Waiting to Derail: Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown, Alt-Country's Brilliant Wreck
By: Thomas O'Keefe
3.82
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Packed with behind-the-scenes road stories, and, yes, tales of rock star debauchery, Waiting to Der…
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1. Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements
By: Bob Mehr
4.55
Format: 488 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBased on a decade of research and reporting--as well as access to the Repl… read more
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2. Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)
By: Lee Child
4.19
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they… read more
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"I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence."-Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)
"It was an article of faith with NCOs [noncommissioned officers] that they were better than their officers. And they were usually right. Certainly I had been happy with mine. They had done plenty of g…"-Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)
3. Hello Sunshine
By: Ryan Adams
3.57
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"Ryan Adams writes with equal parts precision and recklessness; the blood he draws from the text is… read more
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4. Love Is a Mix Tape
By: Rob Sheffield
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning memoir, Rob Sheffield, a veteran rock and pop culture critic and staff writer for … read more
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5. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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6. Ryan Adams: Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown
By: David Menconi
4.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
Before he achieved his dream of being an internationally known rock personality, Ryan Adams had a b… read more
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7. Eating the Dinosaur
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.33
Format: 161 pages,
Chuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He's covered… read more
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8. High Fidelity
By: Nick Hornby
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more
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9. Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley
By: Timothy White
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The classic biography of reggae legend Bob Marley, updated and revised for the twenty-fifth anniver… read more
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10. Takedown (Scot Harvath, #5)
By: Brad Thor
4.35
Format: 255 pages,
July 4th weekend, New York City As thousands of holiday travelers make their way out of Manhattan, … read more
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11. Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark
By: Tamara Saviano
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2016 the Belmont Book Award, Sponsored by the International Country Music Conference For mo… read more
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12. Cheetah Chrome: A Dead Boy's Tale: From the Front Lines of Punk Rock
By: Legs McNeil , None
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Here is the autobiography of Cheetah Chrome, lead guitarist of the Dead Boys, one of the greatest p… read more
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13. Pimp (Max & Angela, #4)
By: Ken Bruen , Jason Starr
3.92
Format: 314 pages, ebook
Reteaming a decade after their award-nominated first collaboration, Bruen and Starr complete the sa… read more
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14. You Like It Darker
By: Stephen King
4.32
Format: 502 pages, Hardcover
From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more
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15. 3 Days to Live
By: James Patterson
3.52
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The people closest to you can be your most dangerous enemies in this heart-pounding collection of t… read more
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16. Lone Wolf (Orphan X, #9)
By: Gregg Hurwitz
4.37
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep und… read more
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17. Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
By: Bill O'Reilly
4.25
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in th… read more
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18. Set the Night on Fire
By: Robby Krieger
4.41
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
In his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone 's "100 Greatest Gu… read more
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19. 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
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"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
20. The Last Orphan (Orphan X #8)
By: Gregg Hurwitz
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan , the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when… read more
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"Don’t surround yourself with like-minded people. You’ll get limited or radicalized."-Gregg Hurwitz, The Last Orphan (Orphan X #8)
21. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
22. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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23. 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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24. Dark Horse (Orphan X, #7)
By: Gregg Hurwitz
4.37
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Gregg Hurwitz's New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging … read more
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"That is the awful, beautiful, sacrificial power of love. We sharpen ourselves against those we love in order to cut ourselves open and see what’s inside. Sometimes I wonder if wisdom is nothing more …"-Gregg Hurwitz, Dark Horse (Orphan X, #7)
"Women are fucking Swiss Army knives. Throw anything at them and they figure out which part of them to use to fix it, care for it, make it better. They can hear if a baby’s cough is just a cough, can …"-Gregg Hurwitz, Dark Horse (Orphan X, #7)
25. The Lost
By: Natasha Preston
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In the small town of Aurora, teens go missing all the time. But when one of Piper and Hazel's class… read more
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26. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music
By: Jeff Tweedy
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more
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27. Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
By: Jeff Tweedy
4.33
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
The singer, guitarist, and songwriter—best known for his work with Wilco—opens up about his past, h… read more
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"If you were me, which I am,"-Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
"The Chicago historian Studs Terkel asked Bob Dylan in the sixties about how he went about writing a song and trying to outdo himself, or at least being as good as the last song he wrote, and his resp…"-Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
"As we grow, we learn to evaluate and judge, to navigate the world with some discretion, and then we turn on ourselves – creating can't just be for the sake of creating anymore. It has to be good, or …"-Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
28. Devil in a Coma
By: Mark Lanegan
3.92
Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition
One morning in March 2021 with the second wave of infections ripping through Ireland where he was n… read more
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"I didn't leave a trace of myself with them, but they stained me."-Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma
"I've never gone to bed with any monsters, I only woke up with a few dozen or so."-Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma
"To avoid paying debts is to ask for trouble, I've learned that much in my time here."-Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma
"Each and every time I walked out into the dark, I only ever came part of the way back."-Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma
29. Pandamonium!: How Not To Run A Record Label
By: Simon Williams
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY A Virgin Radio Bo… read more
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30. Maybe We'll Make It: A Memoir (American Music Series)
By: Margo Price
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
When Margo Price was nineteen years old, she dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to becom… read more
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31. Waiting to Derail: Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown, Alt-Country's Brilliant Wreck
By: Thomas O'Keefe
3.82
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Packed with behind-the-scenes road stories, and, yes, tales of rock star debauchery, Waiting to Der… read more
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