Artist Biographies and Memoirs

1. Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan

2. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

3. Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

4. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

5. Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

6. Just Kids by Patti Smith

7. Life by Keith Richards

8. I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir by Brian Wilson

9. Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield

10. You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke by Daniel J. Wolff

11. Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine by Holly Gleason

12. When I Grow Up by Juliana Hatfield

13. Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story by Roger Daltrey

14. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by Warren Zanes

Historical and Analytical Accounts

1. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh

2. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé by Bob Stanley

3. Switched On Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters by Nate Sloan

4. Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop by Marc Myers

5. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad

6. Rip it Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds

7. Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop by Bob Stanley

8. But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups by Laura Flam

9. Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time by Ray Padgett

10. Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America by David Hepworth

11. The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley

12. Different for Girls: A Girl's Own True-life Adventures in Pop by Louise Wener

13. Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald

14. Cut 'n' Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music by Dick Hebdige

15. Subculture: The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige

16. Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 by Tim Lawrence

17. Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus

18. Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson

19. Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds

20. Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us by Steve Almond

21. How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music by Elijah Wald

22. Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang

23. The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook

24. Dialectic of Pop by Agnès Gayraud

25. Anatomy of 55 More Songs by Marc Myers

Specific Themes or Niche Studies

1. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

2. HERE LIES LOVE: A SONG CYCLE ABOUT IMELDA MARCOS & ESTRELLA CUMPAS by David Byrne/Fatboy Slim

3. Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia by Tobias Becker

4. B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop by Andy Cowan

5. The Last Decade of Cinema 25 films from the nineties by Scott Ryan

6. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s by Rob Harvilla

7. Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance by Tom Bryant

8. Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and The Smiths by Simon Goddard

9. Songs That Saved Your Life: The Art of The Smiths 1982-87 by Simon Goddard

10. Stupid and Contagious by Caprice Crane