13 Top music books like Hardcore: The Cinematic World of Pulp by Paul Burgess

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Hardcore: The Cinematic World of Pulp

By: Paul Burgess

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A rich visual celebration of Pulp’s sixth album, This is Hardcore , featuring unseen photography an…

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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)

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2. The Night Before Christmas

By: Clement Clarke Moore , Jan Brett

4.39

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

This poem first appeared in a newspaper in Troy, New York, USA, on December 23, 1823, as "A Visit F… read more

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"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."

-Clement Clarke Moore, The Night Before Christmas

"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be t…"

-Clement Clarke Moore, The Night Before Christmas

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3. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

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4. Party Girls Die in Pearls: An Oxford Girl Mystery

By: Plum Sykes

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

It's 1985, and at Oxford University, Pimm's, punting, and ball gowns are de rigeur. Ursula Flowerbu… read more

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5. Freak Out the Squares: Life in a Band Called Pulp

By: Russell Senior

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Russell Senior was Jarvis Cocker's partner-in-crime in Pulp, and the most stylish man in Britpop - … read more

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6. The Zone of Interest

By: Martin Amis

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more

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7. 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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8. Reheated Cabbage

By: Irvine Welsh

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, Reheated Cabbage has all the classic Irvine Welsh ingr… read more

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9. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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10. 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

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"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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11. Meantime

By: Frankie Boyle

3.54

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more

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12. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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13. 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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"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

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14. Dracul

By: Dacre Stoker

4.14

Format: 497 pages, Hardcover

The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel,… read more

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"Like life, there is much we do not understand about death."

-Dacre Stoker, Dracul

"I have known politicians with more skeletons in their closet than an undertaker's wife."

-Dacre Stoker, Dracul

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15. 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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16. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

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17. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

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"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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18. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont

By: Shawn Levy

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second … read more

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19. 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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20. Archive

By: Sofia Coppola

4.84

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Archive is the first book by Sofia Coppola, covering the entirety of her singular and influential c… read more

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21. A Likely Lad

By: Pete Doherty

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enemy. To his d… read more

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22. Ayoade On Top

By: Richard Ayoade

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the T… read more

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"We can't live in dreams any more that we can live in the clouds or under socialism."

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven't, somehow, forfeited their humanity."

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"When I buy Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, the acquisitive part of me is buying it for the deluded part of me that thinks I’ll read it one day, while the archivist part of me keeps it on a shelf with …"

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"This shadowy, depersonalised, frankly militaristic ‘they’ (why should I call the pilot ‘captain’ – I didn’t join his army) is what makes commercial air travel so Orwellian. Say you want to take a nap…"

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

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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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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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Cover of Turkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin' in New Orleans [A Cookbook] by Mason Hereford

25. Turkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin' in New Orleans [A Cookbook]

By: Mason Hereford

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • IACP AWARD FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fun, flavorful cook… read more

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26. Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany

By: Uwe Schütte

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

'Highly stimulating ... Kraftwerk is a pleasure to read' Jon Savage, New StatesmanThe story of the … read more

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27. So it started there

By: Nick Banks

4.44

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

So It Started There chronicles the life and career of drummer Nick Banks, and how he came to be in … read more

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Cover of The Sound of the Machine: My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond by Karl Bartos

28. The Sound of the Machine: My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond

By: Karl Bartos

4.27

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

Whether in Kraftwerk or as an acclaimed solo artist, Karl Bartos has had an extraordinary impact on… read more

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Cover of Hardcore: The Cinematic World of Pulp by Paul Burgess

29. Hardcore: The Cinematic World of Pulp

By: Paul Burgess

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A rich visual celebration of Pulp’s sixth album, This is Hardcore , featuring unseen photography an… read more

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Cover of This Is Hardcore by Jane Savidge

30. This Is Hardcore

By: Jane Savidge

3.97

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

This Is Hardcore is Pulp's cry for help. A giant, sprawling, flawed masterpiece of a record, the 19… read more

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Cover of Belle and Sebastian: Illustrated Lyrics by Stuart Murdoch

31. Belle and Sebastian: Illustrated Lyrics

By: Stuart Murdoch

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful collaboration between Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch and illustrator Pamel… read more

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13 must-read audiobook books like Ayoade On Top by Richard Ayoade

Transform Your Habits

Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life

David Mitchell

3.45

Transform Your Habits

James Acaster's Classic Scrapes

James Acaster

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook (Discworld, #40.5; Discworld Companion Books )

Terry Pratchett

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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