6 best-selling science books like This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers

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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…

If you liked the science plot in This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch

1. Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History

By: David Aaronovitch

3.55

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere - from Pearl Harbour to 9/11, f… read more

Similar categories in David Aaronovitch's Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity by Elaine Pagels

2. Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity

By: Elaine Pagels

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Deepens & refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolutio… read more

Similar categories in Elaine Pagels's Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel J. Levitin

3. The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

By: Daniel J. Levitin

3.95

Format: 269 pages,

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Similar categories in Daniel J. Levitin's The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • art
  • history
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica  Hopper

4. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

By: Jessica Hopper

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Jessica Hopper's music criticism has earned her a reputation as a firebrand, a keen observer and fe… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Hopper's The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of 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 by Bob Boilen

5. 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

By: Bob Boilen

3.78

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

"Bob Boilen's book gets at something real and rare about the power of music."--New York Times Book … read more

Similar categories in Bob Boilen's 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 book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

6. Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s

By: Moby , Jonathan Bernstein , None , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mad Worldis a highly entertaining oral history that celebrates the New Wave music phenomenon of the… read more

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Cover of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

7. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • art
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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8. Butts: A Backstory

By: Heather Radke

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more

Similar categories in Heather Radke's Butts: A Backstory book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

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9. Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

By: Annie Duke

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets comes a toolkit for mastering the skill of quitting… read more

Similar categories in Annie Duke's Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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10. Music Is History

By: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller, Music Is History combines multi-Grammy Award winner Questlove’s deep m… read more

Similar categories in Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson's Music Is History book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • art
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

11. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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12. 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

Similar categories in Rick Rubin's The Creative Act: A Way of Being book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • art
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of 60 Songs That Explain the '90s by Rob Harvilla

13. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

Similar categories in Rob Harvilla's 60 Songs That Explain the '90s book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Cover of Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel by Shahnaz Habib

14. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

By: Shahnaz Habib

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more

Similar categories in Shahnaz Habib's Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."

-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

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15. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

By: Susan Magsamen

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brai… read more

Similar categories in Susan Magsamen's Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • audiobook
  • art
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers

16. 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

Similar categories in Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • art
  • audiobook
  • history
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby

17. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

By: Nick Hornby

3.66

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and… read more

Similar categories in Nick Hornby's Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • art
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."

-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

Cover of World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

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

Similar categories in Jeff Tweedy's World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • art
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How Do We Know Ourselves?: Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind by David G. Myers

19. How Do We Know Ourselves?: Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind

By: David G. Myers

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A delightful tour of the wonders of our humanity from David G. Myers, the award-winning professor a… read more

Similar categories in David G. Myers's How Do We Know Ourselves?: Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

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

20. 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

Similar categories in Tom Breihan's The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. You Are What You Watch

By: Walter Hickey

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Data expert Walter Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, h… read more

Similar categories in Walter Hickey's You Are What You Watch book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
  • science
Cover of But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups by Laura Flam

22. But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups

By: Laura Flam

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Featuring over 300 hours of new interviews with 100+ subjects, an oral history of the girl groups (… read more

Similar categories in Laura Flam's But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983 by Richard Evans

23. Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983

By: Richard Evans

3.93

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Listening to the Music the Machines Make is the enthralling, explosive story of electronic pop betw… read more

Similar categories in Richard Evans's Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983 book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (American Music Series) by Francesca T. Royster

24. Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (American Music Series)

By: Francesca T. Royster

4.19

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

After a century of racist whitewashing, country music is finally reckoning with its relationship to… read more

Similar categories in Francesca T. Royster's Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (American Music Series) book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Prince and the Parade and Sign O' the Times Era Studio Sessions: 1985 and 1986 by Duane Tudahl

25. Prince and the Parade and Sign O' the Times Era Studio Sessions: 1985 and 1986

By: Duane Tudahl

4.72

Format: 620 pages, ebook

From Prince's superstardom to studio seclusion, this second book in the award-winning Prince Studio… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game by Rachel Bitecofer

26. Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game

By: Rachel Bitecofer

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can maintain power at one of… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Bitecofer's Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century by Josh Cook

27. The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century

By: Josh Cook

3.84

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

"If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should … read more

Similar categories in Josh Cook's The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Anatomy of 55 More Songs by Marc Myers

28. 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

Similar categories in Marc Myers's Anatomy of 55 More Songs book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Erasing the Finish Line: The New Blueprint for Success Beyond Grades and College Admission by Ana Homayoun

29. Erasing the Finish Line: The New Blueprint for Success Beyond Grades and College Admission

By: Ana Homayoun

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Moving beyond a prescribed path for success, Erasing the Finish Line highlights the essential skill… read more

Similar categories in Ana Homayoun's Erasing the Finish Line: The New Blueprint for Success Beyond Grades and College Admission book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left by Robyn Hitchcock

30. 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left

By: Robyn Hitchcock

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The great eccentric of British psychedelia—beloved by everyone from Led Zeppelin and R.E.M. to the … read more

Similar categories in Robyn Hitchcock's 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Listen to This If You Love Great Music: A critical curation of 100 essential albums • Packed with links for further reading, listening and viewing to take your enjoyment to the next level by Mr. Robin Murray

31. Listen to This If You Love Great Music: A critical curation of 100 essential albums • Packed with links for further reading, listening and viewing to take your enjoyment to the next level

By: Mr. Robin Murray

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Listen To This If You Love Great Music is a must read for anyone with even a passing interest in mu… read more

Similar categories in Mr. Robin Murray's Listen to This If You Love Great Music: A critical curation of 100 essential albums • Packed with links for further reading, listening and viewing to take your enjoyment to the next level book and Susan Rogers's This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

  • music
  • nonfiction

17 Best music books like This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers

Transform Your Habits

The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

Daniel J. Levitin

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

Jessica Hopper

4.08

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

Music Is History

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

3.86

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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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