Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
By: Jeremy Denk
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully written, witty memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music--its p…
Want to Read $ 4.99"You passed. But have you considered the word "la"?"-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
"And what else is music but a space for us to live in, for a while."-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
"Remember: music is not the notes. It is between the notes. [György Sebők]"-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
"Evil moment, when you doubt the magician's magic, when you wonder if it was more image than insight."-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
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1. Play it Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible
By: Alan Rusbridger
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The Guardian editor’s account of a remarkable musical challenge during an extraordinary year for ne… read more
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- music
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
2. Stones for Ibarra
By: Harriet Doerr
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Richard and Sara Everton, just over and just under forty, have come to the small Mexican village of… read more
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3. Mozart's Starling
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
4.10
Format: 271 pages, ebook
A charming story of Mozart and his pet starling, along with a natural history of the bird. On May 2… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
4. Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
By: Haruki Murakami , Seiji Ozawa
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclai… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
5. For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker
By: Victoria Coren
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In September 2006, Victoria Coren won a million dollars on the European Poker Tour. In her long-awa… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
6. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
By: Alex Ross
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Centuryis a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- unfinished
7. Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words
By: Malka Marom , Joni Mitchell
3.83
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni M… read more
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- music
- biography
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- music
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9. A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between
By: Stuart Isacoff
3.58
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and perfo… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
10. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
By: Christoph Wolff
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the compos… read more
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11. What to Listen for in Music
By: Alan Rich , Aaron Copland , William Schuman
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to music intelligently, Aaron Copland raises two basi… read more
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12. Trust
By: Hernan Diaz
3.83
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more
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- audiobook
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
13. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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- biography
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- audiobook
14. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- audiobook
15. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
By: James Kaplan
4.35
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more
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- music
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- unfinished
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. North Woods
By: Daniel Mason
4.15
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more
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- audiobook
17. The Pole and Other Stories
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.85
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist who becomes infa… read more
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18. Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
By: Jeremy Eichler
4.54
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wart… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
By: Jeremy Denk
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully written, witty memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music--its p… read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- unfinished
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"You passed. But have you considered the word "la"?"-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
"And what else is music but a space for us to live in, for a while."-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
"Remember: music is not the notes. It is between the notes. [György Sebők]"-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
"Evil moment, when you doubt the magician's magic, when you wonder if it was more image than insight."-Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
20. Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More
By: Stephen Hough CBE
4.01
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world's leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numer… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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21. Shanghailanders
By: Juli Min
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more
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- audiobook
22. Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
By: Christian Wiman
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
23. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
By: Thad Carhart
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Walking his two young children to school every morning, Thad Carhart passes an unassuming little st… read more
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- music
- biography
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life."-Thad Carhart, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
"The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys."-Thad Carhart, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
24. The Great Passion
By: James Runcie
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the s… read more
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- music
25. The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide
By: Anthony Tommasini
3.87
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
An exploration into the question of greatness from the Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York… read more
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- music
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I gained a sense of why Grieg was so touched by the wistful, elegiac folk music of Norway, and what he meant when he said self-effacingly that his music had a 'taste of cod' about it."-Anthony Tommasini, The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide
26. Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
By: Annik LaFarge
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A modern take on a classical icon: this original, entertaining, well-researched book uses the story… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
By: Natalie Hodges
3.76
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST NPR “BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR” SELECTION NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE … read more
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- audiobook
28. The Lost Pianos of Siberia
By: Sophy Roberts
3.99
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed journalist Sophy Roberts, a journey through one of the harshest landscapes on earth … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Siberia is a nightmare or a myth full of impenetrable forests and limitless plains, its murderous proportions strung with groaning oil derricks and sagging wires. Siberia is all those things, and mor…"-Sophy Roberts, The Lost Pianos of Siberia
29. Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music
By: Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“A refreshingly fun guide” that reads “as if you’re a fly on the wall in conservatory auditions, cu… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Bach Cello Suites
By: Steven Isserlis
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Bach's six Cello Suites are among the most cherished of all the works in the classical music litera… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning
By: Philip Kennicott
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was … read more
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