20 Best nonfiction books like World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

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World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor…

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Cover of Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It by Bob Boilen

1. Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It

By: Bob Boilen

3.78

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

"Bob Boilen's book gets at something real and rare about the power of music."--New York Times Book … read more

Similar categories in Bob Boilen's Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of My Effin' Life by Geddy Lee

2. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

Similar categories in Geddy Lee's My Effin' Life book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna

3. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Cover of 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan

4. 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

Similar categories in James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan

5. The Philosophy of Modern Song

By: Bob Dylan

3.80

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more

Similar categories in Bob Dylan's The Philosophy of Modern Song book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

Cover of Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

6. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Cover of Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes

7. Lou Reed: The King of New York

By: Will Hermes

4.23

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more

Similar categories in Will Hermes's Lou Reed: The King of New York book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
  • audiobook
Cover of Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by Warren Zanes

8. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

By: Warren Zanes

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more

Similar categories in Warren Zanes's Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

Cover of 60 Songs That Explain the '90s by Rob Harvilla

9. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

Similar categories in Rob Harvilla's 60 Songs That Explain the '90s book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Cover of Sonic Life: A Memoir by Thurston Moore

10. Sonic Life: A Memoir

By: Thurston Moore

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more

Similar categories in Thurston Moore's Sonic Life: A Memoir book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans by Kenneth Womack

11. Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans

By: Kenneth Womack

4.16

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved friend, confidant, and roadie.  … read more

Similar categories in Kenneth Womack's Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
  • audiobook
Cover of Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer

12. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

Similar categories in Matt Singer's Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams

13. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more

Similar categories in Lucinda Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

14. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Cover of Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir by Sly Stone

15. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir

By: Sly Stone

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more

Similar categories in Sly Stone's Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

16. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • rock n roll
  • audiobook
Cover of High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape by Marc Masters

17. High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape

By: Marc Masters

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle ch… read more

Similar categories in Marc Masters's High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland by Steven Hyden

18. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland

By: Steven Hyden

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album,  Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more

Similar categories in Steven Hyden's There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove

19. Hip-Hop Is History

By: Questlove

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Hip-Hop is History, Questlove, one of the major and most revolutionary figures of that genre, un… read more

Similar categories in Questlove's Hip-Hop Is History book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left by Robyn Hitchcock

20. 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left

By: Robyn Hitchcock

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The great eccentric of British psychedelia—beloved by everyone from Led Zeppelin and R.E.M. to the … read more

Similar categories in Robyn Hitchcock's 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Gospel of The Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels by Michael  Hann

21. The Gospel of The Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels

By: Michael Hann

4.37

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

The Gospel of the Hold Steady captures their unhinged magic – Popmatters An oral history (with p… read more

Similar categories in Michael Hann's The Gospel of The Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels book and Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

  • music
  • nonfiction

18 Top music books like World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

Transform Your Habits

Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It

Bob Boilen

3.78

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

4.35

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Percival Everett

4.54

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North Woods

Daniel Mason

4.15

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Tommy Orange

3.89

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Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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