Books About Music/Musicians

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Daisy Jones & The Six
Daisy Jones & The Six 4.20 avg rating — 1,771,767 ratings
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Wham! George & Me
Wham! George & Me 4.05 avg rating — 6,647 ratings
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Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World
Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World 4.08 avg rating — 3,279 ratings
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Wonderful Tonight
Wonderful Tonight 3.72 avg rating — 15,769 ratings
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad 3.70 avg rating — 244,140 ratings
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl 3.83 avg rating — 36,212 ratings
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Music & Silence
Music & Silence 3.95 avg rating — 4,799 ratings
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I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie 3.70 avg rating — 21,013 ratings
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Me
Me 4.32 avg rating — 70,308 ratings
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Scar Tissue
Scar Tissue 4.11 avg rating — 99,101 ratings
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation 3.77 avg rating — 1,698 ratings
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Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana
Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana 4.07 avg rating — 10,289 ratings
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The Queen: Aretha Franklin
The Queen: Aretha Franklin 3.35 avg rating — 1,677 ratings
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Songbook
Songbook 3.56 avg rating — 14,165 ratings
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Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
by: Phuc Tran
4.29 avg rating — 9,604 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession 3.89 avg rating — 66,729 ratings
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Rememberings
Rememberings 4.10 avg rating — 13,561 ratings
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Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music
Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music 3.54 avg rating — 1,136 ratings
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A Book of Days
A Book of Days 4.24 avg rating — 3,936 ratings
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Black Bottom Saints
Black Bottom Saints 3.94 avg rating — 1,142 ratings
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Prayer for Owen Meany 4.24 avg rating — 332,374 ratings
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Olivia Newton-John. Don't Stop Believin
Olivia Newton-John. Don't Stop Believin 3.95 avg rating — 2,762 ratings
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Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir 3.70 avg rating — 3,156 ratings
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Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music
Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music 3.73 avg rating — 662 ratings
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Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline
Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline 4.30 avg rating — 2,952 ratings
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On Bowie
On Bowie 3.90 avg rating — 1,740 ratings
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Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens 4.28 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time 3.87 avg rating — 41,520 ratings
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Talking to Girls About Duran Duran
Talking to Girls About Duran Duran 3.59 avg rating — 8,611 ratings
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The Borrower
The Borrower 3.54 avg rating — 16,106 ratings
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Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom 4.24 avg rating — 2,349 ratings
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The Music Shop
The Music Shop 3.84 avg rating — 33,815 ratings
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Society's Child: My Autobiography
Society's Child: My Autobiography
by: Janis Ian
4.01 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
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The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It 3.95 avg rating — 872 ratings
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Conto de Fadas Rock'n Roll: O vocalista (Black Road Livro 1)
Conto de Fadas Rock'n Roll: O vocalista (Black Road Livro 1) 4.11 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Your Playlist Can Change Your Life: 10 Proven Ways Your Favorite Music Can Revolutionize Your Health, Memory, Organization, Alertness and More
Your Playlist Can Change Your Life: 10 Proven Ways Your Favorite Music Can Revolutionize Your Health, Memory, Organization, Alertness and More 3.20 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends 3.84 avg rating — 2,144 ratings
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Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar
Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar 4.27 avg rating — 808 ratings
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Dead Land (V.I. Warshawski #20)
Dead Land (V.I. Warshawski #20) 4.05 avg rating — 5,287 ratings
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Ghost Notes
Ghost Notes 4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing
Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing 3.98 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Tenement Kid
Tenement Kid really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Darkening Song
Darkening Song it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Grrrls: Viva Rock Divas
Grrrls: Viva Rock Divas 3.92 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste 3.22 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Duke Ellington's America
Duke Ellington's America 4.09 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Just Kids
Just Kids 4.21 avg rating — 333,616 ratings
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Unforgettable Fire: Past, Present, and Future--The Definitive Biography of U2
Unforgettable Fire: Past, Present, and Future--The Definitive Biography of U2 3.67 avg rating — 724 ratings
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Divine Inspiration (Homer Kelly, #10)
Divine Inspiration (Homer Kelly, #10) 3.79 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road: When Old Time Music Met Bluegrass
Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road: When Old Time Music Met Bluegrass really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,097 ratings
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Black Music
Black Music 4.10 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography
Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography 3.87 avg rating — 5,226 ratings
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What to Listen for in Music
What to Listen for in Music 3.94 avg rating — 9,188 ratings
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier 3.98 avg rating — 6,513 ratings
