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
- Ariana Grande: The Rise of a Dangerous Woman - Hardcover
- Grace Notes: A Musical Memoir - Paperback
- The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead--The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter - Hardcover
- Bon Jovi: Forever - Hardcover
- Bob Dylan: Things Have Changed - Hardcover
- Cool Heat: Anita O'Day and Her Dangerous Jazz Life - Hardcover
- Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway - Paperback
- Rememberings - Paperback
- In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with the Brian Jonestown Massacre - Paperback
- Sharing in the Groove: The Untold Story of the '90s Jam Band Explosion and the Scene That Followed - Hardcover
- A Pirate Looks at Fifty - Paperback
- The Little Bach Book: An eclectic Omnibus of Notable Details about the Life and Times of the esteemed and highly respected Johann Sebastian Bach - Paperback
- Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton - Paperback
- What a Fool Believes: A Memoir - Paperback
- Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original - Paperback
- MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson - Paperback
- Aces Back to Back: The History of the Grateful Dead (1965 - 2025) - Paperback
- A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album - Paperback
- The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: The Outrageous, Definitive & Untold History - Hardcover
- I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography - Paperback
- Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans - Paperback
- Hound Dog: A Poet's Memoir of Rock, Revolution, and Redemption - Paperback
- Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain - Paperback
- Born to Run - Hardcover
- Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir - Paperback
- Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins - Paperback
- Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath - Paperback
- John Coltrane: His Life and Music - Paperback
- How to Ru(i)N a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records - Paperback
- Solo Yo: The Little Guide to Bad Bunny - Hardcover
- Kansas City Lightning - Paperback
- Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) - Paperback
- Comfort from a Country Quilt: Finding New Inspiration and Strength in Old-Fashioned Values - Paperback
- And on Piano ...Nicky Hopkins: The Extraordinary Life of Rock's Greatest Session Man - Paperback
- Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography - Paperback
- Stray Kids: Everywhere All Around the World - Paperback
- The Way I Am - Paperback
- Year of the Monkey - Paperback
- Richard Manuel: His Life and Music, from the Hawks and Bob Dylan to the Band - Hardcover
- Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Biography of a Song - Paperback
- The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star - Paperback
- Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine Volume 20 - Paperback
- Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia - Paperback
- Custom Made Woman: A Life in Traditional Music - Hardcover
- Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline - Paperback
- Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts) - Hardcover
- Rumors of My Demise: A Memoir - Hardcover
- Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis - Paperback
- It's a Long Story: My Life - Paperback
- No Regrets: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir - Paperback