Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening, 2025, Graywolf Press. Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award; finalist for the 2026 PEN/Diamonstein Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. (Order here.) Foreign editions: Korea, China
Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2016. (Order here. Spotify playlist for nearly all music referenced in the book here.) Foreign editions: UK
The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music. Times Books, New York, 2008. (Order here.) Foreign editions: Italy
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2007. Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. (Order here.) Foreign editions: UK, Japan, Germany, Spain, Finland, Poland
The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz. Times Books, New York, 2002. (Order here.)
