14 must-read music books like The Rejects by Jamie Collinson

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The Rejects

By: Jamie Collinson

3.26

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Imagine you've made it. You and your friends have hit the big time in music and you're going to be …

If you liked the music plot in The Rejects by Jamie Collinson , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie by Jon Ronson

1. Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie

By: Jon Ronson

3.70

Format: 96 pages, ebook

In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Fr… read more

Similar categories in Jon Ronson's Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys by Lol Tolhurst

2. Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

By: Lol Tolhurst

4.16

Format: 1342 pages, Hardcover

"On our first day of school, Robert and I stood at the designated stop at Hevers Avenue with our mo… read more

Similar categories in Lol Tolhurst's Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • music
  • nonfiction

3. Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994

By: David Hepworth

4.25

Format: 512 pages, ebook

As heard on Radcliffe and Maconie, Danny Baker and Simon Mayo 'Fascinating from start to finish' Si… read more

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

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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5. The Lamplighters

By: Emma Stonex

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappeara… read more

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"Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore."

-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

"It felt like the more I read, the more free I was in my mind, and if you’re free in your mind, then it doesn’t matter what else is going on."

-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"

-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"

-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

Cover of Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud by Becky Holmes

6. Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

By: Becky Holmes

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter romance … read more

Similar categories in Becky Holmes's Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • nonfiction
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7. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

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  • nonfiction
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

Cover of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

8. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

Similar categories in Zeke Faux's Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • nonfiction
Cover of Sonic Life: A Memoir by Thurston Moore

9. Sonic Life: A Memoir

By: Thurston Moore

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more

Similar categories in Thurston Moore's Sonic Life: A Memoir book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

10. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

Similar categories in Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • nonfiction
Cover of City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) by Don Winslow

11. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

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12. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

By: Nick Hornby

3.66

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and… read more

Similar categories in Nick Hornby's Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • music
  • nonfiction
"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."

-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

Cover of The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

13. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • nonfiction
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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14. 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

Similar categories in Graham Coxon's Verse, Chorus, Monster! book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • music
  • nonfiction
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15. Be Funny or Die

By: Joel Morris

4.26

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

Comedy is a game that all humans play. There are big social prizes if you win, but it is easy to en… read more

Similar categories in Joel Morris's Be Funny or Die book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • nonfiction
Cover of Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America’s Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare by Mick Wall

16. Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America’s Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

By: Mick Wall

3.89

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

'This could be heaven or this could be hell...'So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel C… read more

Similar categories in Mick Wall's Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America’s Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest by K.K. Downing

17. Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest

By: K.K. Downing

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Get a backstage pass and see Judas Priest like you’ve never seen them before in this electrifying m… read more

Similar categories in K.K. Downing's Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Lost Album of The Beatles: What if the Beatles hadn't split up? by Daniel Rachel

18. The Lost Album of The Beatles: What if the Beatles hadn't split up?

By: Daniel Rachel

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An award-winning music author takes a serious look at a playful question of pop what if the Beatle… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Rachel's The Lost Album of The Beatles: What if the Beatles hadn't split up? book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis by Conor Niland

19. The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis

By: Conor Niland

4.38

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidential for tennis.' Ed Caesar… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Somebody Told Me: One Man’s Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies by Danny Wallace

20. Somebody Told Me: One Man’s Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies

By: Danny Wallace

4.22

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you been keeping your eye on your grandma lately? Have you been calling her enough? You sure s… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Psychology of Secrets: My Adventures with Murderers, Cults and Influencers by Andrew   Gold

21. The Psychology of Secrets: My Adventures with Murderers, Cults and Influencers

By: Andrew Gold

4.08

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

From the host of award-winning podcast On the Edge with Andrew Gold comes The Psychology of Secrets… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History by Otto English

22. Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

By: Otto English

3.96

Format: 495 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the gr… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World by Dom Joly

23. The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World

By: Dom Joly

3.69

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Lunch With The Wild Frontiers: A History of Britpop and Excess in 13½ Chapters by Phill Savidge

24. Lunch With The Wild Frontiers: A History of Britpop and Excess in 13½ Chapters

By: Phill Savidge

3.66

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

Jane Savidge is widely credited as being the main instigator of the Britpop music movement that swe… read more

Similar categories in Phill Savidge's Lunch With The Wild Frontiers: A History of Britpop and Excess in 13½ Chapters book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography by Martyn Ware

25. Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

By: Martyn Ware

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and … read more

Similar categories in Martyn Ware's Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Rejects by Jamie  Collinson

26. The Rejects

By: Jamie Collinson

3.26

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Imagine you've made it. You and your friends have hit the big time in music and you're going to be … read more

Similar categories in Jamie Collinson's The Rejects book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister by Anthony Seldon

27. Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister

By: Anthony Seldon

4.36

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the spa… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Seldon's Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • nonfiction
Cover of You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music by Glenn McDonald

28. You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music

By: Glenn McDonald

4.21

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Spotify's former data guru charts how music's digital revolution affects fans and musiciansExplains… read more

Similar categories in Glenn McDonald's You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll by Alan Edwards

29. I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll

By: Alan Edwards

3.98

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

'Alan is such a wonderful storyteller' Debbie Harry 'Alan Edwards is a class observant, attentive,… read more

Similar categories in Alan Edwards's I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll book and Jamie Collinson's The Rejects

  • music
Cover of Freaks Out!: Weirdos, Misfits and Deviants – The Rise and Fall of Righteous Rock ’n’ Roll by Luke Haines

30. Freaks Out!: Weirdos, Misfits and Deviants – The Rise and Fall of Righteous Rock ’n’ Roll

By: Luke Haines

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The followers - this book is not for you. The salt of the earth - this book is not for you. The w… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of One Sinha Lifetime by Paul Sinha

31. One Sinha Lifetime

By: Paul Sinha

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'That night, I'd survived my life flashing before me, with my dignity intact.Yes, this chaotic life… read more

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  • nonfiction

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Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie

Jon Ronson

3.70

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Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

Lol Tolhurst

4.16

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

David Mitchell

4.16

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Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

Becky Holmes

3.88

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

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4.16

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