Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business

Fredric Dannen

London, Reign Over Me: How England's Capital Built Classic Rock

Stephen Tow

Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

Steven Hyden

Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King

Preston Lauterbach

Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock

Jonathan Gould

The Beatles: The Biography

Bob Spitz

Love for Sale: Pop Music in America

David Hajdu

But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups

Laura Flam

Laurel Canyon

Michael Walker

Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

John Higgs

Ready, Steady, Go! The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London

Shawn Levy

No One Here Gets Out Alive

Jerry Hopkins

Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina

David Hajdu

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Chuck Klosterman

The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-on Collision of Rock and Commerce

Fred Goodman

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

Michael Azerrad

Testimony

Robbie Robertson

The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

Stanley Booth

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music

Ellen Willis

This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band

Levon Helm

1971 Never A Dull Moment

David Hepworth

'scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky

David Henderson

John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs

Ian Leslie

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

Lou Reed: The King of New York

Will Hermes

Just Kids

Patti Smith

The Uncool: A Memoir

Cameron Crowe

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Lester Bangs

Blues People: Negro Music in White America

Amiri Baraka

Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen