16 Best music books like A Riot of Our Own by Johnny Green

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A Riot of Our Own

By: Johnny Green

4.36

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

'Hugely enjoyable ... Green's great achievement is to recapture exactly how those moments felt, but…

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1. Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

By: Chrissie Hynde

3.49

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Chrissie Hynde, for nearly four decades the singer/songwriter/ undisputed leader of the Pretenders,… read more

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"After writing a song, there’s first a feeling of elation followed by the sinking feeling that it will never happen again, and you go back to thinking that you can't do it. It creates an ongoing feeli…"

-Chrissie Hynde, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

"To address another human was one thing, but a singing voice was capable of so much more. Romance made you weak and love was about suffering. I wanted what the jazz musicians were looking for: the sup…"

-Chrissie Hynde, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

"Nothing was going to compromise my freedom to walk the streets whenever, wherever and with whomever I wanted. I saw fame as being akin to living in a high-security prison and I didn’t want to go ther…"

-Chrissie Hynde, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

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2. Apathy for the Devil: A 1970s Memoir

By: Nick Kent

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Chronicling Nick Kent's up-close, personal, often harrowing adventures with the Rolling Stones, Les… read more

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3. Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

By: Charles R. Cross

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure a… read more

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4. KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money

By: J.M.R. Higgs , John Higgs

3.32

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

They were the best-selling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial succ… read more

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5. Japrocksampler: How the Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock 'n' Roll

By: Julian Cope

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Julian Cope, eccentric and visionary rock musician, hip archaeologist and one time frontman of Tear… read more

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6. Lonely Boy

By: Ben Thompson , Steve Jones

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Without the Sex Pistols there would be no Punk. And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pisto… read more

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7. The Power and the Glory

By: John Updike , Graham Greene

3.13

Format: 192 pages,

How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more

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8. White Line Fever: The Autobiography

By: Lemmy Kilmister , Janiss Garza

3.04

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of music's most notorious frontmen leads a headbanging, voyeuristic odyssey into sex, drugs, an… read more

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9. Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies

By: Nick Frost

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

'If I'm going to tell the story of a life, my life, then I need to tell it warts and all. If the ta… read more

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10. A Kind of Loving

By: Stan Barstow

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

All about love, lust, and loneliness, the book introduces Vic Brown, a young working-class Yorkshir… read more

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11. Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit

By: Richard Coles

4.25

Format: None pages,

The memoir of popular BBC Radio 4 SATURDAY LIVE presenter, the Reverend Richard Coles. The Reverend… read more

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12. No Country for Old Men

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more

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13. The Nix

By: Nathan Hill

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and deeply touching debut novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and ho… read more

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14. Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun, #1)

By: J.G. Ballard

3.82

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's st… read more

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15. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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16. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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17. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

By: Bono

4.20

Format: 564 pages, Hardcover

Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more

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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

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18. 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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19. Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being

By: Romesh Ranganathan

3.87

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's holiday cam… read more

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20. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

By: Susan Rogers

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more

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21. 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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22. The Trees

By: Percival Everett

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more

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"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

Cover of Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007) by Dan Ozzi

23. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)

By: Dan Ozzi

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well tol… read more

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Cover of I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke

24. I Wanna Be Yours

By: John Cooper Clarke

4.17

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Poet Laureate of Punk, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. A… read more

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25. How to Be a Rock Star

By: Shaun Ryder

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Shaun Ryder is a 1990s rock 'n' roll legend. Now, for the first time, comes his hilarious, swaggeri… read more

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26. Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars

By: Nick Duerden

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as… read more

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27. Bodies

By: Ian Winwood

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Money, freedom, adoring fans: professional musicians seem to have it all. But beneath the surface l… read more

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Cover of Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr

28. Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

By: Tim Mohr

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio … read more

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"She just wanted to be herself, and doing, saying, reading and writing the things that would have made her feel like herself were all verboten."

-Tim Mohr, Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

"The problem in the DDR wasn't No Future, the rallying cry of British Punk. As Planlos guitarist Kobs liked to say, the problem in East Germany was Too Much Future."

-Tim Mohr, Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

"The ethos of East Berlin punk infused the city with a radical egalitarianism and a DIY approach to maintaining independence-to conjuring up the world you want to live in regardless of the situation o…"

-Tim Mohr, Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

"Kids in tje East had also grown up with a genuine sense of fear that the world might actually come to an end during their lifetime. That it probably would in fact. For some this fueled nihilistic fee…"

-Tim Mohr, Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

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29. I Don't Take Requests

By: Tony Marnach

4.32

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

** CONTAINS NEW MATERIAL ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER & WINNER OF THE ATTITUDE BOOK AWARD 'Refr… read more

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30. A Riot of Our Own

By: Johnny Green

4.36

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

'Hugely enjoyable ... Green's great achievement is to recapture exactly how those moments felt, but… read more

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31. My Family: The Memoir

By: David Baddiel

4.41

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more

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