18 Best memoir books like Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone by Marky Ramone

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Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone

By: Marky Ramone

4.00

Format: 240 pages,

The “entertaining and enlightening” (Stephen King) final word on the genius and mischie…

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1. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

By: Carrie Brownstein

3.83

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply persona… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Brownstein's Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl book and Marky Ramone's Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"I've always felt unclaimed."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"If someone didn’t feel included, if someone felt marginalised, they would form their own band, write their own fanzine, or just call you out on what they deemed racist or classist, sizeist, sexist, b…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I suppose we were better observers than communicators; we were all subjects to be worried over, complained about, even adored, but never quite people to be held or loved. There was an intellectual, a…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Cover of Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake

2. Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

By: Mark Blake

4.17

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

In July 2005 in Hyde Park, before a global audience of millions, Pink Floyd performed together on s… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • rock n roll
Cover of John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman

3. John Lennon: The Life

By: Philip Norman

4.04

Format: 851 pages, Hardcover

For more than a quarter century, biographer Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
"You know...give peace a chance, not shoot people for peace. All we need is love. I believe it. it's damned hard but I absolutely believe it. We're not the first to say 'Imagine no countries' or 'Give…"

-Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life

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4. The Basketball Diaries

By: Jim Carroll

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball. Jim Carroll grew up to … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"they're fucking up minds they do not own."

-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

"Now I got these diaries that have the greatest hero a writer needs, this crazy fucking New York."

-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

"Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure."

-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

"It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat…"

-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

Cover of Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales

5. Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

By: James Andrew Miller , Tom Shales

3.77

Format: 52 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne, Chris Ayres

6. I Am Ozzy

By: Ozzy Osbourne , Chris Ayres

4.11

Format: 176 pages,

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir by Pat Benatar

7. Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir

By: Pat Benatar

4.12

Format: 428 pages,

For more than thirty years, Pat Benatar has been one of the most iconic women in rock music, with s… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone by Marky Ramone

8. Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone

By: Marky Ramone

4.00

Format: 240 pages,

The “entertaining and enlightening” (Stephen King) final word on the genius and mischie… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
  • punk

9. 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
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
Cover of Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone by Johnny Ramone

10. Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

By: Johnny Ramone

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Raised in Queens, New York, Johnny Ramone founded one of the most influential rock bands of all tim… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • punk
Cover of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

11. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain

4.19

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • punk
"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

12. I Slept With Joey Ramone

By: Legs McNeil , None

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Hardcover

When the Ramones recorded their debut album in 1976, it heralded the true birth of punk rock. Fast … read more

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13. Who I Am

By: Pete Townshend

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

From the voice of a generation: The most highly anticipated autobiography of the year, and the stor… read more

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14. Life

By: Keith Richards

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the… read more

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15. White Line Fever: The Autobiography

By: Lemmy Kilmister , Janiss Garza

3.04

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of music's most notorious frontmen leads a headbanging, voyeuristic odyssey into sex, drugs, an… read more

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16. 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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17. Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk

By: John Doe , Tom DeSavia

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Under the Big Black Sunexplores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to har… read more

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18. Girl in a Band

By: Kim Gordon

3.67

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more

Similar categories in Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band book and Marky Ramone's Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

19. Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway

By: Tony O'Neill , Cherie Currie , None

4.07

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Cherie Currie, with her signature Bowie haircut and fishnet stockings, was the groundbreaking lead … read more

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20. Mafia Summit: J. Edgar Hoover, the Kennedy Brothers, and the Meeting That Unmasked the Mob

By: Gil Reavill

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Mafia Summitis the true story of how a small-town lawman in upstate New York busted a Cosa Nostra c… read more

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21. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • punk
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Cover of Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by Warren Zanes

22. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

By: Warren Zanes

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

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23. Face It

By: Debbie Harry

3.61

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I was saying things in songs that female singers didn’t really say back then. I wasn’t submissive … read more

Similar categories in Debbie Harry's Face It book and Marky Ramone's Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • punk
"To this day, when the band separates at the airport and we all go our different ways, I still get that gut reaction. Separation. I hate parting with people and i hate goodbyes."

-Debbie Harry, Face It

"I would just walk around, not looking for anything particular, looking for everything really, and ingesting and digesting it all. Art, music, theater, poetry, and the sense that everything was up for…"

-Debbie Harry, Face It

"Coincidence: it's supposed to mean just these random, disconnected events that concur or collide. But coincidence is not that at all. It's the stuff that's meant to be. Things that are supposed to be…"

-Debbie Harry, Face It

"I wanted to be platinum blond. On our black-and-white television and at the theater where they screened technicolor movies, there was something about platinum hair that was so luminescent and excitin…"

-Debbie Harry, Face It

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24. The High Desert

By: James Spooner

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Winner of a 2022 ALA Alex Award Winner of the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Print Comics One of … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • punk
Cover of Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007) by Dan Ozzi

25. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)

By: Dan Ozzi

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well tol… read more

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  • music
  • punk
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Smash!: Green Day, the Offspring, Rancid, Nofx, and the '90s Punk Explosion by Ian Winwood

26. Smash!: Green Day, the Offspring, Rancid, Nofx, and the '90s Punk Explosion

By: Ian Winwood

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A group biography of '90s punk rock told through the prism of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Ranci… read more

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  • music
  • punk
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Punk Paradox: A Memoir by Greg Graffin

27. Punk Paradox: A Memoir

By: Greg Graffin

4.12

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock’s evolution, by the legendary singer-songwr… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • punk
Cover of The Story Of Motown by Peter Benjaminson

28. The Story Of Motown

By: Peter Benjaminson

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

Re-release of the first book ever published in America about the legendary Motown Record Company, w… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982 by Phil Marcade

29. Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982

By: Phil Marcade

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Punk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 is an intimate look at author Paris-born Phil … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
  • punk
Cover of To Hell And Back: my life in Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers, in the words of the last man standing by Walter Lure

30. To Hell And Back: my life in Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers, in the words of the last man standing

By: Walter Lure

4.11

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

There have been many books written about Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, but only by people … read more

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  • music
  • memoir
Cover of It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump by Stuart Stevens

31. It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump

By: Stuart Stevens

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"A brilliant, unflinching look at the descent of the GOP - backed up with data, historic sweep & fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

22 Top nonfiction books like Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone by Marky Ramone

Transform Your Habits

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Carrie Brownstein

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

Mark Blake

4.17

Transform Your Habits

John Lennon: The Life

Philip Norman

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Basketball Diaries

Jim Carroll

3.99

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Transform Your Habits

Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year

Steve Turner

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal

Greg Renoff

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound

Nelson George

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

Charles R. Cross

4.17

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