10 must-read nonfiction books like Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 by Colin Fleming

Cover of Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 by Colin Fleming

Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

By: Colin Fleming

4.55

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Shelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 , stands alongside Otis…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 by Colin Fleming , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. How to Listen to Jazz

By: Ted Gioia

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A "radiantly accomplished" music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listenin… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both."

-Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz

"In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue and a blessing."

-Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz

"When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won’t notice the theft."

-Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz

"The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead aims to adapt to the audience, to give the public exact…"

-Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz

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2. All-Star Superman

By: Grant Morrison , Frank Quitely , Jamie Grant , None , None

4.26

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The Eisner Award-winning 12-issue series from Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely is available in Abso… read more

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"You're much stronger than you think you are. Trust me."

-Grant Morrison, All-Star Superman

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3. White Tears

By: Hari Kunzru

3.68

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most talented fiction writers at work today: two ambitious young musicians are draw… read more

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  • music
"I wanted to avoid slippage."

-Hari Kunzru, White Tears

"Fuck humanity, was my basic position at that point."

-Hari Kunzru, White Tears

"People always look aroused when they’re acting violently."

-Hari Kunzru, White Tears

"Let me be clear. I play two kinds of music. God's and the other kind."

-Hari Kunzru, White Tears

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4. Collected Poems

By: Dylan Thomas

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomascontains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented h… read more

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5. The Pale King

By: David Foster Wallace , Michael Pietsch

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Hardcover

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to ne… read more

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6. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #39)

By: Agatha Christie

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughte… read more

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8. Lincoln in the Bardo

By: George Saunders

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more

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9. Selected Poems

By: Gwendolyn Brooks

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipie… read more

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10. Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

By: Lizzy Goodman

4.16

Format: 622 pages, Hardcover

An intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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11. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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12. LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

By: Alan Shipnuck

4.14

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Alan Shipnuck, the New York Times bestselling author of Phil, returns with a major new work of insi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. 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

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

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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14. The Baseball 100

By: Joe Posnanski

4.74

Format: 869 pages, Hardcover

A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singu… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa

15. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

By: Souvankham Thammavongsa

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more

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"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

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16. The Twilight World

By: Werner Herzog

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more

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17. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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18. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.47

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre,… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"The things we do to stay close to the people we think will carry us through an entire lifetime..."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)

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19. Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

By: Colin Fleming

4.55

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Shelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 , stands alongside Otis… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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20. The Golem of Brooklyn

By: Adam Mansbach

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated t… read more

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21. The Divorce

By: César Aira

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

With an enthusiastic foreword by Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delighful book of chance meetings, b… read more

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