Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor: Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir
By: Dave Haslam
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor is writer/DJ Dave Haslam's gloriously well-crafted memoir, documentin…
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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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"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
2. So You've Been Publicly Shamed
By: Jon Ronson
3.93
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more
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- nonfiction
"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
3. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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4. How to Build a Girl
By: Caitlin Moran
4.20
Format: None pages, ebook
The New York Timesbestselling author hailed as "the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and L… read more
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5. Inside Team Sky: The Inside Story of Team Sky and Their Challenge for the 2013 Tour de France
By: David Walsh
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Unknown Binding
After the victory of Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky in the 2012 Tour de France, the pressure was on t… read more
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6. The Atrocity Exhibition
By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his… read more
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7. Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three (Books of Blood #1-3)
By: Clive Barker
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
"Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red." For those who only know Clive Bar… read more
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8. The Comfort of Strangers
By: Ian McEwan
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
"Haunting and compelling." --The Times As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into th… read more
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9. Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
By: Lizzy Goodman
4.16
Format: 622 pages, Hardcover
An intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of … read more
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- music
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- biography
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10. Girl in a Band
By: Kim Gordon
3.67
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more
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"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
11. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
12. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
13. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
By: The Secret Barrister
3.90
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more
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- nonfiction
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14. Starve Acre
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more
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"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
15. 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
16. 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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17. The Seep
By: Chana Porter
3.66
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—bu… read more
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"Grief is happy memories."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"Deeba had been a vegan long before the aliens came. Some people didn’t need cosmic intervention to know how to be good."-Chana Porter, The Seep
"How have we never met before? they said again and again, but what they really meant was How have I only just begun to love you?"-Chana Porter, The Seep
18. 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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19. 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
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20. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
21. 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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22. Bunnyman: A Memoir
By: Will Sergeant
4.23
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
The Sunday Times bestsellerGrowing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football … read more
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23. Death Row: The Final Minutes: My life as an execution witness in America's most infamous prison
By: Michelle Lyons
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
In 12 years, Michelle Lyons witnessed nearly 300 executions. First as a reporter and then as a s… read more
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24. David Bowie (Little People, BIG DREAMS, #26)
By: Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara
4.23
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
This board book version of David Bowie – from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselli… read more
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25. This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History
By: Jon Savage
4.32
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Joy Division emerged in the mid-70s at the start of a two-de… read more
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26. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
By: Mark Hodkinson
3.77
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Mark Hodkinson grew up among dark satanic mills in a house with just one book: Folklore, Myths and … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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27. Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor: Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir
By: Dave Haslam
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor is writer/DJ Dave Haslam's gloriously well-crafted memoir, documentin… read more
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28. Rave
By: Rainald Goetz
3.37
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
‘Meet girls. Take drugs. Listen to music.’ In Rave , cult German novelist Rainald Goetz takes a he… read more
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29. Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography
By: Martyn Ware
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and … read more
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30. Freaky Dancin': Me and the Mondays
By: Bez
3.78
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The story of Bez from the Happy Mondays is a rollercoaster ride through the excesses of rock 'n' ro… read more
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31. Vicious
By: Jeff Gomez
3.70
Format: 157 pages, Kindle Edition
In the fall of 1970, Lou Reed walked away from rock and roll. He left the Velvet Underground, and N… read more
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