14 best-selling biography books like Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer by Bob Gruen

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Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

By: Bob Gruen

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

An action-packed memoir that takes readers on the road with rock and roll’s hardest-working photogr…

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1. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

By: Carrie Brownstein

3.83

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply persona… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Brownstein's Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I've always felt unclaimed."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"If someone didn’t feel included, if someone felt marginalised, they would form their own band, write their own fanzine, or just call you out on what they deemed racist or classist, sizeist, sexist, b…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I suppose we were better observers than communicators; we were all subjects to be worried over, complained about, even adored, but never quite people to be held or loved. There was an intellectual, a…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

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2. Armadale

By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins

3.94

Format: 721 pages, Paperback

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more

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"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

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3. Salt: A World History

By: Mark Kurlansky

4.11

Format: None pages,

From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more

Similar categories in Mark Kurlansky's Salt: A World History book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2) by James Ellroy

4. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)

By: James Ellroy

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more

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5. Face the Music: A Life Exposed

By: Paul Stanley

4.06

Format: None pages, ebook

In Face the Music, Paul Stanley--the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS--reveals fo… read more

Similar categories in Paul Stanley's Face the Music: A Life Exposed book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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6. I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie

By: Pamela Des Barres , Dave Navarro

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Des Barres's I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

7. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

By: Joseph J. Ellis

5.00

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

Following his subject from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Mon… read more

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8. M Train

By: Patti Smith

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, … read more

Similar categories in Patti Smith's M Train book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."

-Patti Smith, M Train

"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."

-Patti Smith, M Train

"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."

-Patti Smith, M Train

"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."

-Patti Smith, M Train

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9. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

Similar categories in Henry Winkler's Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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10. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

Similar categories in Max Marshall's Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Lyrics by Paul McCartney

11. The Lyrics

By: Paul McCartney

4.59

Format: 960 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Washington Post Notable Book Excerpted in The New Yorker A work of… read more

Similar categories in Paul McCartney's The Lyrics book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nina Simone's Gum by Warren  Ellis

12. 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

Similar categories in Warren Ellis's Nina Simone's Gum book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

13. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Island (Hidden Iceland, #2) by Ragnar Jónasson

14. The Island (Hidden Iceland, #2)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Four friends visit the island. But only three return.... Detective Inspector Hulda Herman… read more

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Cover of Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s by Alan Paul

15. Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s

By: Alan Paul

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul's in-depth narra… read more

Similar categories in Alan Paul's Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas

16. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

By: Dan Charnas

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more

Similar categories in Dan Charnas's Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."

-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

Cover of Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy by Jamie Raskin

17. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

By: Jamie Raskin

4.51

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the star… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Raskin's Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"If a person can grow through unthinkable trauma and loss, perhaps a nation may, too."

-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

"Memory requires active engagement with the complexities of the past. It is not an unthinking or passive process, like breathing or (for most people) sleeping. I have found that good memory, like good…"

-Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

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18. Olivia Newton-John. Don't Stop Believin

By: Newton John Olivia

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With candour, humour and warmth, legendary musician, actress, activis… read more

Similar categories in Newton John Olivia's Olivia Newton-John. Don't Stop Believin book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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19. Steel City Mafia: Blood, Betrayal and Pittsburgh’s Last Don (True Crime)

By: Paul N. Hodos

3.63

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

Pittsburgh's small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crow… read more

Similar categories in Paul N. Hodos's Steel City Mafia: Blood, Betrayal and Pittsburgh’s Last Don (True Crime) book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • nonfiction
Cover of Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer by Bob Gruen

20. Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

By: Bob Gruen

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

An action-packed memoir that takes readers on the road with rock and roll’s hardest-working photogr… read more

Similar categories in Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • photography
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond -- The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager by Mark Blake

21. Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond -- The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager

By: Mark Blake

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The authorized biography of the most notorious rock manager of all time, Peter Grant, best known fo… read more

Similar categories in Mark Blake's Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond -- The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager book and Bob Gruen's Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer

  • music
  • biography
  • nonfiction

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Carrie Brownstein

3.83

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Mark Kurlansky

4.11

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Paul Stanley

4.06

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4.40

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Nick Cave

3.80

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Nick Cave

3.95

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Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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4.25

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