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Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,952,326 ratings — published 2019
Girl in a Band (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.68 — 33,062 ratings — published 2015
High Fidelity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 219,848 ratings — published 1995
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,129 ratings — published 2007
Songbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.56 — 14,338 ratings — published 2002
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.89 — 69,213 ratings — published 2006
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,485 ratings — published 2001
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.70 — 256,409 ratings — published 2010
This Song Will Save Your Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 27,204 ratings — published 2013
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.87 — 42,607 ratings — published 2007
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 37,823 ratings — published 1996
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,528 ratings — published 2007
Born to Run (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 57,174 ratings — published 2016
Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,592 ratings — published 2005
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.42 — 173,962 ratings — published 2021
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,250 ratings — published 2015
England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,460 ratings — published 1991
The Music Shop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.84 — 36,029 ratings — published 2017
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,807 ratings — published 2019
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,274 ratings — published 2001
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.14 — 50,597 ratings — published 2001
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,796 ratings — published 2007
Talking to Girls About Duran Duran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.59 — 8,709 ratings — published 2010
Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.98 — 63,064 ratings — published 2004
What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,570 ratings — published 1939
Honey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.44 — 16,718 ratings — published 2024
One Direction: Who We Are: Our Official Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,770 ratings — published 2014
Reckless: My Life as a Pretender (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.50 — 5,113 ratings — published 2015
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,704 ratings — published 1994
How Music Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,829 ratings — published 2014
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,436 ratings — published 1992
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,879 ratings — published 2014
Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,471 ratings — published 1939
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,830 ratings — published 2013
Essays on Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.98 — 262 ratings — published 1962
Music and Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.84 — 164 ratings — published 1952
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z: A Library of America Special Publication (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.61 — 152 ratings — published
Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,381 ratings — published 2021
Grrrls on the Side (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.49 — 170 ratings — published 2017
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,274 ratings — published 2017
I Was Born for This (I Was Born for This, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.00 — 52,560 ratings — published 2018
From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,726 ratings — published 1993
Killing Bono: I Was Bono's Doppelganger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.92 — 816 ratings — published 2004
Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.03 — 610 ratings — published 2020
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,199 ratings — published 2015
Music, Society, Education (Music / Culture)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.42 — 55 ratings — published 1980
Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,243 ratings — published 1994
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.51 — 34,262 ratings — published 2009
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 4.54 — 19,940 ratings — published 2017
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as about-music)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,303 ratings — published 2010