This is a listing of the books I’ve read since starting this blog in the summer of 2010. For my own memory as much as anything else. Believe it or not, they’re not all about music.
Midge Ure: If I Was
Rob Sheffield: Talking To Girls About Duran Duran
Zöe Street Howe: Typical Girls – The Story of The Slits
Chaim Potok: My Name is Asher Lev
Nick Mason: Inside Out – A Personal Story Of Pink Floyd
Mark Blake: Comfortably Numb – The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd
Edward Tufte: Envisioning Information
Edward Tufte: The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information [2nd. ed.]
Kim ‘Howard’ Johnson: The Funniest One In The Room – The Lives & Legends of Del Close
Keith Richards with James Fox: Life
David P. Szatmary: Rockin’ In Time – A Social History Of Rock and Roll
John Waters: Role Models
John and Gary Walker: The Walker Brothers – No Regrets
Simon Reynolds: Totally Wired – Postpunk Interviews And Overviews
Allan Brown: Nileism – The Blue Nile Story
Jon Ronson: The Psychopath Test – A Journey Through The Madness Industry
Bill Drummond + Jimmy Cauty: The Manual – How To Have A Number 1 The Easy Way
Simon Reynolds: Retromania – Pop Culture’s Addiction To Its Own Past
Albert Brooks: 2030 – The Real Story Of What Happens To America
Drew Freidman – Old Jewish Comedians
Ellen Willis: Out of the Vinyl Deeps – Ellen Willis on Rock Music
Liz Langley: Crazy Little Thing – Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad
Ian Hunter: Diary Of A Rock Star
Ken Scott + Bobby Owsinski: Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust – Off-the-record with The Beatles, Bowie, Elton, and so much more
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood: Payback – Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
John Taylor with Tom Sykes: In The Pleasure Groove – Love, Death + Duran Duran
Pete Townshend: Who I Am
Richard Barone: Frontman – Surviving The Rock Star Myth
Sylvie Simmons: I’m Your Man – The Life Of Leonard Cohen
Johnny Waller: Sweet Dreams – The Definitive Biography [Eurythmics]
Tavis Smiley + Cornel West: The Rich + The Rest Of Us – A Poverty Manifesto
Jean-Dominique Bauby: The Diving Bell + The Butterfly – A Memoir Of Life In Death
Dave Thompson: Number One Songs In Heaven – Sparks
Christopher Scoates, Brian Eno, Roy Ascott + Steve Dietz: Brian Eno Visual Music
Robert Hilburn: Johnny Cash – The Life
Nile Rodgers: Le Freak
John Waters: Carsick
Guy Pratt: My Bass And Other Animals
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack Of My Life
<insert 2 year break where no reading took place>
Nicholas Pegg: The Complete David Bowie [2016 Ed.]
Ericka Blount Danois: Love, Peace, and Soul: Behind the Scenes of America’s Favorite Dance Show Soul Train: Classic Moments
Bettye Kronstad: Perfect Day – An Intimate Portrait of Life With Lou Reed
Matteo Torcinovich: Outside The Lines – Lost Photographs of Punk And New Wave’s Most Iconic Albums
Grace Jones [Paul Morley]: I’ll Never Write My Memoirs
Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow
Victoria Broackes + Geoffrey Marsh: David Bowie Is
DEVO: DEVO Unmasked/DEVO The Brand
Robin DiAngelo: White Fragility – Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Eric Idle: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life – A Sortabiography
Richard Houghton: OMD – Pretending To See the Future
David Richards: ABC The Annotated Discography
Anthony Reynolds: JAPAN – A Foreign Place [the biography 1974-1984]
Ted Gioia: Music – A Subversive History
Clifford Slapper: Bowie’s Piano Man
Stephen Shafer: The Duff Guide To 2-Tone
Richard Houghton: Simple Minds – Heart of the Crowd, A Fan History
Michael Diamond + Adam Horowitz: Beastie Boys Book
Luke James: Stairway To Nowhere
Neal Karlen: This Thing Called Life
Ian Birch: Cristina
Trevor Horn: Adventures In Modern Recording
![REVO Remastering: Spandau Ballet – Canon boxed set [REVO 045]](https://postpunkmonk.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/spandau-ballet-canonbsoga.jpg?resize=200%2C200)
Post-Punk Monk 