12 must-read biography books like Weird Al: Seriously by Lily E. Hirsch

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Weird Al: Seriously

By: Lily E. Hirsch

3.56

Format: 240 pages, ebook

From his love of accordions and Hawaiian print shirts to his popular puns and trademark dance moves…

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1. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

By: Carrie Brownstein

3.83

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply persona… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I've always felt unclaimed."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"If someone didn’t feel included, if someone felt marginalised, they would form their own band, write their own fanzine, or just call you out on what they deemed racist or classist, sizeist, sexist, b…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I suppose we were better observers than communicators; we were all subjects to be worried over, complained about, even adored, but never quite people to be held or loved. There was an intellectual, a…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

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2. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

By: Martin Short

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this engaging memoir, written with heart, wisdom, and a huge helping of hilarity, Martin Short s… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
"To my beloved friends, there’s simply no life without you guys. Thanks for the advice and the love and the billion dinners and laughs. Without you all . . . I’d look for new friends and get them."

-Martin Short, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

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3. Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide (Pottermore Presents, #3)

By: J.K. Rowling

4.19

Format: 85 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The Ministry of Magic felt strongly, however, that to construct an additional wizarding station in… read more

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"Tread carefully when using a Time-Turner, stop searching for the Chamber of Secrets — unless you're a Parselmouth — and don't linger too long before the Mirror of Erised."

-J.K. Rowling, Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide (Pottermore Presents, #3)

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4. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

By: Randall Munroe

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
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5. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

By: John Elder Robison

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

6. Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World

By: None

2.00

Format: 161 pages, ebook

"This is the best book about the Beatles ever written" --Mashable Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stonec… read more

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7. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

By: Jen Campbell

3.60

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

This Sunday Times bestseller is a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments: 'Can books… read more

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8. Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies (Pottermore Presents, #1)

By: J.K. Rowling , MinaLima

4.04

Format: 538 pages, ebook

'Minerva was the Roman goddess of warriors and wisdom. William McGonagall is celebrated as the wors… read more

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9. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)

By: Shaun Bythell

4.11

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. The Lyrics

By: Paul McCartney

4.59

Format: 960 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Washington Post Notable Book Excerpted in The New Yorker A work of… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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11. I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

By: Barbara Rae-Venter

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For twelve years the Golden State Killer terrorized California, stalking victims and killing withou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The cost in time, personnel, and money for trying to identify the Golden State Killer prior to the use of IGG was significant,"

-Barbara Rae-Venter, I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

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12. What a Fool Believes: A Memoir

By: Michael McDonald

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award–winning, platinum … read more

Similar categories in Michael McDonald's What a Fool Believes: A Memoir book and Lily E. Hirsch's Weird Al: Seriously

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy by Tania Crasnianski

13. Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy

By: Tania Crasnianski

3.85

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Borm… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Quantum Curators and the Enemy Within (The Quantum Curators #2) by Eva St. John

14. The Quantum Curators and the Enemy Within (The Quantum Curators #2)

By: Eva St. John

4.23

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

That belongs in a museum! Julius Strathclyde has been dragged through to an alternative earth. N… read more

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15. Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From Jeff Pearlman―the New York Times best-selling author of Three Ring Circus ―comes the rollickin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided by Scott Eyman

16. Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided

By: Scott Eyman

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

The “shocking” (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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17. The Opus Dictum (Vatican Secret Archive #2)

By: Gary McAvoy

4.50

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1982, Italian financier Roberto Calvi, known as “God’s Banker,” was discovered hanging under Lon… read more

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18. The Forgotten Cottage

By: Courtney Ellis

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Connected through time to her great-grandmother by a shared English countryside home, an American n… read more

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19. Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith

By: John F. Szwed

4.29

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. A Conspiracy of Tall Men

By: Noah Hawley

3.09

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The debut literary thriller that launched the career of the bestselling author of BEFORE THE FALL a… read more

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21. Weird Al: Seriously

By: Lily E. Hirsch

3.56

Format: 240 pages, ebook

From his love of accordions and Hawaiian print shirts to his popular puns and trademark dance moves… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy

13 must-read nonfiction books like Weird Al: Seriously by Lily E. Hirsch

Transform Your Habits

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Carrie Brownstein

3.83

Transform Your Habits

I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

Martin Short

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Randall Munroe

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

John Elder Robison

4.23

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15 Top nonfiction books like Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison

Transform Your Habits

The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome

Tony Attwood

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Possible Side Effects

Augusten Burroughs

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism

Barry M. Prizant , Tom Fields-Meyer

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Magical Thinking: True Stories

Augusten Burroughs

4.26

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