17 must-read memoir books like A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival by John Lingan

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A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

By: John Lingan

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of Creedence Clearwater Revival, exploring the band's legendary rise to fa…

If you liked the memoir plot in A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival by John Lingan , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music by John Fogerty

1. Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music

By: John Fogerty

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The long-awaited memoir from John Fogerty, the legendary singer-songwriter and … read more

Similar categories in John Fogerty's Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
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2. Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football

By: John U. Bacon

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Endzonetells the story of how college football's most successful, richest and respected program alm… read more

Similar categories in John U. Bacon's Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

3. Kiss and Sell: The Making of a Supergroup

By: None

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Kiss and Sell is a riveting account of the intersecting worlds of music and commerce, as viewed fro… read more

Similar categories in None's Kiss and Sell: The Making of a Supergroup book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

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4. 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

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • 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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5. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

By: James Kaplan

4.35

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more

Similar categories in James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Philosophy of Modern Song

By: Bob Dylan

3.80

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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7. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

Similar categories in Keith O'Brien's Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen

8. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

Similar categories in Nick de Semlyen's The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus

9. Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

By: Greil Marcus

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penet… read more

Similar categories in Greil Marcus's Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by Warren Zanes

10. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

By: Warren Zanes

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more

Similar categories in Warren Zanes's Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

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11. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

Similar categories in Matt Singer's Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir by Sly Stone

12. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir

By: Sly Stone

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more

Similar categories in Sly Stone's Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All by Josh Ritter

13. The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

By: Josh Ritter

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, a lyrical, sweeping novel about a young boy's coming-of-age dur… read more

Similar categories in Josh Ritter's The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • audiobook
"The human heart can hold almost exactly one cup of hot tea. Did you know that? It holds roughly the same amount of milk, of course, and can accommodate sixty minnows if one has a mind to catch and pa…"

-Josh Ritter, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

"People who tell you they're disappointed in you are full of the worst kind of shit and you can always ignore them. The stuff they say only means that you're doing what you want to do, not what they w…"

-Josh Ritter, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

"I know how memory works. I know what happens to it. Some people pine for the past so bad that if you give them even a glimpse of an ear they'll grab hold of it and hang on, telling you stories about …"

-Josh Ritter, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

"God doesn't build shit. Yeah, He creates stuff - the World, the mountain ranges, all that - but any fuck with one eye left in his head will tell you that He doesn't spend much time fixing up all His …"

-Josh Ritter, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

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14. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

Similar categories in Adam Higginbotham's Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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15. The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife

By: Brad Balukjian

4.00

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with somethi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Charlie's Good Tonight

By: Paul Sexton

4.12

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The fully authorized and official biography of legendary Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, one … read more

Similar categories in Paul Sexton's Charlie's Good Tonight book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Joyful Recollections of Trauma

By: Paul Scheer

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more

Similar categories in Paul Scheer's Joyful Recollections of Trauma book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

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18. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir

By: Owen Elliot-Kugell

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more

Similar categories in Owen Elliot-Kugell's My Mama, Cass: A Memoir book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong by Katie Gee Salisbury

19. Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong

By: Katie Gee Salisbury

3.99

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of H… read more

Similar categories in Katie Gee Salisbury's Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland by Steven Hyden

20. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland

By: Steven Hyden

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album,  Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of They Just Seem a Little Weird: How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll by Doug Brod

21. They Just Seem a Little Weird: How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll

By: Doug Brod

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A veteran music journalist explores how four legendary rock bands—KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Being in Aerosmith," Brad Whitford has said, "was like walking into a dogfight and both dogs bite you."

-Doug Brod, They Just Seem a Little Weird: How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll

"[Brynn] Arens met Rick Nielsen when Flipp played the Minneapolis club First Avenue in the mid-90's. "Rick got up - when he was not in the best of shape, he was drinking a lot - and jammed with us," A…"

-Doug Brod, They Just Seem a Little Weird: How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll

Cover of Barkley: A Biography by Timothy Bella

22. Barkley: A Biography

By: Timothy Bella

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

* A Good Morning America Buzz Book* *A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2022* The definitive biogra… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Bella's Barkley: A Biography book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond by Geezer Butler

23. Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

By: Geezer Butler

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Being in Black Sabbath felt like being an actor in a soap opera. It’s a minor miracle all four of the original lineup survived beyond the 1970s, let alone that we’re all still here. Along the way, we…"

-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

"Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age,…"

-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

Cover of The Big East: Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History by Dana O'Neil

24. The Big East: Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History

By: Dana O'Neil

4.29

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in colleg… read more

Similar categories in Dana O'Neil's The Big East: Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Chuck Berry: An American Life by R.J. Smith

25. Chuck Berry: An American Life

By: R.J. Smith

4.11

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and roll Best kn… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard by Joan E. Strassmann

26. Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard

By: Joan E. Strassmann

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A one-of-a-kind guide to birding locally that encourages readers to slow down and notice the specta… read more

Similar categories in Joan E. Strassmann's Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

27. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Train Runnin': Our Story of The Doobie Brothers by Tom  Johnston

28. Long Train Runnin': Our Story of The Doobie Brothers

By: Tom Johnston

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, the incredible true story of the legendary band, the Doobie Brothers, written b… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah  Brooks

29. The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

By: Sarah Brooks

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Piranesi and The Midnight Library, a stunning historical fantasy novel set on a grand e… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Brooks's The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • audiobook
Cover of A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival by John Lingan

30. A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

By: John Lingan

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of Creedence Clearwater Revival, exploring the band's legendary rise to fa… read more

Similar categories in John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival book and John Lingan's A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left by Robyn Hitchcock

31. 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left

By: Robyn Hitchcock

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The great eccentric of British psychedelia—beloved by everyone from Led Zeppelin and R.E.M. to the … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

28 Top audiobook books like A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival by John Lingan

Transform Your Habits

Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football

John U. Bacon

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan

3.80

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24 Best audiobook books like Barkley: A Biography by Timothy Bella

Transform Your Habits

Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson

Kent Babb

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton

Jeff Pearlman

4.75

Transform Your Habits

LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

Alan Shipnuck

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Joe Posnanski

4.56

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