Words Without Music: A Memoir
By: Philip Glass
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century clas…
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1. Clapton: The Autobiography
By: Eric Clapton
4.17
Format: 251 pages,
I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choice… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
2. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
By: Haruki Murakami , Seiji Ozawa
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclai… read more
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- music
- art
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- biography
4. Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever
By: Will Hermes
4.20
Format: 288 pages,
Punk rock and hip-hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Min… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
5. The Braindead Megaphone
By: George Saunders
3.32
Format: None pages, Paperback
The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"--not to mention an official Genius--a trade… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Butcher Boy
By: Patrick McCabe
3.43
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
"I was thinking how right ma was -- Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting … read more
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7. The Inner Game of Music
By: W. Timothy Gallwey , Barry Green
4.10
Format: 40 pages,
By the best-selling co-author of Inner Tennis,here's a book designed to help musicians overcome obs… read more
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- music
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8. Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
By: Yiyun Li
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance? Startlingl… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
9. Words Without Music: A Memoir
By: Philip Glass
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century clas… read more
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- music
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
By: Neil Young
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
For the first time, legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist Neil Young offers a kaleidoscopic v… read more
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11. Tragic Sense of Life
By: Miguel de Unamuno , None
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
To the mentality that assumes, more or less consciously, that we must of necessity find a solution … read more
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13. Nietoschka Nezvanova / Noches Blancas
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
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14. Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life
By: Graham Nash
3.77
Format: 230 pages, Audio CD
From Graham Nash the legendary musician and founding member of the iconic bands Crosby, Stills & Na… read more
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15. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
16. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
17. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. 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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- art
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
19. Harold
By: Steven Wright
3.48
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the t… read more
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- audiobook
"Looking at the wingless angel Harold firmly believed her shadow should be in color."-Steven Wright, Harold
"She smelled too. Like a 22 year old girl. He tried to place that smell but he couldn't. It seemed like a mixture of skin lotion and confidence."-Steven Wright, Harold
"In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called: 'Listen' The last lines were - I know you know you do it, it doesn't matter to you at all you just want to keep on talking a verbal waterfall"-Steven Wright, Harold
"Harold thought how weird and strange it must be to be a girl. He was glad he wasn’t one because he didn’t think he would be able to do that. Or he wouldn’t want to do that. It’s probably good that yo…"-Steven Wright, Harold
20. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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- biography
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
21. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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- audiobook
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
22. 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
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23. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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- audiobook
24. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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- audiobook
25. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
By: Alua Arthur
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more
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26. Janis: Her Life and Music
By: Holly George-Warren
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of… read more
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27. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
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"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
28. Mozart: The Reign of Love
By: Jan Swafford
4.33
Format: 832 pages, ebook
From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of th… read more
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29. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
30. Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
By: Carl L. Hart
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Hart's argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both power… read more
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"The key is to keep the focus on people's actions, on their behaviors, rather than speculate about their motives. Trying to determine what's in a person's head or heart is a pointless distraction. It'…"-Carl L. Hart, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
31. Writings on Music, 1965-2000
By: Steve Reich
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound t… read more
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