Live Through This: American Rock Music in the Nineties
By: Everett True
3.81
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Nirvana almost single-handedly brought grunge into the popular consciousness with their seminal alb…
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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
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- 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
2. Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
By: Sara Marcus
3.97
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of Riot Grrrl, the radical feminist uprising tha… read more
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- nonfiction
"i want to scream because no matter how much I scream, no one will listen."-Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
"The girls couldn't block out these things and they didn't want to; they wanted to stay acutely aware of the war against them so they could fight back."-Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
3. Stonemouth
By: Iain Banks
3.79
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After 5 years in exile his presence is required at the funer… read more
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"This is so much like the old days. And, again, I have mixed feelings. In some ways it's good and comfortable to be fitting straight back in like I've never been away, but, on the other hand, I'm gett…"-Iain Banks, Stonemouth
4. The Rotters' Club
By: Jonathan Coe
3.96
Format: 415 pages, Paperback
Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescen… read more
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"...he was the proud owner of a quite colossal member, which on the many awestruck occasions it had been exposed to public view had been compared variously to a giant frankfurter, an overfed python, a…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"ja niin elämässäni kaikki tuntuu tänään muuttuneen, jopa kaupunki muuttaa muotoaan ympärilläni, minä istun Paradise Placella ja katson Muistojen saliin päin ja yhtäkkiä kaikki viittaa minuun ja Cicel…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"They sat and drank their pints. The tables in which their faces were dimly reflected were dark brown, the darkest brown, the colour of Bournville chocolate. The walls were a lighter brown, the colour…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
"Hey - Duggie! Duggie! Duggie!" He came running up to me, sparkler in hand. I felt like sticking one on him, the cheeky bastard. Nobody called me Duggie. He held the sparkler up in front of my face an…"-Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club
5. Men Without Women
By: Haruki Murakami , None
3.75
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, in… read more
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"Tobacco’s a killer,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"Crying for someone else is nothing to apologize about,"-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
"That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around."-Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
6. The Green Mile
By: Stephen King
4.20
Format: 42 pages,
At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers a… read more
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7. The Girls
By: Emma Cline
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thou… read more
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8. 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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"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
9. Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
By: Neil Young
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
For the first time, legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist Neil Young offers a kaleidoscopic v… read more
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10. Breath
By: Tim Winton
3.19
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one's l… read more
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11. Scar Tissue
By: Larry Sloman , Anthony Kiedis
3.00
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Now in paperback, the New York Timesbestseller by one of rock's most provocative figures Scar Tissu… read more
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12. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
By: Viv Albertine
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
The guitarist for seminal female punk group The Slits recounts playing with Sid Vicious, touring wi… read more
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"It’s true the good die young."-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
"I grew up with John Lennon at my side, like a big brother."-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
"Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke."-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
"I think most people in long marriages have a touch of Stockholm Syndrome"-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
13. Born to Run
By: Bruce Springsteen
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The e… read more
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14. Foe
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to --and in so doing, d… read more
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15. Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors
By: John Densmore
4.25
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
Here is the book that Rolling Stone called "the first Doors biography that feels like it was writte… read more
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16. Spaceships Over Glasgow
By: Stuart Braithwaite
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for… read more
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17. Killing Commendatore
By: Haruki Murakami
3.91
Format: 681 pages, Hardcover
The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 In Killing… read more
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"The morning is not my time. Darkness is my friend. A vacuum is my breath. I must be saying goodbye soon."-Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore
"It seems to me that reality itself has a screw loose somewhere. That's why I try to keep at least myself in line as much as possible."-Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore
"But the forecasters and media types were clever - they never used vague words like "maybe." No, they stuck with convenient terms for which no one could be held accountable, like "probability of preci…"-Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore
"There is a point is everybody's life where they need a major transformation. And when that time comes you have to grab it by the tail. Grab it hard, and never let go. There are some people who are ab…"-Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore
18. Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir
By: Mark Lanegan
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Sou… read more
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19. The Young Team
By: Graeme Armstrong
4.49
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife cult… read more
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20. Acid for the Children
By: Flea
4.08
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more
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"Bein famous don't mean shit"-Flea, Acid for the Children
"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."-Flea, Acid for the Children
"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"-Flea, Acid for the Children
21. Who They Was
By: Gabriel Krauze
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the univ… read more
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"It's a terrible thing trying to love someone who can't teach you anything."-Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was
22. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
By: Dan Ozzi
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well tol… read more
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- nonfiction
23. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
By: Dave Grohl
4.47
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questiona… read more
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"I'm bad enough at rolling joints, how could I successfully roll a child?"-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
"What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create."-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
"I stopped trying to understand fate and destiny a long time ago, but dumb luck seems to be my specialty."-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
"There is no love like a Mother's love. It is life's greatest song. We are all indebted to the women who have given us life. For without them, there would be no music."-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
24. Tenement Kid
By: Bobby Gillespie
4.02
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Gillespie’s vivid and evocative mem… read more
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"I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter."-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid
"When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great…"-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid
"Those painful childhood memories we bury, that some of us try and drown out with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, all the usual crutches and distractions. These childhood experiences are going to be re…"-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid
"I began to question the world and other people from a young age. I suppose that gave me a sense of emotional distance, a lack of trust in future friendships and relationships; I would assume a friend…"-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid
25. Live Through This: American Rock Music in the Nineties
By: Everett True
3.81
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Nirvana almost single-handedly brought grunge into the popular consciousness with their seminal alb… read more
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26. Alan Partridge: Every Ruddy Word : All the Scripts: From Radio to TV and Back
By: Peter Baynham
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alan Partridge is Britain's most remarkable broadcaster. He's scaled the giddy heights of a short-l… read more
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"I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out…"-Peter Baynham, Alan Partridge: Every Ruddy Word : All the Scripts: From Radio to TV and Back
