9 best-selling music books like A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories by Leonard Cohen

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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

By: Leonard Cohen

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Le…

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1. Our Fathers

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

First Canadian publication of the powerful debut novel from the author of Be Near Me. Finalist for … read more

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  • literature
  • fiction

2. Monsieur Pain

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.09

Format: None pages,

A un discipulo de Mesmer le encargan que cure el hipo que sufre un sudamericano pobre abandonado en… read more

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3. Ash Wednesday

By: Ethan Hawke

4.50

Format: None pages,

From the actor, director, and writer Ethan Hawke: a piercing novel of love, marriage, and renewal. … read more

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4. Ablutions

By: Patrick deWitt

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of hi… read more

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5. Metropolitan Life

By: Fran Lebowitz

4.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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6. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

By: Margaret Atwood

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more

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  • canada
  • literature
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Many things get broken in a war."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

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7. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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8. 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
  • poetry
  • audiobook
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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9. Pity

By: Andrew McMillan

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more

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  • fiction
  • 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 Leonard Cohen's A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

  • music
  • 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. Faith, Hope and Carnage

By: Nick Cave

4.44

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more

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  • music
  • audiobook
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

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12. Leonard Cohen: On a Wire

By: Philippe Girard

3.28

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A captivating, revealing biography of the legendary musician and poetLeonard Cohen opens in Los Ang… read more

Similar categories in Philippe Girard's Leonard Cohen: On a Wire book and Leonard Cohen's A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

  • music
  • canada
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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

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  • music
  • poetry
Cover of We Were Not Men by Campbell Mattinson

14. We Were Not Men

By: Campbell Mattinson

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A novel that punches you in the the powerful, unbearably moving and ultimately uplifting story of t… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz by Eve Babitz

15. I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

By: Eve Babitz

4.15

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

An NYRB Classics Original With Eve’s Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books th… read more

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  • short stories
"As far as I'm concerned, you can't have fun in a high neckline - I don't care how witty you are."

-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

"I'm dying and use words like gaunt . When I weigh 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she's just murdered someone."

-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

"When I weigh 130, my friends think I'm dying and use words like gaunt . When I weight 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she…"

-Eve Babitz, I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

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16. Year of the Monkey

By: Patti Smith

3.80

Format: 171 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully reali… read more

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  • music
  • poetry
  • audiobook
"Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me."

-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

"Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality."

-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

"I could feel the gravitational pull of home, which when I'm home too long becomes the gravitational pull of somewhere else."

-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

"Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow. A tomorrow following a whole succession of tomorrows."

-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

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17. Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

By: Rickie Lee Jones

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Have you met Ms. Jones? One night in 1979, a woman in a red beret skyrocketed to fame after a pe… read more

Similar categories in Rickie Lee Jones's Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour book and Leonard Cohen's A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

  • music
  • audiobook
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18. Cheri

By: Jo Ann Beard

4.23

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

A masterpiece of fiction and memory, Cheri is a heart-breaking but glorious celebration of all the … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories by Leonard Cohen

19. A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

By: Leonard Cohen

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Le… read more

Similar categories in Leonard Cohen's A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories book and Leonard Cohen's A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

  • music
  • adult fiction
  • poetry
  • canada
  • literature
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Marr's Guitars

By: Johnny Marr

4.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A stunning photographic presentation of the guitars that defined the distinctive sounds and style o… read more

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  • music
Cover of Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous by Gillian Anderson

21. Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

By: Gillian Anderson

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you… read more

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  • short stories
  • audiobook

7 must-read fiction books like A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories by Leonard Cohen

Transform Your Habits

Our Fathers

Andrew O'Hagan

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

Margaret Atwood

3.71

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A Shining

Jon Fosse

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Pity

Andrew McMillan

3.71

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15 best-selling audiobook books like Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour by Rickie Lee Jones

Transform Your Habits

Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

Chrissie Hynde

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Lucky

Jane Smiley

3.13

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Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975

Richard Thompson

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

Lucinda Williams

3.96

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