13 best-selling history books like Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes

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Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan

By: Howard Sounes

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Based on three years of research, new documentary evidence, and interviews with 250 of Dylan's inti…

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1. 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
  • history
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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2. No Logo

By: Naomi Klein

3.89

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's No Logo book and Howard Sounes's Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan

  • nonfiction
  • history
"(...) losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place."

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"Competitive branding became a necessity of the machine age — within a context of manufactured sameness; image-based difference had to be manufactured along with the product."

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and…"

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

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3. Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley

By: Peter Guralnick

4.37

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

Careless Love is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. 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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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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5. Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal

By: Greg Renoff

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

A vivid and energetic history of Van Halen's legendary early years After years of playing gigs ever… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Set the Boy Free

By: Johnny Marr

2.50

Format: 32 pages, ebook

The long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe

7. Miles: The Autobiography

By: Miles Davis , Quincy Troupe

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acc… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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8. Billy Joel

By: Fred Schruers

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited, all-access biography of a music legend In Billy Joel, acclaimed music journalist … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

9. No One Here Gets Out Alive

By: Danny Sugerman , Jerry Hopkins

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, cha… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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10. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

By: Charles R. Cross

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

It has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One of these days, I'm going to astral project myself up into the skies," he boasted. "I'll be going to the stars and the moon. I want to fly and see what's up there. "I want to go up to the sky," he…"

-Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

"They drove to the parking lot of Garfield High School, where Jimi pointed to the windows on the building and told Carmen what classes were held there. The building had a pull that had him returning w…"

-Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

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11. A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks

By: Andy Gill , Kevin Odegard

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1974 Bob Dylan wrote, recorded, reconsidered, and then re-recorded the best-selling studio album… read more

Similar categories in Andy Gill's A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks book and Howard Sounes's Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes

12. Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan

By: Howard Sounes

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Based on three years of research, new documentary evidence, and interviews with 250 of Dylan's inti… read more

Similar categories in Howard Sounes's Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan book and Howard Sounes's Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

13. 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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14. According to the Rolling Stones

By: Keith Richards , None , Mick Jagger , Ronnie Wood

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Here is the inside story: the history of the Rolling Stones - according to the Rolling Stones thems… read more

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15. The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes

By: Bob Dylan , Greil Marcus

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Previously published as Invisible Republicand already considered a classic of modern American cultu… read more

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16. Highway 61 Revisited

By: None

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

"In this book, Mark Polizzotti examines just what makes the songs on Highway 61 Revisited so affect… read more

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17. A Freewheelin' Time: Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Bob Dylan and Me

By: Suze Rotolo

4.57

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

A Freewheelin' Timeis Suze Rotolo's firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the imme… read more

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18. Autobiography

By: Morrissey

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder … read more

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Cover of The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll by Ian S. Port

19. The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll

By: Ian S. Port

4.31

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

“A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history” ( The New York Times Book Review ), … read more

Similar categories in Ian S. Port's The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll book and Howard Sounes's Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. 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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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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21. 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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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

10 must-read audiobook books like Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes

Transform Your Habits

Chronicles, Volume One

Bob Dylan

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley

Peter Guralnick

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal

Greg Renoff

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Set the Boy Free

Johnny Marr

2.50

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7 Top audiobook books like Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross

Transform Your Habits

Chronicles, Volume One

Bob Dylan

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Beatles: The Biography

Bob Spitz

4.09

Transform Your Habits

John Lennon: The Life

Philip Norman

4.04

Transform Your Habits

I Am Ozzy

Ozzy Osbourne , Chris Ayres

4.11

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