8 Best autobiography books like Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams

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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…

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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

Similar categories in Bob Mehr's Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements book and Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

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

2. Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt

By: Kristin Hersh

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

"Friend, asshole, angel, mutant," singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt "came along and made us gross and … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

3. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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4. 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
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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5. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

6. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

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  • audiobook
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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7. 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
  • american
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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8. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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9. Me and Paul: Untold Stories of a Fabled Friendship

By: Willie Nelson

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Discover the untold stories and unbreakable bond between country music icon Willie Nelson and his l… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen

10. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

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11. Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)

By: Laura Dern

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As actors, Dern and Ladd have spent decades peeling back layers to re… read more

Similar categories in Laura Dern's Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) book and Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes

12. Lou Reed: The King of New York

By: Will Hermes

4.23

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more

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  • music
  • american
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by Warren Zanes

13. 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

Similar categories in Warren Zanes's Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska book and Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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14. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

Similar categories in Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) book and Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

  • audiobook
"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

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15. Sonic Life: A Memoir

By: Thurston Moore

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more

Similar categories in Thurston Moore's Sonic Life: A Memoir book and Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History by Bill Janovitz

16. Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History

By: Bill Janovitz

4.29

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  Bestseller The definitive biography of legendary musician, composer, and perform… read more

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

17. 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

Similar categories in Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir book and Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

  • music
  • american
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • southern
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir by Alexandra Auder

18. Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir

By: Alexandra Auder

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordi… read more

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  • american
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Cover of Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine (Musicians in Their Own Words) by Holly Gleason

20. Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine (Musicians in Their Own Words)

By: Holly Gleason

4.23

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

" As close to an autobiography as we’re going to get from John Prine, Prine on Prine captures the i… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir by Sly Stone

21. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir

By: Sly Stone

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more

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  • music
  • american
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir by Vanessa Schneider

22. My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir

By: Vanessa Schneider

3.67

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A spare, heartbreaking memoir and tribute to Maria Schneider, the 1970s movie starlet who catapulte… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

23. 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
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

24. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Cover of Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s by Alan Paul

25. Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s

By: Alan Paul

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul's in-depth narra… read more

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  • music
  • american
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by Robert Mack McCormick

26. Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

By: Robert Mack McCormick

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music by David Remnick

27. Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music

By: David Remnick

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gat… read more

Similar categories in David Remnick's Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music book and Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

  • music
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Chuck Berry: An American Life by R.J. Smith

28. Chuck Berry: An American Life

By: R.J. Smith

4.11

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and roll Best kn… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Maybe We'll Make It: A Memoir (American Music Series) by Margo  Price

29. Maybe We'll Make It: A Memoir (American Music Series)

By: Margo Price

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When Margo Price was nineteen years old, she dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to becom… read more

Similar categories in Margo Price's Maybe We'll Make It: A Memoir (American Music Series) book and Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • southern
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times by Robert Greenfield

30. True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times

By: Robert Greenfield

3.95

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A revelatory biography of the world-famous playwright and actor Sa… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers

31. Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell

By: Ann Powers

3.51

Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition

For decades Joni Mitchell’s life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated ar… read more

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

26 Best audiobook books like Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams

Transform Your Habits

Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements

Bob Mehr

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

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18 Top music books like World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

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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