Books like Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
12 books with a reading profile close to Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
Hayden Herrera tracks the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo from her childhood in Coyoacán through the catastrophic bus accident that left her in permanent physical pain.
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No One Here Gets Out Alive
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman document the life and death of Jim Morrison, the frontman of The Doors.
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
by Kate Moore
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
In 1860, Elizabeth Packard’s husband committed her to the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane because she challenged his religious authority and asserted her intellectual independence.
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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
In 1973, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey departed England on a small yacht, seeking an alternative to the stagnant routines of suburban life.
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
Sonia Purnell chronicles the life of Virginia Hall, an American woman who overcame a prosthetic wooden leg and deep-seated institutional sexism to become a critical operative for the British Special Operations Executive…
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
Joe Simpson and Simon Yates reached the 21,000-foot summit of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes before disaster struck during their descent.
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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
by Ann Rule
biography, narrative
Ann Rule chronicles her personal friendship with Ted Bundy, whom she met while both worked at a Seattle crisis clinic in 1971.
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Mornings on Horseback
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
David McCullough chronicles the formative years of Theodore Roosevelt, focusing on the two decades between 1869 and 1886.
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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
Stéphane Breitwieser carried out over two hundred museum heists across Europe between 1995 and 2001, targeting unsecured galleries and regional collections.
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An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
Annejet van der Zijl reconstructs the life of Allene Tew, a woman born into a modest family in Chautauqua County, New York, during the late nineteenth century.
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My Life
by Bill Clinton
biography, narrative
In this autobiography, Bill Clinton traces his trajectory from a childhood in Hope, Arkansas, through his tenure as Governor and his two terms as the forty-second President of the United States.
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler hid in a hollowed-out woodpile for three days before slipping past the outer perimeter of Auschwitz.
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