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1.
The Emperor (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #1)
by:
Robert Reid
4.30 avg rating β 4,976 ratings
2.
Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel), Vol. 1
by:
MΓ² XiΔng TΓ³ng XiΓΉ
4.60 avg rating β 41,074 ratings
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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
by:
Brandon Sanderson
4.45 avg rating β 96,887 ratings
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The Sword of Kaigen
by:
M.L. Wang
4.45 avg rating β 73,580 ratings
5.
The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)
by:
R.F. Kuang
4.30 avg rating β 144,884 ratings
6.
The Blood Legacy: A Xianxia Cultivation Fantasy (The Divine Elements Book 1)
by:
Daman
4.20 avg rating β 1,601 ratings
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Path of the Berserker (Path of the Berserker, #1)
by:
Rick Scott
4.44 avg rating β 2,417 ratings
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The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty
by:
Wilfrid Sheed
3.45 avg rating β 161 ratings
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The Shadow Sect (Netherdei #1)
by:
Peter Hackshaw
4.13 avg rating β 1,406 ratings
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Heart of Night and Fire (The Nightfire Quartet, #1)
by:
Nisha J. Tuli
3.86 avg rating β 4,282 ratings
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The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs
by:
Michael Feinstein
3.97 avg rating β 133 ratings
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Unsouled (Cradle, #1)
by:
Will Wight
4.15 avg rating β 53,151 ratings
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The Darkest Core (Netherdei #2)
by:
Peter Hackshaw
4.23 avg rating β 340 ratings
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The First Step (A Thousand Li, #1)
by:
Tao Wong
4.10 avg rating β 6,450 ratings
15.
The American Songbook: The Singers, Songwriters & The Songs
by:
Ken Bloom
4.20 avg rating β 30 ratings
16.
America's Songs
by:
Philip Furia
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 28 ratings
17.
Tree of Aeons (Tree of Aeons, #1)
by:
spaizzzer
4.20 avg rating β 1,739 ratings
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Irving Berlin: American Troubadour
by:
Edward Jablonski
3.85 avg rating β 13 ratings
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On the Sunny Side of the Street: The Life & Lyrics of Dorothy Fields
by:
Deborah Grace Winer
3.60 avg rating β 20 ratings
20.
Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist
by:
Philip Furia
4.41 avg rating β 27 ratings
20.
Reading Lyrics
by:
Robert Gottlieb
4.49 avg rating β 55 ratings
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Say It With Music: The Story of Irving Berlin
by:
Nancy Furstinger
4.43 avg rating β 7 ratings
23.
The Gershwin Years - George and Ira
by:
Lawrence D. Stewart
4.40 avg rating β 10 ratings
24.
It Wasn't All Velvet: An Autobiography
by:
Melvin Howard TormΓ©
3.75 avg rating β 51 ratings
25.
Jimmy McHugh -- On the Sunny Side of the Street: The Jimmy McHugh Songbook (Piano/Vocal/Chords) (Faber Edition)
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Jimmy McHugh
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Gershwin
by:
Edward Jablonski
4.07 avg rating β 61 ratings
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Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-the Early Years, 1903-1940
by:
Gary Giddins
4.07 avg rating β 415 ratings
28.
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland
by:
Gerald Clarke
3.99 avg rating β 3,193 ratings
29.
Lyrics On Several Occasions
by:
Ira Gershwin
4.40 avg rating β 20 ratings
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His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra
by:
Kitty Kelley
3.63 avg rating β 2,023 ratings
31.
Girl Singer
by:
Rosemary Clooney
3.96 avg rating β 477 ratings
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Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer
by:
Philip Furia
4.10 avg rating β 70 ratings
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The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett
by:
Tony Bennett
3.72 avg rating β 161 ratings
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Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
by:
Linda Ronstadt
3.70 avg rating β 3,156 ratings
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The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song
by:
Ben Yagoda
3.76 avg rating β 319 ratings
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Cole Porter
by:
William McBrien
3.74 avg rating β 254 ratings
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The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists
by:
Philip Furia
3.89 avg rating β 56 ratings
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Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael
by:
Richard M. Sudhalter
3.98 avg rating β 59 ratings
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Ella Fitzgerald
by:
Stuart Nicholson
3.81 avg rating β 182 ratings
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Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
by:
Donald Clarke
3.84 avg rating β 365 ratings
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Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs for Broadway Shows and Hollywood Musicals
by:
William Zinsser
3.96 avg rating β 48 ratings
42.
Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical
by:
Charlotte Greenspan
3.62 avg rating β 16 ratings
43.
Fred Astaire
by:
Joseph Epstein
3.23 avg rating β 174 ratings
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Memories Are Made of This: Dean Martin Through His Daughter's Eyes
by:
Deana Martin
4.12 avg rating β 1,657 ratings
45.
Nat King Cole
by:
Daniel Mark Epstein
3.90 avg rating β 78 ratings
46.
The Man That Got Away: The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen
by:
Walter Rimler
4.48 avg rating β 40 ratings
46.
