7 must-read biography books like Cobain Unseen by Charles R. Cross

Cobain Unseen

By: Charles R. Cross

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

An unparalleled look inside the brilliant mind of one of America's most revered rock legends, Cobai…

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Cover of Slash by Anthony Bozza, Slash

1. Slash

By: Anthony Bozza , Slash

4.00

Format: 458 pages, Hardcover

From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and r… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

"Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. The guitar is my conscience, too - whenever I've lost my way, i…"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

"Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when …"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

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2. Everything's Eventual

By: Stephen King

3.97

Format: 605 pages, Paperback

In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled (for g… read more

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"Time belongs to the Tower."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"A broken spoon may become a fork."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"Black as night and as beautiful as forever."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"I decided it didn't matter a fuck in a rabbit hutch."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

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3. Watchmen #5: Fearful Symmetry

By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

4.21

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

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4. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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5. Watchmen #6: The Abyss Gazes Also

By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

3.86

Format: 445 pages, Unknown Binding

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6. Watchmen #7: A Brother To Dragons

By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

2.90

Format: 96 pages, Unknown Binding

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7. Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana

By: Michael Azerrad

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Neve… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

8. Cobain Unseen

By: Charles R. Cross

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

An unparalleled look inside the brilliant mind of one of America's most revered rock legends, Cobai… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

9. Journals

By: Kurt Cobain

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The lyrics notebook and personal journals of Kurt Cobain, iconic singer of the band Nirvana. Kurt C… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. Paul McCartney: The Life

By: Philip Norman

4.14

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Watchmen #9: The Darkness of Mere Being by Alan             Moore, John    Higgins, Dave Gibbons

11. Watchmen #9: The Darkness of Mere Being

By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Unknown Binding

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12. Watchmen #8: Old Ghosts

By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Unknown Binding

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13. Watchmen #10: Two Riders Were Approaching

By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Unknown Binding

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14. My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N’ Roses

By: None , Steven Adler , Lawrence J. Spagnola

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Steven Adler, the original drummer for Guns N' Roses, comes My Appetite for Destruction, the i… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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15. Freedom

By: Jonathan Franzen

3.78

Format: 562 pages, Hardcover

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on paren… read more

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"Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"[Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved"

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

16. Pulp

By: Charles Bukowski

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a write… read more

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17. Watchmen #2: Absent Friends

By: Alan Moore , Len Wein , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Unknown Binding

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18. Watchmen #4: Watchmaker

By: Alan Moore , Len Wein , Dave Gibbons , None

3.88

Format: 588 pages,

Dr. Manhattan sits on Mars using his precognitive powers to determine when the picture he is holdin… read more

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19. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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20. Watchmen #11: Look upon my works, Ye mighty...

By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

3.94

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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21. Watchmen #12: A Stronger Loving World

By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

3.94

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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22. Night Shift

By: Stephen King , John D. MacDonald

4.04

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by th… read more

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"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"If seven hundred monkeys typed for seven hundred years, one of them would turn out the works of Shakespeare,"

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"There are spiritually noxious places, buildings where the milk of the cosmos has become sour and rancid. This church is such a place; I would swear to it."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

23. Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie

By: Angela Bowie , None

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Angela Bowie has produced this scandalous, sexy, and uncompromising memoir of her turbulent years w… read more

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24. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

By: Stephen King

3.92

Format: 495 pages, Hardcover

In this collection, Stephen King once again assembles a generous array of unforgettable, tantalizin… read more

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"An old man's body is nothing but a sack in which he carries aches and indignities."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"...there will always be books. ... Books are real objects . Books are friends . ... They're also ideas and emotions."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in..."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and not just because it assumes a limit on the human imagination, which is basically limitless. It also …"

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

25. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

By: Steve Erwin , Immaculée Ilibagiza

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 19… read more

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26. Watchmen #3: The Judge Of All The Earth

By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

3.46

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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27. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

By: James Renner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of 60 Songs That Explain the '90s by Rob Harvilla

28. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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29. Por qué volvías cada verano

By: Belén López Peiró

4.24

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Hay libros que son hechos. Este es uno: se puede leer como una novela, como una denuncia, como la p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Aunque te rasguñes, aunque te lastimes, aunque te prendas fuego, siempre vas a estar adentro de este cuerpo."

-Belén López Peiró, Por qué volvías cada verano

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30. Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

By: Danny Goldberg

3.94

Format: 304 pages, ebook

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death comes a new perspective on one of the most c… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I keep returning to the last chorus of All Apologies, where Kurt sang: 'In the sun, I feel as one / All in all is all we are.' And to these lines from his journals: 'No true talent is fully organic. …"

-Danny Goldberg, Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

Cover of Meadowlark: A Coming-of-Age Crime Story by Ethan Hawke

31. Meadowlark: A Coming-of-Age Crime Story

By: Ethan Hawke

3.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the dream team behind #1 New York Times bestseller Indeh comes a graphic novel following a fat… read more

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4.14

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