16 must-read history books like Harlem 69: The Future of Soul (The Soul Trilogy Book 3) by Stuart Cosgrove

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Harlem 69: The Future of Soul (The Soul Trilogy Book 3)

By: Stuart Cosgrove

4.42

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1969, among Harlem's Rabelaisian cast of characters are bandleader King Curtis, soul singers Are…

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1. Chronicles, Volume One

By: Bob Dylan

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manif… read more

Similar categories in Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Volume One book and Stuart Cosgrove's Harlem 69: The Future of Soul (The Soul Trilogy Book 3)

  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
"People were people."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"Sebuah lagu laksana mimpi, dan kita berusaha untuk membuatnya jadi kenyataan."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

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2. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

By: Peter Guralnick

4.16

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of th… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Inherent Vice

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally… read more

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4. Brighton Rock

By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more

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5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By: Muriel Spark

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more

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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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6. Black and British: A Forgotten History

By: David Olusoga

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. In … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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8. Testimony: A Memoir

By: Robbie Robertson

3.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of the most spellbinding, entertaining, major books of the fall: the long-awaited memoir from t… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Robertson's Testimony: A Memoir book and Stuart Cosgrove's Harlem 69: The Future of Soul (The Soul Trilogy Book 3)

  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction

9. Exile on Main St.: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones

By: Robert Greenfield

4.00

Format: None pages,

Recorded during the blazing summer of 1971 at Villa Nellcote, Keith Richards' seaside mansion in th… read more

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10. Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994

By: David Hepworth

4.25

Format: 512 pages, ebook

As heard on Radcliffe and Maconie, Danny Baker and Simon Mayo 'Fascinating from start to finish' Si… read more

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11. One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By: Craig Brown

4.26

Format: 642 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinatin… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. 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

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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14. Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.74

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a … read more

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"Step back and the world is a classroom if need be."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

"Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

"He was a strange mix--congenial but reserved in a way that told you being friendly was an act of will."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

"I'm an entrepreneur." "Entrepreneur?" Pepper said the last part like manure. "That's just a hustler who pays taxes."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

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15. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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16. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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17. Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans

By: Kenneth Womack

4.16

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved friend, confidant, and roadie.  … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Paper Cuts

By: Ted Kessler

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'A great writer' Paul Weller 'A music journalist of integrity' Billy Childish ' There's only one … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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20. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

By: Harald Jähner

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Murder Book (Tom Thorne #18) by Mark Billingham

22. The Murder Book (Tom Thorne #18)

By: Mark Billingham

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Tom Thorne finally has it all. In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by h… read more

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23. The Rise

By: Ian Rankin

3.65

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more

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24. The Colony

By: Audrey Magee

4.11

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more

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25. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People

By: Stuart Maconie

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Tenement Kid

By: Bobby Gillespie

4.02

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Gillespie’s vivid and evocative mem… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter."

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"Those painful childhood memories we bury, that some of us try and drown out with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, all the usual crutches and distractions. These childhood experiences are going to be re…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"I began to question the world and other people from a young age. I suppose that gave me a sense of emotional distance, a lack of trust in future friendships and relationships; I would assume a friend…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

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27. Animal House

By: James Brown

3.93

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Music, Magazines & MayhemBetween 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the the must-b… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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28. Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop

By: Bob Stanley

4.30

Format: 636 pages, ebook

The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book tha… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Psychic Confusion

By: Stevie Chick

3.46

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Rock journalist Stevie Chick draws upon his wealth of source material and exclusive interviews with… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Harlem 69: The Future of Soul (The Soul Trilogy Book 3) by Stuart Cosgrove

30. Harlem 69: The Future of Soul (The Soul Trilogy Book 3)

By: Stuart Cosgrove

4.42

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1969, among Harlem's Rabelaisian cast of characters are bandleader King Curtis, soul singers Are… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Midnight and Blue (An Inspector Rebus, #25)

By: Ian Rankin

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars.Now,… read more

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21 best-selling nonfiction books like Harlem 69: The Future of Soul (The Soul Trilogy Book 3) by Stuart Cosgrove

Transform Your Habits

Chronicles, Volume One

Bob Dylan

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

Peter Guralnick

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Black and British: A Forgotten History

David Olusoga

3.98

Transform Your Habits

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

Sylvia Patterson

4.06

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19 Top nonfiction books like Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie

Transform Your Habits

Telling Stories

Tim Burgess

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Macrofestivales: El agujero negro de la música

Nando Cruz

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Sonic Life: A Memoir

Thurston Moore

3.81

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