6 best-selling music books like Assassinated Beauty: Photographs of Manic Street Preachers by Kevin Cummins

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Assassinated Beauty: Photographs of Manic Street Preachers

By: Kevin Cummins

4.37

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An iconic selection of photographs of the most iconoclastic British band of the late twentieth cent…

If you liked the music plot in Assassinated Beauty: Photographs of Manic Street Preachers by Kevin Cummins , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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2. Death of a Polaroid - A Manics Family Album

By: Nicky Wire

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The first of two titles by the Manic Street Preachers' bassist and lyricist, Nicky Wire. For more t… read more

Similar categories in Nicky Wire's Death of a Polaroid - A Manics Family Album book and Kevin Cummins's Assassinated Beauty: Photographs of Manic Street Preachers

  • music
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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3. A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more

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"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

4. Forever Delayed

By: Mitch Ikeda

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

When Welsh assault rock'n'rollers The Manic Street Preachers burst onto the British guitar band sta… read more

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  • music
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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5. The Trial

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more

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"But I’m not guilty,"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Asking questions were the most important thing."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

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6. Everything: A Book About Manic Street Preachers

By: Nicky Wire , Simon Price

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Described as'Rock Book of the decade' by the Guardian in London, this is the fascinating story of t… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

7. Richard

By: Benjamin Myers

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the 1980s and 90s, in Cardiff, London, and America, Richardtells the story of Richard Edward… read more

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8. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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9. The Road to Wigan Pier

By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart

3.92

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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10. A Clockwork Orange

By: Anthony Burgess

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Te… read more

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"I was cured all right."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"I was always on my oddy knocky."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Civilised my syphilised yarbles."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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11. 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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  • music
  • nonfiction
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12. Coal Black Mornings

By: Brett Anderson

4.19

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Morni… read more

Similar categories in Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings book and Kevin Cummins's Assassinated Beauty: Photographs of Manic Street Preachers

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Assassinated Beauty: Photographs of Manic Street Preachers by Kevin Cummins

13. Assassinated Beauty: Photographs of Manic Street Preachers

By: Kevin Cummins

4.37

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An iconic selection of photographs of the most iconoclastic British band of the late twentieth cent… read more

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  • music
  • photography
  • nonfiction

7 Best nonfiction books like Assassinated Beauty: Photographs of Manic Street Preachers by Kevin Cummins

Transform Your Habits

Death of a Polaroid - A Manics Family Album

Nicky Wire

3.78

Forever Delayed

Mitch Ikeda

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Everything: A Book About Manic Street Preachers

Nicky Wire , Simon Price

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell , Richard Hoggart

3.92

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13 must-read nonfiction books like Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson

Transform Your Habits

Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography

Alex James

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Set the Boy Free

Johnny Marr

2.50

Transform Your Habits

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

Viv Albertine

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir

Mark Lanegan

4.35

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