10 best-selling biography books like What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography by Alan Light

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What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography

By: Alan Light

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimat…

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Cover of Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone by Nadine Cohodas

1. Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone

By: Nadine Cohodas

3.52

Format: 449 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed Dinah Washington biography Queen comes this complete account of th… read more

Similar categories in Nadine Cohodas's Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone book and Alan Light's What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography

  • music
  • biography
  • jazz
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Notes of a Native Son

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography

By: Alan Light

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimat… read more

Similar categories in Alan Light's What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography book and Alan Light's What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography

  • music
  • biography
  • jazz
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

4. No One Here Gets Out Alive

By: Danny Sugerman , Jerry Hopkins

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, cha… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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5. Hygiène de l'assassin

By: Amélie Nothomb

4.11

Format: 98 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Pretextat Tach, prix Nobel de litterature, n'a plus que deux mois a vivre. Des journalistes du mond… read more

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6. I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone

By: Stephen Cleary , Nina Simone

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

The inimitable, gorgeously talented Nina Simone (1933-2003)--the "high priestess of soul"--sets the… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes

7. Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan

By: Howard Sounes

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Based on three years of research, new documentary evidence, and interviews with 250 of Dylan's inti… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

8. Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period

By: Michelle Mercer

4.54

Format: 380 pages,

A revealing, lyrical book that uses Joni Mitchell's groundbreaking albums of the 1970s to explore t… read more

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9. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more

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10. The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Astonishing Dialogue Taking Place in Our Bodies Impacts Health, Weight, and Mood

By: Emeran Mayer

4.20

Format: None pages, ebook

Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with the latest discoveries on the human microbiome, a practica… read more

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11. Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Iv… read more

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12. Wilding

By: Isabella Tree

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

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13. Spatriati

By: Mario Desiati

3.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Claudia è solitaria ma sicura di sé, stravagante, si veste da uomo. Francesco è acceso e frenato da… read more

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  • audiobook
"Ad aspettare che qualcosa accada può venire il peggio."

-Mario Desiati, Spatriati

"In quella dilatazione del tempo della giovinezza, quando ogni istante è un tergiversare del futuro, sognavo di andare a passo agile verso l'estate, di montare i motorini nelle strade grigie tra i pin…"

-Mario Desiati, Spatriati

"Il mio periodo berlinese mi ha bollato per sempre ai loro occhi come «il tedesco», parola che pronunciano con aria sarcastica. So bene che per gran parte di loro sono uno che non ce l'ha fatta, che è…"

-Mario Desiati, Spatriati

"Non sopportavo gran parte dei miei coetanei all’estero, una volta espatriati scoprivano di aver vissuto per venti o trent’anni in mezzo ai barbari. Non importa in che città fossero: Parigi, Barcellon…"

-Mario Desiati, Spatriati

Cover of The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

14. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

By: Jeff Guinn

4.16

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic st… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"

-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Cover of Nina Simone's Gum by Warren  Ellis

15. Nina Simone's Gum

By: Warren Ellis

4.26

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina S… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

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17. Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

By: Tade Thompson

3.75

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Tade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by… read more

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  • audiobook
"What’s a quantum extrapolator?’ I ask. ‘You are,"

-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

"It is never a good idea to cause pain to angels."

-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

"...even the Gujarat-bot dreams of electric sheep."

-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

"The Yoruba say ‘o d’oju ala’ when someone dies. I will see you in dreams."

-Tade Thompson, Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)

Cover of Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage (Eileen Atkins) by Eileen Atkins

18. Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage (Eileen Atkins)

By: Eileen Atkins

4.13

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

Will She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to an electric… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough

19. Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing

By: Lauren Hough

3.40

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Searing and extremely personal essays from the heart of working-class America, shot through with th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"There are few codes held more deeply among the poor, the religious, and the uneducated than that it is good and healthy and wholesome parenting to hit your kids. That their kids grow up with anger-ma…"

-Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing

"People describe falling in love as meeting someone who they feel like they've known all their lives. Someone who understands them immediately. To me, that seems more like a nightmare than a fantasy. …"

-Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing

"I told him it would be a week, seven to ten days to get a new line. He said through his teeth he needed an exact day. I gave him my supervisor's number. This whole time, his wife was in the kitchen w…"

-Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing

"Those are the moments I’m proud of. The times I saw through them. The times I made them work to break me, even though I knew they would. The times I questioned the lies being fed to me, though everyo…"

-Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing

Cover of You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke

20. You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

By: Tarana Burke

4.52

Format: 6 pages, Audio CD

Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organisers, artis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"The truth always needs a resting place or it will lie down wherever it sees fit."

-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

"At the time, the whispers to keep silent and appear normal were deafening. And so we did. There is no blame here. We were just trying to survive. (Where the Truth Rests)"

-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

"Dangerous is the woman who can give herself what she used to seek from others. Limitless is the woman who dares to name herself. The way I see it, shame cannot oppress what acceptance has already cla…"

-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

"Systems of white supremacy teach us shame because they have no guilt. Rejecting shame for Black lives means rejecting individual responsibility for structural failures. (Unlearning Shame and Remember…"

-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

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21. Horror Stories: A Memoir

By: Liz Phair

3.71

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyvi… read more

Similar categories in Liz Phair's Horror Stories: A Memoir book and Alan Light's What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Childhood is a time of curiosity and peril, and nobody comes out of it unscarred."

-Liz Phair, Horror Stories: A Memoir

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