Tunes of the Twenties and All That Jazz
by:
Robert Rawlins
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Waiting in the Wings: How to Launch Your Performing Career on Broadway and Beyond
by:
Tiffany Haas
4.46 avg rating β 28 ratings
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The Great American Popular Singers
by:
Henry Pleasants
4.55 avg rating β 11 ratings
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Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
by:
Julie Andrews Edwards
3.88 avg rating β 20,233 ratings
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Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song
by:
David A. Jasen
4.18 avg rating β 17 ratings
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The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire
by:
Ted Gioia
4.46 avg rating β 463 ratings
51.
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
by:
Julie Andrews Edwards
3.97 avg rating β 21,120 ratings
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American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950
by:
Alec Wilder
4.29 avg rating β 65 ratings
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For a Cowboy Has to Sing
by:
Jim Bob Tinsley
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie
by:
Julia Antopol Hirsch
4.25 avg rating β 506 ratings
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Life Is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett
by:
Tony Bennett
3.78 avg rating β 486 ratings
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Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music
by:
Tony Bennett
4.23 avg rating β 44 ratings
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The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals
by:
Roy Hemming
3.85 avg rating β 13 ratings
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Harold Arlen: Rhythm, Rainbows, and Blues
by:
Edward Jablonski
4.18 avg rating β 17 ratings
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Stardust Melodies
by:
Will Friedwald
3.93 avg rating β 58 ratings
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Nice Work If You Can Get It: My Life in Rhythm and Rhyme
by:
Michael Feinstein
3.85 avg rating β 27 ratings
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White Christmas: The Story of an American Song
by:
Jody Rosen
3.77 avg rating β 147 ratings
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Ain't Misbehavin': The Story of Fats Waller
by:
Ed Kirkeby
3.50 avg rating β 22 ratings
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Duke Ellington
by:
James Lincoln Collier
3.54 avg rating β 72 ratings
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Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne
by:
James Gavin
3.84 avg rating β 245 ratings
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Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz
by:
Stuart Nicholson
3.81 avg rating β 182 ratings
68.
Music is My Mistress
by:
Duke Ellington
3.99 avg rating β 438 ratings
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The Ella Fitzgerald Companion : Seven Decades of Commentary
by:
Leslie Gourse
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster And The Rise Of American Popular Culture
by:
Ken Emerson
3.66 avg rating β 74 ratings
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Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa (Great Black Performers, 3)
by:
Andrea Davis Pinkney
4.01 avg rating β 433 ratings
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A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
by:
Will Friedwald
4.42 avg rating β 52 ratings
72.
Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams
by:
Nick Tosches
3.94 avg rating β 1,115 ratings
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Singers and the Song
by:
Gene Lees
4.22 avg rating β 18 ratings
75.
Louis Armstrong: An American Genius
by:
James Lincoln Collier
3.75 avg rating β 57 ratings
76.
A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs (Jewish Encounters Series)
by:
David Lehman
3.90 avg rating β 61 ratings
76.
Listening to Classic American Popular Songs
by:
Allen Forte
3.29 avg rating β 7 ratings
76.
Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words: Selected Writings
by:
Louis Armstrong
4.17 avg rating β 101 ratings
79.
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards
by:
Max Morath
3.57 avg rating β 28 ratings
79.
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
by:
John F. Szwed
3.49 avg rating β 533 ratings
81.
George Gershwin: His Life and Work
by:
Howard Pollack
4.07 avg rating β 58 ratings
81.
Billie Holiday Companion: Seven Decades of Commentary
by:
Leslie Gourse
3.44 avg rating β 9 ratings
83.
After the ball
by:
Ian Whitcomb
4.11 avg rating β 19 ratings
84.
They're Playing Our Song: Conversations With America's Classic Songwriters
by:
Max Wilk
4.03 avg rating β 33 ratings
84.
Lady Sings the Blues
by:
Billie Holiday
4.05 avg rating β 7,373 ratings
86.
Sassy: The Life Of Sarah Vaughan
by:
Leslie Gourse
3.80 avg rating β 44 ratings
87.
The Story of Irving Berlin (Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series)
by:
Alexander Woollcott
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
87.
Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus
by:
Alex Halberstadt
4.28 avg rating β 126 ratings
89.
Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin
by:
Deena Ruth Rosenberg
4.21 avg rating β 29 ratings
89.
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
by:
Terry Teachout
4.15 avg rating β 964 ratings
89.
The Duke Ellington Reader
by:
Mark Tucker
4.25 avg rating β 40 ratings
92.
Faith In Time: The Life Of Jimmy Scott
by:
David Ritz
4.31 avg rating β 51 ratings
93.
Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution
by:
Todd S. Purdum
4.23 avg rating β 1,937 ratings
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Lady Sings the Blues
by:
Billie Holiday
4.05 avg rating β 7,373 ratings
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Sing Out Louise!: 150 Broadway Stars Tell Their Stories
by:
Dennis McGovern; Deborah Grace Winer
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
95.
Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World
by:
Glenn T. Eskew
3.70 avg rating β 10 ratings
97.
The Night and the Music: Rosemary Clooney, Barbara Cook & Julie Wilson Inside the World of Cabaret
by:
Deborah Grace Winer
4.10 avg rating β 10 ratings
97.
The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
by:
Johnny Mercer
4.50 avg rating β 16 ratings
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Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson
by:
James Weldon Johnson
3.97 avg rating β 60 ratings
100.
Just Before Jazz
by:
Thomas L. Riis
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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