-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

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11. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

By: Rebecca Boyle

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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12. The Story of Art Without Men

By: Katy Hessel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir

By: Weiwei Ai

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In Ai Weiwei's widely anticipated memoir, "one of the most important artists working in the world … read more

Similar categories in Weiwei Ai's 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir book and Blake Gopnik's Warhol

  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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14. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

By: Olivia Laing

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Laing's Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency book and Blake Gopnik's Warhol

  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

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15. 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

Similar categories in Lol Tolhurst's Goth: A History book and Blake Gopnik's Warhol

  • cultural
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. How We Live Is How We Die

By: Pema Chodron

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more

Similar categories in Pema Chodron's How We Live Is How We Die book and Blake Gopnik's Warhol

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

By: Bill Maher

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more

Similar categories in Bill Maher's What This Comedian Said Will Shock You book and Blake Gopnik's Warhol

  • cultural
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain

By: Charles Leerhsen

3.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, “unvarnished” ( The New York Times ), “engrossing” ( The Guardian ), “gritty, well… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir

By: Owen Elliot-Kugell

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more

Similar categories in Owen Elliot-Kugell's My Mama, Cass: A Memoir book and Blake Gopnik's Warhol

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel

20. Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

By: Mary Gabriel

4.52

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Warhol

By: Blake Gopnik

4.08

Format: 962 pages, Hardcover

When critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the Pop artist was happy to prese… read more

Similar categories in Blake Gopnik's Warhol book and Blake Gopnik's Warhol

  • cultural
  • art history
  • art
  • biography
  • history
  • lgbt
  • art design
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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4.04

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Annie Proulx

3.65

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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

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4.27

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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4.46

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4.23

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Rob Harvilla

3.92

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Thurston Moore

3.81

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