 | Miles Davis Real Book by Miles Davis
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $14.40 Why he was essencial. Even better if you read listening to 'Kind Of Blue'.
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 | The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock: Trouble Girls by Barbara O'Dair
Buy used from: $1.20 A wonderful document on female artists. From Patti Smith to Björk. Delicious.
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 | If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $2.81 Not only a biography but a document on Billie Holiday's life.
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 | It's All in the Music: The Art of John Coltrane by Derek Ansell
The genius, his life, music and legacy.
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 | I Put A Spell On You: The Autobiography Of Nina Simone by Nina Simone
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $7.31 Since I fell for Nina, my life was never the same.
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 | The Rolling Stones: In the Beginning by Bent Rej
Buy new: $36.46 / Used from: $12.41 I know, it's only rock n' roll but I like it!
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 | Diary of Frida Kahlo (Abradale Books) by Carlos Fuentes
Buy used from: $14.99 Frida Kahlo's diary with illustrations and texts.
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 | The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 by Paul Klee
Buy new: $21.56 / Used from: $3.55 This book goes beyond his art, shows the sweet and family oriented person he was.
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 | Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $18.50 The definitive Matisse's biography.
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 | Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare: A Biography by Alice Goldfarb Marquis
Buy new: $26.60 / Used from: $16.95 What's art again?!
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 | Federico Fellini (Midsize) by Christopher Wiegand
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $7.42 The ultimate biography of a visionaire.
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 | Almodovar on Almodovar by Pedro Almodovar
Buy used from: $15.99 Reading Almodóvar is as good as watching him through his movies. His texts are comic, absurd and passionate. And if they're about himseld, it's even better.
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 | Tete-a-Tete: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Hazel Rowley
Buy new: $19.67 / Used from: $5.33 Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. Loved each other, men and women. Whenever I feel jealous or possessive I think of them. It is indeed possible to love someone forever.
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 | Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography by Deirdre Bair
Buy new: $23.00 / Used from: $1.86 The book Courtney Love didn't read.
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 | Fernando Pessoa (Pocket Archives Series)
Buy used from: $75.49 The photographic biography of my favorite Portuguese author. '...Quem me dera um sossego à beira-ser como o que à beira-mar o olhar deseja.'
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 | Clarice Lispector: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in World Literature)
Buy new: $135.00 / Used from: $58.00 Beautiful Brazilian writer. Makes my heart bleed everytime I read 'Perto do Coração Selvagem'. This book is essencial for everyone who wants to understand her (and her literature).
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 | Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life (Lives of the Left) by Annie Cohen-Solal
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $7.69 An interesting life, to say the least. The best biography in English (so far).
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 | Hemingway: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $6.51 Not really beautiful, but loved. If I adore Cuba so much, he is one of the reasons. And yes, I am against cock fights but Hemingway is still a genius.
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 | Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life by Howard Sounes
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $4.59 The drunk pornographic old man and his crazy life.
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 | The Letters of Marcel Proust by Marcel Proust
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $11.96 An intimate view of Proust's life. The man who changed my life.
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 | Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters Of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $2.95 Impossible to stop reading. Drink as many coffee cups you need, it will keep you from sleeping and getting depressed.
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 | The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King Jr.
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.72 The everyday revolution on your pocket.
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 | Rosa Parks: A Life by Douglas Brinkley
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $0.24 The life of the woman who began the modern civil rights movement.
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 | Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $4.00 The life of Angela Davis and the black panther's movement from the inside.
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 | Mandela: A Critical Life by Tom Lodge
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $5.00 The free African man.
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