Biography

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#2
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Standing In The Shadows Of Motown

Standing In The Shadows Of Motown: The Life And Music Of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson
  • Allan Slutsky
  • James Jamerson
51 read
#3
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Myself When I am Real

Myself When I am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
  • Gene Santoro
31 read
#4
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I'd Rather Be The Devil

I'd Rather Be The Devil
  • Stephen Calt
51 read
#5
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music
  • Mark Zwonitzer
  • Charles Hirshberg
41 read
#6
Harry Houdini, master of magic
Harry Houdini, master of magic
  • Robert Kraske
31 read
#7
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • Malcolm X
4.47145 reads
#8
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A Drink With Shane MacGowan

A Drink With Shane MacGowan
  • Victoria Mary Clarke
  • Shane MacGowan
31 read
#9
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Stockhausen - Conversations with the Composer

Stockhausen - Conversations with the Composer
  • Jonathan Cott
51 read
#10
Chris Ware
Chris Ware
  • Daniel K. Raeburn
41 read
#11
The Prince of Frogtown
The Prince of Frogtown
  • Rick Bragg
2.52 reads
#12
All Over But the Shoutin'
All Over But the Shoutin'
  • Rick Bragg
3.66 reads
#13
How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life
How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life
  • John Fahey
3.52 reads
#14
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas
  • Virginia Woolf
3.95128 reads
#15
A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast
  • Ernest Hemingway
3.94105 reads
#16
Maus: Un survivant raconte, tome 1: Mon père saigne l'histoire
Maus: Un survivant raconte, tome 1: Mon père saigne l'histoire
  • Art Spiegelman
4.53316 reads
#17
Maus: Historia de un sobreviviente II: Y Aquí Comenzaron Mis Problemas
Maus: Historia de un sobreviviente II: Y Aquí Comenzaron Mis Problemas
  • Art Spiegelman
  • César Aira (Translator)
4.51151 reads
#18
The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book
The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book
  • Robert Crumb
51 read
#19
I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee
I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee
  • Charles J. Shields
2.52 reads
#20
Geeks
Geeks
  • Jon Katz
3.54 reads
#21
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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist
  • Anthony Cronin
51 read
#22
James Joyce: The Years of Growth, 1882-1915:  A Biography
James Joyce: The Years of Growth, 1882-1915: A Biography
    31 read
    #23
    Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
    Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
    • Deborah Heiligman
    3.57 reads
    #24
    Incompleteness
    Incompleteness
    • Rebecca Goldstein
    3.252 reads
    #25
    Cover 7

    Crooked Cucumber

    Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
    • David Chadwick
    41 read
    #26
    The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin
    The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin
    • Peter Sís
    42 reads
    #27
    Jazz ABZ
    Jazz ABZ
    • Wynton Marsalis
    51 read
    #28
    Cover 6

    David Lynch

    David Lynch: Beautiful Dark
    • Greg Olson
    42 reads
    #29
    Dream Makers II
    Dream Makers II
    • Charles Platt
    31 read
    #30
    The Man Called CASH: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend
    The Man Called CASH: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend
    • Steve Turner
    3.52 reads
    #31
    Cover 1

    Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Hemingway: An Illustrated Biography
    • David Sandison
    31 read
    #32
    Every Love Story is a Ghost Story
    Every Love Story is a Ghost Story
    • Daniel T. Max
    3.86 reads
    #33
    American Isis
    American Isis
    • Carl Rollyson
    42 reads
    #34
    Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film
    Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film
    • Patton Oswalt
    3.6311 reads
    #35
    Andre the Giant: Life and Legend
    Andre the Giant: Life and Legend
    • Box Brown
    3.1412 reads
    #36
    Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
    Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
    • Anne Helen Petersen
    42 reads
    #37
    Where the Heart Beats
    Where the Heart Beats
    • Kay Larson
    33 reads
    #38
    Jim Henson: The Biography
    Jim Henson: The Biography
    • Brian Jay Jones
    412 reads
    #39
    Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country
    Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country
    • Robert Crumb
    03 reads
    #40
    Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
    • Javaka Steptoe
    53 reads
    #41
    Snowflake Bentley
    Snowflake Bentley
    • Jacqueline Briggs Martin
    4.334 reads
    #42
    Samurai Rising
    Samurai Rising
    • Pamela S. Turner
    34 reads
    #43
    The Book of Ghost Stories
    The Book of Ghost Stories
    • M.R. James
    01 read
    #44
    The Velvet Underground
    The Velvet Underground
    • Richard Witts
    01 read
    #45
    Elephant House
    Elephant House
    • Kevin McDermott
    01 read
    #46
    Seeing the light
    Seeing the light
    • Rob Jovanovic
    01 read
    #47
    Alabama Musicians: Musical Heritage from the Heart of Dixie
    Alabama Musicians: Musical Heritage from the Heart of Dixie
    • C.S. Fuqua
    01 read
    #48
    Cover 2

