14 must-read nonfiction books like The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano by Dan Moller

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The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

By: Dan Moller

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A tale of passion and obsession from a philosophy professor who teaches himself to play Bach on the…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano by Dan Moller , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Club Dumas

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte , Sonia Soto

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Paperback

A provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventu… read more

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2. The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

By: Twyla Tharp

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Creativity is not a gift from the gods, says Twyla Tharp, bestowed by some divine and mystical spar… read more

Similar categories in Twyla Tharp's The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life book and Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

  • nonfiction
Cover of Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music by Blair Tindall

3. Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music

By: Blair Tindall

4.22

Format: 72 pages,

"In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential and Gelsey Kirkland's Dancing on My Gr… read more

Similar categories in Blair Tindall's Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music book and Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

4. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

By: Oliver Sacks

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a H… read more

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5. Lisey's Story

By: Stephen King

3.96

Format: None pages,

Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of profound, s… read more

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6. The Great Pianists

By: Harold C. Schonberg

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

From Mozart'sfabulous legato that "flowed like oil" to Beethoven's oceanlike surge, from Clara Schu… read more

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7. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World book and Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

  • nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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8. The Books of Jacob

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.02

Format: 965 pages, Hardcover

The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more

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"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

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9. Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

By: Annie Duke

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting… read more

Similar categories in Annie Duke's Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away book and Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

  • nonfiction
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10. The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom

By: Andrew Peterson

4.49

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

There’s a strong biblical connection between people and trees. They both come from dirt. They’re bo… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Peterson's The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom book and Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General

By: William P. Barr

4.01

Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  The former attorney general provides a candid account of his… read more

Similar categories in William P. Barr's One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General book and Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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12. The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

By: Matthew Continetti

4.08

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism When most people t… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Continetti's The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism book and Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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13. Alone on the Wall

By: Alex Honnold

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Including two new chapters on Alex Honnold’s free solo ascent of the iconic 3,000-foot El Capitan i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Doubt is the biggest danger in soloing. As soon as you hesitate, you’re screwed."

-Alex Honnold, Alone on the Wall

"I think it’s important that you do your own research, take personal responsibility for your decisions, experiment, and find what works best for you."

-Alex Honnold, Alone on the Wall

"The climbing and travel in this book wouldn’t have been possible without the support of my entire extended family. I’m grateful that everyone has always encouraged my adventures and not questioned my…"

-Alex Honnold, Alone on the Wall

"From my adventures in the subculture of addiction recovery, I’d learned that the trajectory of one’s life often boils down to a few identifiable moments—decisions that change everything. I knew all t…"

-Alex Honnold, Alone on the Wall

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14. Rescue Story: Faith, Freedom, and Finding My Way Home

By: Robert Noland

4.70

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

From a hard-rocking life fueled by substance abuse to a hope-filled life of freedom and joy--this i… read more

Similar categories in Robert Noland's Rescue Story: Faith, Freedom, and Finding My Way Home book and Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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15. The Great Passion

By: James Runcie

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the s… read more

Similar categories in James Runcie's The Great Passion book and Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

  • music
Cover of Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great by Charlie LeDuff

16. Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great

By: Charlie LeDuff

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A daring, firsthand, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America, from Ferguson to Flint to… read more

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  • nonfiction
"As for Congress, one imaginative polling firm found that brussels sprouts, head lice, cockroaches, colonoscopies, and gonorrhea were more popular than our elected representatives. Apparently, the Ame…"

-Charlie LeDuff, Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great

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17. Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

By: Glenn C. Loury

4.26

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal ody… read more

Similar categories in Glenn C. Loury's Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative book and Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

By: Dan Moller

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A tale of passion and obsession from a philosophy professor who teaches himself to play Bach on the… read more

Similar categories in Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano book and Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning by Philip Kennicott

19. Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning

By: Philip Kennicott

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was … read more

Similar categories in Philip Kennicott's Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning book and Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman by Harold H. Brown

20. Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman

By: Harold H. Brown

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

'Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman' is the memoir of an African American man wh… read more

Similar categories in Harold H. Brown's Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman book and Dan Moller's The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

  • nonfiction
Cover of Piano-Playing Revisited: What Modern Players Can Learn from Period Instruments (Eastman Studies in Music, 176) by David Breitman

21. Piano-Playing Revisited: What Modern Players Can Learn from Period Instruments (Eastman Studies in Music, 176)

By: David Breitman

5.00

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

A guide, linked to an online suite of video examples, to how historical instruments influenced the … read more

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4.22

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4.01

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4.08

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3.89

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Chris Whipple

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Bill O'Reilly

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Jonathan Karl

4.28

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McKay Coppins

4.36

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