8 must-read nonfiction books like Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years by Michael Posner

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Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years

By: Michael Posner

4.00

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary life of one of the world’s greatest music and literary icons, in the words of tho…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years by Michael Posner , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. 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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2. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

By: Jason Schreier

4.75

Format: None pages,

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3. 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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4. Savages

By: Don Winslow

3.57

Format: 256 pages,

Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beac… read more

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5. The Favorite Game

By: Leonard Cohen

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Br… read more

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6. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more

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7. Pastoralia

By: George Saunders

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

From an author named by The New Yorker as one of the "20 Best American Fiction Writers Under 40," a… read more

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8. Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

By: Bernie Taupin

3.58

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, th… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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9. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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10. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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11. 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
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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12. Victory City

By: Salman Rushdie

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more

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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."

-Salman Rushdie, Victory City

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13. Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is … read more

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"I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)

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14. Fayne: A Novel

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

4.26

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more

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"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel

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15. The Flame

By: Leonard Cohen

4.05

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span gene… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"And that was my mistake I didn't kill the snake I gave the snake a break Unbiblical"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"Straighten up, little warrior [...] It's not as though you wasted your life by loving me."

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"the flags from the nation but your absence comes from a terrible sleep under a huge museum Enter the moth holes of my longing"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I’m old To greet the sickness And the cold I pray for courage In the night To bear the burden Make it light I pray for courage In the time When suffering com…"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

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16. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai by Matti Friedman

17. Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai

By: Matti Friedman

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The incredible never-before-told story of Leonard Cohen's 1973 tour of Israel during the Yom Kippur… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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18. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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19. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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20. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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21. Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years

By: Michael Posner

4.00

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary life of one of the world’s greatest music and literary icons, in the words of tho… read more

Similar categories in Michael Posner's Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years book and Michael Posner's Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

8 Top biography books like Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years by Michael Posner

Transform Your Habits

Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

Bernie Taupin

3.58

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan

3.80

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The Last Word

Elly Griffiths

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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Chris Brookmyre

4.07

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