    Whores

    Whores: An Oral Biography Of Perry Farrell And Jane's Addiction
    • Brendan Mullen
    01 read
    #49
    Hail to the Chin
    Hail to the Chin
    • Bruce Campbell
    • Craig Sanborn
    4.36 reads
    #50
    Cover 4

    Monster, She Wrote

    Monster, She Wrote
      3.511 reads
      #51
      Cover 2

      Roger Brown

      Roger Brown: Southern Exposure
      • Sidney Lawrence
      01 read
      #52
      Little Girl Blue
      Little Girl Blue
      • Randy L. Schmidt
      53 reads
      #53
      Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
      Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
      • Ben Watson
      01 read
      #54
      Borges: An Introduction
      Borges: An Introduction
      • Julio Premat
      01 read
      #55
      Nietzsche in Turin: The End of the Future
      Nietzsche in Turin: The End of the Future
      • Leslie Chamberlain
      01 read
      #56
      Cover 2

      James Joyce in 90 Minutes

      James Joyce in 90 Minutes
      • Paul Strathern
      01 read
      #57
      Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music
      Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music
      • Philip Watson
      01 read
      #58
      A Very Easy Death
      A Very Easy Death
      • Simone de Beauvoir
      • Patrick O'Brian (Translator)
      46 reads
      #59
      The Jimi Hendrix Experience
      The Jimi Hendrix Experience
      • Jerry Hopkins
      01 read
      #60
      Room Full Of Mirrors: A Biography Of Jimi Hendrix
      Room Full Of Mirrors: A Biography Of Jimi Hendrix
      • Charles R. Cross
      55 reads
      #61
      Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
      Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
      • Philip R. Ratcliffe
      01 read
      #62
      How Slavoj Became Žižek: The Digital Making of a Public Intellectual
      How Slavoj Became Žižek: The Digital Making of a Public Intellectual
      • Eliran Bar-El
      01 read
      #63
      e. e. cummings: A Life
      e. e. cummings: A Life
      • Susan Cheever
      01 read
      #64
      Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years at His Side
      Stanley Kubrick and Me: Thirty Years at His Side
      • Emilio D'Alessandro
      • Filippo Ulivieri
      • Simon Marsh (Translator)
      01 read
      #65
      Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
      Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
      • Greil Marcus
      01 read
      #66
      Cover 1

      Rick Baker

      Rick Baker: Metamorphosis
      • J.W. Rinzler
      01 read
      #67
      Cover 2

      The Worlds of Dune

      The Worlds of Dune
      • Tom Huddleston
      01 read
      #68
      Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
      Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
      • Joanna Moorhead
      01 read
      #69
      Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers
      Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers
      • Beverly Gray
      01 read
      #70
      Cover 5

      Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Odyssey

      Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Odyssey: The Great War and the Writing of the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus
      • Sebastian Smallshaw (Translator)
      01 read
      #71
      Blind But Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson
      Blind But Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson
      • Kent Gustavson
      01 read
      #72
      Cover 3

      Reading Stephen King

      Reading Stephen King
      • Cemetery Dance Publications
      01 read
      #73
      Aristotle in 90 Minutes
      Aristotle in 90 Minutes
      • Paul Strathern
      02 reads