14 best-selling music books like Building an Empire: The Story of Queensrÿche by James R. Beach

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Building an Empire: The Story of Queensrÿche

By: James R. Beach

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Building An Empire: The Story of Queensrÿche examines how the band evolved from album to album, wea…

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1. Shut Up and Give Me the Mic

By: Dee Snider

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

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2. Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe

By: Mick Wall

4.01

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Decades before reality television was invented, Ozzy Osbourne was subversive and dark. Ozzy was the… read more

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3. Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore

By: John Peel , Albert Mudrian

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

This exciting history, featuring an introduction by famed DJ John Peel, tells the two-decade-long h… read more

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4. Close to the Edge: The Story of YES

By: Chris Welch

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

The B format edition of the classic rock biography updated to include details of the group's activi… read more

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5. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

By: William L. Shirer

4.21

Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more

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"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

6. Stick It!: My Life of Sex, Drums, and Rock 'n' Roll

By: None

4.36

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

He ran with teenage gangs in Brooklyn before becoming a global rock star in the Summer of Love. He … read more

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7. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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8. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

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9. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

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10. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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Cover of Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s by Gary Gulman

11. Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s

By: Gary Gulman

4.14

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A tour de force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth gr… read more

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12. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

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"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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13. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

By: Bono

4.20

Format: 564 pages, Hardcover

Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more

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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

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14. Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

By: Molly Shannon

4.13

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption b… read more

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"But I thought, I can do whatever I want. I can be friends with whoever I want. I'm going to be friends with the freaks and the geeks and I don't have to fit into any clique. And I'm Free! And I like …"

-Molly Shannon, Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

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15. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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16. Love, Pamela

By: Pamela Anderson

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

To live and dream is a wicked dance. My dreams often come true -- a curse, and a blessing. Pa… read more

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"She told me that you get to have only one true love, and once you've found it, whether you kept it or lost it, you'd never recover...Accepting that was the hardest part."

-Pamela Anderson, Love, Pamela

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17. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

By: Monica Potts

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more

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"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."

-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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18. The Lives of Brian

By: Brian Johnson

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Brian Johnson’s memoir from growing up in a small town to starting his own band to ultimately repla… read more

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19. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

By: Sarah Kendzior

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see… read more

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"The word “conspire"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

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20. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

By: Peter Enns

4.36

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more

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"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

21. Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen

By: Brad Tolinski

4.26

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with this groundbreaking oral history, c… read more

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Cover of Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond by Geezer Butler

22. Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

By: Geezer Butler

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black … read more

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"Being in Black Sabbath felt like being an actor in a soap opera. It’s a minor miracle all four of the original lineup survived beyond the 1970s, let alone that we’re all still here. Along the way, we…"

-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

"Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age,…"

-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

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23. You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

By: Kat Timpf

3.80

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when we can’t joke about some of the most important stuff in life? In a 2019 study, 4… read more

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"The Bottom Line: When you say that words are violence, you inherently are saying that violence is an acceptable response to words, because violence is universally considered an acceptable response to…"

-Kat Timpf, You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

"A better standard would be intention. If someone says something that offends us - but their intentions was humor - than we should respond far differently to that than we would if the person intended …"

-Kat Timpf, You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

Cover of Don’t Call It Hair Metal: Art in the Excess of ’80s Rock by Sean            Kelly

24. Don’t Call It Hair Metal: Art in the Excess of ’80s Rock

By: Sean Kelly

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A love letter to the hard-rocking, but often snubbed, music of the era of excess: the 1980s Ther… read more

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Cover of Biblical: Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures by Rob Halford

25. Biblical: Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures

By: Rob Halford

4.31

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Metal God, himself, Rob Halford—lead vocalist of Judas Priest and author of the critically accl… read more

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Cover of Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records by Brian Slagel

26. Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records

By: Brian Slagel

4.06

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Swing of the Blade follows Brian Slagel’s critically acclaimed 2017 book, For the Sake of Heaviness… read more

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Cover of Lay It On The Line: A Backstage Pass to Rock Star Adventure, Conflict and TRIUMPH by Rik Emmett

27. Lay It On The Line: A Backstage Pass to Rock Star Adventure, Conflict and TRIUMPH

By: Rik Emmett

3.66

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

From Triumph superstar Rik Emmett comes the thrilling, inspiring story of a life of rock and roll W… read more

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Cover of World Infestation: The Ratt Story by Greg Prato

28. World Infestation: The Ratt Story

By: Greg Prato

3.82

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

During the mid ‘80s, Ratt was one of the biggest hard rock/heavy metal bands in the United States. … read more

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29. Building an Empire: The Story of Queensrÿche

By: James R. Beach

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Building An Empire: The Story of Queensrÿche examines how the band evolved from album to album, wea… read more

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Cover of Journey: Worlds Apart: A must-read for every music enthusiast and Journey fan! by Nick DeRiso

30. Journey: Worlds Apart: A must-read for every music enthusiast and Journey fan!

By: Nick DeRiso

4.36

Format: 1108 pages, Kindle Edition

" Worlds Apart" offers an enthralling dive into the evolution of a legendary band. From their origi… read more

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31. Life...? And Napalm Death

By: Shane Embury

4.31

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury has been a major figure in grindcore for more than four decades, … read more

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18 best-selling audiobook books like The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta

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4.45

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

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Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

4.28

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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