9 best-selling nonfiction books like Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin (Reverb) by Tobias Rüther

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Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin (Reverb)

By: Tobias Rüther

3.55

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In 1976, David Bowie left Los Angeles and the success of his celebrated albums Diamond Dogs and You…

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1. Sputnik Sweetheart

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.83

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

alternate cover can be found here Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But… read more

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"I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky"

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"Ice is cold; roses are red. I’m in love."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"It was far too hot to think about complicated matters."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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2. Verbrechen

By: Ferdinand von Schirach

4.24

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Ferdinand von Schirach hat es in seinem Beruf alltäglich mit Menschen zu tun, die Extremes getan od… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • germany
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3. Berlin Red (Inspector Pekkala, #7)

By: Sam Eastland

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

April, 1945. East of Berlin, the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault upon the ruin… read more

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4. Colazione da Tiffany

By: Truman Capote , Bruno Tasso

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Holly Golightly, la protagonista di questo estroso romanzo breve, è una cover-girl di New York, att… read more

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5. Die Physiker

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Mobius, ein umworbener weil genialer Physiker, will eine gefahrliche Verstrickung von Wissenschaft … read more

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6. The Last Interview and Other Conversations

By: David Foster Wallace

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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7. Aliss at the Fire

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more

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8. Last Exit to Brooklyn

By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more

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9. Look Who's Back

By: Jamie Bulloch , Timur Vermes

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have c… read more

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10. Woyzeck

By: Georg Büchner

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kaum ein bedeutendes Werk der deutschen Literatur ist in seiner Textfassung so problematisch wie Bu… read more

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11. The Rules of Attraction

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set at a small affluent liberal-arts college in New England eighties, The Rules of Attractionis a s… read more

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12. Measuring the World

By: Daniel Kehlmann , Carol Brown Janeway

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the live… read more

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13. How to Be Both

By: Ali Smith

4.10

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more

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14. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

By: Margaret Atwood

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more

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"Many things get broken in a war."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

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15. 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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  • germany
"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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16. 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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
"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

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17. The Silence

By: Don DeLillo

2.66

Format: 117 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling nov… read more

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"What happens to people who live inside their phones?"

-Don DeLillo, The Silence

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18. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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19. Echtzeitalter

By: Tonio Schachinger

3.96

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

Ein elitäres Wiener Internat, untergebracht in der ehemaligen Sommerresidenz der Habsburger, der Kl… read more

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20. Der große Sommer

By: Ewald Arenz

4.28

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Der Zauber des ersten Erlebens Ein Mann, Friedrich, läuft über einen Friedhof und fragt sich, wi… read more

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  • germany
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21. The Gentleman From Peru

By: André Aciman

3.56

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more

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22. Sunburn

By: Chloe Michelle Howarth

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more

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  • queer
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

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23. 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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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"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

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24. Everybody: A Book About Freedom

By: Olivia Laing

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

 The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • queer
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25. Lichtspiel

By: Daniel Kehlmann

4.28

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Einer der Größten des Kinos, vielleicht der größte Regisseur seiner Epoche: Zur Machtergreifung dre… read more

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  • germany
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26. Eurotrash

By: Christian Kracht

3.67

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

»I’ll see you in twenty-five years.« Laura Palmer. »Also, ich musste wieder auf ein paar Tage na… read more

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  • germany
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27. Verse, Chorus, Monster!

By: Graham Coxon

3.70

Format: None pages, ebook

Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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28. Noch wach?

By: Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Berlin: Eine junge Frau erzählt von ihrem neuen Job bei einem großen Fernsehsender, von ihrem neuen… read more

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29. Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

By: Ian Penman

4.02

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • biography
"The problem with making art to wake people up: your ideal reader/viewer is therefore by definition probably asleep, and not the least bit interested in your kind of wake-up-you-sleepwalkers art."

-Ian Penman, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

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30. Ein Hof und elf Geschwister

By: Ewald Frie

4.08

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

Die stolze bäuerliche Landwirtschaft mit Viehmärkten, Selbstversorgung und harter Knochenarbeit ist… read more

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  • history
  • germany
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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31. Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin (Reverb)

By: Tobias Rüther

3.55

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In 1976, David Bowie left Los Angeles and the success of his celebrated albums Diamond Dogs and You… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • germany
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer

6 Best biography books like Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin (Reverb) by Tobias Rüther

Transform Your Habits

The Last Interview and Other Conversations

David Foster Wallace

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Faith, Hope and Carnage

Nick Cave

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Verse, Chorus, Monster!

Graham Coxon

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

Ian Penman

4.02

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7 Best nonfiction books like Ein Hof und elf Geschwister by Ewald Frie

Transform Your Habits

Zauber der Stille

Florian Illies

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Ein Hof und elf Geschwister

Ewald Frie

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Scheiß auf Selflove, gib mir Klassenkampf: Eine neue Kapitalismuskritik (German Edition)

Jean-Philippe Kindler

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Der Osten: eine westdeutsche Erfindung

Dirk Oschmann

3.82

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