Music

Books about music history, music genres and musicians.

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Wild Women and the Blues
Sing Me Forgotten
The Songbook of Benny Lament
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Can't Take That Away
When We Were Infinite
Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
Amina's Song
Simon B. Rhymin'
We Have Till Monday
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History
Love's Falling Star
Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
As Far As You'll Take Me
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    The Art of Falling For You (Falling, #1)
    Broken Horses
    The Songbook of Benny Lament
    Falling Out of Hate with You (The Hate-Love Duet #1)
    Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
    Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
    Beginner's Mind
    Good Girl (Wicked, #1)
    The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
    The Violinist of Auschwitz
    A Love Song for Liars (Rivals, #1)
    Disgrace
    Half Empty (First Wives #2)
    The Last Days of John Lennon
    Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles by Bob DylanLife by Keith RichardsLove Is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
    Best Non Fiction About Music
    1,208 books — 1,278 voters
    Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
    Fictitious Africa
    482 books — 267 voters

    High Fidelity by Nick HornbyThe Tristan Chord by Bryan MageeNo One Here Gets Out Alive by Danny SugermanMozart by Maynard SolomonBurning Down Rome by Melodie Ramone
    Best Music Books
    408 books — 181 voters

    A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsThe Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
    Do you have the...Time?
    985 books — 129 voters
    A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsMina and the Undead by Amy McCawThe Awakening by Kate ChopinNine Lives by Dan Baum
    Best New Orleans Books
    362 books — 329 voters

    Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
    This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
    Just Kids
    The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
    How Music Works
    Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
    Life
    Chronicles: Volume One
    Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
    High Fidelity
    Daisy Jones & The Six
    Girl in a Band
    Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
    Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
    No One Here Gets Out Alive

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