15 Best music books like Computer World by Steve Tupai Francis

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Computer World

By: Steve Tupai Francis

3.86

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Computer World was Kraftwerk's most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influentia…

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1. The Mezzanine

By: Nicholson Baker

4.35

Format: None pages,

Although most of the action of The Mezzanineoccurs on the escalator of an office building, where it… read more

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2. Austerlitz

By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more

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3. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

By: Mark Fisher

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

4. The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

By: Elif Batuman

3.70

Format: 368 pages,

THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED--ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!--TO THE RUS… read more

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5. Mockingbird

By: Walter Tevis

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Mockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend … read more

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6. Fair Play

By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Playis the type of love story that is ra… read more

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7. I Am Not Sidney Poitier

By: Percival Everett

4.10

Format: 338 pages,

An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more

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8. Soft City

By: None

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

A graphic novel with perhaps the oddest backstory ever, Pushwagners Soft City was created in the 19… read more

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9. 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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10. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

By: James Kaplan

4.35

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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11. This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" and the Beginning of the 21st Century

By: Steven Hyden

3.69

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020"In this brilliant book, Steven Hyden goes deep into … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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12. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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13. Alien III

By: William Gibson

3.45

Format: 136 pages, Audible Audio

Audible is bringing William Gibson’s uncovered Alien III script to life in audio for the first time… read more

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14. Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

By: Chris Frantz

3.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Chris Frantz’s memoir tells the story of his life with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and his life-lon… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"Without adventures, we won’t have stories."

-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

"...the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is selfishness."

-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

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15. 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
  • nonfiction
"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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16. 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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17. Beastie Boys Book

By: Michael Diamond

4.54

Format: 572 pages, Hardcover

A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself--b… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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18. 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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19. Linghun

By: Ai Jiang

3.96

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more

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"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

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20. High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape

By: Marc Masters

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle ch… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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21. Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn

By: Brett Anderson

4.03

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The trajectory of Suede - hailed in infancy as both 'The Best New Band in Britain' and 'effete sout… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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22. Coal Black Mornings

By: Brett Anderson

4.19

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Morni… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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23. Fifty Sounds

By: Polly Barton

4.15

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

In this dazzling debut, Polly Barton reflects on her experience of moving to the Japanese island of… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Over time, I have come to believe that if language learning is anything, it is the always-bruised but ever-renewing desire to draw close: to a person, a territory, a culture, an idea, an indefinable …"

-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds

"Very often a desire to write is a desire to live more honestly through language' (Rachel Cusk)…In writing, one can be at a remove not only from the observing eye of society, but also from the somatic…"

-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds

"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"

-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds

"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"

-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds

Cover of A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen

24. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Hip-Hop Is History

By: Questlove

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Hip-Hop is History, Questlove, one of the major and most revolutionary figures of that genre, un… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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26. Anna

By: Mia Oberländer

3.41

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Mia Oberländer erzählt in Anna von drei Generationen aussergewöhnlich grosser Frauen. Mit ihrer And… read more

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27. Computer World

By: Steve Tupai Francis

3.86

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Computer World was Kraftwerk's most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influentia… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock by David Weigel

28. The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock

By: David Weigel

3.50

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The Show That Never Ends is the definitive story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Sound of the Machine: My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond by Karl Bartos

29. The Sound of the Machine: My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond

By: Karl Bartos

4.27

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

Whether in Kraftwerk or as an acclaimed solo artist, Karl Bartos has had an extraordinary impact on… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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30. Goiter

By: Josh Pettinger

4.34

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

GOITER is the first collection of short stories by Josh Pettinger. It explores the strange and unne… read more

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31. cokemachineglow: Writing Around Music 2005-2015

By: Ables

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Irreverent, cultishly adored, and dearly missed, the music writers at cokemachineglow produced some… read more

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  • music

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Mark Fisher

3.72

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Quentin Tarantino

4.06

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3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

4.35

Transform Your Habits

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Steven Hyden

3.69

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Black Hole

Charles Burns

2.83

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Daniel Clowes

3.95

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Jordan Crane

3.61

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Masaaki Nakayama

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