9 Top biography books like Bang Bang Crash by Nic Brown

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Bang Bang Crash

By: Nic Brown

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An insightful memoir-in-essays about a rock-and-roll drummer who risks his successful career to pur…

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1. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

By: J. Drew Lanham

4.23

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. Al… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"In driving creatures to extinction and decimating habitats without so much as a backward glance or lingering regret, human hands create disharmony. That, to me, is evil."

-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

"To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad-news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to insp…"

-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

"But on far too many Sundays I was pulled from the roaming rhythm and natural worship that truly fulfilled me. A church Sunday meant that God was suddenly confined to something that seemed much less m…"

-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

"I am a man in love with nature. I am an eco-addict, consuming everything that the outdoors offers its all-you-can-sense, seasonal buffet. I am a wildling, born of forests and fields and more comforta…"

-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

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2. The Half-Mammals of Dixie

By: George Singleton

4.53

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

This second collection of short stories by a bright star in Southern fiction showcases a town so ti… read more

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3. Native Speaker

By: Chang-rae Lee

3.60

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire… read more

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4. This Boy's Life

By: Tobias Wolff

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff… read more

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5. 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
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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6. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. Games and Rituals

By: Katherine Heiny

3.82

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous and edgy to … read more

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  • audiobook
"Some people say that migraines feel like bad hangovers. And some people say that migraines feel like headaches that pulse. And some people say that migraines feel like stomach flu in your head. But w…"

-Katherine Heiny, Games and Rituals

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8. All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

4.22

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It takes courage to live through heartbreak. Breathing is n o small feat"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"I will stretch my hands up to the sky, to say, “I am afraid but I will try,"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"While we are trying to make sense of things, may we learn to make peace with things."

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"She no longer had the desire to bend herself into the frame of photographs where she was unwelcome"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

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9. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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10. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

By: Nick Hornby

3.66

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."

-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

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11. Himawari House

By: Harmony Becker

4.37

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Bilingual Edition in English and Japanese Living in a new country is no walk in the park. Whe… read more

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12. Choosing to Run: A Memoir

By: Des Linden

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Featuring both the story of an historic, unforgettable win and insight into the life of an indelibl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

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  • music
  • audiobook
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14. The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I’ll Never Understand

By: Michaele Weissman

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

How do partners in long-lasting relationships live together without driving each other up a wall? A… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I believe all of us, no matter who we are, where we come from, are imprinted by the wounds - and the occasional wonders - of the past."

-Michaele Weissman, The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I’ll Never Understand

"Immersing myself in the lyrics of Latvian folksongs, I sensed something else may be at work: A melancholy related to homesickness. A longing for an idealized home that is perpetually out of reach."

-Michaele Weissman, The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I’ll Never Understand

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15. The Secret Gate: A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

4.30

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

The incredible true story of a breathtaking rescue in the frenzied final hours of the U.S. evacuati… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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16. Bianca (Stahlecker Selections)

By: Eugenia Leigh

4.65

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

“I thought I forgave you,” Eugenia Leigh tells the specter of her father in Bianca. “Then I took ro… read more

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17. Bang Bang Crash

By: Nic Brown

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An insightful memoir-in-essays about a rock-and-roll drummer who risks his successful career to pur… read more

Similar categories in Nic Brown's Bang Bang Crash book and Nic Brown's Bang Bang Crash

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • audiobook
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18. All of Us Together in the End

By: Matthew Vollmer

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

All Of Us Together In The End is a lyrical examination of transformation after loss, by a writer th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. Three Pianos: A Memoir

By: Andrew McMahon

4.40

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From beloved indie musician Andrew McMahon comes a searingly honest and beautifully written memoir … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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21. The Song of Everything: A Poet's Exploration of South Carolina's State Parks

By: Glenis Redmond

4.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Join Glenis Redmond, Greenville’s first Poet Laureate, on a poetic journey through South Carolina's… read more

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

4.60

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Katherine Heiny

3.82

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Morgan Harper Nichols

4.22

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Quentin Tarantino

4.06

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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

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4.54

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Salman Rushdie

4.10

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