10 best-selling nonfiction books like Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes by Robin Pecknold

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Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes

By: Robin Pecknold

4.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Featured in The New Yorker and Rolling Stone As Recommended in the Buzzfeed Holiday Gift Guide “The…

"So much of songwriting hinges on finding new, defamiliarizing ways to express very familiar sentiments, in hopes of being able to reach ears that may be inoculated to true but tired clichés."

-Robin Pecknold, Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes by Robin Pecknold , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

By: Lena Dunham , Joana Avillez

3.29

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

"There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to b… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Energy attracts energy."

-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

"Everyone hates a suit. Event the suits."

-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

"Luxury is nice but creativity is nicer."

-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

"Being a student was an enviable identity."

-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

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2. Chronicles, Volume One

By: Bob Dylan

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manif… read more

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  • music
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"People were people."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"Sebuah lagu laksana mimpi, dan kita berusaha untuk membuatnya jadi kenyataan."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

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3. Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)

By: Alexis M. Smith

3.77

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off… read more

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"The woman seems ready to be pleased with the world."

-Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)

"We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive."

-Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)

"There's not a thing in the world that will not change, including you."

-Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)

"Monotonous and thankless as her job can be sometimes, she cheers at the thought of her coworkers - a dozen of them crammed into their little offices in the basement - all cleverly disguised as harmle…"

-Alexis M. Smith, Glaciers (A Tin House New Voice)

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4. Dream Work

By: Mary Oliver

4.35

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

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5. Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)

By: Mary Doria Russell

4.09

Format: 451 pages, Paperback

Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into th… read more

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"How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?"

-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)

"And you believe you will succeed, where God has failed me?"

-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)

"The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it."

-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)

"Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief."

-Mary Doria Russell, Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)

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6. Fleabag: The Original Play

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more

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7. Min kamp 6 (Min kamp #6)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

3.50

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

I det anmelderroste selvbiografiske romanvaerk, Min kamp, udforsker Karl Ove Knausgard nadelost og … read more

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8. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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9. A Philosophy of Walking

By: John Howe , Clifford Harper , Frédéric Gros

3.74

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

In A Philosophy of Walking, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get fro… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Thus the man who walks all day has become certain by nightfall."

-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking

"Just as there are several solitudes, so there are several silences."

-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking

"Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible."

-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking

"You don't walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second."

-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking

10. Desert Solitaire

By: Edward Abbey

4.00

Format: None pages,

When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more

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11. JR

By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more

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12. The Looking Glass War

By: John Le Carré

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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13. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

By: Hunter S. Thompson

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S.… read more

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14. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

By: Collin Hansen

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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16. 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
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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17. Pure Colour

By: Sheila Heti

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more

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"And what opens one heart opens many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

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18. 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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  • music
  • nonfiction
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19. The Secret History of Bigfoot

By: John O’Connor

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, on… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. The Mutt (Peeta's Games, #3)

By: igsygrace

4.44

Format: 333 pages, ebook

Mockingjay from Peeta's point of view. Much of the dialogue is taken from the original work and is … read more

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21. Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes

By: Robin Pecknold

4.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Featured in The New Yorker and Rolling Stone As Recommended in the Buzzfeed Holiday Gift Guide “The… read more

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  • music
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"So much of songwriting hinges on finding new, defamiliarizing ways to express very familiar sentiments, in hopes of being able to reach ears that may be inoculated to true but tired clichés."

-Robin Pecknold, Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes

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Bob Dylan

3.97

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Rick Rubin

4.04

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A Book of Days

Patti Smith

4.26

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Jeff Tweedy

4.01

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Erik Larson

4.24

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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

James L. Swanson

3.44

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

Douglas Preston

3.81

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Laurah Norton

3.87

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