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Echoes: The Hampton Grease Band, My Life, My Music and How I Stopped Having Panic Attacks
Echoes: The Hampton Grease Band, My Life, My Music and How I Stopped Having Panic Attacks 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Music As Medicine: Deforia Lane's Life of Music, Healing, and Faith
Music As Medicine: Deforia Lane's Life of Music, Healing, and Faith 4.04 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret
The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret 4.07 avg rating — 2,416 ratings
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A Hymn for Eternity: The Story of Wallace Hartley, Titanic Bandmaster
A Hymn for Eternity: The Story of Wallace Hartley, Titanic Bandmaster 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Cliffs of Night
The Cliffs of Night 4.14 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Country Music USA: 50th Anniversary Edition
Country Music USA: 50th Anniversary Edition 4.44 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Chronicles, Volume One
Chronicles, Volume One
by: Bob Dylan
3.98 avg rating — 60,438 ratings
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Hole In Our Soul: The Loss Of Beauty And Meaning In American Popular Music
Hole In Our Soul: The Loss Of Beauty And Meaning In American Popular Music 3.27 avg rating — 55 ratings
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And the Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist & the Glovemaker: A True Story of Love, Loss & Betrayal
And the Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist & the Glovemaker: A True Story of Love, Loss & Betrayal 3.85 avg rating — 899 ratings
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Evenings With the Orchestra
Evenings With the Orchestra 4.20 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark (John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University)
Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark (John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University) 4.43 avg rating — 581 ratings
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys 4.28 avg rating — 13,074 ratings
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The Marxist Minstrels: A Handbook On Communist Subversion Of Music
The Marxist Minstrels: A Handbook On Communist Subversion Of Music 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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From This Moment On
From This Moment On 3.87 avg rating — 5,945 ratings
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The Band That Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic
The Band That Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic 3.66 avg rating — 629 ratings
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The Man Verdi
The Man Verdi 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Country and Blues Harmonica for the Musically Hopeless
Country and Blues Harmonica for the Musically Hopeless 3.98 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Journals
Journals 4.01 avg rating — 17,520 ratings
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Mr. B: The Music and Life of Billy Eckstine
Mr. B: The Music and Life of Billy Eckstine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Piper on the Mountain (The Felse Investigations, #5)
The Piper on the Mountain (The Felse Investigations, #5) 3.87 avg rating — 689 ratings
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Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story
Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story 3.75 avg rating — 580 ratings
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Dan Zanes' House Party!: A Family Roots Music Treasury
Dan Zanes' House Party!: A Family Roots Music Treasury
by: Dan Zanes
4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution 3.95 avg rating — 8,795 ratings
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The Amazing Power of Music
The Amazing Power of Music 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs 3.42 avg rating — 1,141 ratings
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Hi Five (IQ, #4)
Hi Five (IQ, #4)
by: Joe Ide
3.59 avg rating — 3,781 ratings
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The Trouser Press Record Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Alternative Music
The Trouser Press Record Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Alternative Music 4.34 avg rating — 447 ratings
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Who I Am
Who I Am 3.91 avg rating — 4,884 ratings
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The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century (American Made Music Series)
The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century (American Made Music Series) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Brush Back (V.I. Warshawski, #17)
Brush Back (V.I. Warshawski, #17) 3.96 avg rating — 4,467 ratings
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Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine (American Made Music Series)
Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine (American Made Music Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush
Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush
by: Tom Doyle
4.15 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Homecoming
Homecoming 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)
Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)
by: Lee Child
3.96 avg rating — 78,206 ratings
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Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980
Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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It's a Love Story
It's a Love Story 4.36 avg rating — 1,121 ratings
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The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones 4.08 avg rating — 2,418 ratings
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Turn Your Radio On: The Stories Behind Gospel Music's All-Time Greatest Songs
Turn Your Radio On: The Stories Behind Gospel Music's All-Time Greatest Songs 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation 3.75 avg rating — 6,224 ratings
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A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 3,873,912 ratings
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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink 3.82 avg rating — 3,877 ratings
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Ticket to the World: My 80s Story
Ticket to the World: My 80s Story 3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings
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It's More Than the Music: Life Lessons on Friends, Faith, and What Matters Most
It's More Than the Music: Life Lessons on Friends, Faith, and What Matters Most 4.40 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Dark Horse: The Life And Art Of George Harrison
Dark Horse: The Life And Art Of George Harrison 3.44 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Pied Piper of Hamelin
Pied Piper of Hamelin 3.91 avg rating — 3,041 ratings
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