9 must-read biography books like Take Me There: Oasis- The Story by Paul Mathur

Cover of Take Me There: Oasis- The Story by Paul Mathur

Take Me There: Oasis- The Story

By: Paul Mathur

3.69

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Author Paul Mathur can be said to have "discovered" he first saw them in March 1993, rehearsing in…

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Cover of Oasis' Definitely Maybe by Alex Niven

1. Oasis' Definitely Maybe

By: Alex Niven

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybemanaged to summarize almost the entire history … read more

Similar categories in Alex Niven's Oasis' Definitely Maybe book and Paul Mathur's Take Me There: Oasis- The Story

  • music
  • nonfiction
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2. The Impossible Dead

By: Ian Rankin

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and com… read more

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3. Fatherland

By: Robert Harris

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country i… read more

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4. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Cover of How They Broke Britain by James O'Brien

5. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

Similar categories in James O'Brien's How They Broke Britain book and Paul Mathur's Take Me There: Oasis- The Story

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman

6. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Klosterman's The Nineties book and Paul Mathur's Take Me There: Oasis- The Story

  • music
  • nonfiction
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

Cover of Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono

7. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

By: Bono

4.20

Format: 564 pages, Hardcover

Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

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8. Meantime

By: Frankie Boyle

3.54

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more

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9. 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

Similar categories in Thurston Moore's Sonic Life: A Memoir book and Paul Mathur's Take Me There: Oasis- The Story

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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10. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

Similar categories in Gary Stevenson's The Trading Game: A Confession book and Paul Mathur's Take Me There: Oasis- The Story

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

11. 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
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker

12. 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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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Acid for the Children by Flea

13. Acid for the Children

By: Flea

4.08

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Bein famous don't mean shit"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

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14. The Cliff House

By: Chris Brookmyre

3.79

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Seven women. Seven sins. One night of judgment. Jen Dunne is forty-two and getting married for the … read more

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15. The Cracked Mirror

By: Chris Brookmyre

4.07

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAP… read more

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Cover of Oasis: What's The Story? by Iain Robertson

16. Oasis: What's The Story?

By: Iain Robertson

3.12

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Oasis was a band like bands used to be. Hard-drinking and substance abusing. If they liked you, the… read more

Similar categories in Iain Robertson's Oasis: What's The Story? book and Paul Mathur's Take Me There: Oasis- The Story

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Take Me There: Oasis- The Story by Paul Mathur

17. Take Me There: Oasis- The Story

By: Paul Mathur

3.69

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Author Paul Mathur can be said to have "discovered" he first saw them in March 1993, rehearsing in… read more

Similar categories in Paul Mathur's Take Me There: Oasis- The Story book and Paul Mathur's Take Me There: Oasis- The Story

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

11 Top nonfiction books like Take Me There: Oasis- The Story by Paul Mathur

Transform Your Habits

Oasis' Definitely Maybe

Alex Niven

3.52

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Nineties

Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Bono

4.20

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16 Top audiobook books like Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker

Transform Your Habits

Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography

Alex James

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

Alan Partridge

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Faith, Hope and Carnage

Nick Cave

4.44

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