18 must-read nonfiction books like How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce, Eric Bogosian

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How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

By: Lenny Bruce , Eric Bogosian

3.70

Format: None pages,

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1. 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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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. Last Words

By: George Carlin , Tony Hendra

3.97

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

As one of America's preeminent comedic voices, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinar… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
"People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them."

-George Carlin, Last Words

"Fuck the drug war. Dropping acid was a profound turning point for me, a seminal experience. I make no apologies for it. More people should do acid. It should be sold over the counter."

-George Carlin, Last Words

"So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a …"

-George Carlin, Last Words

"The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, …"

-George Carlin, Last Words

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3. Above Suspicion

By: Joe Sharkey

4.02

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

The “expertly told” true story of an FBI agent’s affair that leads to murder in Kentucky coal count… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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4. SeinLanguage

By: Jerry Seinfeld

2.50

Format: None pages,

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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5. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

By: Steven Pinker

3.77

Format: 341 pages,

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  • nonfiction
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6. Life Itself

By: Roger Ebert

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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7. Attempting Normal

By: Marc Maron

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

People make a mess. Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved come… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
Cover of The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests by Jay Snyder, Oliver Wyman, Lauren Fortgang, Kevin T. Collins, None, Robert Fass, Jon   Stewart, Chris Lutkin

8. The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests

By: Jay Snyder , Oliver Wyman , Lauren Fortgang , Kevin T. Collins , None , Robert Fass , Jon Stewart , Chris Lutkin

4.13

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography
  • comedy
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9. The Michigan Murders

By: Edward Keyes

4.50

Format: 168 pages,

Between July 1967 and July 1969, seven sexual murders were committed in Michigan with horrifying fu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

10. Based on a True Story

By: Norm Macdonald

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, ra… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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11. Pryor Convictions: and Other Life Sentences

By: Richard Pryor , Todd Gold

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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12. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

By: Lenny Bruce , Eric Bogosian

3.70

Format: None pages,

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy

13. The Wordy Shipmates

By: Sarah Vowell

3.50

Format: 36 pages,

The Wordy Shipmatesis New York Timesbest-selling author Sarah Vowell's exploration of the Puritans … read more

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14. Becoming Richard Pryor

By: Scott Saul

3.44

Format: 96 pages, ebook

A major biography--intimate, gripping, revelatory--of an artist who revolutionized American comedy.… read more

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15. Brain Droppings

By: George Carlin

4.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

George Carlin's been working the crowd since "the counterculture" became "the over-the-counter cult… read more

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16. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series

By: Stephen Jay Gould , None

3.56

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigan… read more

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17. Screwjack: A Short Story

By: Hunter S. Thompson

5.00

Format: 144 pages, ebook

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18. Introducing The Freud Wars

By: Oscar Zárate , None

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This book addresses the chief accusations leveled against Freud and the oppositions to his discover… read more

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19. The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and Rise of An American Icon

By: Ronald K.L. Collins , David M. Skover , None

3.06

Format: 405 pages,

About the Author Ronald K.L. Collins graduated from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and was a judi… read more

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20. And the Sea Will Tell

By: Vincent Bugliosi , Bruce Henderson

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alone with her new husband on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd … read more

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21. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

By: Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

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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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  • 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

Cover of The Dark Refrain: The Mystwick School of Musicraft (Mystwick, #3) by Jessica Khoury

23. The Dark Refrain: The Mystwick School of Musicraft (Mystwick, #3)

By: Jessica Khoury

4.36

Format: 10 pages, Audiobook

In the third book in the Mystwick School of Musicraft series, Amelia Jones and her friends fall cen… read more

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24. True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee

By: Abraham Riesman

3.81

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee, an artist and entrepreneur … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw by Charles Leerhsen

25. Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw

By: Charles Leerhsen

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Charles Leerhsen brings the notorious Butch Cassidy to vivid life in this surprising and entertaini… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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26. George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle

By: Philip Norman

3.91

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the premiere Beatles biographer—author of the New York Times bestseller John The Life and the… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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27. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me

By: Rex Chapman

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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28. The Foreign Exchange (Mambo Reina, #2)

By: Veronica G. Henry

4.20

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

A Vodou priestess turned amateur sleuth investigating a ritual murder is embroiled in an insidious … read more

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29. The Perfume Burned His Eyes

By: Michael Imperioli

3.57

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Matthew is a sixteen-year-old boy living in Jackson Heights, Queens, in 1976. After he loses his tw… read more

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30. Camp Cacophony (Mystwick, #0.5)

By: Jessica Khoury

3.87

Format: 1 pages, Audiobook

It’s two months before Amelia’s big audition for the Mystwick School of Musicraft. If she gets in, … read more

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31. United States of True Crime: Florida: The Most Chilling Cases In All 50 States

By: Ashley Hudson

4.14

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

United States of True The Most Chilling Cases In All 50 States United States of True Crime is an… read more

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3.97

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2.50

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Marc Maron

3.78

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Kara Swisher

3.99

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Ed Zwick

4.03

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Rich Cohen

3.90

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Keith O'Brien

4.43

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