14 must-read music books like The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin

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The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966

By: Clinton Heylin

3.79

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

From the world's leading authority on Bob Dylan comes the definitive biography that promises to tra…

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1. Chronicles, Volume One

By: Bob Dylan

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manif… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"People were people."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"Sebuah lagu laksana mimpi, dan kita berusaha untuk membuatnya jadi kenyataan."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

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2. Tarantula

By: Bob Dylan

3.68

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction--a combinatio… read more

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  • music
  • the united states of america
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3. Why Bob Dylan Matters

By: Richard F. Thomas

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

"The coolest class on campus" - The New York Times When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks

By: Andy Gill , Kevin Odegard

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1974 Bob Dylan wrote, recorded, reconsidered, and then re-recorded the best-selling studio album… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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5. Under the Volcano

By: Malcolm Lowry

3.77

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise… read more

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"Even almost bad poetry is better than life"

-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

"My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May."

-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"

-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

"The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?"

-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

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6. 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
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

Cover of Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus

7. Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

By: Greil Marcus

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penet… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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8. 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

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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10. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

Cover of Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Steven Hyden

11. Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By: Steven Hyden

4.14

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A leading music journalist’s riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"One of the many musical distinctions of my lifetime that used to seem important and now is completely forgotten is the difference between “alternative"

-Steven Hyden, Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation

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12. The Beautiful Ones

By: Prince

3.78

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the gre… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented."

-Prince, The Beautiful Ones

"A lot of people have the idea that I'm a wild sexual person...I've lectured quite a few people out there. I'll say, 'Think about what you're saying. How would you react if you were me?' I ask that qu…"

-Prince, The Beautiful Ones

Cover of Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World by Jen Psaki

13. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

By: Jen Psaki

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

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

14. 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

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde by Daryl Sanders

15. That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde

By: Daryl Sanders

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound is the definitive treatment of Bob Dylan’s magnum opus, Blonde on Blo… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • music biography
  • history
Cover of The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin

16. The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966

By: Clinton Heylin

3.79

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

From the world's leading authority on Bob Dylan comes the definitive biography that promises to tra… read more

Similar categories in Clinton Heylin's The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 book and Clinton Heylin's The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • the united states of america
  • music biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bob Dylan: Mixing up the Medicine by Mark Davidson

17. Bob Dylan: Mixing up the Medicine

By: Mark Davidson

4.63

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

Several years ago, a treasure trove containing some 6,000 original Bob Dylan manuscripts was reveal… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

18. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • the united states of america
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19. Once Upon a Time

By: Ian Bell

4.03

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Half a century ago a youth appeared from the American hinterland and began a cultural revolution. T… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. The Material

By: Camille Bordas

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up com… read more

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21. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

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12 best-selling history books like The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin

Transform Your Habits

Chronicles, Volume One

Bob Dylan

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Why Bob Dylan Matters

Richard F. Thomas

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

Greil Marcus

3.68

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16 must-read nonfiction books like Once Upon a Time by Ian Bell

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The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

Paul Theroux

3.89

Transform Your Habits

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings

Nyogen Senzaki , Paul Reps

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

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