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Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
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3.95 avg rating — 9,167 ratings
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
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4.27 avg rating — 13,635 ratings
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Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music
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3.56 avg rating — 803 ratings
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How to Build a Girl (How to Build a Girl, #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 37,012 ratings
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Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumors
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3.89 avg rating — 1,091 ratings
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Different for Girls: A Girl's Own True-life Adventures in Pop
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4.05 avg rating — 1,185 ratings
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Rat Girl
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3.97 avg rating — 3,104 ratings
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Drugs are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir
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3.97 avg rating — 1,199 ratings
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Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks
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3.78 avg rating — 8,895 ratings
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A Girl Called Dusty
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3.29 avg rating — 34 ratings
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I, Tina
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4.14 avg rating — 2,833 ratings
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Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound
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4.30 avg rating — 252 ratings
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The Riot Grrrl Collection
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4.39 avg rating — 699 ratings
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Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
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3.80 avg rating — 2,197 ratings
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Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story
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4.20 avg rating — 1,056 ratings
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Black By Design: A 2-Tone Memoir
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4.04 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Who I Am
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3.91 avg rating — 5,224 ratings
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Girl in a Band
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3.67 avg rating — 32,376 ratings
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The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era
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3.76 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Going Back
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4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
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No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley
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4.09 avg rating — 1,968 ratings
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When I Grow Up
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3.67 avg rating — 659 ratings
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A Natural Woman: A Memoir
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3.78 avg rating — 5,538 ratings
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Pretty in Punk: Girl's Gender Resistance in a Boy's Subculture
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3.76 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap
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4.03 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
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3.77 avg rating — 3,443 ratings
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
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3.83 avg rating — 36,878 ratings
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Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music
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3.55 avg rating — 1,155 ratings
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Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music
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3.97 avg rating — 877 ratings
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Still Woman Enough: A Memoir
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4.23 avg rating — 728 ratings
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Love, Janis
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4.11 avg rating — 4,016 ratings
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Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
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3.83 avg rating — 2,282 ratings
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The Forty Watt Flowers
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3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Roll
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4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Story
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3.66 avg rating — 807 ratings
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Changing the Tune: The Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival, 1978-1985
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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And a Voice to Sing With
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3.94 avg rating — 1,223 ratings
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Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro
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4.17 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Fire in the Rain...Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography
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3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story
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3.76 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Fabulous Female Musicians
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4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Cinderella's Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground
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3.84 avg rating — 624 ratings
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Florence + the Machine: An Almighty Sound
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3.67 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Queen's Soprano
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3.56 avg rating — 770 ratings
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Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals
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4.36 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Here She Comes Now: Essays on Women in Music
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3.44 avg rating — 97 ratings
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She's A Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll
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3.80 avg rating — 362 ratings
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Hot Licks: Lesbian Musicians of Note
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Michigan Womyn's (Women's) Music Festival: An Amazon Matrix of Meaning
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them
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3.89 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Backstage Pass: Interviews With Women in Music
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush
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4.16 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Michigan!: Performers Celebrate Thirty Years of the Michigan Womyn's Festival
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Songbirds: Pioneering Women in Jamaican Music
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4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Rememberings
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4.10 avg rating — 14,556 ratings
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Wonderland
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3.07 avg rating — 805 ratings
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Entertaining Women: Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West
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3.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Straight from the Heart
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3.76 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Songs Only You Know: A Memoir
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 267 ratings
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The Truth Is . . .: My Life in Love and Music
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3.80 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music
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3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of The Bangles
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3.58 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer
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4.07 avg rating — 2,059 ratings
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From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra
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4.03 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Book of Life
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3.79 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio
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3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
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4.05 avg rating — 2,366 ratings
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Coming Home to Myself
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3.93 avg rating — 1,007 ratings
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How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
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3.97 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Reba: My Story
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4.17 avg rating — 1,851 ratings
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Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of extraordinary Women and Gibson's "Banner" Guitars of WWII
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3.89 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Sunset Strip Diaries
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3.79 avg rating — 654 ratings
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The Women of Country Music: A Reader
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000
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4.32 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop & Soul
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3.80 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Carry it On!: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America
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4.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Mary Travers: A Woman's Words
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4.12 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues
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3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings
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A Woman Like Me
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3.97 avg rating — 190 ratings
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A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered (Painted Turtle Book)
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Every Night Is Saturday Night
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4.05 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Last Girl Standing
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4.02 avg rating — 385 ratings
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The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 148 ratings
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A Belfast Girl: A 1960s American folk music legend weaves stories of a girlhood on “the singing streets” of Ireland, marriage in Scotland, and arrival in America
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4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s
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4.06 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba's First All-girl Dance Band
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3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Most Beautiful Girl: A True Story of a Dad, A Daughter and the Healing Power of Music
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4.09 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter
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3.93 avg rating — 3,546 ratings
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Honky Tonk Girl: My Life in Lyrics
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4.08 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
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4.27 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation
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3.75 avg rating — 6,366 ratings
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Girl Singer
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3.96 avg rating — 499 ratings
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Ain't Nothin As Sweet As My Baby: The Story of Hank Williams' Lost Daughter
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3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter
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3.99 avg rating — 6,242 ratings
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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4.29 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
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Tina Turner
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa (Great Black Performers, 3)
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4.01 avg rating — 442 ratings
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The Ella Fitzgerald Companion: 7 Decades of Commentary
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz
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3.80 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Gillian Gaar's 'She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll' is a whopping, well-researched and well-written tome that should be a part of any such collection (along with Laura Nyro). I'll add a few more over time.
For now, 'Tori Amos: Piece By Piece' by Amos and Ann Powers is a new addition. In fine conversational vein, the two women cover infinitely more ground than conventional biographies I've endured about Tori, learning very little.