10 best-selling biography books like Started Out Just Drinking Beer: The Mental As Anything Story by Stuart Lloyd

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Started Out Just Drinking Beer: The Mental As Anything Story

By: Stuart Lloyd

4.21

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

The riotous rollercoaster ride of Mental as Anything, one of Australia’s greatest bands from 1976-2…

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1. Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside and Outside of AC/DC

By: Mark Evans

3.91

Format: 241 pages,

A few days after his 19th birthday, rock and roll lover and bass player Mark Evans wandered into hi… read more

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2. Scar Tissue

By: Larry Sloman , Anthony Kiedis

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Now in paperback, the New York Timesbestseller by one of rock's most provocative figures Scar Tissu… read more

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3. Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)

By: David Hunt

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2014 Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Nonfiction Girt. No word… read more

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4. True Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #2)

By: David Hunt

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

First there was Girt. Now comes ... True Girt In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling his… read more

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5. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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6. Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

By: Bernie Taupin

3.58

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, th… read more

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  • music
  • biography
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7. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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8. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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9. 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
  • 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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10. The cricket war: The inside story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket

By: Gideon Haigh

3.94

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

non fiction read more

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11. Milkman

By: Anna Burns

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attem… read more

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"how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man"

-Anna Burns, Milkman

"It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard."

-Anna Burns, Milkman

"also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing."

-Anna Burns, Milkman

"even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so."

-Anna Burns, Milkman

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12. 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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  • biography
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13. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

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14. Sister Viv

By: Grantlee Kieza

4.65

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to s… read more

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15. The Book of Daniel: From Silverchair to DREAMS

By: Jeff Apter

3.63

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

The highs, lows and incredible life of the enigmatic Daniel Johns, from Silverchair to DREAMS When… read more

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  • music
  • biography
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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

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  • music
  • biography
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17. Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s

By: Dylan Jones

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

'A wholly successful endeavour carried along by waves of infectious enthusiasm' Mojo'Fascinating' N… read more

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  • music
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18. Hospital

By: Sanya Rushdi

3.70

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in h… read more

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19. Half Deaf, Completely Mad: The Chaotic Genius of Australia's Most Legendary Music Producer

By: Tony Cohen

4.07

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

The music and mayhem behind the seminal sounds of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Models, The Go-Betwe… read more

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  • music
  • biography

20. The Silver River

By: Jim Moginie

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary … read more

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  • music
  • biography
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21. Killing Time: Short Stories From the Long Road Home

By: Jimmy Barnes

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the rock legend turned master storyteller, this collection of non-fiction short stories is vin… read more

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  • music
  • biography
Cover of Ringside: A tale of music and mayhem from the man behind rock and roll superstars Cold Chisel by Rod Willis

22. Ringside: A tale of music and mayhem from the man behind rock and roll superstars Cold Chisel

By: Rod Willis

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

At 18 Rod Willis jumped on a boat for London, the Mecca for music and fashion in the 1960s. A decad… read more

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  • music
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23. Sons of Beaches

By: Bill McDonough

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Family, fame and tragedy, the story of Australian Crawl’s Bill and Guy McDonough. Founded in 1978, … read more

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24. Started Out Just Drinking Beer: The Mental As Anything Story

By: Stuart Lloyd

4.21

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

The riotous rollercoaster ride of Mental as Anything, one of Australia’s greatest bands from 1976-2… read more

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  • music
  • biography
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25. Shake Some Action: My Life in Music (and other stuff)

By: Stuart Coupe

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

First as a music writer and then as an editor, promoter, manager, broadcaster, publicist and author… read more

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  • music
Cover of The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

26. The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook, with Sam Neill

By: Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

4.23

Format: 462 pages, Kindle Edition

A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur… read more

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  • biography
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27. Drive of a Lifetime

By: Jamie Whincup

4.03

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

With success comes challenges, and Jamie has always had a target painted squarely on his rear spoil… read more

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28. Radio Birdman: Retaliate first: How one band smashed the rules of Australian rock and roll

By: Murray Engleheart

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The first-ever in-depth biography of iconoclastic Sydney punk band Radio Birdman.Sydney's legendary… read more

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  • music
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29. 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

By: Robert Dimery

3.97

Format: 960 pages, Hardcover

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important,… read more

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  • music
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30. Full Coverage: A History of Rock Journalism in Australia

By: Samuel J. Fell

3.27

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

For over fifty years, Australia has maintained its own rock press – a vibrant, passionate, sometime… read more

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  • music

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Bernie Taupin

3.58

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3.80

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Jeff Apter

3.63

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Mick Wall

3.89

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Patrick Stewart

4.33

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3.58

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Elton John

4.33

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4.20

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