7 best-selling essays books like Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke by Rob Sheffield

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Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke

By: Rob Sheffield

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

An emotional journey of hilarity and heartbreak with a karaoke soundtrack, in the spirit of Rob She…

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1. Eve's Hollywood

By: Eve Babitz

3.44

Format: 213 pages,

Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been a… read more

Similar categories in Eve Babitz's Eve's Hollywood book and Rob Sheffield's Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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2. The Visible Man

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.57

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffsand Downtown Owl, "the Ethicist" of … read more

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3. Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke

By: Rob Sheffield

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

An emotional journey of hilarity and heartbreak with a karaoke soundtrack, in the spirit of Rob She… read more

Similar categories in Rob Sheffield's Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke book and Rob Sheffield's Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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4. Ali: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Timesbest-selling author with unique … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Building on the national bestselling success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, preeminent pop culture… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Klosterman's Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story book and Rob Sheffield's Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke

  • music
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • essays

6. But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

By: Chuck Klosterman

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that c… read more

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7. Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.95

Format: None pages, Audio CD

New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman compiles and contextualizes … read more

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8. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • pop culture
  • essays
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

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9. 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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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

Similar categories in Max Marshall's Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story book and Rob Sheffield's Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke

  • nonfiction
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11. A Pocketful of Happiness

By: Richard E. Grant

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has be… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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12. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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13. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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14. We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship

By: Will Schwalbe

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship ov… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife by Ken Jennings

15. 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife

By: Ken Jennings

3.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes… read more

Similar categories in Ken Jennings's 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife book and Rob Sheffield's Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke

  • nonfiction
Cover of World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

16. 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

Similar categories in Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music book and Rob Sheffield's Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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17. Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

By: Gail Caldwell

3.96

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

In Let’s Take the Long Walk Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell has written a powerfu… read more

Similar categories in Gail Caldwell's Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship book and Rob Sheffield's Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it."

-Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

"What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part."

-Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

"Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive."

-Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

"It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too."

-Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

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18. Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History

By: Alan Sepinwall

4.18

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Welcome to the O.C., b* it's the definitive oral history of beloved TV show The O.C., from the show… read more

Similar categories in Alan Sepinwall's Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History book and Rob Sheffield's Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • pop culture
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19. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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20. Everything I Need I Get from You

By: Kaitlyn Tiffany

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A thrilling dive into the world of superfandom and the fangirls who shaped the social internet. … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • pop culture
"Infatuation is irrational but it can be a precursor to introspection. The experience of bodily joy is an invitation to reconsider the conditions that hold you away from it most of the time. Screaming…"

-Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get from You

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21. Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

By: Daniel Jones

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Jones's Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption book and Rob Sheffield's Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Our futile search for answers only deepened our depression, but the great thing about depression is that it’s not one size fits all, but rather comes tailor-made to suit one’s particular personality."

-Daniel Jones, Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

"He wasn’t really a texter anyway, so his lack of response didn’t necessarily reflect the weirdness of my text. It was probably normal for non-texters to see a text and not reply to it. They saw it, f…"

-Daniel Jones, Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

"Because real love, once blossomed, never disappears. It may get lost with a piece of paper, or transform into art, books, or children, or trigger another couple’s union while failing to cement your o…"

-Daniel Jones, Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

11 Top biography memoir books like Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke by Rob Sheffield

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Eve's Hollywood

Eve Babitz

3.44

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Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke

Rob Sheffield

3.35

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Ali: A Life

Jonathan Eig

4.55

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Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog

4.25

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Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It

Bob Boilen

3.78

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My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

4.35

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