5 Best music books like Getz/Gilberto by Bryan Daniel McCann

Cover of Getz/Gilberto by Bryan Daniel McCann

Getz/Gilberto

By: Bryan Daniel McCann

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring …

If you liked the music plot in Getz/Gilberto by Bryan Daniel McCann , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad

1. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

By: Michael Azerrad

4.22

Format: 522 pages, Paperback

This is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of… read more

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  • music
"Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spir…"

-Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

2. Meat is Murder

By: Joe Pernice

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for… read more

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3. The Velvet Underground & Nico

By: None

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. And re… read more

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4. Marquee Moon

By: Bryan Waterman

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

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5. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more

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6. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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7. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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8. Stay True

By: Hua Hsu

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more

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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

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9. The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music

By: Tom Breihan

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through th… read more

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  • music
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10. Boxer

By: Ryan Pinkard

4.46

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

We all know the Boxer. The fighter who remembers every glove but still remains. That grisly, bruise… read more

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Cover of Getz/Gilberto by Bryan Daniel McCann

11. Getz/Gilberto

By: Bryan Daniel McCann

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring … read more

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  • jazz

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Don DeLillo

4.81

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Don DeLillo

3.86

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Hernan Diaz

3.83

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