5 Best music books like Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 by Daniel Wolff

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Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

By: Daniel Wolff

3.89

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A tour de force of storytelling years in the a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, …

If you liked the music plot in Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 by Daniel Wolff , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

By: Scott Brick , Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Kevin T. Collins

3.87

Format: 144 pages, MP3 CD

Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Any brain worth a nickel knows books are good for us."

-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

"There is only one rule that I know, goddamn it, you've got to be kind."

-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

"Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'."

-Scott Brick, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

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2. Bagombo Snuff Box

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

New York, 1950. A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. By the ti… read more

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3. A Man Without a Country

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -Los Angeles… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • nonfiction

4. Mortality

By: Christopher Hitchens

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens wa… read more

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5. While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.27

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

Foreword by Dave Eggers Smart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut influenc… read more

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6. Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

By: James McBride

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

National Book Award winner James McBride goes in search of the "real" James Brown after receiving a… read more

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7. The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"

By: Alan Light

3.40

Format: None pages, ebook

"A venerated creator. An adored, tragic interpreter. An uncomplicated, memorable melody. Ambiguous,… read more

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8. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

By: David Grann

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed New Yorkerwriter and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Gr… read more

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9. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

By: Hunter S. Thompson

4.33

Format: 201 pages,

"California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists w… read more

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10. What Darkness Brings (Sebastian St. Cyr, #8)

By: C.S. Harris

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

London, September 1812. After a long night spent dealing with the tragic death of a former military… read more

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11. Screwjack

By: Hunter S. Thompson

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Hunter S. Thompson's legions of fans have waited a decade for this book. They will not be disappoin… read more

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12. It's a Long Story: My Life

By: Willie Nelson

3.71

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The definitive autobiography of Willie Nelson "Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . … read more

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13. Fantastic Four: Full Circle

By: Alex Ross

3.79

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

An all-new Marvel Comics graphic novel starring the Fantastic Four, written and illustrated by reno… read more

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14. The Last Days of John Lennon

By: James Patterson

3.88

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Discover one of the greatest true crime stories in music history, as only James Patterson can tell … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

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  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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16. 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
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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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  • music
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • 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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18. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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19. What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)

By: C.S. Harris

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen … read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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20. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

4.18

Format: 596 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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21. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

By: Anthony Bourdain

3.64

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, televisi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"You know, I'll tell you honestly: if you like food and you haven't come here to eat, you're really missing the fucking boat. This is world-class food; this is world-class wine; this is world-class ch…"

-Anthony Bourdain, World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

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22. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. Greatest Hits

By: Harlan Ellison

4.18

Format: 468 pages, Paperback

How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison? A mind that refu… read more

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24. Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

By: Robert Mack McCormick

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

By: Kliph Nesteroff

4.07

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” … read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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26. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Cover of The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace by Paul Thomas Chamberlin

27. The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace

By: Paul Thomas Chamberlin

4.20

Format: 656 pages, ebook

A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Col… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Chevy in the Hole

By: Kelsey Ronan

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Named a Michigan Notable Book for 2023 Finalist for th… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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29. This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

By: Ilhan Omar

4.26

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Ilhan Omar was eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"I grew up knowing that hard things only get harder when you don’t have real conversations about them."

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"The more we listen to and learn from those with different backgrounds and present circumstances from our own, the more we can find connections to our own lived experience."

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is perhaps why the most important note I found sticking to the wall outside my office had only three…"

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"As we continue to perfect our union, citizens, neighbors, coworkers, and family must keep expanding our circles of self-interest to learn and relearn the fundamental truth that we are all connected. …"

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

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30. Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

By: Daniel Wolff

3.89

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A tour de force of storytelling years in the a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, … read more

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  • music
  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • labor
  • audiobook
Cover of True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer

31. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

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  • audiobook

18 Best audiobook books like Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 by Daniel Wolff

Transform Your Habits

If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

Scott Brick , Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Kevin T. Collins

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Last Days of John Lennon

James Patterson

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Rough Sleepers

Tracy Kidder

4.35

Transform Your Habits

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

James Kaplan

4.35

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11 Best audiobook books like The Last Days of John Lennon by James Patterson

Transform Your Habits

Paul McCartney: The Life

Philip Norman

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Me

Elton John

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Last Days of John Lennon

James Patterson

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans

Kenneth Womack

4.16

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