15 Top autobiography books like Tim Book Two: Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco by Tim Burgess

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Tim Book Two: Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco

By: Tim Burgess

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In 2012, Tim Burgess of the Charlatans published his hugely successful and critically acclaimed mem…

If you liked the autobiography plot in Tim Book Two: Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco by Tim Burgess , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1) by Irvine Welsh

1. Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

By: Irvine Welsh

4.05

Format: 548 pages, Paperback

Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at universit… read more

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"Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character."

-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

"but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up."

-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

"Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith."

-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

"Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked."

-Irvine Welsh, Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)

Cover of Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography by Alex  James

2. Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography

By: Alex James

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For Alex James, music had always been a door to a more exciting life—a way to travel, meet new peop… read more

Similar categories in Alex James's Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography book and Tim Burgess's Tim Book Two: Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco

  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop by Marc Myers

3. Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop

By: Marc Myers

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Every great song has a fascinating backstory. In Anatomy of a Song , based on the ongoing Wall Stre… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

4. High Fidelity

By: Nick Hornby

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more

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5. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

By: Anthony Bourdain

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary tra… read more

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6. Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored

By: John Lydon

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

John Lydon has secured prime position as one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music … read more

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7. The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize

By: David Cavanagh

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Founded by Alan McGee in 1983, Creation Records achieved notoriety as the home of Primal Scream, th… read more

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8. How Soon Is Now? The Madmen & Mavericks Who Made Independent Music (1975-2005)

By: Richard King

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

'If you look at all the people involved - Ivo, Tony Wilson, McGee, Geoff Travis, myself - nobody ha… read more

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9. The Damned Utd

By: David Peace

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the countr… read more

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10. Ordinary Thunderstorms

By: William Boyd

3.50

Format: 134 pages,

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11. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

By: Max Brooks

3.91

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Gr… read more

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"Adversity introduces us to ourselves."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"I trust my nose, ears, eyes. But my brain…"

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"They're not good or evil. They're just hungry."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"People are the problem. Nature is your friend."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

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12. 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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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

Cover of Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono

13. 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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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"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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14. Spaceships Over Glasgow

By: Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Braithwaite's Spaceships Over Glasgow book and Tim Burgess's Tim Book Two: Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco

  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh

15. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

By: Kelefa Sanneh

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty yea… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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16. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

Cover of Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina by Chris Frantz

17. Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

By: Chris Frantz

3.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Chris Frantz’s memoir tells the story of his life with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and his life-lon… read more

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"Without adventures, we won’t have stories."

-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

"...the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is selfishness."

-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

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18. Record Play Pause

By: Stephen Morris

4.38

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer 'Gritty coming-of-age… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Morris's Record Play Pause book and Tim Burgess's Tim Book Two: Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco

  • music
  • autobiography
  • music biography
  • nonfiction
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19. Just Like You

By: Nick Hornby

3.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the… read more

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"Als je hem voor de Nacht Zonder Jazz zou hebben gevraagd waar hij gelukkig van werd, dan zou hij niet goed hebben begrepen hoe relevant die vraag was. Nu wist hij het antwoord: naar bed gaan met Lucy…"

-Nick Hornby, Just Like You

Cover of The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

20. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

By: Dave Grohl

4.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questiona… read more

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"I'm bad enough at rolling joints, how could I successfully roll a child?"

-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

"What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create."

-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

"I stopped trying to understand fate and destiny a long time ago, but dumb luck seems to be my specialty."

-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

"There is no love like a Mother's love. It is life's greatest song. We are all indebted to the women who have given us life. For without them, there would be no music."

-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

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21. Boy Friends

By: Michael Pedersen

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland’s brightest y… read more

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with …"

-Michael Pedersen, Boy Friends

Cover of I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke

22. 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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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success by Miki Berenyi

23. 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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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson

24. 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

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • music biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie

25. Tenement Kid

By: Bobby Gillespie

4.02

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Gillespie’s vivid and evocative mem… read more

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter."

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"Those painful childhood memories we bury, that some of us try and drown out with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, all the usual crutches and distractions. These childhood experiences are going to be re…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"I began to question the world and other people from a young age. I suppose that gave me a sense of emotional distance, a lack of trust in future friendships and relationships; I would assume a friend…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

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

26. 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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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars by Nick Duerden

27. 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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  • music
  • music biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America by David Hepworth

28. Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

By: David Hepworth

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobo… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of American Utopia by David Byrne

29. American Utopia

By: David Byrne

3.48

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From former Talking Heads frontman and multimedia visionary David Byrne and revered bestselling aut… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor: Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir by Dave Haslam

30. Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor: Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir

By: Dave Haslam

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor is writer/DJ Dave Haslam's gloriously well-crafted memoir, documentin… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Tim Book Two: Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco by Tim Burgess

31. Tim Book Two: Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco

By: Tim Burgess

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In 2012, Tim Burgess of the Charlatans published his hugely successful and critically acclaimed mem… read more

Similar categories in Tim Burgess's Tim Book Two: Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco book and Tim Burgess's Tim Book Two: Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco

  • music
  • autobiography
  • music biography
  • nonfiction

21 must-read nonfiction books like Tim Book Two: Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco by Tim Burgess

Transform Your Habits

Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography

Alex James

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop

Marc Myers

3.77

Transform Your Habits

And Away...

Bob Mortimer

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

Bono

4.20

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19 Top nonfiction books like Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie

Transform Your Habits

Telling Stories

Tim Burgess

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Macrofestivales: El agujero negro de la música

Nando Cruz

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Sonic Life: A Memoir

Thurston Moore

3.81

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