Libraries Rock! Suggested Reading List

Libraries Rock! Suggested Reading List

Publisher and number of pages are based on 1st editions. May vary slightly. Hyperlinked titles are available through CWMARS with a valid library card. ** - Owned by the Emily Williston Memorial Library. **AUD CD - Audiobook is owned by the Emily Williston Memorial Library.

Azerrad, Michael. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991. Little, Brown, 2001. 528 pages.

Ballance, Laura. Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small. Algonquin Books, 2009. 320 pages.

Benway, Robin. Audrey, Wait! Razorbill, 2008. 320 pages.**

Brennan, Matt. When Genres Collide: Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the Struggle Between Jazz and Rock. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 256 pages.

Brownstein, Carrie. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir. Riverhead Books, 2015. 256 pages. **AUD CD

Byrne, David. How Music Works. Three Rivers Press, 2017. 384 pages.

Charnas, Dan. The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop. NAL, 2010. 672 pages.

Cline, Ernest. Ready Player One. Crown Publishers, 2011. 374 pages.

Cohen, Rich. The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones. Spiegel & Grau, 2017. 400 pages.

Collins, Olivia. This Is Grime. Hodder & Stoughton, 2016. 320 pages.

Conroy, Taylor. Taylor Swift: This Is Our Song. Simon & Schuster, 2016. 304 pages.

Cooper, Alice. Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict. Crown Publishers, 2007. 272 pages.

Costello, Elvis. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. Blue Rider Press, 2016. 688 pages.**

Dessen, Sarah. Just Listen. Viking, 2006. 371 pages.**

Doe, John & DeSavia, Tom. Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk. Da Capo Press, 2016. 336 pages. **AUD CD

Doyle, Tom. Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s. Ballantine Books, 2014.

Doyle, Roddy. The Commitments. Vintage, 1989. 176 pages.**

Egan, Jennifer. A Visit from the Goon Squad. Knopf, 2010. 290 pages.

Ewoodzie, Joseph C. Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip Hop’s Early Years. University of North Carolina Press. 2017. 256 pages.

Fanni Tutti, Cosey. Art Sex Music. Faber & Faber Social, 2018. 512 pages.

Farinati, Lucia & Firth, Claudia. The Force of Listening. Errant Bodies Press, 2017. 216 pages.

Forman, Gayle. Where She Went. Dutton Books, 2011. 272 pages.

Friedwald, Will. The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums. Pantheon, 2017. 432 pages.

Garcia, Mayte. The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince. Hachette Books, 2017. 304 pages.

George, Nelson. The Death of Rhythm and Blues. Penguin, 2003. 256 pages.

George, Nelson & Leeds, Alan. The James Brown Reader: Fifty Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul. Plume, 2008. 368 pages.

Goodman, Lizzy. Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001- 2011. Dey Street Books, 2017. 640 pages.

Greenfield, Robert. The Last Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun. Simon & Schuster, 2011. 464 pages.

Hepworth, David. Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rockstars. Henry Holt and Co., 2017. 320 pages.

Hill, Dave. Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Blue Rider Press, 2016. 288 pages.

Hynde, Chrissie. Reckless: My Life as a Pretender. Anchor, 2016. 368 pages.**

Hornby, Nick. High Fidelity. Riverhead Books, 1995. 340 pages.**

Hornby, Nick. Songbook. Riverhead Books, 2003. 240 pages.

Jay-Z. Decoded. Spiegel & Grau, 2010. 336 pages.

Kiedis, Anthony & Sloman, Larry. Scar Tissue. Hachette Books, 2004. 480 pages.

Lee, Janice Y. K. The Piano Teacher. Viking, 2009. 368 pages.

Lee, Tommy & Neil, Vince & Mars, Mick & Sixx, Nikki & Strauss, Neil. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band. HarperCollins. 2002. 448 pages.

Lethem, Jonathan. The Fortress of Solitude. Doubleday, 2003. 511 pages.

Levitin, Daniel J. This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. Plume/Penguin. 2007. 322 pages.

Lopez, Steve. The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008. 273 pages.

Mane, Gucci & Martinez-Belkin, Neil. The Autobiography of Gucci Mane. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 304 pages.

Mottola, Tommy. A New America: How Music Reshaped the Culture and Future of a Nation and Redefined My Life. Celebra, 2016. 256 pages.

McNeil, Legs. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Grove Press, 1996. 448 pages.

Miret, Roger & Wiederhorn Jon. My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts, and Glory. Lesser Gods, 2017. 304 pages.

Mitchell, James. The Walrus and the Elephants: John Lennon's Years of Revolution. Seven Stories Press, 2013. 272 pages.

Moby. Porcelain: A Memoir. Penguin Books, 2017. 416 pages.

Morrissey. Autobiography. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2013. 480 pages.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. A Life in Letters. Penguin Classics, 2007. 448 pages.

Niven, Jeremy. Kill Your Friends: A Novel. Harper Perennial, 2008. 352 pages.

Osmon, Erin. Jason Molina: Riding With the Ghost. Rowan & Littlefield, 2017. 240 pages.

Palmer, Amanda. The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help. Grand Central Publishing, 2015. 352 pages.

Passman, Donald. All You Need to Know About the Music Business: Ninth Edition. Simon & Schuster, 2015. 544 pages.

Pelly, Jenn. The Raincoats (33 ⅓). Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 176 pages.

Powers, Ann. Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music. Dey Street Books, 2017. 448 pages.**

Questlove & Greenman, Ben. Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove. Grand Central Publishing, 2013. 288 pages.

Rotolo, Suzie. A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. Broadway Books, 2009. 384 pages.

Sacks, Oliver. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Knopf, 2007. 400 pages.**

Serrano, Shea. The Rap Yearbook. Abrams Image, 2015. 240 pages.

Sheffield, Rob. Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time. Crown Archetype, 2007. 240 pages.

Sheffield, Rob. Talking to Girls About Duran Duran. Dutton, 2010. 288 pages.

Smith, Patti. M Train. Knopf, 2016. 288 pages.**

St. John Mandel, Emily. Station Eleven. Knopf, 2015. 352 pages.**

Szwed, John. Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth. Viking, 2015. 250 pages.

Taylor, John. In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran. Dutton, 2012. 400 pages.

Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca. Personal Stereo. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 152 pages.

Weigel, Dave. The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock. W.W. Norton & Company. 2017. 368 pages.

Wilentz, Sean. Bob Dylan In America. Doubleday, 2010. 400 pages.

Williams, Pharrell. Pharrell: Places and Spaces I've Been. Rizzoli, 2012. 248 pages.

Willis-Abdurraqib, Hanif. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us. Two Dollar Radio, 2017. 236 pages.

Witt, Steven. How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention. Penguin Books, 2016. 320 pages.

Young, Kevin. Jelly Roll: A Blues. Knopf, 2005. 208 pages.

Young, Neil. Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream. Plume, 2013. 512 pages.**

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