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You’re History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Music

Teenage Daydream: We are the Girls Who Play in a Band

Star of the Show: My Life on Stage

The Siren and the Star

Bread of Angels: A Memoir

Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s

It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin

Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing

More Musical Women Throughout History: More Women Who Fought For Music

A Book of Days

Seventh Heaven

Eternally Electric: The Message in My Music

Hot Wax

Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs

Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop

Sonita: Daughters for Sale

Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats

Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O’Connor Means to Us

I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records

Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora

Gee Vaucher: Beyond punk, feminism and the avant-garde

The Fire Concerto

The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020

Hit Girls: Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop’s Shiniest Decade

Alanis: Thirty Years of Jagged Little Pill

I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher

Songs of No Provenance

Just For One Day: Adventures in Britpop

The Lost Voice: A Memoir

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and the Journey of a Generation

Be My Baby: A Memoir

Dearly Beloved: Prince, Spirituality, and This Thing Called Life

When I Grow up: A Memoir

Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine

In My Remaining Years

Rihanna Is Life: A Superfan’s Guide to All Things We Love about Rihanna

I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan

Better Days

Deep Cuts

Styles of Joy: A Feel-Good Framework for Rediscovering Joy (with a Twist!)

Why Alanis Morissette Matters

Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning (On Seeing)

Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of The Bangles

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie

Fearless and Free: A Memoir

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You

Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars

Pretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ’90s

Wild West Village: Not a Memoir—Unless I Win an Oscar, Die Tragically, or Score a Country #1

Tori Amos’s Boys for Pele

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

Bea Palya’s I’ll Be Your Plaything

American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous

Morning Glory On The Vine: Early Songs and Drawings

Joni on Joni: Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell

Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrack from Twin Peaks

Girls Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution

A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

A Thousand Threads

Dusty Springfield: Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography

Da Baddest

Girls Will Be Boys: Women Report on Rock

Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

Riot Woman: Using Feminist Values to Destroy the Patriarchy

Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out

We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music

My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Futur

Cher: The Memoir, Part One

Murder-a-Go-Go’s: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of The Go-Go’s

Women in Vinyl: The Art of Making Vinyl

Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth

Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny

In the Groove: The Vinyl Record and Turntable Revolution

Turn Your Pain Into Art

Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing

Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music

From Here to the Great Unknown

How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

The Lightning Bottles

Countermelodies: A Memoir in Sonata Form

Over the Influence

Wendy Carlos: A Biography

Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach

Health and Safety: A Breakdown

I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both

The Other Fab Four: The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain’s First Female Rock Band

Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

Honey

Black by Design: A 2-Tone Memoir

Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us

Earth to Moon

The Witch’s Daughter: My Mother, Her Magic, and the Madness that Bound Us

Studio Musician: Carol Kaye, 60s No. 1 Hit Bassist, Guitarist

The Singer Sisters

Diamond in the Rough: A Memoir

Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions

Why Labelle Matters

The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

Why Tammy Wynette Matters

The Ballad of Speedball Baby

She’s a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism

Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s

Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

Vintage Style: 25 Iconic Fashion Looks and How to Get Them

Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan

Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell

Why Solange Matters

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap

Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood

Piece by Piece

Confessions of a Rock N Roll Name Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon’s Last Interview

The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language?

Let Me Clear My Throat

Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

Listen to My Heart: Life, Love & Roxette

Up All Night: My Life and Times in Rock Radio

Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah

Time

Janis: Her Life and Music

Broken Horses

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children

Madonna: A Rebel Life

Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter

Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion

My Name Is Barbra

Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

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

We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock

The Woman in Me

Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

The People We Keep

Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

Girls Against God

Rememberings: Scenes from My Complicated Life

Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change

Maybe We’ll Make It

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters

Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind The Rolling Stones

Lipstick and Leather: On the Road With the World’s Most Notorious Rock Stars

Twist: An American Girl

August Blue

Vagablonde

I’m Not with the Band: A Writer’s Life Lost in Music

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City

I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

Mozart’s Sister

Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

Fire Rush

Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre

Cat Power: A Good Woman

Jennifer Juniper

Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame

Why We Sing

Appetite for Dysfunction: A Cautionary Tale

Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor

Music for Wartime

Natural Beauty: A Novel

This Bird Has Flown

Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World

Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir

Ghost Music

You Must Be This Happy to Enter

Wonderful Tonight

The New York Times Magazine – week of February 12, 2023

This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music

Re-sisters: Recordings of Cosey Fanni Tutti, Delia Derbyshire and Margery Kempe

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History

Why Patti Smith Matters

The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl

Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

Crying in H Mart

The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic

The Essential Ellen Willis

Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound

Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be

Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century

Loud

Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Girls They Write Songs About

I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

Dolly Parton: In Her Own Words

Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters (Musicians in Their Own Words)

It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll: Thirty Years Married to a Rolling Stone

It Takes Blood and Guts

I, Bificus

Modern Records, Maverick Methods: Technology and Process in Popular Music Record Production 1978-2000

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

The Meaning of Mariah Carey