Summer Reads for Adults 2011

Explore the world of music at your library. In addition to these recommended books and DVDs, CPL is a source for music CDs. Find a list of recent arrivals and additional CDs in the online catalog.

Quicklinks: Nonfiction | Fiction | Fiction Written by Musicians | Fiction for Adults and Teens | Romance | Urban Fiction | Mystery/Thriller | Science Fiction/Fantasy | DVDs | Spanish Nonfiction | Spanish Fiction

Nonfiction

Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star’s Revolution for Peace
By Salman Ahmad with Robert Schroeder

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book By and For the Fanatics Among Us (With Bitchin’ Soundtrack)
By Steve Almond

Here Come the Regulars: How to Run a Record Label on a Shoestring Budget
By Ian Anderson

Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
By Julie Andrews

The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial and the Concert That Awakened America
By Raymond Arsenault

Don’t Stop Believin’: The Unofficial Guide to Glee
By Erin Balser and Suzanne Gardner

I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft
By LaShonda Katrice Barnett

The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard
By Peter Benjaminson

My Judy Garland Life
By Susie Boyt

Challenges: A Memoir of My Life in Opera
By Sarah Caldwell with Rebecca Matlock

Rocking Your Music Business: Run Your Music Business at Home and on the Road
By Simon Cann

And It Don’t Stop? The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
Edited by Raquel Cepeda

Chicago Folk: Images of the Sixties Music Scene: The Photographs of Raeburn Flerlage
By Ronald D. Cohen and Bob Reisman

The Rock & Roll Book of the Dead: The Fatal Journeys of Rock’s Seven Immortals
By David Comfort

Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic
Edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai

Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy’s Story of Survival, 1941-1946
By Greg Dawson

Beatles vs. Rolling Stones: Sound Opinions on the Great Rock ’n’ Roll Rivalry
By Jim De Rogatis

The Music Room: A Memoir
By Namita Devidayal

The Vinyl Countdown: The Album from Vinyl to iPod and Back Again
By Travis Elborough

The Way I Am
By Eminem

Keep the Faith
By Faith Evans with Aliya S. King

Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock
By Pete Fornatale

Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne
By James Gavin

City Kid: A Writer’s Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success
By Nelson George

Under Their Thumb: How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (And Lived to Tell About It)
By Bill German

Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business
By Danny Goldberg

Cat Power
By Elizabeth Goodman

Mr. Langshaw’s Square Piano: The Story of the First Pianos and How They Caused a Cultural Revolution
By Madeline Goold

The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats
By Grandmaster Flash with David Ritz

Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far
By Amy Grant

In Search of the Blues
By Marybeth Hamilton

Song Man: A Melodic Adventure, Or, My Single-Minded Approach to Songwriting
By Will Hodgkinson

The Girls’ Guide to Rocking: How to Start a Band, Book Gigs and Get Rolling to Rock Stardom
By Jessica Hopper

Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South
By Patrick Huber

I Am Potential: Eight Lessons on Living, Loving and Reaching Your Dreams
By Patrick Henry Hughes with Patrick John Hughes and Bryant Stamford

Moonwalk
By Michael Jackson

Living Opera
By Joshua Jampol

Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People
By Barney Josephson with Terry Trilling-Josephson

Rock On
By Dan Kennedy

Accordion Dreams: A Journey Into Cajun and Creole Music
By Blair Kilpatrick

Elvis: My Best Man: Radio Days, Rock ’n’ Roll Nights and My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley
By George Klein with Chuck Crisafulli

Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in North Dakota
By Chuck Klosterman

Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story
By Lang Lang

Mainly On Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story and Other Musicals
By Arthur Laurents

A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs
By David Lehman

Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography
By Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller with David Ritz

Bands on the Road: The Tour Sketchbook
Compiled by Silke Leicher and Manuel Schreiner

Handel’s Bestiary: In Search of Animals in Handel’s Operas
By Donna Leon

The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship and the Redemptive Power of Music
By Steve Lopez

