Bob Dylan’s ‘Chronicles: Volume One’ Memoir Is Charting on Amazon’s Best-Seller List Thanks to ‘A Complete Unknown’

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A Complete Unknown may not have walked away with any Oscars this year, but thanks to the film’s success, Bob Dylan‘s memoir Chronicles: Volume One is charting on Amazon’s best-seller list right now. Ranking at No. 3 on the best-selling rock list, the book explores the legendary singer-songwriter’s personal experience in Greenwich Village, circa 1961, similar to the recent Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet.

The 304-page book covers three selected points from Dylan’s long career: 1961, 1970, and 1989, while he was writing and recording his debut namesake album, New Morning and Oh Mercy, respectively. The memoir is an incredibly detailed window on the singers thoughts, influences, and personal reflections during these key moments in his life.

“I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else,” Dylan writes in his memoir.

The autobiography also explores more candid moments like nightlong parties, literary awakenings, transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Taking side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota, and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal look at the revolutionary artist. One Amazon reviewer wrote, “for those who have followed his career since the beginning it’s a real treat, a long awaited boon to add to the long list of memories, lines and memorabilia.”

The book spent 19 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction books, as well as, being nominated as one of five finalists for best biography/autobiography by the National Book Critics Circle Award for the 2004 publishing year.

Bob Dylan’s Chronicles: Volume One is available to purchase on Amazon and is currently 47% off right now. Act fast and grab this must-have collector’s item for only $10. If you’re a more audio listener, grab the book on Audible, which new users can get a 30-day free trial when signing up.

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