19 must-read biography books like I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon

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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon

By: Crystal Zevon

4.33

Format: 277 pages,

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1. Long Time Gone

By: David Crosby , Carl Gottlieb

4.02

Format: 489 pages, Hardcover

Rock superstar David Crosby describes his early days as an actor, his tenure with the Byrds and the… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
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2. Wilco: Learning How to Die

By: Greg Kot

3.90

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The intimate story of one of the great American bands of our time, creators of the controversial ma… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements by Bob Mehr

3. Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements

By: Bob Mehr

4.55

Format: 488 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBased on a decade of research and reporting--as well as access to the Repl… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
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4. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
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  • 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

Cover of Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota by Chuck Klosterman

5. Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Empirically proving that -- no matter where you are -- kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn."

-Chuck Klosterman, Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

"I sometimes wonder how many hours of my life I have wasted bitching about keyboards. The use of keyboards and synthesizers is the Roe v. Wade of '80s metal. It was-without question-the lamest instrum…"

-Chuck Klosterman, Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

Cover of Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers by Benjamin Whitmer, Charlie Louvin

6. Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers

By: Benjamin Whitmer , Charlie Louvin

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Get ready for one of America's great untold stories: the true saga of the Louvin Brothers, a mid-ce… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1) by James Crumley

7. The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)

By: James Crumley

3.74

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by wo… read more

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8. We Are What We Pretend To Be: The First and Last Works

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Called "our finest black-humorist" by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influ… read more

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9. The Dog of the South

By: Charles Portis

4.27

Format: 24 pages,

The narrator is Ray Midge, down-at-the-heels Southerner after his wife. "Norma had run off with Guy… read more

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10. Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood

By: Michael Walker

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptu… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
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11. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon

By: Crystal Zevon

4.33

Format: 277 pages,

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  • pop culture
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll

12. Bound for Glory

By: Woody Guthrie , Pete Seeger

3.49

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years… read more

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13. This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band

By: Stephen Davis , Levon Helm

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Band, who backed Bob Dylan when he went electric in 1965 and then turned out a half-dozen album… read more

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14. The Birds

By: Tarjei Vesaas , Michael Barnes , None

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

With spare simplicity, this story tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by hi… read more

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15. Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

By: Lizzy Goodman

4.16

Format: 622 pages, Hardcover

An intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
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16. No Great Mischief

By: Alistair MacLeod

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to… read more

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17. Cash

By: Johnny Cash , None

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He w… read more

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18. Shakey: Neil Young's Biography

By: Jimmy McDonough

3.71

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

Neil Young is one of rock and roll's most important and enigmatic figures, a legend from the sixtie… read more

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19. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

By: Tom Wolfe

3.57

Format: 416 pages,

For a start, Kesey's own life with the Merry Pranksters is perhaps the consummate example of a phen… read more

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Cover of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

20. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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22. The Philosophy of Modern Song

By: Bob Dylan

3.80

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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

23. 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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24. Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir

By: Mark Lanegan

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Sou… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams

25. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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26. Mr. Texas

By: Lawrence Wright

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

A sharply drawn, page-turning send up of Texas politics—from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-sel… read more

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Cover of How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back by Jeff Tweedy

27. How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song. But what if the goal w… read more

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  • biography
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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"To all of the songs like windows, open just enough for us to make our escape, and to all of the songs like windows, closed and clear enough in a dim light to see our own reflection and be reminded of…"

-Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

"When I'm on stage, my experience often goes something like this: Blankness . . . bliss . . . blankness . . . twinkle of awareness that rocking has been achieved . . . bliss . . . Voice of Observing E…"

-Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

Cover of Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

28. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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

29. 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

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
Cover of Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock by Steven Hyden

30. Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

By: Steven Hyden

3.93

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The author of the critically acclaimed Your Favorite Band is Killing Me offers an eye-opening explo… read more

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  • music
  • biography
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  • nonfiction
"Just try to find an uncompelling photo of Fleetwood Mac taken at any point between 1975 and 1987. I've spent hours scouring Google Images in search of a single Fleetwood Mac band photo to which I am …"

-Steven Hyden, Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

Cover of There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland by Steven Hyden

31. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland

By: Steven Hyden

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album,  Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
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20 best-selling nonfiction books like I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon

Transform Your Habits

Long Time Gone

David Crosby , Carl Gottlieb

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Wilco: Learning How to Die

Greg Kot

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements

Bob Mehr

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Chronicles, Volume One

Bob Dylan

3.97

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Transform Your Habits

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

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

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

James Kaplan

4.35

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