Sounds of Chicago’s Lakefront: A Celebration of the Grant Park Music Festival
By Tony Macaluso, Julia S. Bachrach and Neal Samors

Between Wyomings
Written and survived by Ken Mansfield

Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis
Edited by Paul Maher, Jr. and Michael K. Dorr

Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life
By Wynton Marsalis with Geoffrey C. Ward

Mamarama: A Memoir of Sex, Kids and Rock ’n’ Roll
By Evelyn McDonnell

Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story
By Ali Colleen Neff

The Ballad of Blind Tom
By Deidre O’Connell

I Am Ozzy
By Ozzy Osbourne with Chris Ayres

Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider
By Tim Page

It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways and the Search for the Next American Music
By Amanda Petrusich

Don’t Stop Believin’: How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life
By Brian Raftery

Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory
By Mickey Rapkin

The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music
By Ben Ratliff

A Devil to Play: One Man’s Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra’s Most Difficult Instrument
By Jasper Rees

Signed, Sealed and Delivered: The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder
By Mark Ribowsky

Life
By Keith Richards

Bandalism: The Rock Group Survival Guide
By Julian Ridgway

Listen to This
By Alex Ross

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
By Alex Ross

A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
By Suze Rotolo

We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives
By Paul Shaffer with David Ritz

The Ninth: Beethoven and the Year 1824
By Harvey Sachs

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
By Oliver Sacks

Start and Run Your Own Record Label
By Daylle Deanna Schwartz

The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole and a Crew of About Fifty
By Wilfrid Sheed

The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
By Eric Siblin

Just Kids
By Patti Smith

Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times
By Ralph Stanley and Eddie Dean

For the Love of Music: Invitations to Listening
By Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe

Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man’s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
By Rob Sheffield

The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans
By Ned Sublette

The Pianist
By Wladyslaw Szpilman

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
By Terry Teachout

And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey
By Studs Terkel

Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives
Edited by Peter Terzian

What They’ll Never Tell You About the Music Business: The Myths, the Secrets, the Lies (And a Few Truths)
By Peter M. Thall

Hear No Evil: My Story of Innocence, Music and the Holy Ghost
By Matthew Paul Turner

Off the Record: The New Music Business Guide and Workbook for the Digital World
By Larry E. Wacholtz

When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin
By Mick Wall

Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories
By David Whiteis

The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger
By Alec Wilkinson

The Musician’s Guide to Licensing Music: How to Get Your Music into Film, TV, Advertising, Digital Media and Beyond
By Darren Wilsey with Daylle Deanna Schwartz

To Everything There Is a Season: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song
By Allan Winkler

Fiction

Nashville Chrome
By Rick Bass

An Unfinished Score
By Elise Blackwell

A Visit from the Goon Squad
By Jennifer Egan

Extraordinary Renditions
By Andrew Ervin

Give + Take
By Stona Fitch

The Cellist of Sarajevo
By Steven Galloway

Please Step Back
By Ben Greenman

The Music Teacher
By Barbara Hall

Rookery Blues
By Jon Hassler

Simple Habana Melody
By Oscar Hijuelos

High Fidelity
By Nick Hornby

Juliet, Naked
By Nick Hornby

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
By Kazuo Ishiguro

Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance
By Lloyd Jones

The Piano Teacher
By Janice Lee

On the Many Deaths of Amanda Palmer: And the Many Crimes of Tobias James
By Rohan Kriwaczek

Bass Cathedral
By Nathaniel Mackey

American Music
By Jane Mendelsohn

The Gold Bug Variations
By Richard Powers

In the Time of Our Singing
By Richard Powers

Vivaldi’s Virgins
By Barbara Quick

Rock Bottom: A Novel
By Michael Shilling

Winners and Losers
By Linda Sole

The Alternative Hero
By Tim Thornton

Last Night at Chateau Marmont
By Lauren Weisberger

Fiction Written by Musicians

Hello Sunshine
By Ryan Adams

A Salty Piece of Land
By Jimmy Buffett

The Death of Bunny Munro
By Nick Cave

Beautiful Losers
By Leonard Cohen

Guitar and a Pen: Stories by Country Music’s Greatest Songwriters
By Robert Hicks

