Songs/album analysis

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

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

Brown, Donald. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour. (2023)

Chasar, Michael. The Poetry of Bob Dylan: Thirty Essays on Thirty Songs. (2016)

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)

Gregory, Chris. Minstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan. (2025)

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)

Humphries, Patrick. Complete Guide to the Music of Bob Dylan. (1995)

James, Peter. Warehouse Eyes: The Albums of Bob Dylan. (2006)

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)

Mai, Ann Marie. Bob Dylan, the Poet. (2019)

Marcus, Griel. The Old Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes. (2001) The book is a revision of the book published as Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes. (1997)

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)

Reginio, Robert. Bob Dylan Outside the Law: the Poetics of John Wesley Harding. (2025)

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)

Rosenbaum, Ron. Bob Dylan: Things Have Changed (2025)

Starr, Larry. Listening to Bob Dylan. (2021). [One of the few to focus on the music itself!]

Shiel, Bob. 61 Highways revisited, The Albums of Bob Dylan. (2015)

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 (2022)

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)

Wissolik, Richard David, and Scott McGrath. Bob Dyan’s Words—a Critical Dictionary and Commentary. (1994)

Witting, Robin. There’s a New Day at Dawn: Guide to Street Legal.

Witting, Robin. Desire: Songs of Redemption. (2002)

Witting, Robin. Orpheus Revisited: Celebration of Highway 61 Revisited. (1995)

Witting, Robin. Isaiah on Guitar: A Guide to John Wesley Harding. (1998)

(?), 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