5 Best biography books like Backstreet Mom: A Mother's Tale of Backstreet Boy AJ McLean's Rise to Fame, Struggle with Addiction, and Ultimate Triumph by Denise I. McLean

Cover of Backstreet Mom: A Mother's Tale of Backstreet Boy AJ McLean's Rise to Fame, Struggle with Addiction, and Ultimate Triumph by Denise I. McLean

Backstreet Mom: A Mother's Tale of Backstreet Boy AJ McLean's Rise to Fame, Struggle with Addiction, and Ultimate Triumph

By: Denise I. McLean

4.07

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Featured on "Oprah" and "Good Morning America. Backstreet Mom is the story of one single mother's …

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1. The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

By: John Seabrook

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"An utterly satisfying examination of the business of popular music." ―Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"You can get in a car in Maine and drive all the way to California and hear the same Top 40 songs on the same chain broadcasters,"

-John Seabrook, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

"Connection, he explained, was the essence of pop music, according to his boss, Jimmy Iovine: “Jimmy always says it’s all about the connection between the artist and the fans,"

-John Seabrook, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

"They told me exactly how it worked, the marketing of it. Our target market was always going to be young teenage girls, because boys are into sports, and they like buying jerseys and caps and so on, f…"

-John Seabrook, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

Cover of Facing the Music and Living to Talk About It by Nick  Carter

2. Facing the Music and Living to Talk About It

By: Nick Carter

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This book is Nick Carter’s autobiography and self-help hybrid in which he chronicles his struggles … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

3. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

3.79

Format: 477 pages, Hardcover

Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert… read more

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4. Me

By: Elton John

4.33

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In his only official autobiography, music icon Elton John writes about his extraordinary life, whic… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"It was insanity, but it sounded romantic."

-Elton John, Me

"You can work as hard as you like, and plan as carefully as you want, but there are moments when it’s just about a hunch, about trusting your instincts, or about fate."

-Elton John, Me

Cover of Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear by Jinger Duggar Vuolo

5. Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

By: Jinger Duggar Vuolo

3.60

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kid… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. Woman, Eating

By: Claire Kohda

3.46

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more

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"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

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7. The Roughest Draft

By: Emily Wibberley

3.58

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside dow… read more

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Cover of Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2) by Talia Hibbert

8. Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)

By: Talia Hibbert

4.01

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake … read more

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"He held on to you, not enough that you felt suffocated, but more than enough to make it clear you should stay right there. With him. Because he wanted you to."

-Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)

"She was wearing her glasses now, at least, along with an enormous pink dressing gown and a pair of equally enormous bunny-ear slippers. The slippers surprised him until he remembered that Chloe used …"

-Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)

"He always stumbled over that part. Not because it hurt—although it really fucking did—but because it seemed so…small. So simple and flat and anticlimactic a phrase for something as monumental as deat…"

-Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)

"It didn't last long—I wasn't famous enough. But it felt like forever to me. So now, I guess, I'm a bit... private." That wasn't the full story, just a fraction of it. Because the press had left Zaf a…"

-Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)

Cover of Malorie (Bird Box, #2) by Josh Malerman

9. Malorie (Bird Box, #2)

By: Josh Malerman

3.80

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

Now from the mind of a true master of suspense comes the next chapter in Bird Box. This time, Malor… read more

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"She remembers yelling, so much yelling, so much saying 'no no no, Tom, NO!' But if you tell someone "no" enough times, they start thinking "yes", just to hear something else, just to hear a different…"

-Josh Malerman, Malorie (Bird Box, #2)

"She wants to believe in Fate, wants to believe there is a reason for everything. That they were supposed to leave now. That no time has been lost. That a bigger purpose will be revealed in the end. B…"

-Josh Malerman, Malorie (Bird Box, #2)

"Whoever you meet, whoever we encounter, you have to remember that they’ve experienced loss. Whether it was their parents, their kids, their friends…they’ve lost someone to the new world. And you need…"

-Josh Malerman, Malorie (Bird Box, #2)

"He reads on: 'In every corner of this community, somebody is attempting something new. For this, they've had their share of tragedies.' Tom nods. Of course they have. They had to have. That's how inv…"

-Josh Malerman, Malorie (Bird Box, #2)

Cover of Enchanted to Meet You (Witches of West Harbor, #1) by Meg Cabot

10. Enchanted to Meet You (Witches of West Harbor, #1)

By: Meg Cabot

3.33

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A witchy rom-com from New York Times  bestseller Meg Cabot about a plus size witch who must team up… read more

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Cover of Things I Should Have Said: Family, Fame, and Figuring it Out by Jamie Lynn Spears

11. Things I Should Have Said: Family, Fame, and Figuring it Out

By: Jamie Lynn Spears

2.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Now a National Bestseller!In this intimate memoir, actress and musician Jamie Lynn Spears opens up … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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12. Nightbitch

By: Rachel Yoder

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more

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"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

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13. Accidentally Amy

By: Lynn Painter

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

IT STARTED WITH A CUP… Isabella Shay is usually a very honest person. But when she’s running … read more

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14. Groupies

By: Sarah Priscus

3.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In a debut perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six, Mary Jane, and The Final Revival of Opal & Ne… read more

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  • music
"Desire's not deviant. It's human nature."

-Sarah Priscus, Groupies

"If I didn’t do this one thing, I’d never do anything at all."

-Sarah Priscus, Groupies

"We needed something to nurture, and they needed nurturing. Constant attention made you need it even more. The band never learned to be alone and neither did we. But if they were starved for attention…"

-Sarah Priscus, Groupies

Cover of Backstreet Mom: A Mother's Tale of Backstreet Boy AJ McLean's Rise to Fame, Struggle with Addiction, and Ultimate Triumph by Denise I. McLean

15. Backstreet Mom: A Mother's Tale of Backstreet Boy AJ McLean's Rise to Fame, Struggle with Addiction, and Ultimate Triumph

By: Denise I. McLean

4.07

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Featured on "Oprah" and "Good Morning America. Backstreet Mom is the story of one single mother's … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

6 Top nonfiction books like Backstreet Mom: A Mother's Tale of Backstreet Boy AJ McLean's Rise to Fame, Struggle with Addiction, and Ultimate Triumph by Denise I. McLean

Transform Your Habits

The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

John Seabrook

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Facing the Music and Living to Talk About It

Nick Carter

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Me

Elton John

4.33

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Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

Jinger Duggar Vuolo

3.60

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Transform Your Habits

Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

Holly Madison

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Counting the Cost

Jill Duggar

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Paris: The Memoir

Paris Hilton

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

Jinger Duggar Vuolo

3.60

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