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Books like Life
The best books like Life are Scar Tissue, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, and The Liars' Club. Life by Keith Richards is about music, addiction, creativity. 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.
- Scar Tissue
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Anthony Kiedis · Memoir
Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis's account of his life from a chaotic childhood in Michigan through the formation and commercial peak of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, with addiction and recovery as the book's spine.
Shares music and addiction with Life.
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.
Both dig into survival.
Read the summary → - The Liars' Club
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Mary Karr · Memoir
Mary Karr's debut memoir about growing up in the oil-refinery town of Leechfield, Texas in the 1960s is widely credited with sparking the memoir boom of the 1990s.
Both dig into survival.
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- Open: An Autobiography
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Andre Agassi · Memoir
Andre Agassi's autobiography opens with one of the most famous confessions in sports memoir: he hates tennis.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight · Memoir
Shoe Dog is Phil Knight's account of the first two decades of Nike, from the $50 loan he borrowed from his father in 1964 to fund his first shipment of Japanese running shoes to the company's IPO in 1980.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - 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.
Shares music and creativity with Life.
Read the summary → - Special Deluxe
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Neil Young · Memoir
Special Deluxe is Neil Young's second memoir — a follow-up to Waging Heavy Peace (2012) — and it is organized around a peculiar structural conceit: Young uses each car he has owned over his lifetime as a chapter marker, and each vehicle serves as a portal to the memories of that period.
Shares music and creativity with Life.
Read the summary → - The Basketball Diaries
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Jim Carroll · Memoir
The Basketball Diaries is Jim Carroll's account of his teenage years in New York City during the late 1960s, drawn from journals he kept between ages thirteen and sixteen.
Shares addiction and survival with Life.
Read the summary → - The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
Wladyslaw Szpilman · Memoir
The Pianist is Wladyslaw Szpilman's account of surviving the German occupation of Warsaw from 1939 to 1945.
Shares music and survival with Life.
Read the summary → - Your Song Changed My Life
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Bob Boilen · Memoir
Your Song Changed My Life is Bob Boilen's account of conversations he had with musicians about the single song that most shaped their artistic lives.
Shares music and creativity with Life.
Read the summary → - How Music Works
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David Byrne · History
David Byrne's central provocation in How Music Works is that music doesn't emerge from individual genius and then find a context — the context shapes and creates the music.
Shares music and creativity with Life.
Read the summary → - The Listening Book
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W.A. Mathieu · Philosophy
The Listening Book is W.A.
Shares music and creativity with Life.
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Books like Life: quick answers
What are the best books like Life?
The best books like Life by Keith Richards are Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah, The Liars' Club by Mary Karr, Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Life, such as music, addiction, creativity.
What should I read after Life?
A natural next read after Life is Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis. Shares music and addiction with Life. Other strong choices are Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah, The Liars' Club by Mary Karr, Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi.
What books are similar to Life by Keith Richards?
Life centers on music, addiction, creativity. Books with a similar feel include Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah, The Liars' Club by Mary Karr, Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