By George
By Wesley Stace

Lean on Pete
By Will Vlautin

Fiction for Adults and Teens

Debbie Harry Sings in French
By Megan Brothers

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
By Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Will Grayson, Will Grayson
By John Green and David Levithan

Lemonade Mouth
By Mark Peter Hughes

Born to Rock
By Gordon Korman

Harlem Hustle
By Janet McDonald

King Dork
By Frank Portman

Beautiful City of the Dead
By Leander Watts

After Tupac and D Foster
By Jacqueline Woodson

Genre Fiction

Romance

Mozart’s Ghost
By Julia Cameron

The Four Seasons: A Novel of Vivaldi’s Venice
By Laurel Corona

Back to the Bedroom
By Janet Evanovich

Dark Melody
By Christine Feehan

Dark Symphony
By Christine Feehan

An Unexpected Song
By Iris Johansen

The Things We Do For Love
By Xavier Knight

Sweet Talk
By Susan Mallery

It Had to Be You
By Francis Ray

Public Secrets
By Nora Roberts

The Perfect Soldier
By Karen Whiddon

Urban Fiction

Caught Up in the Drama
By ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Rainbow’s End
By Gigi Gunn

When the Lights Go Down
By Rachel Skerritt

Ghetto Superstar
By Nikki Turner

Street Chronicles: Backstage
By Nikki Turner

Needle in a Haystack
By Marissa Wilson

Mystery/Thriller

Paganini’s Ghost
By Paul Adam

Murder in the Hamptons
By Danita Carter

The Blue Door
By David Fulmer

Rock and Roll Never Forgets
By Deborah Grabien

Cry to Heaven
By Anne Rice

The Devil in Music
By Kate Ross

The Singer
By Cathi Unsworth

Science Fiction/Fantasy

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
By Douglas Adams

The Gutbucket Quest
By Anthony Piers

Soul Music
By Terry Pratchett

Bone Music
By Alan Rodgers

Peter & Max: A Fables Novel
By Bill Willingham

DVDs

Find additional DVDs on music and musicians.

8 Mile
Directed by Curtis Hanson
2002

Air Guitar Nation
Directed by Alexandra Lipsitz
2007

Can’t You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life and Music of Robert Johnson
Directed by Peter W. Meyer
1998

Copyright Criminals
Directed by Benjamin Franzen
2010

Honeydripper
Directed by John Sayles
2008

It Might Get Loud
Directed by Davis Guggenheim
2009

Notorious
Directed by George Tillman, Jr.
2009

P-Star Rising
Directed by Gabriel Noble
2010

Passing Strange
Directed by Spike Lee
2010

Rock School
Directed by Don Argott
2005

School of Rock
Directed by Richard Linklater
2003

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Directed by Liam Lynch
2007

Spanish Nonfiction

Música cubana : los últimos 50 años
de Tony Evora

Narcocorrido : un viaje al mundo de la música de las drogas, armas y guerrilleros
de Elijah Wald ; traducción de Deborah R. Huacuja

Esta es mi vida
de José José

La música étnica : un viaje por las músicas del mundo
de José María García Martínez

Romper una canción
de Benjamín Prado

Por amor a la música
de Kike Santander

Spanish Fiction

Musica del Corazon
de Lindsay Armstrong

Simplemente inolvidable
de Mary Balogh; traducción de Amelia Brito Astorga

Le gusta la música, le gusta bailar
de Mary Higgins Clark; traducción de Sara Alonso Gómez

Mujeres engañadas
de Beatriz Espejo, Ethel Krauze, coordinadoras

Fatamorgana de amor con banda de música
de Hernán Rivera Letelier

Memoria de mis putas tristes
de Gabriel García Márquez

Palomos
de Pedro Antonio Valdez