20 Top nonfiction books like Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Daniel Rachel

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Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By: Daniel Rachel

4.36

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national conscience as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Mad…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Daniel Rachel , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. The Places in Between

By: Rory Stewart

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

By: Viv Albertine

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

The guitarist for seminal female punk group The Slits recounts playing with Sid Vicious, touring wi… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"It’s true the good die young."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"I grew up with John Lennon at my side, like a big brother."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"… maybe you can tell how much pain someone is in by watching them laugh."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

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3. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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4. Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

By: Bernie Taupin

3.58

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, th… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

By: Mark Billingham

4.11

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingh… read more

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6. From The Ashes (DI Nick Dixon Crime, #14)

By: Damien Boyd

4.64

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

Long lives are being cut short in this thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series. … read more

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7. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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8. Football and How to Survive It

By: Pat Nevin

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

'The good news for those who loved THE ACCIDENTAL this new book is even better. There were times a… read more

Similar categories in Pat Nevin's Football and How to Survive It book and Daniel Rachel's Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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10. Karma: My Autobiography

By: Boy George

3.62

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what mig… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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11. O Brother

By: John Niven

4.64

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
"My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business …"

-John Niven, O Brother

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12. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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13. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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14. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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15. T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen

By: Peter Kay

4.23

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch … Mastermind, Moonl… read more

Similar categories in Peter Kay's T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen book and Daniel Rachel's Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. Verse, Chorus, Monster!

By: Graham Coxon

3.70

Format: None pages, ebook

Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Unabridged Interviews

By: Simon Halfon

4.39

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

'We are the biggest band in Britain of all time, ever. The funny thing is, all that fucking mouthin… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. 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
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. Get It On: How the ’70s Rocked Football

By: Jon Spurling

4.31

Format: 444 pages, Kindle Edition

A decade after the abolition of the maximum wage, a new generation of footballers and managers beca… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. The Accidental Footballer

By: Pat Nevin

4.10

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

Pat Nevin never wanted to be a professional footballer. His future was clear, he'd become a teac… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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21. God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent

By: Andy McGrath

3.98

Format: None pages, ebook

The remarkable untold story of the mercurial cycling prodigy Frank Vandenbroucke, written by Willia… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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22. 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
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner

23. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more

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24. The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2)

By: Mark Billingham

4.41

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from m… read more

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25. Under a Rock: A Memoir

By: Chris Stein

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

At its heart, Under A Rock is a love story. The codependent bond between Chris Stein and Debbie Har… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Daniel Rachel

26. Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By: Daniel Rachel

4.36

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national conscience as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Mad… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Rachel's Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation book and Daniel Rachel's Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Original Rude Boy: From Borstal to the Specials: A Life of Crime and Music by Neville Staple

27. Original Rude Boy: From Borstal to the Specials: A Life of Crime and Music

By: Neville Staple

3.83

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

The Specials' vocalist offers his inside take on the 2 Tone era, his experiences producing such ban… read more

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  • music
  • biography
Cover of 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left by Robyn Hitchcock

28. 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left

By: Robyn Hitchcock

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The great eccentric of British psychedelia—beloved by everyone from Led Zeppelin and R.E.M. to the … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Resolution (Ray Lennox, #3) by Irvine Welsh

29. Resolution (Ray Lennox, #3)

By: Irvine Welsh

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

"The truth is what we say the truth is . . . " Former detective Ray Lennox is determined to sta… read more

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Cover of The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) by Ben Aaronovitch

30. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more

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31. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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7 best-selling history books like Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Daniel Rachel

Transform Your Habits

The Places in Between

Rory Stewart

3.89

Transform Your Habits

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Good Pop, Bad Pop

Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Unabridged Interviews

Simon Halfon

4.39

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

Bernie Taupin

3.58

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My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand

4.20

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Karma: My Autobiography

Boy George

3.62

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Mary Gabriel

4.03

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