It can be fiction or non-fiction, but I love books focused on music/bands!! Some of my favorites are Daisy Jones and The Six, The Storyteller by Dave Grohl, and The Fifth Beatle graphic novel which I think shows I love all ends of the spectrum. So, if you have any good music based books, send them my way please!
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[Sweet Soul Music](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/890216) is really good. It’s basically a series of interviews and mini-biographies about important figures in the development of soul music. I read it while also listening to the songs they discussed, which definitely enhanced the experience!
High Fidelity
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
I am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne
Into the Void by Geezer Butler
Slash’s book was pretty good
Oasis: The interviews – compiled by Simon Halfon. Read it in January and it’s a contender for my top book of the year. An excellent read.
*The Art of Asking* by Amanda Palmer. If you listen to it as an audiobook, it includes some music as well.
Keith Richards autobiography, Life, is good.
A comic-fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett is called *Soul Music*, and it’s about what happens when rock and roll is introduced into an otherwise boilerplate fantasy realm. The Grim Reaper is a main character. There’s a lot of books in this series but imo *Soul Music* works well as a standalone, and it’s all about the power of rock.
There’s also the comedic sci-fi novel *Space Opera* by Catherynne M. Valente, which basically asks “What would happen if Eurovision was an intergalactic competition, and the planet Earth had to enter, with the stakes of failure being the complete annihilation of our species?”
Finally, this is not actually a book, but if you’ve never seen the movie *Once* with Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, do yourself a favor and watch it. (It’s fiction, not a documentary; it’s a true masterpiece.)
Joann Sfar, *Klezmer*. Graphic novel about Jewish musicians in Eastern Europe before WW1. Beautiful artwork in a very European style, nothing like the usual graphic novels with bug-eyed bigboobed Japanese schoolgirls.
Utopia Avenue, by David Mitchell, is absolutely wonderful. It’s like if Daisy Jones was pumped up from pop sugar to literary classic, and tied in with a deep interconnected universe that Mitchell has already created that is psychedelic and amazing.
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev
by Dawnie Walton
This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand