Biography, often with song/album analysis

Batchelor, Bob. Bob Dylan: A Biography. (2014)

Bauldie, John, and Patrick Humphries. Absolutely Dylan: An illustrated Biography. (1991)

Bell, Ian. Time Out of Mind: the lives of Bob Dylan (2014)

Bell, Ian. Once Upon a Time: The Lives of Bob Dylan (2012)

Epstein, Daniel Mark. The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A portrait. (2011)

Geraldine, Amanda. Bob Dylan: Biography of the Greatest Songwriter. (2023)

McDougal, Dennis. Dylan: the Biography. (2014)

Polizzotti, Mark. Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited (33 1/3).

Rowley, Chris. Blood on the Tracks: The Story of Bob Dylan. (1984)

Rushby, Chris. Bob Dylan: An Illustrated Biography. (2009)

Scaduto, Anthony. Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography (1971)

Scaduto, Anthony (Stephanie Trudeau, editor). The Dylan Tapes: Friends, Players, and Lovers Talkin’ Early Bob Dylan. (2022)

Shelton, Robert. No Direction Home: the Life and Music of Bob Dylan. (1986)

Shelton, Robert. No Direction Home: the Life and Music of Bob Dylan, Revised and Updated Editor. (2011)

Shelton, Robert. No Direction Home: the Life and Music of Bob Dylan, edited by Elizabeth Thomson. (2024)

Sounes, Howard. Down the Highway. (2014)

Southall, Brian. Treasures of Bob Dylan (2012)

Spitz, Bob. Dylan: A Biography. (1989)

Williams, Richard. A Man Called Alias. (1992)

Thompson, Toby. Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan’s Minnesota. (2008); earlier edition published as An Unorthodox View of Bob Dylan Positively Main Street (1971)