Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop
By: Dave Rimmer
3.82
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Looks at the second British invasion in rock music, describes how pop quickly replaced punk, and de…
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1. Love Me Do!: The Beatles' Progress
By: Michael Braun
4.02
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
The year is 1963 and "Love Me Do" is the Beatles' first number one hit, closely followed by "Please… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
2. An Artist of the Floating World
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.77
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art so… read more
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"An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something. #Page: 120"-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"At times it was almost as it had been years ago, when on a sunny day the family would sit there together exchanging relaxed, often vacuous talk."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
3. Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys
By: Lol Tolhurst
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Hardcover
"On our first day of school, Robert and I stood at the designated stop at Hevers Avenue with our mo… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
4. The Collectors (His Dark Materials, #0.6)
By: Philip Pullman , Bill Nighy
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Audible Audio
"But the thing is," said Horley, "they didn't know each other at all. Never heard of each other. It… read more
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5. Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco
By: Peter Shapiro
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
A long-overdue paean to the predominant musical form of the 70s and a thoughtful exploration of the… read more
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6. Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story
By: Nick Tosches , Greil Marcus
3.33
Format: None pages,
The life of Jerry Lee Lewis is one of the most dramatic and tormented in rock 'n' roll history. "He… read more
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7. The Fallen: Searching for the Missing Members of The Fall
By: Dave Simpson
4.15
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
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8. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
9. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- british literature
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
10. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
11. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
By: Nick Hornby
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
- pop culture
"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
12. Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party
By: Michael Cragg
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will ex… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
- pop culture
13. Attack Warning Red!
By: Julie McDowall
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
By: Monica Potts
3.88
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more
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- nonfiction
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
15. Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation
By: Steven Hyden
4.14
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A leading music journalist’s riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
- pop culture
"One of the many musical distinctions of my lifetime that used to seem important and now is completely forgotten is the difference between “alternative"-Steven Hyden, Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation
16. The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1: 1969-73
By: Allan Kozinn
4.46
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, The McCartney Legacy, Vol. 1: 1969-73 captures t… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
- pop culture
17. The Old Woman with the Knife
By: Gu Byeong-mo
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the tw… read more
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18. The Death of Francis Bacon
By: Max Porter
3.14
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing a… read more
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19. The Buddha of Suburbia
By: Hanif Kureishi
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban Londo… read more
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- british literature
"Die Belohnung für Langeweile sind Sicherheit und Geborgenheit."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
20. Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England
By: Richard Beard
3.58
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
In 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were Dav… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
21. Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZZT
By: Trevor Horn
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the '80s'. … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
22. Mostly Dead Things
By: Kristen Arnett
3.38
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has com… read more
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"Too much feeling in his body to handle anything appropriately."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
"The best way to get through anything at home is to just stay at work."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
"Love was a thing that needed constant care. Our intimacy was an uprooted plant, shriveled and withered."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
"I'd hated that because it didn't feel how I expected romance to feel: stressful and kind of blood-soaked, a constant power struggle."-Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things
23. The Story of The Bee Gees: Children of the World
By: Bob Stanley
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling biography of one of the bestselling bands of all time, told with brilliant insight by re… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
24. Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion
By: Steve Turner
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene—from backyard ska… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground
By: Dylan Jones
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, an… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
- pop culture
26. 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
27. Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics
By: Dylan Jones
3.84
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
David Bowie. Culture Club. Wham!. Soft Cell. Duran Duran. Sade. Spandau Ballet. The Eurythmics... … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
28. Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany
By: Uwe Schütte
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
'Highly stimulating ... Kraftwerk is a pleasure to read' Jon Savage, New StatesmanThe story of the … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
29. Themes for Great Cities: A New History of Simple Minds
By: Graeme Thomson
4.39
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
'Nobody owes us anything, but the Simple Minds story has been too condensed. After Live Aid and 'Do… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
30. Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop
By: Dave Rimmer
3.82
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Looks at the second British invasion in rock music, describes how pop quickly replaced punk, and de… read more
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- history
- pop culture
- british literature
- nonfiction
31. Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded
By: Jason Heller
3.67
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
A Hugo Award-winner explores the massive influence that science fiction has had on popular music, p… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- history
- pop culture
