Songs/album analysis

Barker, Derek. Bob Dylan: Too Much of Nothing.  (2018)

Brillow, Andrea. Basement Tales: Bob Dylan – Basement Tapes on Disk. (2023)

Curtis, Jim. Decoding Dylan: Making Sense of the Songs that Changed Modern Culture. (2019)

Day, Aidan. Jokerman: Reading the Lyrics of Bob Dylan. (1988)

Gans, Terry. Surviving in a Ruthless World: Bob Dylan’s Voyage to Infidels. (2020)

Gill, Andy. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right – Bob Dylan, the Early Years: the Stories Behind Every Song. (1998)

Gill, Andy. Classic Bob Dylan: My Back Pages. (1999)

Gill, Andy. Bob Dylan: The Stories Behind the Songs. 1962-1969 (2009)

Gregory, Chris. Determined to Stand: The Reinvention of Bob Dylan. (2021)

Griffin, Sid. Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, the Band and Basement Tapes. (2014)

Guillez, Francois. Bob Dylan in the 2020s: Rough and Rowdy Ways, Shadow Kingdom, and All that Philosophy. (2023)

Hampton, Timothy. Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work, (originally Bob Dylan Poetics). (2019).

Harvey, Todd. The Formative Dylan: Transmission & Sytlistic Influences, 1961-1963. (2001)

Hedin, Benjamin. Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader. (2004)

Herdman, John. Voice Without Restraint: Bob Dylan’s Lyrics and Their Background. (1982)

Herren, Graley. Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s “Time Out of Mind” (2021)

Hinchey, John. Like a Complete Unknown: The Poetry of Bob Dylan’s Songs 1961-1969. (2002)

Klees, Don. Bob Dylan in the 80s. (2020)

Latham, Sean (editor). The World of Bob Dylan (2021)

Lepidus, Harold. Friends and Other Strangers: Bob Dylan Examined. (2017)

Marcus, Griel. The Old Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes. (2011)

Margotin, Philippe and Jean-Michel Guesdon. All the Songs: Bob Dylan: The Story Behind Every Track. Expanded Edition (2022)

Metsa, Paul, and Rick Shefchik. Blood in the Tracks: The Minnesota Musicians Behind Dylan’s Masterpiece. (2023)

Moreida, Joie. Ace Rock Star Romance Story: Brains, Beauty,a nd Talent, Bob Dylan Blowin’ in the Wind. (2021)

Muir, Andrew. Troubadour: Early and Late Songs of Bob Dylan. (2003)

O’Connor, Chris. You Don’t Need a Weatherman: Bob Dylan for Beginners. (2025)

Negus, Keith. Bob Dylan. (2008) [one of the few to emphasize the music itself, melody, rhythm, etc]

Nogowski, John. Bob Dylan: a Descriptive, Critical Discography, and Filmography, 1961-2022, 3rd edition. (2022)

Naskos, Dimitrios P. And the Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to….Bob Dylan? (2024)

Ricks, Christopher. Dylan’s Visions of Sin. (2003)

Riley, Tim. Hard Rain: a Dylan Commentary.  (1999)

Rollason, Christopher. Read Books, Repeat Quotations: The Literary Bob Dylan. Books (two-riders.co.uk) (2021)Starr, Larry. Listening to Bob Dylan. (2021). [One of the few to focus on the music itself!]

Smith, Larry David. Writing Dylan: The Songs of a Lonesome Traveler. (2 editions: 2018,2005)

Thomas, Richard. Why Bob Dylan Matters. (2017)

Trager, Oliver. Keys to the Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. (2004)

Unhjem, Alexander. I Was So Much Older Then – Change and Self-reflection in the Tropology of Bob Dylan’s Lyrics, 1962-1967. (2008)

Varesi, Anthony. The Bob Dylan Albums (2nd Edition). The Bob Dylan Albums – 2nd Edition | Bob Dylan ISIS Magazine

Various Artists.  Bob Dylan Revisited: 13 Graphic Interpretations of Bob Dylan’s Songs. (2009)

Williamson, Nigel. The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan the Man, the Music, the Myth (2 editions) (2nd edition 2006)

(?), Steven. I Don’t Love Nobody: Bob Dylan at the End of Time. Serialized on Substack, I Don't Love Nobody: Bob Dylan at the End of Time | Steven | Substack