18 Top history books like 1973: Rock at the Crossroads by Andrew Grant Jackson

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1973: Rock at the Crossroads

By: Andrew Grant Jackson

3.84

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating account of the music and epic social change of 1973, a defining year for David Bowie,…

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1. Eminent Hipsters

By: Donald Fagen

3.56

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In Eminent Hipsters, musician and songwriter Donald Fagen, best known as the co-founder of the rock… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. The Death of Rhythm and Blues

By: Nelson George

4.07

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down," this… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

By: Elmore Leonard

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie… read more

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"He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they forgot or didn't care, and took of…"

-Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

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4. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)

By: James Ellroy

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more

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5. A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor … read more

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6. His Excellency: George Washington

By: Joseph J. Ellis

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

National Bestseller To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

7. The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America

By: Michaelangelo Matos

2.00

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Please Kill Meand Can't Stop Won't Stopcomes this definitive chronicle of one … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • pop culture

8. The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones

By: Rich Cohen

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A panoramic narrative history of the Rolling Stones, viewed through the impassioned and opinionated… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll

9. The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

By: Oliver Burkeman

3.94

Format: 450 pages, ebook

A witty, fascinating, and counterintuitive read that turns decades of self-help advice on its head … read more

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10. City on Fire

By: Garth Risk Hallberg

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's … read more

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11. This Bird Has Flown

By: Susanna Hoffs

3.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song—written… read more

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  • music
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12. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

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"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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13. Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

By: John Cleese

3.88

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

____________________________ We can all be more creative. John Cleese shows us how. Creativity is … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Getting discouraged is a total waste of your time."

-John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

" But once it's been agreed when that real-world decision has to happen, why make it before the deadline arrives? Why Well, it would be foolish, because if you can wait longer, two incredibly importan…"

-John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

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14. Music Is History

By: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller, Music Is History combines multi-Grammy Award winner Questlove’s deep m… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. America Fantastica

By: Tim O'Brien

3.45

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more

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16. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

By: Shannon Reed

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"I think, therefore, I cry..."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"Life is so much better with books than without."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

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17. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

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  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pop culture
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18. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop by Jonathan Abrams

19. The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop

By: Jonathan Abrams

4.21

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reig… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
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20. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pop culture
Cover of In Perfect Harmony: Singalong Pop in ’70s Britain by Will Hodgkinson

22. In Perfect Harmony: Singalong Pop in ’70s Britain

By: Will Hodgkinson

4.05

Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition

A Telegraph Book of the Year A Guardian Book of the Year A Shindig Book of the Year A Virgin Radio … read more

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  • music
  • history
Cover of The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music by Tom Breihan

23. The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music

By: Tom Breihan

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through th… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
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24. Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics

By: Ronald Brownstein

3.81

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein tells the kaleidosco… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
"To this day, Huston seems less amazed that she found Polanski with a thirteen-year-old girl than that he was arrested for being so. "Those were the days where everybody thought that was just great," …"

-Ronald Brownstein, Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics

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25. Injury Time

By: Duncan Hamilton

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

'One of the best football books I've ever read.' John Motson on Provided You Don't Kiss Me 'Some … read more

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Cover of Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders, and Fans Who Were There by Marc Myers

26. Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders, and Fans Who Were There

By: Marc Myers

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A lively, entertaining, wide-ranging oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on ov… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pop culture
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27. Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop

By: Bob Stanley

4.30

Format: 636 pages, ebook

The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book tha… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
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28. The Lost Album of The Beatles: What if the Beatles hadn't split up?

By: Daniel Rachel

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An award-winning music author takes a serious look at a playful question of pop what if the Beatle… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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29. That Will Be England Gone: The Last Summer of Cricket

By: Michael Henderson

3.26

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

That Will Be England Gone is a tour d'horizon of cricket in England from April to September. 'Ph… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. 1973: Rock at the Crossroads

By: Andrew Grant Jackson

3.84

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating account of the music and epic social change of 1973, a defining year for David Bowie,… read more

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  • music
  • cultural
  • history
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • cultural studies
  • rock n roll
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31. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

By: Rachelle Bergstein

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her mos… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

21 Top nonfiction books like 1973: Rock at the Crossroads by Andrew Grant Jackson

Transform Your Habits

Eminent Hipsters

Donald Fagen

3.56

Transform Your Habits

The Death of Rhythm and Blues

Nelson George

4.07

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His Excellency: George Washington

Joseph J. Ellis

3.75

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Michaelangelo Matos

2.00

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Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

Jennifer Saunders

3.85

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How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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Rambling Man: My Life on the Road

Billy Connolly

4.16

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