Has Music In It

Level up with music! Try fiction and nonfiction featuring musicians or where music plays a big part.

Updated April 14, 2025
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3 shades of blue : Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the lost empire of cool
Kaplan, James
Paper Book
The National Bestseller * One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year "A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date." --Los Angeles Times ...
All the right notes
Lim, Dominic
Paper Book
Sparks fly when a piano genius and a Hollywood heartthrob are thrown together for a charity performance in this "swoony, joyful rom-com" (Entertainment Weekly). Quito Cruz is a genius piano player and composer with Broadway dreams, but he's not quite...
Daisy Jones & the Six : a novel
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup--from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu...
Fearless and free : a memoir
Baker, Josephine
Paper Book
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The TODAY Show, Vanity Fair, Financial Times, W Magazine, Oprah Daily, LibraryReads Praised as "funny and witty" by Kwame Alexander on the TODAY show, now published in the US for the first time, Fearless and Free is the...
I'll be the one
Lee, Lyla
Paper Book
Diverse book recommended by The Today Show * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * Bank Street Best Book of the Year * YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA's Rainbow Book List Top 10 for Teen Readers The world of K-Pop has never met a star like this. Debut author Lyla Lee delivers...
Just kids
Smith, Patti.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer,...
The most dazzling girl in Berlin
Wilson, Kip
Paper Book
A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, an orphan who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World War II as she discovers her own voice and sexuality, ultimately finding a family when she gets a job at a gay cabaret, by award-winning author Kip Wilson. On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde...
Punk rock karaoke
Xunise, Bianca
Paper Book
"Stole my heart from the first page to the last. Endlessly funny and sincere." --Tillie Walden, Eisner & Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist Winner of the 2025 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work A debut graphic novel from Ignatz Award-winning and nationally...
Rebel girl : my life as a feminist punk
Hanna, Kathleen
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want Kathleen Hanna's band Bikini Kill...
A river enchanted : a novel
Ross, Rebecca
Paper Book
"Exquisitely written with compelling characters and romance . . . I was swept away by the enchanting and magical world Rebecca Ross crafted, and loved every moment of it." -- Sue Lynn Tan, bestselling author of Daughter of the Moon Goddess Enter the isle of Cadence in this novel from...
Song so wild and blue : a life with the music of Joni Mitchell
Lisicky, Paul
Paper Book
From the celebrated novelist and memoirist, a gorgeous account of how Joni Mitchell's work has shaped his writing throughout his life. From the moment Paul Lisicky heard Joni Mitchell while growing up in New Jersey, he recognized she was that rarity among musicians--a talent whose...
Space opera
Valente, Catherynne M.
Paper Book
2019 HUGO AWARD FINALIST, BEST NOVEL The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's science fiction spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic musical contest...and the...
Stars and smoke
Lu, Marie
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times bestseller! He's a secret. She's an agent. This mission might just be impossible. A smoldering enemies-to-lovers novel about a global superstar and a hotshot young spy on a collision course with danger&...
A visit from the Goon Squad
Egan, Jennifer
CD
This fantastically inventive, intelligent, and fully realized exploration of music, art, and life is a must-listen. Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along...
What a Fool Believes: A Memoir (Large Print)
McDonald, Michael
Paper Book
Across a half-century of American music, Michael McDonald's voice defined an era of rock and R&B. A high school dropout from Missouri, Michael chased his dreams in 1970s California. As a rising session musician and backing vocalist, a series of encounters would send him to the heights of rock...

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