Why Patti Smith Matters (Music Matters)
By: Caryn Rose
3.81
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpos…
Want to Read $ 16.20"For those of us who felt more comfortable around books than people, Smith made literature and reading not just desirable, but also implicit."-Caryn Rose, Why Patti Smith Matters (Music Matters)
"For those of us who felt more comfortable around books than people, Smith made literature and reading not just desirable, but also implicit."-Caryn Rose, Why Patti Smith Matters (Music Matters)
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1. Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
By: Chrissie Hynde
3.49
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Chrissie Hynde, for nearly four decades the singer/songwriter/ undisputed leader of the Pretenders,… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"After writing a song, there’s first a feeling of elation followed by the sinking feeling that it will never happen again, and you go back to thinking that you can't do it. It creates an ongoing feeli…"-Chrissie Hynde, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
"To address another human was one thing, but a singing voice was capable of so much more. Romance made you weak and love was about suffering. I wanted what the jazz musicians were looking for: the sup…"-Chrissie Hynde, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
"Nothing was going to compromise my freedom to walk the streets whenever, wherever and with whomever I wanted. I saw fame as being akin to living in a high-security prison and I didn’t want to go ther…"-Chrissie Hynde, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
2. Innocents
By: Cathy Coote
0.00
Format: 798 pages,
Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatom… read more
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3. Woolgathering
By: Patti Smith
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgatheringtells of a youngster finding herself as she lea… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
4. 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
- art
- history
- biography
- 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
5. In Between the Sheets
By: Ian McEwan
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seve… read more
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6. The Raincoats' The Raincoats
By: None
3.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1979, from the basement of a London squat, The Raincoats reinvented what punk could be. They had… read more
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7. Devotion
By: Patti Smith
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative … read more
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8. Girl in a Band
By: Kim Gordon
3.67
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more
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- music
- art
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
9. The Trip to Echo Spring
By: Olivia Laing
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip o… read more
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10. 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
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- music
- art
- biography
- 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
11. A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
By: Joanna Biggs
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times , The Week , Vulture , Elle, and The Mi… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,"-Joanna Biggs, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
12. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
13. 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
- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"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
14. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
By: Lorrie Moore
3.31
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more
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"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
15. 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
- art
- biography
- biography memoir
- 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
16. A Book of Days
By: Patti Smith
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more
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- music
- art
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
17. 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
- nonfiction
- history
18. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
19. Janis: Her Life and Music
By: Holly George-Warren
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of… read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
20. Eufori: En roman om Sylvia Plath
By: Elin Cullhed
3.52
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Eufori är en fantasi om Sylvia Plaths sista år i livet. I en rasande, böljande, bångstyrig text möt… read more
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21. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
By: Mark Hodkinson
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Mark Hodkinson grew up among dark satanic mills in a house with just one book: Folklore, Myths and … read more
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- music
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
22. Spitting Gold
By: Carmella Lowkis
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deliciously haunting debut for fans of Sarah Waters and Sarah Penner set in 19th-century Paris, b… read more
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23. Inverse Cowgirl
By: Alicia Roth Weigel
3.80
Format: 227 pages, Paperback
From a celebrated activist on the forefront of fighting for intersex representation and rights—and … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
24. I Fear My Pain Interests You
By: Stephanie LaCava
2.89
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A stylish and raw exploration of bodies, trauma and 1960s cinema Margot is the child of renowned… read more
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- music
25. Constellations
By: Sinéad Gleeson
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, … read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"Blood donation is that rare and uncomplicated incidence of a selfless good deed."-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
"Leaving the home on that last night, I kiss her hands. You were so important, I tell her. You were so loved"-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
"The pregnant body is not solely its owner's domain. In gestating another person you become public property."-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
"Hair has been used to define women racially, sexually, religiously. It makes them into temptresses: represents a troika of femininity, fertility, fuckability"-Sinéad Gleeson, Constellations
26. Why Patti Smith Matters (Music Matters)
By: Caryn Rose
3.81
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpos… read more
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- music
- art
- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"For those of us who felt more comfortable around books than people, Smith made literature and reading not just desirable, but also implicit."-Caryn Rose, Why Patti Smith Matters (Music Matters)
27. Scaffolding
By: Lauren Elkin
3.86
Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more
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28. Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women
By: Leanne McCormick
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The untold stories of generations of Irish women who saw their American dream become a nightmare - … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
29. I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
By: Nick Corasaniti
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebi… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
30. Sandinista!
By: Micajah Henley
3.96
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In 1979, the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua overthrew the Somoza dynasty and rep… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
31. Small Bomb at Dimperley
By: Lissa Evans
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But ‘home’ is Dimperl… read more
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