20 must-read audiobook books like Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus

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Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

By: Greil Marcus

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penet…

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1. Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

By: Sara Marcus

3.97

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of Riot Grrrl, the radical feminist uprising tha… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"i want to scream because no matter how much I scream, no one will listen."

-Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

"The girls couldn't block out these things and they didn't want to; they wanted to stay acutely aware of the war against them so they could fight back."

-Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

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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
  • american
  • history
  • biography
  • 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

3. My Search for Warren Harding

By: Robert Plunket

4.75

Format: None pages,

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4. Lonesome Traveler

By: Jack Kerouac

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose … read more

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5. Cash

By: Johnny Cash , None

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

He was the "Man in Black," a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He w… read more

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6. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

By: William Egginton

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • audiobook
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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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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • audiobook
"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. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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  • american
  • audiobook
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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9. 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
  • american
  • 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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10. Where the Body Was

By: Ed Brubaker

4.14

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more

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11. Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

By: Greil Marcus

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penet… read more

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  • music
  • american
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • audiobook
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12. Lou Reed: The King of New York

By: Will Hermes

4.23

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more

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  • music
  • american
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. 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

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14. Sonic Life: A Memoir

By: Thurston Moore

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History

By: Bill Janovitz

4.29

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  Bestseller The definitive biography of legendary musician, composer, and perform… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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17. 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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  • music
  • american
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Goth: A History

By: Lol Tolhurst

3.68

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Following his memoir  Cured , a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a mi… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Steven Hyden

19. Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By: Steven Hyden

4.14

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A leading music journalist’s riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One of the many musical distinctions of my lifetime that used to seem important and now is completely forgotten is the difference between “alternative"

-Steven Hyden, Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation

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20. 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
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Be Mine

By: Richard Ford

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the… read more

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  • american
  • audiobook
Cover of Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by Robert Mack McCormick

22. Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

By: Robert Mack McCormick

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland by Steven Hyden

23. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland

By: Steven Hyden

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album,  Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • audiobook
Cover of Chuck Berry: An American Life by R.J. Smith

24. Chuck Berry: An American Life

By: R.J. Smith

4.11

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and roll Best kn… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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25. Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio

By: David Hepworth

4.06

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

With a foreword by Paul McCartney'It's semi-devotional -- a really special place' Florence Welch'Th… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin

26. The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966

By: Clinton Heylin

3.79

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

From the world's leading authority on Bob Dylan comes the definitive biography that promises to tra… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members by Ray  Padgett

27. Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members

By: Ray Padgett

4.59

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

"More fine stories than you can count" — Greil Marcus Collecting over 40 original, in-depth interv… read more

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  • music
Cover of Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John F. Szwed

28. Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith

By: John F. Szwed

4.29

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bob Dylan: Mixing up the Medicine by Mark Davidson

29. Bob Dylan: Mixing up the Medicine

By: Mark Davidson

4.63

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

Several years ago, a treasure trove containing some 6,000 original Bob Dylan manuscripts was reveal… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse by Howard Fishman

30. To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse

By: Howard Fishman

4.35

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The mysterious true story of Connie Converse—a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and co… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Once Upon a Time

By: Ian Bell

4.03

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Half a century ago a youth appeared from the American hinterland and began a cultural revolution. T… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

19 Best history books like Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus

Transform Your Habits

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

Sara Marcus

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Chronicles, Volume One

Bob Dylan

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

William Egginton

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

4.06

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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

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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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