12 Top audiobook books like Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste by Nolan Gasser

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Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste

By: Nolan Gasser

3.23

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundb…

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1. Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock

By: Sammy Hagar

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sammy Hagar--legendary lead singer of Van Halen, founder of the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand, and one of… read more

Similar categories in Sammy Hagar's Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock book and Nolan Gasser's Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste

  • music
  • nonfiction

2. The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time

By: Maria Konnikova

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Timesbestselling author of Mastermind, a compelling investigation into the minds,… read more

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3. Life

By: Keith Richards

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the… read more

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4. Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds

By: Carmine Gallo

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In order to succeed, you need to be able to sel… read more

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5. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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6. Blue Horses

By: Mary Oliver

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more

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7. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

Similar categories in Brian Klaas's Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters book and Nolan Gasser's Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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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

Similar categories in Bernie Taupin's Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me book and Nolan Gasser's Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

By: Gretchen Rubin

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a … read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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10. A First Time for Everything

By: Dan Santat

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers

11. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

By: Susan Rogers

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more

Similar categories in Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You book and Nolan Gasser's Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste

  • music
  • art
  • science
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. School Trip (New Kid, #3)

By: Jerry Craft

4.20

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft is back with the newest adventures of Jordan, Drew, L… read more

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13. Class Act (New Kid, #2)

By: Jerry Craft

4.28

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

In this companion book to New Kid this time it’s Jordan’s friend Drew who takes center stage in a s… read more

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14. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of What a Fool Believes: A Memoir by Michael McDonald

15. What a Fool Believes: A Memoir

By: Michael McDonald

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award–winning, platinum … read more

Similar categories in Michael McDonald's What a Fool Believes: A Memoir book and Nolan Gasser's Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

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  • audiobook
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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17. One of Our Kind

By: Nicola Yoon

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Nolan Gasser's Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste

  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better

By: Woo-Kyoung Ahn

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn devised a course at Yale University to help students examine the biases… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
"When we keep trying to find answers to questions that are probably unanswerable, we may start to feel worse and worse."

-Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better

"Why did we create a society that not only forces most people to work to live but also makes even the most privileged feel like they have to work desperately hard all the time? We created a mythology …"

-Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better

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20. Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste

By: Nolan Gasser

3.23

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundb… read more

Similar categories in Nolan Gasser's Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste book and Nolan Gasser's Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste

  • music
  • cultural
  • art
  • science
  • unfinished
  • psychology
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science

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