19 Top music books like Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label by Sun Ra

Cover of Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label by Sun Ra

Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label

By: Sun Ra

4.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Drawn from private collections around the world, this is the first comprehensive collection of the …

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Cover of A Meaningful Life (New York Review Books Classics) by Jonathan Lethem, L.J. Davis

1. A Meaningful Life (New York Review Books Classics)

By: Jonathan Lethem , L.J. Davis

3.60

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life , is a blistering black comedy about the American quest … read more

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2. The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

By: Philip Roth

3.91

Format: 361 pages, Paperback

It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a… read more

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"Niente dura, e nondimeno niente passa. E niente passa proprio perché niente dura."

-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

"Tanta istruzione, e non serve a nulla. Nulla può isolare dal più infimo livello del pensiero."

-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

"موته كان خلاصها.الموت تدخل ليبسط كل شيء.كل شك،كل ريبة،كل الهواجس أزيحت جانبا على يد ذلك المستخف الأعظم بهم جميعا،الذي هو الموت."

-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

"Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game."

-Philip Roth, The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

Cover of Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

3. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

By: Roz Chast

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York TimesBestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus

4. Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

By: Lester Bangs , Greil Marcus

4.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra by None

5. Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

By: None

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero

6. The Hour of the Star

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more

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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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7. Lords of Chaos

By: Michael Moynihan , None

3.68

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

The book focuses on the scene surrounding the extreme heavy metal subgenre black metal in Norway in… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"Nationalism is the political manifestation of a folk's collective unconscious; heathenism/ satanism is the spiritual manifestation. Both ascend from the same source. Its therefore no coincidence that…"

-Michael Moynihan, Lords of Chaos

"Heavy Metal has been forced to create its own underworld. It plays by its own rules, follows its own aesthetic prerogatives… Metal is no longer a staple of FM radio, nor are record labels publishing …"

-Michael Moynihan, Lords of Chaos

Cover of Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino

8. 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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  • art
  • 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

Cover of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

9. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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10. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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11. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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Cover of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

12. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of All Fours by Miranda July

13. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

Cover of Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

14. Ring Shout

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.99

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America,… read more

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"Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—“copper sun or scarlet sea?"

-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

"There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth b…"

-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

Cover of Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 7 by James Tynion IV

15. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 7

By: James Tynion IV

4.28

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The final chapter of the Tribulation saga and the decisive showdown between Erica Slaughter and Cut… read more

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16. Spaceships Over Glasgow

By: Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga by S.H.  Fernando

17. From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga

By: S.H. Fernando

4.01

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

This definitive biography of rap supergroup, Wu-Tang Clan, features decades of unpublished intervie… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sonic Life: A Memoir by Thurston Moore

18. Sonic Life: A Memoir

By: Thurston Moore

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of NEEDLES AND PLASTIC: FLYING NUN RECORDS, 1981–1988 by Matthew Goody

19. NEEDLES AND PLASTIC: FLYING NUN RECORDS, 1981–1988

By: Matthew Goody

4.52

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In this remarkable tale of creativity and chaos, do-it-yourself innovation and extraordinary attemp… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Book of Days by Patti Smith

20. 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
  • art
  • nonfiction
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21. My Phantoms

By: Gwendoline Riley

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more

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Cover of World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

22. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more

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Cover of Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by Robert Mack McCormick

23. 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
  • nonfiction
Cover of High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape by Marc Masters

24. 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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  • nonfiction
Cover of Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion by Steve Turner

25. Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion

By: Steve Turner

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene—from backyard ska… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones

26. Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground

By: Dylan Jones

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, an… read more

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  • art
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Cover of Holy Ghost: The Life And Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler by Richard Koloda

27. Holy Ghost: The Life And Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler

By: Richard Koloda

4.13

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Mudhoney: The Sound and the Fury from Seattle by Keith Cameron

28. Mudhoney: The Sound and the Fury from Seattle

By: Keith Cameron

4.34

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The complete story of the band that many consider to have been the inventors of "grunge," produced … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music by Henry Threadgill

29. Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music

By: Henry Threadgill

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful medit… read more

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  • art
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Cover of Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label by Sun Ra

30. Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label

By: Sun Ra

4.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Drawn from private collections around the world, this is the first comprehensive collection of the … read more

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Cover of Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995–2020 by Alan Licht

31. Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995–2020

By: Alan Licht

4.27

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Interviews by Alan Licht with Vito Acconci, ANOHNI, Cory Arcangel, Matthew Barney, Glenn Branca, Rh… read more

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23 Best nonfiction books like Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label by Sun Ra

Transform Your Habits

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

Roz Chast

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Lester Bangs , Greil Marcus

4.64

Transform Your Habits

Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

None

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Lords of Chaos

Michael Moynihan , None

3.68

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18 Top music books like World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

Transform Your Habits

Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It

Bob Boilen

3.78

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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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