5 best-selling nonfiction books like The James Dean Story by Ronald Martinetti

Cover of The James Dean Story by Ronald Martinetti

The James Dean Story

By: Ronald Martinetti

3.87

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

A legend in his lifetime, James Dean became a cult hero after his death at age 24. Was he the monum…

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Cover of Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum

1. Dead Poets Society

By: N.H. Kleinbaum

4.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since thei… read more

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"Chaos screaming, chaos dreaming, gotta do more, gotta be more!"

-N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

"Carpe Diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."

-N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

"That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."

-N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

"Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone. "

-N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

Cover of James Dean Is Not Dead by Morrissey

2. James Dean Is Not Dead

By: Morrissey

3.70

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Before The Smiths and in-between musical stints, Morrissey wrote on popular culture. He published t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Reginald Snell

3. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Cover of The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Burton Pike

4. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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5. Der Sandmann

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Unter Hoffmanns Werken hat Der Sandmann das weitaus grosste Interesse gefunden. Sein Grundproblem i… read more

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6. Surviving James Dean

By: William Bast

4.54

Format: None pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Martin Gardner

7. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Martin Gardner

4.06

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "Because I'm not myself, you see." When A… read more

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"Curiouser and curiouser."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

"Go on till you come to the end; then stop."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

"You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

"I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

8. The Vegas Diaries

By: Holly Madison

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

After leaving the Playboy mansion and Hugh Hefner's harem of 'girlfriends', Holly Madison was deter… read more

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9. Just Kids

By: Patti Smith

4.21

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-befor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"There's always new stuff, that's for sure."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

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10. Paradise Rot

By: Jenny Hval

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more

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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"

-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

Cover of Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

11. Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first bo… read more

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"I am nothing, and not even that."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"I don't want to die without any scars."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Maybe we should always assume the worst."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Cover of The James Dean Story by Ronald Martinetti

12. The James Dean Story

By: Ronald Martinetti

3.87

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

A legend in his lifetime, James Dean became a cult hero after his death at age 24. Was he the monum… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Martinetti's The James Dean Story book and Ronald Martinetti's The James Dean Story

  • nonfiction
  • biography

11 best-selling audiobook books like Just Kids by Patti Smith

Transform Your Habits

The Idiot

Elif Batuman

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Girl in a Band

Kim Gordon

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Just Kids

Patti Smith

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Bunny

Mona Awad

3.50

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