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Books like Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King
The best books like Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King are Chronicles: Volume One, Just Kids, and Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King by Lloyd Bradley is about music history, jamaica, rastafari. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Chronicles: Volume One
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Bob Dylan · Memoir
Chronicles: Volume One is the first installment of what Dylan announced as a multi-volume memoir, and it is one of the stranger and more rewarding books any major artist has written about their own formation.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Just Kids
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Patti Smith · Memoir
Just Kids is Patti Smith's National Book Award-winning memoir of her relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, from their first meeting in New York in 1967 through their years of shared poverty, artistic development, and eventual celebrity, to Mapplethorpe's death from AIDS in 1989.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain · Memoir
Kitchen Confidential began as an essay in The New Yorker in 1999.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah · Memoir
Born a Crime is Trevor Noah's memoir about growing up mixed-race in South Africa during the final years of apartheid and its chaotic aftermath.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - A People's History of the United States
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · History
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, first published in 1980, retells American history from the perspective of those who rarely appear in conventional textbooks: Native Americans, enslaved people, industrial workers, women, immigrants, and dissidents of various kinds.
Both dig into resistance.
Read the summary → - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder · History
On Tyranny is Timothy Snyder's brief handbook drawn from the history of twentieth-century authoritarianism.
Both dig into resistance.
Read the summary → - The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel P. Huntington · History
Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, published in 1996, is an expansion of a 1993 Foreign Affairs essay that generated more response than almost any article in that journal's history.
Both dig into cultural identity.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
Both dig into resistance.
Read the summary → - Between the World and Me
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Ta-Nehisi Coates · Memoir
Between the World and Me is a letter from Ta-Nehisi Coates to his teenage son, Samori, about what it means to live in a Black body in the United States.
Both dig into resistance.
Read the summary → - Dial A for Aunties
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Jesse Q. Sutanto · Contemporary fiction
Medeline Meddelin — Meddelin Chan — accidentally kills her blind date and calls her mother.
Both dig into cultural identity.
Read the summary → - Do the Work
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Steven Pressfield · Self-help
Do the Work is Steven Pressfield's shortest and most directly operational book about creative resistance.
Both dig into resistance.
Read the summary → - Letters and Papers from Prison
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Letters and Papers from Prison
Dietrich Bonhoeffer · Philosophy
Letters and Papers from Prison is a posthumous collection of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's correspondence written during his imprisonment at Tegel military prison in Berlin between April 1943 and October 1944, along with some earlier papers and the poem "Who Am I?" written near the end.
Both dig into resistance.
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Books like Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King: quick answers
What are the best books like Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King?
The best books like Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King by Lloyd Bradley are Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan, Just Kids by Patti Smith, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King, such as music history, jamaica, rastafari.
What should I read after Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King?
A natural next read after Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King is Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan. A kindred history read. Other strong choices are Just Kids by Patti Smith, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah.
What books are similar to Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King by Lloyd Bradley?
Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King centers on music history, jamaica, rastafari. Books with a similar feel include Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan, Just Kids by Patti Smith, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
