13 best-selling music books like Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories by Allan Jones

Cover of Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories by Allan Jones

Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

By: Allan Jones

3.90

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

The Sunday Times' Music Book of the Year 2017Allan Jones launched Uncut magazine in 1997 and for 15…

If you liked the music plot in Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories by Allan Jones , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Rock Stars Stole My Life! by Mark Ellen

1. Rock Stars Stole My Life!

By: Mark Ellen

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

In a sodden tent at a '70s festival, the teenage Mark Ellen had a dream. He dreamt that music was a… read more

Similar categories in Mark Ellen's Rock Stars Stole My Life! book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • biography
Cover of The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

2. The Bone Clocks

By: David Mitchell

3.84

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old li… read more

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"The Future,"

-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

"Books’ll be back,"

-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

"Guys are all sperm-guns."

-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

"Don’t mess with the fairies."

-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

Cover of The Van (The Barrytown Trilogy, #3) by Roddy Doyle

3. The Van (The Barrytown Trilogy, #3)

By: Roddy Doyle

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The further misadventures of the Rabbitte family in working-class Dublin--from the author of The Co… read more

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Cover of Gotham Central, Vol. 1: In the Line of Duty by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

4. Gotham Central, Vol. 1: In the Line of Duty

By: Ed Brubaker , Greg Rucka , Michael Lark

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Meet Gotham's Finest. Living in the shadows of the Dark Knight makes the detectives of Gotham's pol… read more

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Cover of Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1) by China Miéville

5. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more

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Cover of Grape, Olive, Pig: Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture by Matt Goulding

6. Grape, Olive, Pig: Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture

By: Matt Goulding

5.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Winner of the 2017 IACP Award: Literary or Historical Food Writing Gourmand World Cookbook Award Wi… read more

Similar categories in Matt Goulding's Grape, Olive, Pig: Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • nonfiction
Cover of I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music by Sylvia Patterson

7. I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music

By: Sylvia Patterson

4.06

Format: 360 pages,

This is a three-decade survivor's tale ... a scenic search for elusive human happiness through musi… read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Patterson's I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • biography

8. Jar City (Inspector Erlendur, #3)

By: Bernard Scudder , Arnaldur Indriðason

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When a lonely old man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat, the only clues are a cryptic note le… read more

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9. The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

By: Greil Marcus

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

One of our finest critics gives us an altogether original history of rock 'n' roll Unlike all previ… read more

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10. Lost in Music

By: Giles Smith

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

'If you have ever watched a band play or bought a pop record you should read this book' John Peel read more

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11. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

Cover of Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

12. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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13. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

Similar categories in James O'Brien's How They Broke Britain book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • biography
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14. Meantime

By: Frankie Boyle

3.54

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more

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Cover of Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun by Chris  Broad

15. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

Similar categories in Chris Broad's Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir by Mark Lanegan

16. Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir

By: Mark Lanegan

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Sou… read more

Similar categories in Mark Lanegan's Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams

17. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more

Similar categories in Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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18. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

Cover of The Trees by Percival Everett

19. The Trees

By: Percival Everett

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more

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"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

Cover of The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1) by Ragnar Jónasson

20. The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.53

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkn… read more

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"It was as if her life had been brought to a full stop: she couldn't look forward, couldn't picture what tomorrow night bring."

-Ragnar Jónasson, The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

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

21. 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 Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives by Jude Rogers

22. The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

By: Jude Rogers

4.13

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers sho… read more

Similar categories in Jude Rogers's The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Bodies by Ian Winwood

23. Bodies

By: Ian Winwood

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Money, freedom, adoring fans: professional musicians seem to have it all. But beneath the surface l… read more

Similar categories in Ian Winwood's Bodies book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • rock n roll
Cover of The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness by Amy-Jane Beer

24. The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness

By: Amy-Jane Beer

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer’s love … read more

Similar categories in Amy-Jane Beer's The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • nonfiction
"There's a reason we can't look away [from water]. Psycologists call it a 'soft fascination': the sight and sound of moving water is sufficiently stimulating to occupy the brain, but irregular enough …"

-Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness

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

25. 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 Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • music
  • nonfiction

26. 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

Similar categories in David Hepworth's A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • music
  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Crossroads: In Search of the Moments that Changed Music by Mark Radcliffe

27. Crossroads: In Search of the Moments that Changed Music

By: Mark Radcliffe

3.84

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Standing at the crossroads - the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil's infamous … read more

Similar categories in Mark Radcliffe's Crossroads: In Search of the Moments that Changed Music book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today by Simon Reynolds

28. Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today

By: Simon Reynolds

3.89

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From celebrated music journalist Simon Reynolds, a collection of thought-provoking essays that expl… read more

Similar categories in Simon Reynolds's Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • music
  • cultural
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor: Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir by Dave Haslam

29. Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor: Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir

By: Dave Haslam

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor is writer/DJ Dave Haslam's gloriously well-crafted memoir, documentin… read more

Similar categories in Dave Haslam's Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor: Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Shame Archive by Oliver Harris

30. The Shame Archive

By: Oliver Harris

4.39

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

How does a secret service confront its past, when it never ended? Buried deep in MI6's digital a… read more

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Cover of Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories by Allan Jones

31. Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

By: Allan Jones

3.90

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

The Sunday Times' Music Book of the Year 2017Allan Jones launched Uncut magazine in 1997 and for 15… read more

Similar categories in Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories book and Allan Jones's Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories

  • music
  • cultural
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
  • journalism

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5.00

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Sylvia Patterson

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Nick de Semlyen

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Warren Zanes

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