7 Top music books like The Otherwise by Mark E. Smith

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The Otherwise

By: Mark E. Smith

3.66

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

In 2015, Mark E. Smith of legendary post-punk group The Fall and screenwriter Graham Duff co-wrote …

"I ask if he has any potential stories in mind. “Sorry Graham, I've not done me prep,"

-Mark E. Smith, The Otherwise

"I ask if he has any potential stories in mind. “Sorry Graham, I've not done me prep,"

-Mark E. Smith, The Otherwise

"[Mark] often took expressions from real life and made them feel like dialogue: “See ya mate!"

-Mark E. Smith, The Otherwise

"[Mark] often took expressions from real life and made them feel like dialogue: “See ya mate!"

-Mark E. Smith, The Otherwise

If you liked the music plot in The Otherwise by Mark E. Smith , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Down Below

By: Leonora Carrington , Debra Taub

3.84

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Black Swan Press 1983 Surrealist Editions Paperback. read more

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"I think she was mistaken when she said I was torturing myself. I think that she interpreted me fragmentarily, which is worse than not to interpret at all."

-Leonora Carrington, Down Below

"I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure up today and which might have enlightened us. This morning, the idea of the egg …"

-Leonora Carrington, Down Below

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2. Picnic at Hanging Rock

By: Joan Lindsay

3.67

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more

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  • horror
"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

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3. La carte et le territoire

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.95

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more

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"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

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4. Black Hole

By: Charles Burns

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon… read more

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  • horror
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5. Just After Sunset

By: Stephen King

4.00

Format: 256 pages,

Internationally bestselling author Stephen King delivers an astonishing collection of short stories… read more

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  • horror
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6. Death and the Penguin

By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more

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7. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

8. 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

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9. Audition

By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife… read more

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10. 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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  • music
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11. Looking Glass Sound

By: Catriona Ward

3.49

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more

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  • horror
"Potatoes make everything okay."

-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

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12. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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  • horror
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13. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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14. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

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15. The Philosophy of Modern Song

By: Bob Dylan

3.80

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more

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  • music
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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16. Devil House

By: John Darnielle

3.22

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Now, he is a true… read more

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  • horror
"The past is charming and safe when you're skittering around on its surface. It's a nice place to linger a moment before seeking the lower depths."

-John Darnielle, Devil House

"I remember before I finally fell asleep feeling like there wasn't all that much to say about my life. I'd had several satisfying relationships, they hadn't amounted to much. I'd gotten better at my w…"

-John Darnielle, Devil House

"What would my work be like if I had to keep returning to the same story every time, I wondered. If, instead of hunting down sad places where people's lives had been ruined, there was only the one pla…"

-John Darnielle, Devil House

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17. Starve Acre

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died sudden… read more

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  • horror
"What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same."

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

"The will of Richard's father had been to ensure that his son was in no doubt that a church was merely a meeting place for the mentally ill, and that all who gathered there--priest and parishioners--w…"

-Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre

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18. 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

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  • music
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19. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

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  • music
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20. Grey Bees

By: Andrey Kurkov

4.07

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

49-year-old safety inspector-turned-beekeeper Sergey Sergeich, wants little more than to help his b… read more

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21. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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22. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

By: Eric LaRocca

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more

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  • horror
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."

-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

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23. Weird Walk: Wanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year

By: Weird Walk

4.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The first book by iconic zine creators and cultural phenomenon Weird Walk. This is a superbly desig… read more

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24. En présence de Schopenhauer

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.41

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

L’oeuvre de Michel Houellebecq est marquée par la pensée de Schopenhauer. Il ne cesse de se réclame… read more

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25. String Follow

By: Simon Jacobs

2.85

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A darkly comic suburban Gothic about a malevolent force that targets a group of Ohio misfits, harne… read more

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  • horror
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26. Have a Bleedin Guess - the story of Hex Enduction Hour

By: Paul Hanley

4.48

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Of all The Fall's long-players Hex Enduction Hour remains one of their most highly regarded. Even t… read more

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  • music
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27. Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall

By: Tessa Norton

4.00

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A definitive insight into the ever-influential world of Mark E. Smith and The Fall , featuring neve… read more

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  • music
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28. How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency

By: Akiko Busch

3.30

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to conti… read more

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"When identity is derived from projecting an image in the public realm, something is lost, some core of identity diluted, some sense of authority or interiority sacrificed. It is time to question the …"

-Akiko Busch, How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency

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29. The Otherwise

By: Mark E. Smith

3.66

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

In 2015, Mark E. Smith of legendary post-punk group The Fall and screenwriter Graham Duff co-wrote … read more

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  • music
  • horror
"I ask if he has any potential stories in mind. “Sorry Graham, I've not done me prep,"

-Mark E. Smith, The Otherwise

"[Mark] often took expressions from real life and made them feel like dialogue: “See ya mate!"

-Mark E. Smith, The Otherwise

Cover of Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

30. Everything the Darkness Eats

By: Eric LaRocca

2.77

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. A haunting… read more

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  • horror

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