14 Best music books like These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story by Jane Duffus

Cover of These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story by Jane Duffus

These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story

By: Jane Duffus

4.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Sarah Records was a label that signed the acts no major label would touch but who you wanted to hea…

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Cover of Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) by John Steinbeck

1. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

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2. A Long Way Down

By: Nick Hornby

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts… read more

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"The fuck?"

-Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

"i love god soo much, but he like butt raping."

-Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

"Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared."

-Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

"I can handle the pain, it's the hope that kills me."

-Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

Cover of Tales from Moominvalley (The Moomins, #7) by Tove Jansson, Thomas Warburton

3. Tales from Moominvalley (The Moomins, #7)

By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these nine delightfully funny stories, readers will discover how the Moomin family spend their f… read more

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Cover of Moominpappa at Sea (The Moomins, #8) by Tove Jansson, Kingsley Hart

4. Moominpappa at Sea (The Moomins, #8)

By: Tove Jansson , Kingsley Hart

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Moomin family members need a change of scenery, they decide to take up residence in a ligh… read more

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Cover of Moominsummer Madness (The Moomins, #5) by Tove Jansson, Thomas Warburton

5. Moominsummer Madness (The Moomins, #5)

By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

When a flood sweeps through the valley, the Moomins must find a new house. And with typical Moomin … read more

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6. Zapple Diaries: The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label

By: Barry Miles

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

This is the first full-length look at Zapple--the Beatles' label for experimental music and spoken … read more

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Cover of Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall by Luke Haines

7. Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall

By: Luke Haines

4.54

Format: None pages,

First, you fail. After four years of gigs no one attends, songs no one hears, perfect haircuts no o… read more

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Cover of Moominvalley in November (The Moomins, #9) by Tove Jansson, Kingsley Hart

8. Moominvalley in November (The Moomins, #9)

By: Tove Jansson , Kingsley Hart

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tove Jansson's Moomin characters and books are admired the world over. In the United States the ser… read more

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Cover of Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3) by Tove Jansson, Elizabeth Portch

9. Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)

By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch

3.42

Format: None pages,

It is spring in the valley and the Moomins are ready for adventure Moomintroll and his friends Snuf… read more

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10. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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11. The Pursuit of Love

By: Nancy Mitford

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the i… read more

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12. Moominland Midwinter (The Moomins, #6)

By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton

3.97

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

This children's story is one of a series of books about the Moomins that blend magic, humour and ad… read more

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13. Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2)

By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

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14. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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15. 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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Cover of Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna

16. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

17. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

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"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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18. Trilogía

By: Jon Fosse

3.90

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more

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19. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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20. Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

By: Svetlana Alexievich

4.49

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Stunning stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the … read more

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"For a child, the loss of a parent is the loss of memory itself."

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"En la guerra hi penso per mirar de comprendre-la... Si no, de què serveix?"

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"Ningú no volia conèixer ningú, perquè l’endemà aquella persona podia morir."

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"А однажды на улице встретила мужчину, похожего на папу. Как мой папа. Долго шла за ним… Я же не видела папу мертвым…"

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

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

21. 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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Cover of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams

22. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more

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Cover of Paper Cuts by Ted Kessler

23. Paper Cuts

By: Ted Kessler

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'A great writer' Paul Weller 'A music journalist of integrity' Billy Childish ' There's only one … read more

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Cover of Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford

24. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

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Cover of Echoes: A memoir continued . . . by Will Sergeant

25. Echoes: A memoir continued . . .

By: Will Sergeant

4.27

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERScenic Wye Valley isn't the typical place for a rock story to begin, but… read more

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Cover of Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success by Miki Berenyi

26. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

By: Miki Berenyi

4.46

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary and searingly honest personal story of musician Miki Berenyi, revealing the highs… read more

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Cover of Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II by Stephen  Morris

27. Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II

By: Stephen Morris

4.40

Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition

Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume … read more

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Cover of The Listening Party: Artists, Bands and Fans Reflect on 100 Favorite Albums by Tim Burgess

28. The Listening Party: Artists, Bands and Fans Reflect on 100 Favorite Albums

By: Tim Burgess

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess invites you to the greatest listening party of all time. In 2020 when … read more

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Cover of These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story by Jane Duffus

29. These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story

By: Jane Duffus

4.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Sarah Records was a label that signed the acts no major label would touch but who you wanted to hea… read more

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Cover of Go All The Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop by Paul Myers

30. Go All The Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop

By: Paul Myers

3.85

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Fun, bright, and playful, Power Pop is a sometimes adored, sometimes maligned, often misunderstood … read more

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31. Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence: 'One of the great Pop biographies' SUNDAY TIMES

By: Will Hodgkinson

4.78

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

'Will has finally written his masterpiece. I'm glad I could be of assistance' LAWRENCE'Essential re… read more

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17 Best audiobook books like Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II by Stephen Morris

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2.50

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3.67

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