16 best-selling nonfiction books like Nothing's Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon by C.M. Kushins

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Nothing's Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon

By: C.M. Kushins

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Biography of legendary singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, spanning his nomadic youth and early recordi…

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1. Our Game

By: John Le Carré

3.70

Format: 414 pages, Mass Market Paperback

At forty-eight, Tim Cranmer is a secret servant in a premature retirement to deepest rural England.… read more

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"A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways."

-John Le Carré, Our Game

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2. Michael Jordan: The Life

By: Roland Lazenby

4.31

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of a legendary athleteThe Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. Michael Jordan is… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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3. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

By: Peter Biskind

4.12

Format: None pages,

This down-and-dirty romp through Hollywood in the 1970s introduces the young filmmakers--Coppola, S… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. The Natural

By: Bernard Malamud , Kevin Baker

4.12

Format: None pages,

The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new edition Introduction by Kevin B… read more

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5. VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)

By: Philip K. Dick

3.44

Format: 220 pages,

VALISis the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The … read more

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6. Fear of Music

By: Jonathan Lethem

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like eac… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

7. Carsick

By: John Waters

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdo John Waters is putting his l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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8. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon

By: Crystal Zevon

4.33

Format: 277 pages,

read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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9. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan

4.29

Format: 459 pages, Paperback

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Gullibility kills."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

10. March: Book Two (March, #2)

By: Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues! Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and on… read more

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11. Angle of Repose

By: Wallace Stegner

3.56

Format: None pages,

Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and g… read more

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12. The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)

By: John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen

3.98

Format: 240 pages,

TRAVIS McGEE He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knig… read more

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13. Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

2.96

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life… read more

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14. Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life

By: Steven Hyden

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of Amazon's Best Books of 2016 So Far Music critic Steven Hyden explores nineteen music rivalri… read more

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15. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more

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16. City Primeval

By: Elmore Leonard

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Clement Mansell, knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The crazed killer is back on the Det… read more

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17. The Damnation Game

By: Clive Barker

3.95

Format: 132 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There are things worse than death. There are games so seductively evil, so wondrously vile, no gamb… read more

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18. Donnybrook

By: Frank Bill

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Trade Paperback

The raw and as-insane-as-anticipated first novel from Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indi… read more

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19. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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20. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

By: Sean Carroll

4.07

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

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21. The Philosophy of Modern Song

By: Bob Dylan

3.80

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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22. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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23. Dead Man's Wake (Mike Bowditch, #14)

By: Paul Doiron

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Game Warden Mike Bowditch's engagement party is interrupted by the discovery of a gruesome double m… read more

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24. Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By: Steven Hyden

4.14

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A leading music journalist’s riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"One of the many musical distinctions of my lifetime that used to seem important and now is completely forgotten is the difference between “alternative"

-Steven Hyden, Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation

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25. His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon come… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland by Steven Hyden

26. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland

By: Steven Hyden

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album,  Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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27. A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

By: Ben Folds

4.03

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as "Brick," "You Don't… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon by James Campion

28. Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon

By: James Campion

4.15

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Warren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Nothing's Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon by C.M. Kushins

29. Nothing's Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon

By: C.M. Kushins

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Biography of legendary singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, spanning his nomadic youth and early recordi… read more

Similar categories in C.M. Kushins's Nothing's Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon book and C.M. Kushins's Nothing's Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • music biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn

30. Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones

By: Daniel Mendelsohn

4.05

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly betw… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

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