20 must-read nonfiction books like The Decade That Rocked: The Photography Of Mark "Weissguy" Weiss (Heavy Metal, Rock, Photography, Biography, Gifts For Heavy Metal Fans) by Mark Weiss

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The Decade That Rocked: The Photography Of Mark "Weissguy" Weiss (Heavy Metal, Rock, Photography, Biography, Gifts For Heavy Metal Fans)

By: Mark Weiss

4.75

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

“I have read pretty much every rock 'n' roll biography there is worth reading, and you never know w…

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1. Slash

By: Anthony Bozza , Slash

4.00

Format: 458 pages, Hardcover

From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and r… read more

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"Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

"Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. The guitar is my conscience, too - whenever I've lost my way, i…"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

"Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when …"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

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2. Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time

By: Valerie Bertinelli

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Valerie Bertinelli, then: bubbly sitcom star and America's Sweetheart turned tabloid headline and r… read more

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"Leap...and the net will follow"

-Valerie Bertinelli, Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time

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3. Jaws

By: Peter Benchley

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

"Relentless terror." The Philadelphia Inquirer. The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating ter… read more

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4. Uzumaki

By: Junji Ito , Yuji Oniki

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the… read more

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5. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

By: Kate Moore

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger. The Curies' newly discov… read more

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Cover of unSweetined by Jodie Sweetin, Jon Warech

6. unSweetined

By: Jodie Sweetin , Jon Warech

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How rude! Jodie Sweetin melted our hearts and made us laugh for eight years as cherub-faced, goody-… read more

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7. Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead

By: Phil Lesh

4.48

Format: None pages,

Right in time for the Grateful Dead's 40th anniversary, eccentric bass player extraordinaire Phil L… read more

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8. Coraline (Illustrated/Graphic Novel Edition)

By: Neil Gaiman , P. Craig Russell

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house, strangely si… read more

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9. Oz: The Complete Collection

By: L. Frank Baum , W.W. Denslow

4.75

Format: 118 pages,

Although most children today are introduced to the world of Oz through the classic 1939 movie, L. F… read more

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10. It's So Easy: And Other Lies

By: Duff McKagan

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

A founding member of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver shares the story of his rise to the pinnacle… read more

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11. The Encyclöpedia öf Heavy Metal

By: Daniel Bukszpan

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Headbangers rejoice, because this fantastically illustrated encyclopedia includes all things Metal,… read more

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12. The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade

By: Martin Popoff

3.79

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

In the 1980s, heavy metal went mainstream. The dark themes and brain-busting riffage of bands like … read more

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13. Comfort & Joy

By: Kristin Hannah

3.77

Format: None pages,

Joy Candellaro once loved Christmas more than any other time of the year. Now, as the holiday appro… read more

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14. Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2)

By: Richard Chizmar

3.78

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Something evil has swept into the small western Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the lates… read more

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Cover of Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson

15. Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

By: Cassandra Peterson

4.36

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween,… read more

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"My favorite band's lyrics spoke to me more powerfully than any parent or teacher ever could. They helped me figure out who I was, what I was feeling, and possibly, where I was headed."

-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

"Suddenly one day I sprouted boobs. Not *just* boobs. Enormous boobs. When puberty finally struck, I developed faster than a Polaroid. In my mind at least, I remember going to bed flat as a board one …"

-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

"I was someone who had spent most of her life hanging around with gay men, and now here I was, ashamed of my feelings for a woman. I felt like such a hypocrite. I eventually gave up my ridiculous prec…"

-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

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16. The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx

By: Nikki Sixx

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rock-and-roll icon and three-time bestselling author Nikki Sixx tells his origin story: how Frank F… read more

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"Vince Neil once told me 'You look down on people.' My wife once told me something along the same lines, 'You look down on people who were born with silver spoons.' She's right. I DO look down on thos…"

-Nikki Sixx, The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx

Cover of Surviving to Drive by Guenther Steiner

17. Surviving to Drive

By: Guenther Steiner

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is wat… read more

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"Then again, could you imagine me walking on to the balcony in St Peter’s Square in Rome and delivering the Urbi et Orbi. ‘OK, I’m finished now. Get to foking work!’ Pope Guenther the first would be P…"

-Guenther Steiner, Surviving to Drive

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18. Counting Miracles

By: Nicholas Sparks

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel a… read more

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19. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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20. If You Would Have Told Me

By: John Stamos

3.81

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more

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Cover of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman

21. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more

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"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Cover of Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion by Tom Beaujour

22. Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion

By: Tom Beaujour

4.07

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that pe… read more

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23. Entrances and Exits

By: Michael Richards

4.12

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved… read more

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Cover of The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

24. 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

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"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

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25. 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

Cover of The World's Worst Assistant by Sona Movsesian

26. The World's Worst Assistant

By: Sona Movsesian

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Conan O’Brien’s longtime assistant and cohost of his podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, a … read more

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"Mein Assistent findet das Streben nach dem göttlichen griechischen Staat Arete „lahm“ und sollte „einen Schwanz essen“. - Conan O'Brien"

-Sona Movsesian, The World's Worst Assistant

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

27. 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 The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer by Rick Jervis

28. The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer

By: Rick Jervis

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking true-crime story of a Texas border patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex wor… read more

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29. The Decade That Rocked: The Photography Of Mark "Weissguy" Weiss (Heavy Metal, Rock, Photography, Biography, Gifts For Heavy Metal Fans)

By: Mark Weiss

4.75

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

“I have read pretty much every rock 'n' roll biography there is worth reading, and you never know w… read more

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Cover of Brothers by Alex Van Halen

30. Brothers

By: Alex Van Halen

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read—Alex Van H… read more

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Cover of From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley

31. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

By: Lisa Marie Presley

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole s… read more

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11 must-read music books like The Decade That Rocked: The Photography Of Mark "Weissguy" Weiss (Heavy Metal, Rock, Photography, Biography, Gifts For Heavy Metal Fans) by Mark Weiss

Transform Your Habits

Slash

Anthony Bozza , Slash

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time

Valerie Bertinelli

3.67

Transform Your Habits

The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx

Nikki Sixx

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

4.04

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19 best-selling nonfiction books like Slash by Anthony Bozza, Slash

Transform Your Habits

Tommyland

Tommy Lee , Anthony Bozza

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Slash

Anthony Bozza , Slash

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Beatles Anthology

The Beatles , John Lennon , Paul McCartney , Ringo Starr , George Harrison

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith

Stephen Davis , Aerosmith

4.04

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