15  από τα καλύτερα μουσικά βιβλία που κυκλοφόρησαν μέσα στο 2013 σύμφωνα με το site του NME:

Morrissey- Autobiography

1.Morrissey- Autobiography


Bob Stanley- Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

2.Bob Stanley- Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.


Daniel Rachel - Isle of Noises

3.Daniel Rachel – Isle of Noises


4. Alan McGee - Creation Stories

4. Alan McGee – Creation Stories


5. QuestLove - Mo Meta Blues

5. QuestLove – Mo Meta Blues

6. Beck - Song Reader

6. Beck – Song Reader


7. Jane and Serge - A Family Album

7. Jane and Serge – A Family Album


8. Jazz Summers - Big Life

8. Jazz Summers – Big Life


9. William Todd Schultz - Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith

9. William Todd Schultz – Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith


10. Jimi Hendrix - Starting At Zero

10. Jimi Hendrix – Starting At Zero


11. Paul Brannigan - Birth School Metallica Death

11. Paul Brannigan – Birth School Metallica Death


12. Simon Spence - The Stone Roses: War and Peace

12. Simon Spence – The Stone Roses: War and Peace


13. Martin Ashton - Facing The Other Way: The History of 4AD

13. Martin Ashton – Facing The Other Way: The History of 4AD


14. Lloyd Bradley - Sounds Like London

14. Lloyd Bradley – Sounds Like London


15. Keith Cameron - Mudhoney: The Sound & Fury From Seattle

15. Keith Cameron – Mudhoney: The Sound & Fury From Seattle

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12 προτάσεις από τον Alex Ross, τον μουσικό κριτικό του περιοδικού The New Yorker :

1) Martin Geck –Richard Wagner: A Life in Music

2) Nigel Simeone – The Leonard Bernstein Letters

3)Annegret Fauser- Sounds of War: Music in the United States During World War II

4) Alan Rusbridger- Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible 

5) John Eliot Gardiner- Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

6)Paul Kildea- Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century

7) Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke – Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976, Volume 6

8) Stephen Walsh – Musorgsky and His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure 

9) David Trippett- Wagner’s Melodies: Aesthetics and Materialism in German Musical Identity

10) Beth E. Levy- Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West

11) Leslie Sprout- The Musical Legacy of Wartime France

12) Terry Teachout- Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington

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Οι 18 καλύτερες επιλογές από την εφημερίδα Indepedent :

1) Morrissey- Autobiography 

2) Tracey Thorn – Bedsit Disco Queen

3) Donald Fagen – Eminent Hipsters 

4) Kevin  Howlett- The Beatles: The BBC Archives: 1962- 1970

5) Leslie Woodhead- How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin: The Untold Story Of A Noisy Revolution

6) Mark Lewisohn- Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years

7) Bob Stanley- Yeah.Yeah. Yeah. 

8) Jon Wiederhorn, Katherine Turman – Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History Of Metal

9)  Jimi Hendrix- Starting At Zero 

10) Suggs- That Close 

11) William Todd Schulz- Torment Saint: The Life Of Elliott Smith

12)  Terry Teachout – Duke 

13) Mick Wall –  Symptom of the Universe 

14) Paul Rees – Robert Plant: A Life 

15) Paul Brannigan,Ian Winwood – Birth School Metallica Death 

16) Robert Hilburn- Johnny Cash: The Life

17) Brendan Jay Sullivan- Rivington Was Ours

18) John Higgs – The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds 

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