The definitive shelf: musicians telling their own stories, and the biographers who filled in what they left out. Across genres, across eras — the books that get you inside the life behind the music.
Music Biography & Memoir Books
- Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt's Journey to His Musical Language - Hardcover
- Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman - Paperback
- Taylor Swift: A Book for Swifties - Hardcover
- From Ear to Ear: A Pianist's Love Affair with Song - Hardcover
- Sharing in the Groove: The Untold Story of the '90s Jam Band Explosion and the Scene That Followed - Paperback
- Hank Williams: The Biography - Paperback
- Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs - Hardcover
- Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk - Hardcover
- Dark Horses: A Memoir of Redemption - Hardcover
- I'm in the Band: Backstage Notes from the Chick in White Zombie - Paperback
- Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World - Hardcover
- Stray Kids - Hardcover
- Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music - Paperback
- Not Dead & Not for Sale: The Earthling Papers, a Memoir - Paperback
- Steely Dan's Aja - Paperback
- Me: Elton John Official Autobiography - Paperback
- Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival - Hardcover
- Punk Rock Dad: No Rules, Just Real Life - Paperback
- Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia - Paperback
- The Meaning of Mariah Carey - Paperback
- The History of Bones: A Memoir - Paperback
- Lou Reed: The King of New York - Paperback
- All You Need Is Ears: The Inside Personal Story of the Genius Who Created the Beatles - Paperback
- Starting Over: Life in and Beyond the Jackson Family - Paperback
- Johannes Brahms - Paperback
- Discovering Carl Sandburg: The Eclectic Life of an American Icon - Paperback
- Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me - Paperback
- Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal - Hardcover
- Oceans of Time: The Musical Autobiography of Billy Hart - Paperback
- Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and Korn - Paperback
- Guitars and Heroes: Mythic Guitars and Legendary Musicians - Paperback
- Elvis and Nashville - Paperback
- Smart Blonde: Dolly Parton - Paperback
- Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story - Hardcover
- Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion - Paperback
- Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations - Paperback
- Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division - Paperback
- The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America - Paperback
- The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier - Paperback
- Lips Unsealed: A Memoir - Paperback
- Broken Music: A Memoir - Paperback
- Sing to Me - Paperback
- Night Divides the Day: The Doors Anthology - Hardcover
- Schumann: The Faces and the Masks - Paperback
- What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography - Paperback
- To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles - Paperback
- Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival - Paperback
- My House of Memories: An Autobiography - Paperback
- NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories - Paperback
- It's a Long Story: My Life - Hardcover