12 must-read biography memoir books like Jeff Buckley: From Hallelujah to the Last Goodbye by Dave Lory

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Jeff Buckley: From Hallelujah to the Last Goodbye

By: Dave Lory

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on iconic cult hero Jeff Buckley, the singer who made just one record but inspi…

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1. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

By: Carrie Brownstein

3.83

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply persona… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"I've always felt unclaimed."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"If someone didn’t feel included, if someone felt marginalised, they would form their own band, write their own fanzine, or just call you out on what they deemed racist or classist, sizeist, sexist, b…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I suppose we were better observers than communicators; we were all subjects to be worried over, complained about, even adored, but never quite people to be held or loved. There was an intellectual, a…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

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2. Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

By: Mark Yarm

4.27

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years after the release of Nirvana’s landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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3. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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4. Letters to Milena

By: Franz Kafka , Aarno Peromies , Philip Boehm , Milena Jesenská

3.89

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In no other work does Kafka reveal himself as in the Letters to Milena, which begin essentially as … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I can't hold enough of you in my hands."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

"Il sogno è l'ultima notizia che possiedo di te."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

"وهذه هي النهاية في الحقيقة, فلقد مضيت عني بعيدا."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

"I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it."

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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5. A Wished For Song: A Portrait of Jeff Buckley

By: Hal Leonard Corporation , Merri Cyr

2.86

Format: 358 pages,

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. Grace

By: Daphne A. Brooks

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

The power and influence of Grace increases with each passing year. Here, Daphne Brooks traces Jeff … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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7. Fleabag: The Original Play

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more

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8. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

By: Tommy Lee , Neil Strauss , Vince Neil , Nikki Sixx , None

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. The Three Sisters

By: Anton Chekhov

3.06

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sistersprobes the lives and dreams of … read more

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10. Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

By: Charles R. Cross

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure a… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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11. Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley

By: David Browne

4.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jeff Buckley's drowning in 1997 was proclaimed a tragedy, not only because the 30-year-old singer-s… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction

12. 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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13. Alice in Chains: The Untold Story

By: None

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Alice in Chains were among the loudest voices out of Seattle. They were iconic pioneers who mixed g… read more

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14. Akira, Vol. 3

By: None , Katsuhiro Otomo , None , None

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the 21st century, the glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of a Tokyo destroyed by an … read more

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15. Akira, Vol. 2

By: None , Katsuhiro Otomo , None , None

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The science fiction tale set in 2019 in Tokyo after the city was destroyed by World War III, follow… read more

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16. The Bell Jar

By: Sylvia Plath

4.06

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented… read more

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"I woke to the sound of rain."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

17. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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18. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

By: Viv Albertine

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

The guitarist for seminal female punk group The Slits recounts playing with Sid Vicious, touring wi… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"It’s true the good die young."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"I grew up with John Lennon at my side, like a big brother."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"… maybe you can tell how much pain someone is in by watching them laugh."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

19. It's So Easy: And Other Lies

By: Duff McKagan

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

A founding member of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver shares the story of his rise to the pinnacle… read more

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20. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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21. The Essential Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson

0.00

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES Between them, our great visionary poets of the America… read more

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22. Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend

By: Stephen Davis

4.45

Format: 864 pages,

Jim Morrison's electrifying live performances, and appetite for sexual and psychedelic experience e… read more

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23. 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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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"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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24. Lie With Me

By: Philippe Besson

4.26

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more

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"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

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25. Exteriors

By: Annie Ernaux

3.57

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir by Mark Lanegan

26. 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
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD by Penn Holderness

27. ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD

By: Penn Holderness

4.32

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Hi, friend! Welcome to the ADHD club. You're here because, like me, you've been diagnosed with a… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff

28. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

By: David Sheff

4.16

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

With a new afterword Now a Major Motion Picture What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"You're as sick as your secrets."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

"I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

"That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

"A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

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29. Jeff Buckley: From Hallelujah to the Last Goodbye

By: Dave Lory

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on iconic cult hero Jeff Buckley, the singer who made just one record but inspi… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice by Mary Guibert

30. Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice

By: Mary Guibert

4.53

Format: 294 pages, Audio CD

The journals, notebooks, musings, and early song drafts of Jeff Buckley, the late singer best-known… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear."

-Mary Guibert, Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice

"Escape is no longer called for or even especially healthy. Escape from life is death."

-Mary Guibert, Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice

"There is no threat to you in the paper, or in the pen, there's no threat in your creation, they welcome you."

-Mary Guibert, Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice

"I say it's about time to say that I've graduated from doing impressions of things better lived than acted out, OK?"

-Mary Guibert, Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice

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31. Limited Edition of One

By: Steven John Wilson

4.23

Format: 320 pages, None

The King of Progressive Rock, a curator of talent and the reason behind Porcupine Tree's rise and f… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

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Transform Your Habits

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Carrie Brownstein

3.83

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Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

Mark Yarm

4.27

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Letters to Milena

Franz Kafka , Aarno Peromies , Philip Boehm , Milena Jesenská

3.89

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A Wished For Song: A Portrait of Jeff Buckley

Hal Leonard Corporation , Merri Cyr

2.86

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides

3.79

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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