CHRONICLES, VOLUME ONE is a memoir written by Bob Dylan. The book was published on October 5, 2004, by Simon & Schuster.
The 304-page book covers three selected points from Dylan's long career: 1961, 1970, and 1989, while he was writing and recording BOB DYLAN, NEW MORNING and OH MERCY, respectively. CHRONICLES is allegedly the first part of a planned 3-volume collection.
The book spent 19 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list for hardcover nonfiction books. CHRONICLES, VOLUME ONE was one of five finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the Biography/Autobiography category for the 2004 publishing year.
CHRONICLES, VOLUME ONE has -so far- been translated into Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish (two translations).
![]() USA, New York, 2004, 293 pages, hardcover with dustjacket. The hardcover of this US edition is white with the title Chronicles carved on it, and the inner is black. ISBN 978-0-7432-2815-2 |
![]() UK, London, 2004, 293 pages, hardcover with dustjacket. The hardcover of this UK edition is black and the inner is white. ISBN 0-7432-3076-0 |
![]() UK, London, 2004, with 'As Seen on BBC1 Page Turners' |
![]() USA "The National Bestseller", first paperback edition 2005, 293 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-0-7432-4458-9 |
![]() USA "The National Bestseller", first paperback export edition 2005. ISBN 978-0-7432-8472-1 |
![]() UK, “The Book Of The Year”, Pocket Books 2005, softcover, ISBN 0-7434-7864-9. There is another edition with ISBN 978-1-84983-337-0 Promo documents of this edition can be seen here. |
![]() "USA, New York Times Bestseller", Thorndike Press, Waterville. 2005, large print edition, hardcover, 415 pages. ISBN 0-7862-7341-0 |
![]() USA, 2016, with mention "Winner Of The Nobel Prize in Literature". Softcover, 320 pages. ISBN 978-0743244589 |
![]() UK 2016, softcover. Has "Winner Of The Nobel Prize in Literature" printed on the front cover. ISBN 978-0-7434-7864-9 |