Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music
By: Philip Watson
4.26
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist, Bill Frisell. FEATURING E…
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1. The Brothers K
By: David James Duncan
4.39
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
Duncan took almost 10 years to follow up the publication of his much-praised first novel, The River… read more
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"I started having doubts right on top of my certainty."-David James Duncan, The Brothers K
"I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity."-David James Duncan, The Brothers K
"We can't possibly know—and thank goodness not! What most of us become as adults would terrify us as children."-David James Duncan, The Brothers K
"Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake."-David James Duncan, The Brothers K
2. As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir
By: Chet Baker
3.52
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
The late jazz legend offers his memories of the jazz scene of the 1950s and his decline from drug u… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"Every summer I'd spend a couple of months on the farm in Yale walking the dirt road that led to the highway, picking wild raspberries along the way. Often I'd walk out into the watermelons, pick one …"-Chet Baker, As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir
3. Suttree
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.20
Format: 471 pages, Paperback
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disi… read more
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"Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
4. John Coltrane: His Life and Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
By: Lewis Porter
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
John Coltrane was a key figure in jazz, a pioneer in world music, and an intensely emotional force … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
- jazz
5. My Name is Red
By: Orhan Pamuk , Erdağ M. Göknar
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the powe… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- jazz
7. Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
By: Lisa Dickey , Herbie Hancock
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our time In Herbie … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
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8. Free Will
By: Sam Harris
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more
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9. Words Without Music: A Memoir
By: Philip Glass
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century clas… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
10. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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11. Angle of Repose
By: Wallace Stegner
3.56
Format: None pages,
Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and g… read more
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12. Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
3.91
Format: 631 pages,
THELONIOUS MONK is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist's struggle to "make it" wit… read more
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13. Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.13
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award… read more
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"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
14. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
15. 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
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
16. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more
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"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
17. 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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"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
18. Harold
By: Steven Wright
3.48
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the t… read more
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"Looking at the wingless angel Harold firmly believed her shadow should be in color."-Steven Wright, Harold
"She smelled too. Like a 22 year old girl. He tried to place that smell but he couldn't. It seemed like a mixture of skin lotion and confidence."-Steven Wright, Harold
"In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called: 'Listen' The last lines were - I know you know you do it, it doesn't matter to you at all you just want to keep on talking a verbal waterfall"-Steven Wright, Harold
"Harold thought how weird and strange it must be to be a girl. He was glad he wasn’t one because he didn’t think he would be able to do that. Or he wouldn’t want to do that. It’s probably good that yo…"-Steven Wright, Harold
19. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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- nonfiction
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
20. 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
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- nonfiction
- biography
21. Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975
By: Richard Thompson
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Thompson is a master showman . . . [ Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobi… read more
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22. The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
By: Tricia Romano
4.28
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legen… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
23. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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24. Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (American Music Series)
By: Alex Pappademas
4.46
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan. Steely Dan’s songs are exercises in … read more
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- biography
25. Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
By: Aidan Levy
4.48
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
**Winner of the American Book Award (2023)** **Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Awar… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- jazz
26. Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records
By: Jim Ruland
4.03
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker D… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music
By: Philip Watson
4.26
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist, Bill Frisell. FEATURING E… read more
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- jazz
28. Disruptions
By: Steven Millhauser
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the short story, the culminatio… read more
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29. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup
By: David Browne
3.81
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, by acclaimed mus… read more
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- biography
30. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)
By: Donna Leon
4.05
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more
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31. Schoenberg: Why He Matters
By: Harvey Sachs
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“[A]n immensely valuable source for anyone desiring an accessible overview of this endlessly contro… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
