Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
By: Charles C. Cross
4.31
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Kurt Cobain's life and death fast became rock 'n' roll legend. The worldwide success of his band, N…
Want to Read $ 11.99If you liked the music plot in Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition) by Charles C. Cross , here is a list of 11 books like this:
1. Too Much Happiness: Stories
By: Alice Munro
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into st… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Alice Munro's Too Much Happiness: Stories book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
"It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation"-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories
"Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person."-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories
"It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence."-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories
"You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never."-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories
2. The Crucifix Killer (Robert Hunter, #1)
By: Chris Carter
4.28
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the body of a young woman is discovered in a derelict cottage in the middle of Los Angeles Nat… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Chris Carter's The Crucifix Killer (Robert Hunter, #1) book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
"What makes you think I’d know this woman?’ Hunter knew what he was trying to do. ‘Listen, P-Diddy . . .’ ‘D-King . . .’ ‘Whatever."-Chris Carter, The Crucifix Killer (Robert Hunter, #1)
"Fuck you! Someone has tortured and killed one of your girls and you couldn’t give a damn? I thought you were supposed to protect them, to be their guardian. Isn’t that what pimps do?’ Garcia’s face f…"-Chris Carter, The Crucifix Killer (Robert Hunter, #1)
"We’ve got DNA tests; we can convict someone by his saliva. Hell, if the killer had farted in that house the forensic team would probably have some gadget that could pick it up. How can the crime scen…"-Chris Carter, The Crucifix Killer (Robert Hunter, #1)
"Hunter let go of JJ who started dusting his jacket with both hands. ‘Look at what you’ve done to my suit man, these things don’t come cheap you know.’ Garcia checked his pocket change. ‘Here.’ He ext…"-Chris Carter, The Crucifix Killer (Robert Hunter, #1)
3. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Noam Chomsky's On Palestine book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- nonfiction
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
4. Women
By: Charles Bukowski
3.81
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slac… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Charles Bukowski's Women book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
"Are you anti-black? I'm anti-everything."-Charles Bukowski, Women
"My cock was hard, but my spirit wasn't in it."-Charles Bukowski, Women
"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met"-Charles Bukowski, Women
"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met."-Charles Bukowski, Women
5. On the Road
By: Jack Kerouac
3.61
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Jack Kerouac's On the Road book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
6. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
By: Tommy Lee , Neil Strauss , Vince Neil , Nikki Sixx , None
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Tommy Lee's The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- music
- nonfiction
- biography
7. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Boris Dralyuk
4.11
Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he … read more
Want to Read $ 1.66Similar categories in Leo Tolstoy's How Much Land Does a Man Need? book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
"I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone."-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow some bread. Only the stranger was sitting on the bench, wearing the old trous…"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"An elder sister came from the town to visit her younger sister in the country. This elder sister was married to a merchant and the younger to a peasant in the village. The two sisters sat down for a …"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
8. American Psycho
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.16
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
9. Ring (Ring, #1)
By: Kōji Suzuki , Glynne Walley , Robert B. Rohmer
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kōji Suzuki's Ring (Ring, #1) book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
10. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
By: Vincent Bugliosi , Curt Gentry
4.06
Format: 687 pages, Paperback
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one … read more
Want to Read $ 8.98Similar categories in Vincent Bugliosi's Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- nonfiction
- biography
"Deciding that his own life expectancy was directly proportional to his usefulness to Manson, Crockett made himself very useful, volunteering his truck to haul in supplies, and so forth."-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
"Noting that it would be a long trial, with many witnesses, I recall the old Chinese proverb, "The palest ink is better than the best memory," urging the jury to take detailed notes to aid them in the…"-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
"For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor …"-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
"One day Manson tried with me. I stared right back, holding his gaze until his hands started shaking. During the recess, I slid my chair over next to his and asked, "What are you trembling about, Char…"-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Similar categories in Ozzy Osbourne's I Am Ozzy book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- music
- nonfiction
- biography
12. Journals
By: Kurt Cobain
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The lyrics notebook and personal journals of Kurt Cobain, iconic singer of the band Nirvana. Kurt C… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kurt Cobain's Journals book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- music
- nonfiction
- biography
13. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
14. The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
By: Nikki Sixx
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of Motley Crue offers an… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Nikki Sixx's The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
15. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
By: Hunter S. Thompson
4.33
Format: 201 pages,
"California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists w… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
16. Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
By: Peter Hook
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Joy Division changed the face of music. Godfathers of alternative rock, they reinvented music in th… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Peter Hook's Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
17. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Peter Glassman
3.46
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In 1865, English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastica… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
18. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
19. 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
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- music
- nonfiction
- biography
"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
20. Fight Club
By: Chuck Palahniuk
4.19
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first bo… read more
Want to Read $ 8.61Similar categories in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
"I am nothing, and not even that."-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"I don't want to die without any scars."-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"Maybe we should always assume the worst."-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
21. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Tim Marshall's The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- nonfiction
22. Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
By: Melville House
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Kurt Cobain burst into American consciousness with a vengeance with the release of Nevermind, an in… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Melville House's Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- music
- nonfiction
- biography
23. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Patrick Bringley's All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- nonfiction
- biography
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
24. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's The Satsuma Complex book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
25. Acid for the Children
By: Flea
4.08
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Flea's Acid for the Children book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- music
- nonfiction
- biography
"Bein famous don't mean shit"-Flea, Acid for the Children
"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."-Flea, Acid for the Children
"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"-Flea, Acid for the Children
26. 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
Want to Read $ 12.92Similar categories in Graham Coxon's Verse, Chorus, Monster! book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- music
- nonfiction
- biography
27. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
By: Dave Grohl
4.47
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questiona… read more
Want to Read $ 19.49Similar categories in Dave Grohl's The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- music
- nonfiction
- biography
"I'm bad enough at rolling joints, how could I successfully roll a child?"-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
"What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create."-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
"I stopped trying to understand fate and destiny a long time ago, but dumb luck seems to be my specialty."-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
"There is no love like a Mother's love. It is life's greatest song. We are all indebted to the women who have given us life. For without them, there would be no music."-Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
28. A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives
By: David Hepworth
4.09
Format: None pages, ebook
_________‘Hepworth’s knowledge and understanding of rock history is prodigious … [a] hugely enterta… read more
Want to Read $ 12.49Similar categories in David Hepworth's A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- music
- nonfiction
- biography
29. Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America
By: David Hepworth
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobo… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in David Hepworth's Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- music
- nonfiction
30. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
31. Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
By: Charles C. Cross
4.31
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Kurt Cobain's life and death fast became rock 'n' roll legend. The worldwide success of his band, N… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition) book and Charles C. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain (commemorative edition)
- music
- nonfiction
- biography
