19 Top nonfiction books like Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music by Joe Molloy

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Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music

By: Joe Molloy

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Acid Detroit tells the story of Motor City through its revolutionary music past and present, in ord…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music by Joe Molloy , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Fen

By: Daisy Johnson

3.64

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Daisy Johnson’s Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with familia… read more

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"I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon it will be. How easily they go again. There is no loyalty in language. There is no."

-Daisy Johnson, Fen

"Salma had read books where couples kissed, spoke in platitudes or come-ons; something about to happen, hinted at. Beyond that there was always only a white space on the page. A gap between paragraphs…"

-Daisy Johnson, Fen

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2. The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more

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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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3. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

By: Jessica Hopper

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Jessica Hopper's music criticism has earned her a reputation as a firebrand, a keen observer and fe… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

4. Cotton Comes to Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #7)

By: Chester Himes

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Black flim-flam man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta's state penitentiary than he's back on … read more

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5. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

By: Cathy O'Neil

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus

6. Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

By: Lester Bangs , Greil Marcus

4.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

7. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By: Mike Davis

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more

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8. Regarding the Pain of Others

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more

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9. 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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"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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10. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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11. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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12. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke

13. Butts: A Backstory

By: Heather Radke

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

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14. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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15. Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

By: Mike Jay

3.94

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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17. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By: Malcolm Harris

3.90

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes

18. Lou Reed: The King of New York

By: Will Hermes

4.23

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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19. Sonic Life: A Memoir

By: Thurston Moore

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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20. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee

21. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

By: Alexander Chee

4.39

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."

-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

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22. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

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23. Efter solen

By: Jonas Eika

3.18

Format: 159 pages, None

Vinder af Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris 2019 Noveller om en række personer, der, vidende eller uvi… read more

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24. Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more

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"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

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25. The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

By: Philippe Sands

4.18

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determ… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I appeared as counsel in the first case, in a barrister’s wig and gown at a hearing in a makeshift courtroom in Hamburg’s Town Hall; years later, Judge Mensah told me, with a big grin, that he wonder…"

-Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

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26. 1964: Eyes of the Storm

By: Paul McCartney

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget.” ―Paul McCartney T… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America by Gretchen Morgenson

27. These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

By: Gretchen Morgenson

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial jour… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories! by Tom Scharpling

28. It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

By: Tom Scharpling

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the comedian, television writer, and host of the Best Show, a revealing and powerful memoir ex… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"It's so much more satisfying to watch someone punch above their weight, because when they win, all of us slobs win."

-Tom Scharpling, It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

"Being funny really is like a superpower because you can control situations with an offhand comment or wisecrack that kinda just falls from your brainpan without much effort. But like the Spider-Man s…"

-Tom Scharpling, It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

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29. Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music

By: Joe Molloy

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Acid Detroit tells the story of Motor City through its revolutionary music past and present, in ord… read more

Similar categories in Joe Molloy's Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music book and Joe Molloy's Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music

  • music
  • cultural
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mars by 1980: The Story of Electronic Music by David  Stubbs

30. Mars by 1980: The Story of Electronic Music

By: David Stubbs

3.83

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Electronic music is now ubiquitous, from mainstream pop hits to the furthest reaches of the avant-g… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • nonfiction
Cover of True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer

31. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

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  • nonfiction

9 Top music books like Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music by Joe Molloy

Transform Your Habits

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

Jessica Hopper

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Lester Bangs , Greil Marcus

4.64

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Lou Reed: The King of New York

Will Hermes

4.23

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Penge på lommen (Scandinavian Star, #1)

Asta Olivia Nordenhof

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Tour de chambre

Tine Høeg

4.19

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Djævlebogen (Scandinavian Star, #2)

Asta Olivia Nordenhof

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Ik kom hier nog op terug

Rob van Essen

3.78

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