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Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanLife by Keith RichardsOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,442 books — 1,344 voters
No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry HopkinsThe Dirt by Tommy LeeThe Heroin Diaries by Nikki SixxLife by Keith RichardsSlash by Slash
Best Books on Rock and Roll
891 books — 1,278 voters

The Hate U Give by Angie ThomasThe Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky ChambersPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
ATY 2020 - A Book with an Emotion in the Title
622 books — 108 voters
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. SeussRed, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuistonGathering Blue by Lois LowryIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellBlueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Blue in the Title
936 books — 58 voters

Sonny's Blues by James BaldwinEven Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom RobbinsReservation Blues by Sherman AlexieHow Do You Lose Those Ninth Grade Blues? by Barthe DeClementsLady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
The Blues
510 books — 36 voters
Juke by Brian D. BriscoeBlues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. DavisThe Land Where the Blues Began by Alan LomaxEscaping the Delta by Elijah WaldBlues All Around Me by B.B. King
Blues Music
135 books — 18 voters

California Dreamin' by Pénélope BagieuBaby's in Black by Arne BellstorfThe Fifth Beatle by Vivek J. TiwaryKahe heli vahel. Graafiline romaan Arvo Pärdist by Joonas SildreLove in vain by J.M. Dupont
Graphic Novels and Comics About Music
162 books — 16 voters
The Commitments by Roddy DoyleChart Throb by Ben EltonSoul Music by Terry PratchettRagtime by E.L. DoctorowThe Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Tin Pan Alley
41 books — 14 voters

A Modern Method for Guitar Complete Edition | Volumes 1 2 and... by William LeavittThe Praxis System Guitar Compendium by Howard RobertsMusic Theory in One Lesson by Ross TrottierHow to Play Guitar Step by Step by D.K. PublishingScale Chord Relationships by Michael Mueller
Guitar For Autodidacts
54 books — 11 voters
Billie Holiday by John F. SzwedCelebrating Bird by Gary GiddinsDuke Ellington's America by Harvey G. CohenMusic is My Mistress by Duke EllingtonMr B by Cary Ginell
JAZZLIVES
91 books — 9 voters

More Than a Mistress by Mary BaloghThe Songbird's Seduction by Connie BrockwayA Lady by Midnight by Tessa DareThe Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLeanThe Saint by Madeline Hunter
Song: Singers in Historical Romance
46 books — 9 voters
Detroit by Jon MilanGrit, Noise, and Revolution by David A. CarsonJamestown by Joyce CrawfordThe Hard Stuff by Wayne KramerMC5 by Brett Callwood
Musical History of Detroit (nonfiction)
30 books — 8 voters

Sam Phillips by Peter GuralnickFever Season by Jeanette KeithMemphis Rent Party by Robert GordonGoing Down Jericho Road by Michael K. HoneyThe Memphis Blues Again by Ernest C. Withers
U.S. Cities: Memphis, Tennessee (nonfiction)
76 books — 6 voters
Michael Rosen's Sad Book by Michael RosenWhen Sadness is at Your Door by Eva ElandThe Red Tree by Shaun TanLucky G and the Melancholy Quokka by Amy Wilinski-LymanMy Mom Hates Me in January by Judy Delton
Best Books about Depression for Young Children.
11 books — 6 voters

Watchmen by Alan MooreThe Blue Girl by Charles de LintThe Spellshop by Sarah Beth DurstThe Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele RichardsonThe Blue Dwarf by Percy Bolingbroke Saint John
Blue Characters
70 books — 5 voters
DANCING SPOONS AND KHACHAPURI by Sherry Marie GallagherThe Slow Farm by Tarn WilsonSummer of '69 by Todd StrasserDowneyoshun by A. YoungBoulder Blues by Sherry Marie Gallagher
Boulder Blues
9 books — 4 voters

Frankie Manning by Frankie ManningJust Before Jazz by Thomas L. RiisBallroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake by Julie MalnigBrotherhood in Rhythm by Constance Valis HillKrazy Kat In Song And Dance (Slipcased Edition Including Dvd) by George Herriman
Blues & Jazz Dance Education
116 books — 4 voters
Maumau American Cantos by Tom WeatherlyShort History of the Saxophone by Tom Weatherly
Tom Campion List
2 books — 3 voters

Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their L... by Mark ZwonitzerMusic from the True Vine by Bill C. Malonerare visions and roadside revelations coast to coast travel-o... by Randy MasonSouthern Banjo Styles by Mike SeegerDetour Art by Kelly Ludwig
Heard on 1690 WMLB-AM, via Backroads and Banjos with Art Rosenbaum
27 books — 3 voters
Swamp Pop by Shane K. BernardGet a Shot of Rhythm and Blues by Richard YoungerI Hear You Knockin by Jeff HannuschHéros oubliés du rock'n'roll by Nick ToschesThe Black Elvis - Jackie Wilson by Doug Carter
Rhythm'n'Blues
83 books — 3 voters

The religious instruction of the Negroes in the United States by Charles Colcock JonesAmerican Negro Songs by John W. WorkFather of the Blues by W.C. HandyHonkers And Shouters by Arnold ShawNothing But the Blues by Lawrence Cohn
References and Further Reading in "The Blues: A Very Short Introduction"
60 books — 1 voter
Singing in the African American Tradition - Volume 2 by Ysaye M. BarnwellHappy Traum's Complete Fingerpicking Method by Homespun TapesFive-String Banjo for Beginners by Happy TraumAn Easy Guide to Tuning Your Guitar by Happy TraumGuitar for the Absolute Beginner by Happy Traum
Homespun: Tapes, Audio, Video, teaching tools for music
38 books — 1 voter

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