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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
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4.19 avg rating — 37,159 ratings
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Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag
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4.10 avg rating — 9,157 ratings
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
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4.21 avg rating — 18,199 ratings
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NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories
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4.55 avg rating — 5,766 ratings
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We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
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3.97 avg rating — 2,761 ratings
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Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs
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4.07 avg rating — 1,455 ratings
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England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
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4.06 avg rating — 7,407 ratings
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American Hardcore: A Tribal History
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3.97 avg rating — 3,985 ratings
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Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones
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4.03 avg rating — 660 ratings
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
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4.27 avg rating — 13,624 ratings
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Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
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3.95 avg rating — 9,164 ratings
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Not Just Bits of Paper
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4.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Punk Rocker: Punk stories of Billy Idol, Sid Vicious, Iggy Pop from New York City, Los Angeles, Minnesota, United Kingdom and Austria.
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4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Banned in D C: Photos and Anecdotes from the DC Punk Underground
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4.25 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements
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4.55 avg rating — 4,645 ratings
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Tales from the Punkside
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4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
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3.99 avg rating — 819 ratings
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DESPITE EVERYTHING: COMETBUS
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4.38 avg rating — 870 ratings
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Happy Punks 1 2 3: A Counting Story
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4.17 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Darkening Light
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4.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
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4.38 avg rating — 12,914 ratings
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Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones
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3.85 avg rating — 2,234 ratings
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Punk Rock Nursing Home
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3.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Punk: An Aesthetic
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4.08 avg rating — 72 ratings
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We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001
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3.80 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Why Be Something That You're Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985
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3.87 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
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3.97 avg rating — 501 ratings
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Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
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4.17 avg rating — 2,165 ratings
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Punk Rock Dad: No Rules, Just Real Life
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3.87 avg rating — 666 ratings
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Punk Rock: An Oral History
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4.02 avg rating — 654 ratings
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Story of Crass
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3.95 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records
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4.02 avg rating — 863 ratings
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Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital
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4.04 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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MDC: Memoir from a Damaged Civilization: Stories of Punk, Fear, and Redemption
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3.80 avg rating — 164 ratings
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I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol
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3.95 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1992
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3.91 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Marky Ramone: Punk Rock Blitzkrieg
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4.05 avg rating — 1,110 ratings
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Lonely Boy
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4.04 avg rating — 3,026 ratings
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Dayglo: The Poly Styrene Story
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4.35 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Archie Meets Ramones #1
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3.89 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Like Hell
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3.51 avg rating — 140 ratings
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The Roxy, Our Story: The Club That Forged Punk in 100 Nights of Madness Mayhem and Misfortune
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984
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4.06 avg rating — 9,440 ratings
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NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, GOODBYE Bands, Dirty Basements, and the Search for Self
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3.68 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day
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3.91 avg rating — 804 ratings
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New York City Hardcore: the way it was ...
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Nevada Mind The Bollix Part One (Rockline Book 2)
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4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Cursed is the Road to the American Dream
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Salad Days
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3.91 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Add Toner: A Cometbus Collection
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4.45 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Disco's Out...Murder's In!: The True Story of Frank the Shank and L.A.'s Deadliest Punk Rock Gang
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3.98 avg rating — 415 ratings
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The Best of Punk Magazine
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4.43 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Punk (New York Vampire, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Punk Rock & Mental Illness Vol. 1 A Love Story More Stable Than We Are: Writings, Poetry, Insanity, Photography, & Excerpts of A Monster, or A Goddess, Not Sure Which One Though...
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Emily Ryan (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Publisher, Photographer)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Loose Gravel
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4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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44 Chapters About 4 Men
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3.76 avg rating — 12,035 ratings
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Estrus: Shovelin’ The Shit Since ’87
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4.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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How to Get Over the End of the World
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4.28 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Punk Rock Karaoke
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3.95 avg rating — 590 ratings
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In Bloom
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3.74 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag
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4.03 avg rating — 576 ratings
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The Rest is Propaganda
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4.43 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Nobody Special: The Death of Johnny Salinger
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3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Party Out Of Bounds: The B-52's, R.e.m., And The Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia
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3.98 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History Of Punk In Toronto And Beyond 1977-1981
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4.16 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics and Music
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4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Black Heart Fades Blue Vol 3
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4.11 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Skin (A 44 Chapters Novel, 1)
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4.34 avg rating — 3,779 ratings
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The High Desert
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4.41 avg rating — 1,556 ratings
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A Wailing of a Town: An Oral History of Early San Pedro Punk and More 1977-1985
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4.52 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Cheetah Chrome: A Dead Boy's Tale: From the Front Lines of Punk Rock
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4.09 avg rating — 252 ratings
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In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992
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3.84 avg rating — 765 ratings
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Black Heart Fades Blue - Vol. 2
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4.41 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Speed (A 44 Chapters Novel, 2)
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4.42 avg rating — 2,524 ratings
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You Idiot! -- The First Book
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4.17 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Maps to the Other Side: The Adventures of a Bipolar Cartographer
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4.19 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Chelsea Horror Hotel
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3.21 avg rating — 590 ratings
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Broken Summers
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4.08 avg rating — 638 ratings
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Black Heart Fades Blue - vol 1
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4.40 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Star (A 44 Chapters Novel, 3)
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4.46 avg rating — 2,241 ratings
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Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
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3.90 avg rating — 442 ratings
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From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World
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3.91 avg rating — 1,728 ratings
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Safety In Numbers: My Journey with L.A. Punk Rock Gangs 1982-1992
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3.57 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Suit (A 44 Chapters Novel, 4)
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4.51 avg rating — 2,740 ratings
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The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era
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3.76 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small
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4.05 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
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Punk Rock
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4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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1988: New Wave Punk Rock Explosion
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4.31 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83
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4.25 avg rating — 383 ratings
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The Basketball Diaries
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3.99 avg rating — 31,819 ratings
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What Is Punk?
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4.16 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Sex Pistols: The Graphic Novel
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2.93 avg rating — 95 ratings
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We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America
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3.75 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
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4.12 avg rating — 35,726 ratings
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And All Around Was Darkness
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Marquee Moon
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3.84 avg rating — 474 ratings
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Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk
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4.11 avg rating — 665 ratings
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Hüsker Dü: The Story of the Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock
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3.49 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division
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3.74 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Ramones
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3.46 avg rating — 379 ratings
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