9 Best biography memoir books like Sympathy For The Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters by Mike Edison

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Sympathy For The Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters

By: Mike Edison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush--capturing the bristling e…

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1. The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)

By: Colin Cotterill

3.97

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Laos, 1976: Dr. Siri Paiboun, a 72-year-old medical doctor, has been unwillingly appointed the nati… read more

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"There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself."

-Colin Cotterill, The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)

"There was nothing fake or added or subtracted about him. He was all himself."

-Colin Cotterill, The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)

"Watching Siri and Dtui 'run' to the administration block would have saddened even the most benevolent of athletic coaches"

-Colin Cotterill, The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)

"He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But fo…"

-Colin Cotterill, The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)

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2. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

By: Anne Fadiman

4.10

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Anne Fadiman is (by her own admission) the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's c… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Pen-bereavement is a serious matter."

-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

"I have never been able to resist a book about books."

-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

"Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase."

-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

"I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions."

-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

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3. Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

By: Agatha Christie

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house...What is the connection between a failed … read more

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"Slike ting blir sendt oss for å prøve oss. I hvert fall tror jeg det. Jeg skjønner ikke hvorfor de ellers blir sendt oss."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

"I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

"Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

"It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions."

-Agatha Christie, Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)

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4. Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of Kiss

By: Peter Criss , Larry Sloman

3.62

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Founding KISS drummer Peter "Catman" Criss delivers a riveting and candid account of his incredible… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. A Murder of Quality

By: John Le Carré

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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6. Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

By: Tom Petty

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

For more than 30 years, Tom Petty has been writing and performing hit songs and rock and roll class… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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7. Tishomingo Blues

By: Elmore Leonard

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

Daredevil Dennis Lenahan has brought his act to the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississipp… read more

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8. Gun, With Occasional Music

By: Jonathan Lethem

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems--there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kanga… read more

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9. Face the Music: A Life Exposed

By: Paul Stanley

4.06

Format: None pages, ebook

In Face the Music, Paul Stanley--the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS--reveals fo… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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10. Conversations with Tom Petty

By: Paul Zollo , Tom Petty , PaulPaul ZolloZollo

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

OFFICIAL AND AUTHORIZED! The first book to focus solely on the life and work of the man responsible… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction

11. Life

By: Keith Richards

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the… read more

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12. The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

When a disfigured corpse is discovered in a country parish, the local rector pleads with Lord Peter… read more

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13. Double Whammy

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer… read more

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14. Led Zeppelin IV

By: Barney Hoskyns

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

Led Zeppelin IV, often called heavy metal's greatest album, kicks off an exciting new series that t… read more

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15. A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

By: Victor Davis Hanson

4.11

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

Provocative military historian Victor Davis Hanson has given painstakingly researched & pathbreakin… read more

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16. Pronto

By: Elmore Leonard

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

"Speedy, exhilarating, and smooth. Nobody does it better." --Washington Post "The man knows how to … read more

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17. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

18. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

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"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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19. The Dry Heart

By: Natalia Ginzburg

4.00

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more

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"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."

-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

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20. 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
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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21. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

By: Paul Newman

3.89

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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22. The Flowers of Buffoonery

By: Osamu Dazai

3.83

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu… read more

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"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."

-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."

-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

"It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him."

-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."

-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

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23. Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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24. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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25. Charlie's Good Tonight

By: Paul Sexton

4.12

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The fully authorized and official biography of legendary Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, one … read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas

26. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

By: Dan Charnas

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."

-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

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27. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

By: Joshua Robinson

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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28. Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon

By: Joel Selvin

4.27

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

The blazing rock opera of the greatest drummer of all-time, Jim Gordon, from the legendary Wrecking… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of We Could Be... Bowie and His Heroes by Tom Hagler

29. We Could Be... Bowie and His Heroes

By: Tom Hagler

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

300 vignettes telling the stories of Bowie's encounters with fellow icons, from Dylan to Dali, Lenn… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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30. Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew

By: Hal Blaine

3.80

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Ever wonder what it would be like to be the most recorded musician in popular music? This updated b… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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31. Sympathy For The Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters

By: Mike Edison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush--capturing the bristling e… read more

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  • biography memoir
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  • nonfiction

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Anne Fadiman

4.10

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Peter Criss , Larry Sloman

3.62

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Tom Petty

4.35

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3.78

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Geddy Lee

4.58

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Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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James Kaplan

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