8 Top nonfiction books like England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie by Michael Bracewell

Cover of England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie by Michael Bracewell

England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie

By: Michael Bracewell

4.06

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Shows how pop music reflects the culture of the 20th century. It claims that the most culturally si…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie by Michael Bracewell , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of High-Rise by J.G. Ballard

1. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

Similar categories in J.G. Ballard's High-Rise book and Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie

"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

Cover of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

2. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

By: Oliver Sacks

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The N… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales book and Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie

  • nonfiction
Cover of Yes Is The Answer by Rick Moody, Matthew Sweet, Marc Weingarten, Charles Bock, Seth Greenland, Tyson Cornell, None

3. Yes Is The Answer

By: Rick Moody , Matthew Sweet , Marc Weingarten , Charles Bock , Seth Greenland , Tyson Cornell , None

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Progressive rock is maligned and misunderstood. Critics hate it, hipsters scoff at it. Yes Is The A… read more

Similar categories in Rick Moody's Yes Is The Answer book and Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry

4. The Fry Chronicles

By: Stephen Fry

3.84

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fa… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Fry's The Fry Chronicles book and Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie

  • nonfiction
"Mow the fuckers down."

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

"Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books"

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

"Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it."

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

"Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it."

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

5. Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

By: Deborah Feldman

3.88

Format: 96 pages,

In this arresting memoir about growing up in--and ultimately escaping from--a strict Hasidic commun… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Feldman's Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots book and Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie

6. Sweet Tooth

By: Ian McEwan

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Ian McEwan's mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, lov… read more

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Cover of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

7. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie

  • history
  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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8. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World book and Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie

  • history
  • nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

Cover of Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker

9. 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

Similar categories in Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop book and Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie

  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nina Simone's Gum by Warren  Ellis

10. Nina Simone's Gum

By: Warren Ellis

4.26

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina S… read more

Similar categories in Warren Ellis's Nina Simone's Gum book and Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie by Michael Bracewell

11. England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie

By: Michael Bracewell

4.06

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Shows how pop music reflects the culture of the 20th century. It claims that the most culturally si… read more

Similar categories in Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie book and Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion from Wilde to Goldie

  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • cultural studies
Cover of The Black Meadow Archive - Volume 1 by Chris   Lambert

12. The Black Meadow Archive - Volume 1

By: Chris Lambert

4.21

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Tales from the Black Meadow – Declassified The mist has risen. The cry of the Meadow Hag echoes acr… read more

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Nick Cave

3.80

Transform Your Habits

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Nick Cave

3.95

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Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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