13 Best music books like The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll by Florence Dore

Cover of The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll by Florence Dore

The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll

By: Florence Dore

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Drop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that nov…

If you liked the music plot in The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll by Florence Dore , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Gotham Central, Vol. 1: In the Line of Duty by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

1. Gotham Central, Vol. 1: In the Line of Duty

By: Ed Brubaker , Greg Rucka , Michael Lark

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Meet Gotham's Finest. Living in the shadows of the Dark Knight makes the detectives of Gotham's pol… read more

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2. Straight Man

By: Richard Russo

3.88

Format: 136 pages,

In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hila… read more

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3. Right as Rain (Derek Strange and Terry Quinn #1)

By: None

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

A couple of ex-policemen turned private detectives are hired to investigate the death of a black po… read more

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4. If Beale Street Could Talk

By: James Baldwin

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the fa… read more

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5. Binti (Binti, #1)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.95

Format: 145 pages, ebook

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza Uni… read more

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6. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

By: Joe Haldeman

4.14

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more

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"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

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7. 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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"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

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8. Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more

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9. Cursed Bunny

By: Bora Chung

3.78

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more

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"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

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10. 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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"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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11. Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions

By: Steve Martin

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Number One Is Walking is Steve Martin’s cinematic legacy―an illustrated memoir of his legendary act… read more

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12. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

By: Bono

4.20

Format: 564 pages, Hardcover

Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more

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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

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13. 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

Cover of The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston

14. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

By: Douglas Preston

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more

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Cover of Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by Warren Zanes

15. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

By: Warren Zanes

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more

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"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

Cover of Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) by Colson Whitehead

16. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

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"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

Cover of Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker

17. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

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Cover of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams

18. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more

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19. Apeirogon

By: Colum McCann

4.25

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an ep… read more

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"We are running from our pain to our pain."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"We have words but sometimes they're not enough."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"When you divide death by life you find a circle."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"He had learned that the cure for fate was patience."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

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20. The Lives of Brian

By: Brian Johnson

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Brian Johnson’s memoir from growing up in a small town to starting his own band to ultimately repla… 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

21. 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 No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood by Erin Carlson

22. No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood

By: Erin Carlson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller The inside story of how A League of Their Own —one of the most beloved basebal… read more

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Cover of No One Left to Come Looking for You by Sam Lipsyte

23. No One Left to Come Looking for You

By: Sam Lipsyte

3.23

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 19… read more

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Cover of Adrift: America in 100 Charts by Scott Galloway

24. Adrift: America in 100 Charts

By: Scott Galloway

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examinatio… read more

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Cover of The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music by Tom Breihan

25. 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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Cover of Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band by Christian Staebler

26. Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band

By: Christian Staebler

3.84

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the result… read more

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Cover of Anatomy of 55 More Songs by Marc Myers

27. Anatomy of 55 More Songs

By: Marc Myers

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Following his 2016 smash hit Anatomy of a Song, acclaimed music journalist Marc Myers collects fift… read more

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Cover of The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll by Florence Dore

28. The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll

By: Florence Dore

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Drop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that nov… read more

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Cover of 21-Hit Wonder: Flopping My Way to the Top of the Charts by Sam Hollander

29. 21-Hit Wonder: Flopping My Way to the Top of the Charts

By: Sam Hollander

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As one of the most renowned songwriters and producers in the game, Sam Hollander has had multi-plat… read more

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Cover of Shake It Up, Baby!: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963 by Ken McNab

30. Shake It Up, Baby!: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963

By: Ken McNab

4.19

Format: 513 pages, Kindle Edition

When BEATLEMANIA seized the Relive the Mayhem of 1963The Beatles broke up more than half a century… read more

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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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