6 Top biography books like Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series) by Ian Nathan

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Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series)

By: Ian Nathan

4.13

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The definitive reference for all Wes Anderson fans.  Loaded with rich imagery and detailed analysi…

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1. How Music Works

By: David Byrne

4.00

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lif… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Performers try harder."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

"You might say that the universe plays the blues."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

"The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

"There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

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2. Equus (Penguin Plays)

By: Peter Shaffer

3.91

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In "Equus," which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic… read more

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"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave."

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?"

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!"

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

3. The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel

By: Anne Washburn , Matt Zoller Seitz

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This companion to the New York Timesbestselling book The Wes Anderson Collection takes readers behi… read more

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  • media tie in
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • film

4. The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 12: 1973-1974

By: Charles M. Schulz , Seth , Billie Jean King

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The twelfth volume of Peanutsfeatures a number of tennis strips and several extended sequences invo… read more

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5. The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 4: 1957-1958

By: Charles M. Schulz , Jonathan Franzen

4.19

Format: 45 pages, Hardcover

As the 1950s close down, Peanutsdefinitively enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to … read more

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6. Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey

By: Richard Ayoade

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Would it be too much to say that my somewhat-wry prose has changed the way the film community think… read more

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7. La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

By: Panayotis Pascot

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

« Ce livre me fait peur. Le processus a été douloureux. Mon père nous a annoncé qu’il n’allait pas … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Je crois que j’ai une mémoire de la souffrance qui s’efface, par sympathie pour moi-même peut-être, pour avancer avec des valises plus légères"

-Panayotis Pascot, La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

"Daumesnil, quartier Ehpad, rempli de vieux de droite qui attendent que la mort (qui est clairement de gauche puisqu’elle attrape tout le monde sans distinction) vienne les choper dans leur sommeils"

-Panayotis Pascot, La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

"À quoi ça sert de faire mon lit, je vais le défaire ce soir ? Si on laisse cette pensée gagner on est foutu, c’est l’essence même de la vie de faire pour défaire. Après c’est pourquoi voir mes amis, …"

-Panayotis Pascot, La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

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8. Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports

By: Guy Lawson

3.96

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

The inside story of disgraced fraudster turned undercover FBI informant Marty Blazer and the greate… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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10. Bluebeard's Castle

By: Anna Biller

3.22

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

A subversive take on the famous French fairy tale from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, an… read more

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11. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

By: Michael Schulman

4.09

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
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12. Archive

By: Sofia Coppola

4.84

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Archive is the first book by Sofia Coppola, covering the entirety of her singular and influential c… read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • film
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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13. Accidentally Wes Anderson

By: Wally Koval

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

THE  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER A visual adventure of Wes Anderson proportions, authorized by th… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • film
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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14. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

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15. Barbie: The Screenplay

By: Greta Gerwig

4.74

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Barbie's perfect life spirals into existential chaos, prompting a soul-searching journey that chall… read more

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  • film
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16. Twentieth Anniversary Screening

By: Jeff Strand

3.86

Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction! This mockumentary-style dark comedy recou… read more

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17. Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series)

By: Ian Nathan

4.13

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The definitive reference for all Wes Anderson fans.  Loaded with rich imagery and detailed analysi… read more

Similar categories in Ian Nathan's Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series) book and Ian Nathan's Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series)

  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • photography
  • collections
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
Cover of Siege (The Boy in the Iron Box, #5) by Guillermo del Toro

18. Siege (The Boy in the Iron Box, #5)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.07

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

The mercenaries set an explosive scheme in motion to blow this bad dream to smithereens. But in par… read more

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Cover of Risen (The Boy in the Iron Box, #4) by Guillermo del Toro

19. Risen (The Boy in the Iron Box, #4)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.02

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

What has been awakened is unbound. The Boy is getting his first taste of freedom. As their comrades… read more

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20. Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film

By: Helen O'Hara

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that explores women's roles - bot… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • film

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4.00

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3.96

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4.16

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