What to Read After Silence
Readers who loved Silence by John Cage keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Silence is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Silence
How Music Works
Ocean of Sound
Noise
The soundscape
What to Listen for in Music
Give My Regards to Eighth Street
Genesis of a music
The joy of music
Noise/Music
The Rest Is Noise
Nowhere to run
Improvisation
Music, the brain, and ecstasy
Theory of Harmony
Writings on Music, 1965-2000
The Classical Style
Lipstick traces
The Descent of Alette
The Maximus poems
Image, music, text
Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism
Juice
Sleeping With the Dictionary
How music works