Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year
By: Michaelangelo Matos
3.65
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020 The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eigh…
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1. Carioca Fletch (Fletch, #7)
By: Gregory McDonald
3.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Carioca Fletch Fletch’s trip to Brazil wasn’t exactly planned. But it’s Carnival time in Rio and h… read more
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2. A Natural Woman: A Memoir
By: Carole King
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Carole King takes us from her early beginnings in Brooklyn, to her remarkable success as one of the… read more
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3. Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
By: Lizzy Goodman
4.16
Format: 622 pages, Hardcover
An intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of … read more
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- audiobook
4. This Bird Has Flown
By: Susanna Hoffs
3.17
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song—written… read more
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5. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
6. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
By: Elon Green
3.84
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit… read more
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7. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
By: Kyle Buchanan
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max:… read more
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- audiobook
8. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
By: Jasper Fforde
4.50
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more
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"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
9. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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- audiobook
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
10. Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon
By: Kate Andersen Brower
4.16
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever auth… read more
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11. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
By: David Zucker
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more
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12. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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- pop culture
- audiobook
13. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
15. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more
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"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
16. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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17. Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation
By: Steven Hyden
4.14
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A leading music journalist’s riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and… read more
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- audiobook
"One of the many musical distinctions of my lifetime that used to seem important and now is completely forgotten is the difference between “alternative"-Steven Hyden, Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation
18. Transformers, Vol. 1: Robots in Disguise
By: Daniel Warren Johnson
4.33
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
THE TRANSFORMERS JOIN THE ENERGON UNIVERSE! Optimus Prime was supposed to have led the Autobots … read more
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19. What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life
By: Billy Dee Williams
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the… read more
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20. Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
By: Sarah Ditum
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, expl… read more
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- audiobook
21. Void Rivals, Vol. 1: More than Meets the Eye
By: Robert Kirkman
3.82
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
The blockbuster Oblivion Song team of ROBERT KIRKMAN and LORENZO DE FELICI launch an all-new shared… read more
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22. Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (American Music Series)
By: Alex Pappademas
4.46
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan. Steely Dan’s songs are exercises in … read more
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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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- audiobook
24. Joyful Recollections of Trauma
By: Paul Scheer
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more
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"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
25. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
By: Steven Hyden
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more
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26. And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race (The First Ten Years)
By: María Elena Fernández
4.01
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A definitive history and celebration of the groundbreaking show RuPaul's Drag Race in its first dec… read more
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27. Where the Devil Don't Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers (American Music Series)
By: Stephen Deusner
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In 1996, Patterson Hood recruited friends and fellow musicians in Athens, Georgia, to form his drea… read more
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28. The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
By: Tom Breihan
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through th… read more
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29. George Michael: A Life
By: James Gavin
3.76
Format: 528 pages, ebook
The definitive biography of George Michael, offering an expansive look at the troubled life of the … read more
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30. Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year
By: Michaelangelo Matos
3.65
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020 The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eigh… read more
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- rock n roll
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31. The Velvet Rope
By: Ayanna Dozier
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet… read more
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