6 must-read music books like All Things Must Pass: The Life of George Harrison by marc-shapiro

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All Things Must Pass: The Life of George Harrison

By: marc-shapiro

3.39

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

George Harrison was always known as the 'quiet Beatle' As part of the biggest band in pop history, …

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1. Ford County

By: John Grisham

3.71

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, th… read more

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"It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting."

-John Grisham, Ford County

"But [Stanley Wade] instead removed his glasses and wiped his eyes. They were moist not from fear but from the harsh reality of being confronted by one of his victims. How many others were out there? …"

-John Grisham, Ford County

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2. A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4)

By: Louise Penny

3.61

Format: 160 pages,

It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding annive… read more

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3. How I Won the Yellow Jumper: Dispatches from the Tour de France

By: Ned Boulting

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Follow Ned Boulting's (occasionally excruciating) experiences covering the world's most famous two-… read more

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  • biography
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4. Miss O'Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and the Women They Loved

By: Chris O'Dell , Katherine Ketcham

3.53

Format: 39 pages,

Chris O'Dell Wasn't Famous. She Wasn't Even Almost Famous. But She Was There. She was in the studio… read more

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  • music
  • biography

5. A Million Little Pieces

By: James Frey

3.72

Format: 134 pages,

Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehab… read more

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6. The Queen and I

By: Sue Townsend

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Queen and I is the brilliantly funny novel by Sue Townsend, author of the Adrian Mole series. T… read more

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7. London

By: Edward Rutherfurd

2.69

Format: 88 pages,

Here is Edward Rutherfurd's classic novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two thousand years… read more

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8. George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door

By: Graeme Thomson

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Vynikajici obsahla biografie Graema Thomsona nas provede celym Harrisonovym zivotem po ceste od skr… read more

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9. Dead Simple (Roy Grace, #1)

By: Peter James

3.53

Format: 256 pages,

Michael Harrison had it all: good looks, charm, natural leadership, a wicked sense of humor, and no… read more

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10. Looking Good Dead (Roy Grace, #2)

By: Peter James

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

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11. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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12. The Racketeer

By: John Grisham

3.99

Format: 11 pages, Hardcover

Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the viole… read more

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13. Disgrace

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more

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14. The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3)

By: Louise Penny

2.83

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

'Many mystery buffs have credited Louise Penny with the revival of the type of traditional murder m… read more

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15. Light My Fire

By: Ray Manzarek

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The best book yet about The Doors." --Booklist The inside story of the Doors, by cofounder and key… read more

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16. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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17. Me

By: Elton John

4.33

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In his only official autobiography, music icon Elton John writes about his extraordinary life, whic… read more

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  • music
  • biography
"It was insanity, but it sounded romantic."

-Elton John, Me

"You can work as hard as you like, and plan as carefully as you want, but there are moments when it’s just about a hunch, about trusting your instincts, or about fate."

-Elton John, Me

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18. The Last Days of John Lennon

By: James Patterson

3.88

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Discover one of the greatest true crime stories in music history, as only James Patterson can tell … read more

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  • music
  • biography
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19. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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20. The Second Sleep

By: Robert Harris

3.49

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is. 1468. A young priest, C… read more

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21. Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

By: Tom Bower

3.86

Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition

The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebra… read more

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  • biography
"Meghan, said Oprah, had been the target of ‘constant criticism [and] blatant sexist and racist remarks by British tabloids’. As she spoke, the screen was covered by a spread of apparently racist head…"

-Tom Bower, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

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22. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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23. The Boys from Biloxi

By: John Grisham

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry… read more

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"The ship was sinking and the rats were jumping overboard."

-John Grisham, The Boys from Biloxi

"Great trial lawyers aren't born; they're made. The great ones simply tell the jury a story..."

-John Grisham, The Boys from Biloxi

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24. The Judge's List (The Whistler, #2)

By: John Grisham

4.15

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—… read more

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"He loved the gamesmanship. He was a sociopath who killed for revenge, but he tried on the planning and execution, and the perfection of his crimes."

-John Grisham, The Judge's List (The Whistler, #2)

"She was the only girl he had ever loved. It ended abruptly when she ditched him for a football player. He carried the wounds for six years until he caught her and killed her. Only then had his pain s…"

-John Grisham, The Judge's List (The Whistler, #2)

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25. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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  • biography
"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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26. The Manningtree Witches

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the res… read more

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""

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin.To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin. To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"My imps need no doors, sir. They go where I tell them. Through any crack, be it as narrow as a nun's or wide as your wife's."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

Cover of The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

27. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

By: Dave Grohl

4.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questiona… read more

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  • music
  • biography
"I'm bad enough at rolling joints, how could I successfully roll a child?"

-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

"What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create."

-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

"I stopped trying to understand fate and destiny a long time ago, but dumb luck seems to be my specialty."

-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

"There is no love like a Mother's love. It is life's greatest song. We are all indebted to the women who have given us life. For without them, there would be no music."

-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

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28. And in the End: The Last Days of the Beatles

By: Ken McNab

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of the last acrimonious days of the Beatles, a final chapter reconstructing for t… read more

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  • music
  • biography
Cover of Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath

29. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

By: Sylvia Plath

3.98

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"

-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

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30. All Things Must Pass: The Life of George Harrison

By: marc-shapiro

3.39

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

George Harrison was always known as the 'quiet Beatle' As part of the biggest band in pop history, … read more

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  • music
  • biography

9 Top biography books like All Things Must Pass: The Life of George Harrison by marc-shapiro

Transform Your Habits

How I Won the Yellow Jumper: Dispatches from the Tour de France

Ned Boulting

4.62

Transform Your Habits

Miss O'Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and the Women They Loved

Chris O'Dell , Katherine Ketcham

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Me

Elton John

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Last Days of John Lennon

James Patterson

3.88

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Paul McCartney: The Life

Philip Norman

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Me

Elton John

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Last Days of John Lennon

James Patterson

3.88

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Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans

Kenneth Womack

4.16

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