7 Best music books like Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber

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Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

By: Michel Faber

3.31

Format: None pages, ebook

This book is, at its core, about music and the people who listen to it—your friends, your neighbors…

If you liked the music plot in Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Against the Odds: An Autobiography

By: James Dyson

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

The maverick inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner recounts how he succeeded against the odds to b… read more

Similar categories in James Dyson's Against the Odds: An Autobiography book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • nonfiction
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2. Revolution In The Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties

By: Ian MacDonald

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

'No book has taken us closer to the music of the Beatles' Tony Parsons 'Consistently brilliant' SUN… read more

Similar categories in Ian MacDonald's Revolution In The Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction

3. Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division

By: Deborah Curtis , Jon Savage

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is an account of the mesmerising life and tragic death of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Divis… read more

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4. The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts

By: David Lodge

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

The articles with which David Lodge entertained and delighted readers of the Independent on Sundaya… read more

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5. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • art
  • audiobook
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6. Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

By: Bernie Taupin

3.58

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, th… read more

Similar categories in Bernie Taupin's Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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8. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

Similar categories in Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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9. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By: Malcolm Harris

3.90

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more

Similar categories in Malcolm Harris's Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • music
  • 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

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11. 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 Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • music
  • 21st century
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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13. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

Similar categories in Patti Smith's A Book of Days book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
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14. Mania

By: Lionel Shriver

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more

Similar categories in Lionel Shriver's Mania book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • audiobook
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15. 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 Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Chayka's Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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17. Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

By: Michel Faber

3.31

Format: None pages, ebook

This book is, at its core, about music and the people who listen to it—your friends, your neighbors… read more

Similar categories in Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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18. A Year of Last Things: Poems

By: Michael Ondaatje

3.61

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more

Similar categories in Michael Ondaatje's A Year of Last Things: Poems book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • audiobook
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19. De kolonie mept terug: over witte arrogantie en voortschrijdend inzicht; een denkoefening en leesreis

By: Adriaan van Dis

3.76

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

De wonden geslagen door gedwongen verplaatsing, westerse expansiedrift en de verdeel-en-heerspoliti… read more

Similar categories in Adriaan van Dis's De kolonie mept terug: over witte arrogantie en voortschrijdend inzicht; een denkoefening en leesreis book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • nonfiction
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20. Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence

By: Paco Calvo

3.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelli… read more

Similar categories in Paco Calvo's Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence book and Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Book of the Gaels

By: James Yorkston

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Rural West Cork, Ireland. Two Kids, Joseph and Paul, and their struggling, poet father, Fraser, are… read more

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Bernie Taupin

3.58

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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4.20

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Bob Boilen

3.78

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Geddy Lee

4.58

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Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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James Kaplan

4.35

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