11 must-read music books like Hell Is Round the Corner by Tricky

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Hell Is Round the Corner

By: Tricky

4.07

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

'Bookended by tragedy, shot through with violence, ultimately uplifting' Guardian 'An insight into …

If you liked the music plot in Hell Is Round the Corner by Tricky , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Trout Fishing in America

By: Richard Brautigan

3.76

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vi… read more

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"His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

Cover of Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz

2. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

By: David Wojnarowicz

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Cover of Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2) by Elmore Leonard

3. Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

By: Elmore Leonard

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie… read more

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  • crime
"He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they forgot or didn't care, and took of…"

-Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

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4. Morvern Callar

By: Alan Warner

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town … read more

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5. The Sea, the Sea

By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more

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6. My Shit Life So Far

By: Frankie Boyle

3.59

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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7. Skeleton Crew

By: Stephen King

3.15

Format: None pages,

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book . In the intro… read more

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8. Transit

By: Rachel Cusk

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Revi… read more

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9. The Rats (Rats, #1)

By: James Herbert

2.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time - suddenly,… read more

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10. Illmatic

By: None

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nas was playing a role on Illmatic, even if it was himself. By constructing this persona, Nas not o… read more

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11. Transformations

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Anne Sexton , None

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The fairy tale-based works of the tortured confessional poet, whose honesty and wit in the face of … read more

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12. Endtroducing.....

By: Eliot Wilder

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

What resonated about Endtroducing... when it was released in 1996, and what makes it still resonate… read more

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13. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

By: China Miéville

3.82

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months … read more

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14. Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994

By: David Hepworth

4.25

Format: 512 pages, ebook

As heard on Radcliffe and Maconie, Danny Baker and Simon Mayo 'Fascinating from start to finish' Si… read more

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15. In the Flesh (Books of Blood #5)

By: Clive Barker

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Terrifying and forbidding, subversive and insightful, Clive Barker's groundbreaking stories revolut… read more

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16. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • crime
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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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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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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19. Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

By: Louis Theroux

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, pr… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams

20. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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21. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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22. Kudos

By: Rachel Cusk

3.89

Format: 236 pages, ebook

En un avión, una mujer escucha a su vecino de vuelo contarle la historia de su vida: su trabajo, su… read more

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"Perhaps it follows, he said, that people who live in the sun don't take responsibility for their own happiness."

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"We invent these systems with the aim of ensuring fairness, she said, and yet the human situation is so complex that it always evades our attempts to encompass it."

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"You asked me earlier,' she said to me, 'whether I believed that justice was merely a personal illusion. I don't have the answer to that,' she said, 'but I know that it is to be feared, feared in ever…"

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

"We live with an almost superstitious belief in our own differences, she said, and Luis has shown that those differences are not the result of some divine mystery but are merely the consequence of our…"

-Rachel Cusk, Kudos

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23. Nina Simone's Gum

By: Warren Ellis

4.26

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina S… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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24. Orlam

By: P.J. Harvey

4.06

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and profound narrative poem set in a magic realist version of the West Country by music… read more

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  • music
Cover of Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life by John O'Connell

25. Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life

By: John O'Connell

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Part epic reading guide and part biography of a music legend, Bowie’s Bookshelf is a collection of … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Aging changes your relationship with history."

-John O'Connell, Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life

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26. Nonbinary: A Memoir

By: Genesis P-Orridge

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"If everything is an illusion, then our senses are sacred. Touching is sacred."

-Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

"We have to think of something new in order to wake people up. Because at the moment people have become so blasé. How do you get through this miasma of complacency and make people listen? How do we br…"

-Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

Cover of Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations with Coil by Nick Soulsby

27. Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations with Coil

By: Nick Soulsby

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Core members of the legendary British experimental band Coil tell its story in the present-tense, a… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Hell Is Round the Corner by Tricky

28. Hell Is Round the Corner

By: Tricky

4.07

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

'Bookended by tragedy, shot through with violence, ultimately uplifting' Guardian 'An insight into … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
  • crime
Cover of The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk

29. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more

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"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

Cover of The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family by Olivia Williams

30. The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family

By: Olivia Williams

3.61

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed bir… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Massive Attack: Out Of The Comfort Zone by Melissa Chemam

31. Massive Attack: Out Of The Comfort Zone

By: Melissa Chemam

3.76

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Author Melissa Chemam's in-depth study of the influences that led to the formation of the Wild Bunc… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

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Transform Your Habits

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

David Wojnarowicz

4.48

Transform Your Habits

My Shit Life So Far

Frankie Boyle

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

Lucy Worsley

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir

Mark Lanegan

4.35

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Transform Your Habits

The Death of Bunny Munro

Nick Cave

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Sick Bag Song

Nick Cave

3.95

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog

4.25

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