11 Top music books like The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream by Marc Burrows

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The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream

By: Marc Burrows

4.08

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Rock n roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons: David Bowie …

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1. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

By: Owen Jones

4.09

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"High Priestess of the Slagocracy"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

"Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear thi…"

-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

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2. Expo 58

By: Jonathan Coe

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office … read more

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3. 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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  • music
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Psychedelic Suburbia: David Bowie and the Beckenham Arts Lab by Mary Finnigan

4. Psychedelic Suburbia: David Bowie and the Beckenham Arts Lab

By: Mary Finnigan

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

David Bowie was 22 years old and still living with his parents in southeast London when, quite by c… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

5. Grayson Perry: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Girl

By: Grayson Perry , Wendy Jones

3.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Every inch of Grayson's childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surfac… read more

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6. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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Cover of Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob  Wilkins

7. Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

By: Rob Wilkins

4.68

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.' At the tim… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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8. My Name Is Barbra

By: Barbra Streisand

4.20

Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra St… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"There are some things I hope we can all agree upon: The antidote to lies is truth, the remedy to war is peace, and the solution to hate is love."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society . . . A man is commanding—a woman is demanding. A man is forceful—a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising—a wo…"

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

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9. Underland: A Deep Time Journey

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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11. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline

12. Loyalty

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.76

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

Franco Fiorvante is a handsome lemon-grower who has toiled for years on the estate of boss Baron Zi… read more

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Cover of Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen  Hale

13. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

By: Kathleen Hale

3.94

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

By: Paul Newman

3.89

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Kingdom (Cotton Malone, #17) by Steve Berry

15. The Last Kingdom (Cotton Malone, #17)

By: Steve Berry

4.10

Format: 451 pages, Hardcover

From celebrated New York Times bestselling author, Steve Berry, comes the latest Cotton Malone adve… read more

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16. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

By: Joanna Cannon

3.65

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more

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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

Cover of Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

17. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

By: Rick Emerson

3.96

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. Delicate Condition

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The Push meets The Silent Patient in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister … read more

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"Sometimes it felt like the continuation of our species was an ongoing experiment being performed on the backs of women. Or on our wombs."

-Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

Cover of The Tuesday Night Survivors' Club (Survivors' Book Club Mystery, #1) by Lynn Cahoon

19. The Tuesday Night Survivors' Club (Survivors' Book Club Mystery, #1)

By: Lynn Cahoon

3.60

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Survivors become sleuths to find a missing member of their book club in new-age Sedona, Arizona . .… read more

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Cover of Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones by Elizabeth Winder

20. Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones

By: Elizabeth Winder

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Discover the true story of the four women who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help shape and… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Story of The Bee Gees: Children of the World by Bob Stanley

21. The Story of The Bee Gees: Children of the World

By: Bob Stanley

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling biography of one of the bestselling bands of all time, told with brilliant insight by re… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Me and Mr. Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars by Suzi Ronson

22. Me and Mr. Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars

By: Suzi Ronson

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A luminescent memoir from the stylist who created David's iconic Ziggy Stardust look, painting a da… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. Nick Drake: The Life

By: Richard Morton Jack

4.54

Format: 546 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is the book we've been waiting for . . . It is a biography to be treasured' Joe Boyd 'The … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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24. Life’s a Gamble

By: Pauline Murray

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Life’ s a Gamble is the autobiography of iconic singer-songwriter Pauline Murray. It recounts her j… read more

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  • music
Cover of David Bowie Rainbowman: 1967-1980 by Jérôme Soligny

25. David Bowie Rainbowman: 1967-1980

By: Jérôme Soligny

4.62

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

The most authoritative work on the creation of Bowie's music ever published "This is a book unli… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream by Marc Burrows

26. The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream

By: Marc Burrows

4.08

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Rock n roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons: David Bowie … read more

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27. Munichs

By: David Peace

4.36

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

On the afternoon of February 6, 1958, British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Mu… read more

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28. On the Trail of Jack the Ripper

By: Richard Charles Cobb

4.10

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

For 132 years, the ghastly and horrific murders committed in London’s East End by the infamous ‘Jac… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of I Saw The Devil's Face: My Life With Joseph Michael Kalady by Teresa Giglio

29. I Saw The Devil's Face: My Life With Joseph Michael Kalady

By: Teresa Giglio

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

"You better hope to God the cops don't come," my babysitter, Joe Kalady, threatened me that day on … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon: 50 Years by Martin Popoff

30. Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon: 50 Years

By: Martin Popoff

4.49

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Take a deep dive into one of the best-selling albums ever on the 50th anniversary of its release wi… read more

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  • music
Cover of Landru’s Secret: The Deadly Seductions of France’s Lonely Hearts Serial Killer by Richard Tomlinson

31. Landru’s Secret: The Deadly Seductions of France’s Lonely Hearts Serial Killer

By: Richard Tomlinson

4.10

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

On 12 April 1919, the Paris police arrested a bald, short, 50-year-old swindler at his apartment ne… read more

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4.09

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Rob Wilkins

4.68

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My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand

4.20

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Robert Macfarlane

4.22

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Prophet Song

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4.10

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3.96

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3.85

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