Books about Music or Musicians

A list of possible reads for Books & Bites Bingo!

Updated September 1, 2023
Jessamine County Public Library Books and Bites
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Don't tell anybody the secrets I told you : a memoir
Williams, Lucinda
Paper Book
Daisy Jones & the Six : a novel
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
The storyteller : tales of life and music
Grohl, David
Paper Book
Nick & Norah's infinite playlist
Cohn, Rachel.
Paper Book
God save the queens : the essential history of women in hip-hop
Iandoli, Kathy
Paper Book
This is your brain on music : the science of a human obsession
Levitin, Daniel J.
Paper Book
The final revival of Opal & Nev : a novel
Walton, Dawnie
Paper Book
Just kids
Smith, Patti.
Paper Book
Sweet, soft, plenty rhythm : a novel
Warrell, Laura
Paper Book
Musical chairs : a novel
Poeppel, Amy
Paper Book
Maybe We'll Make It: A Memoir
Price, Margo
Paper Book
Jay-Z : made in America
Dyson, Michael Eric
Paper Book
Heart-shaped box
Hill, Joe.
Paper Book
They can't kill us until they kill us : essays
Willis-Abdurraqib, Hanif
Paper Book
Me
John, Elton
Paper Book
Changes : an oral history of Tupac Shakur
Pearce, Sheldon
Paper Book
Petty : the biography
Zanes, Warren.
Paper Book
The ballad of perilous graves
Jennings, Alex
Paper Book
We sold our souls
Hendrix, Grady
Paper Book
Queen of bebop : the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan
Hayes, Elaine M.
Paper Book
Louis Armstrong, master of modernism
Brothers, Thomas David.
Paper Book
The unsinkable Greta James : a novel
Smith, Jennifer E.
Paper Book
How music works
Byrne, David
Paper Book
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A visit from the Goon Squad
Egan, Jennifer.
Paper Book
The ensemble
Gabel, Aja
Paper Book
A lush and seething hell : two tales of cosmic horror
Jacobs, John Hornor
Paper Book

The 2nd story, My Heart Struck Sorrow, is about a librarian tracing the origins of a sinister musical recording from the Deep South.


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