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
- The Real Frank Zappa Book - Paperback
- Lifting Shadows The Authorized Biography of Dream Theater - Paperback
- The Little Guide to the Beatles: Quips and Quotes from the Fab Four - Hardcover
- Set Me Free: The Good News of God's Relentless Pursuit (Poetry and Essays) - Hardcover
- East Nashville Skyline: The Songwriting Legacy of Todd Snider - Hardcover
- The Beatles: The Biography - Paperback
- A Singer's Compass: A Journey Exploring the Internal Power of Your Singing - Paperback
- Johnny Cash: The Life - Paperback
- Unleashed: The Story of Tool - Paperback
- White Line Fever: The Autobiography - Paperback
- The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics - Hardcover
- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Hardcover
- The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic - Paperback
- Journey to the Center of the Cramps - Paperback
- Devil in a Coma - Hardcover
- Every Little Step - Paperback
- Just Kids: An Autobiography - Hardcover
- Journey to the Center of the Cramps - Paperback
- The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are - Hardcover
- David Bowie: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations - Paperback
- I Would Leave Me If I Could.: A Collection of Poetry - Hardcover
- Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book - Paperback
- Messengers: The Guitars of James Hetfield - Hardcover
- World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music - Hardcover
- How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music - Hardcover
- Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King - Hardcover
- Read My Mind: The Little Guide to Sabrina Carpenter - Hardcover
- Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead - Paperback
- Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir - Hardcover
- Bringing Metal to the Children - Paperback
- Metallica All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track - Hardcover
- Black Bear - Paperback
- To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse - Hardcover
- Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton - Paperback
- Taylor Swift: Album by Album - Hardcover
- No One Here Gets Out Alive - Paperback
- Beastie Boys Book - Hardcover
- Scatman John: The Remarkable Story of the World's Unlikeliest Popstar - Hardcover
- Satan Is Real - Paperback
- The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band - Paperback
- Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye - Paperback
- Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly - Paperback
- A Perfect Union of Contrary Things - Paperback
- Are We Still Rolling? Studios, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll - One Man's Journey Recording Classic Albums - Paperback
- An American Band - Paperback
- Brothers - Hardcover
- Doc Watson: A Life in Music - Hardcover
- Hit So Hard: A Memoir - Hardcover
- Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter - Hardcover
- The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present - Hardcover