7 must-read biography memoir books like Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times by Alan Walker

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Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

By: Alan Walker

4.43

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, P…

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1. The Garden of Eden

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.70

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1986, charts the life of … read more

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"Now we have done it. Now we really have done it."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

"I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

"He wrote it exactly and the sinister part only showed as the light feathering of a smooth swell on a calm day marking the reef beneath."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

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2. Great Masters: Liszt His Life & Music

By: Robert Greenberg

4.49

Format: 338 pages, Audio Cassette

Course Lecture Titles 1. Le Concert, C'est MoiThe Concert is Me 2. A Born Pianist 3. Revelation 4. … read more

Similar categories in Robert Greenberg's Great Masters: Liszt His Life & Music book and Alan Walker's Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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3. Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

By: Jan Swafford

4.25

Format: 1077 pages, Hardcover

Jan Swafford’s biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered mu… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • classical music
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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4. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

By: Daniel J. Levitin

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life--even if yo… read more

Similar categories in Daniel J. Levitin's This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession book and Alan Walker's Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
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5. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

By: Jason Fagone

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Hidden Figuresand In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the gr… read more

Similar categories in Jason Fagone's The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies book and Alan Walker's Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. The Red House Mystery

By: A.A. Milne

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyor… read more

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7. Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

By: John Eliot Gardiner

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can su… read more

Similar categories in John Eliot Gardiner's Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven book and Alan Walker's Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • classical music
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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8. The Great Courses - The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works

By: Robert Greenberg

3.20

Format: 144 pages,

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Similar categories in Robert Greenberg's The Great Courses - The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works book and Alan Walker's Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music

By: Jan Swafford

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A preeminent composer, music scholar, and biographer presents an engaging and accessible introducti… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • history
  • classical music
  • nonfiction
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10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

11. What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

By: Charles Bukowski

4.00

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

This second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein … read more

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12. Chopin's Letters

By: Ethel Lilian Voynich , None

4.00

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

"Nothing could be more spontaneous and ebullient than Chopin's letters." -- Books "Perhaps no compo… read more

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13. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

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"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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14. Schumann: The Faces and the Masks

By: Judith Chernaik

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds n… read more

Similar categories in Judith Chernaik's Schumann: The Faces and the Masks book and Alan Walker's Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • 19th century
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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15. Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

By: Alan Walker

4.43

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, P… read more

Similar categories in Alan Walker's Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times book and Alan Walker's Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • classical music
  • 19th century
  • poland
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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16. Debussy: A Painter in Sound

By: Stephen Walsh

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully written and original biography of one of the greatest and most popular of modern comp… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Walsh's Debussy: A Painter in Sound book and Alan Walker's Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • classical music
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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17. Mozart: The Reign of Love

By: Jan Swafford

4.33

Format: 832 pages, ebook

From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of th… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • classical music
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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18. When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought

By: Jim Holt

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an enterta… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The river of time may have its rapids and its calmer stretches, but one thing would seem to be certain: it carries all of us, willy-nilly, in its flow. Irresistibly, irreversibly, we are being borne …"

-Jim Holt, When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought

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19. The Life and Works of Franz Schubert (Life & Works)

By: Jeremy Siepmann

3.96

Format: 148 pages, Audio CD

None read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Siepmann's The Life and Works of Franz Schubert (Life & Works) book and Alan Walker's Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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20. Great Masters: Haydn - His Life and Music

By: Robert Greenberg

4.41

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Almost from the moment it was first set to paper, the music of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) - tec… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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21. Great Piano Works Explained

By: Catherine Kautsky

4.00

Format: 14 pages, Audible Audio

13 hrs. 14 min. The glorious repertoire for solo piano includes many of classical music’s most b… read more

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  • music

13 must-read history books like Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times by Alan Walker

Transform Your Habits

Great Masters: Liszt His Life & Music

Robert Greenberg

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

Jan Swafford

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

Jason Fagone

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

John Eliot Gardiner

3.50

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11 Top 20th century books like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Seamus Deane

Transform Your Habits

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

Transform Your Habits

A Passage to India

E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

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