Local musicians playing in the Garage Bands in the Garage series recommend their favorite books and CDs
| Title | Author | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
| Band of Brothers | Stephen Ambrose | 940.542 A |
| Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 | Michael Azerrad | 781.66 A |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach | FIC BACH |
| Rule of the Bone | Russell Banks | FIC BANKS |
| Sixty Stories | Donald Barthelme | FIC BARTHELME |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | MYS BROWN |
| Ham on Rye | Charles Bukowski | FIC BUKOWSKI |
| Junky | William S. Burroughs | FIC BUR |
| Disgrace | J.M. Coetzee | FIC COE |
| Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business | Frederic Dannen | 388.4 D |
| Hammer of the Gods | Stephen Davis | 784.54 L |
| Guns Germs and Steel | Jared Diamond | 303.4 D |
| The Edge of the Unknown | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | FIC DOYLE |
| Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics | Jim Derogatis and Carmel Carrillo (ed.) | 781.66 D |
| Geek Love | Katherine Dunn | FIC DUNN |
| Bound for Glory | Woody Guthrie | 784.4 G |
| Hell Bent for Leather: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict | Seb Hunter | 92 H |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | FIC HUXLEY |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | FIC GAR |
| The Tin Drum | Gunter Grass | FIC GRASS |
| The Heart of the Matter | Graham Greene | FIC GREEN |
| The Odyssey | Homer | 883 H |
| O Albany | William Kennedy | 974.743 K |
| Ferdinand | Munro Leaf | E LEAF |
| Always Coming Home | Ursula K. LeGuin | SF LEGUIN |
| 'Tis | Frank McCourt | 92 MCCOURT |
| The Bird Artist | Howard Norman | FIC NORMAN |
| The Things They Carried | Tim O'Brien | FIC OBRIEN |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | FIC PLATH |
| The Vampire Chronicles | Anne Rice | HOR RICE |
| Letters To A Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke | 92 R RILKE |
| Jitterbug Perfume | Tom Robbins | FIC ROBBINS |
| Fool on the Hill | Matt Ruff | FIC RUFF |
| The Lorax | Dr. Seuss | E SEUSS |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck | FIC STEINBECK |
| Rats | Robert Sullivan | 599.352 S |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | 973.92 T |
| Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | FIC VONNEGUT |
| Player Piano | Kurt Vonnegut | FIC VONNEGUT |
| Title | Author | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic Writing | Ataxia | CD POPULAR A |
| Rubber Soul | Beatles | CD POPULAR B |
| Safe as Milk | Captain Beefheart | CD POPULAR C |
| Armchair Apocrypha | Andrew Bird | CD POPULAR B |
| Magic Potion | Black Keys | CD POPULAR B |
| Ease Down The Road | Bonnie Prince Billy | CD POPULAR B |
| Big Red Letter Day | Buffalo Tom | CD POPULAR B |
| Crooked Fingers | Crooked Fingers | CD POPULAR C |
| In a Silent Way | Miles Davis | CD JAZZ D |
| The Runners Four | Deerhoof | CD POPULAR D |
| Popsicle | Diamond Nights | CD POPULAR D |
| Pink Moon | Nick Drake | CD POPULAR D |
| New Morning | Bob Dylan | CD POPULAR D |
| You Are Free | Cat Power | CD POPULAR C |
| New Skin for the Old Ceremony | Leonard Cohen | CD POPULAR C |
| Bela Bartok: The Six String Quartets | Emerson String Quartet | CD CLASSICAL B |
| Scar | Joe Henry | CD POPULAR H |
| Greatest Hits | Billy Holiday | CD JAZZ H |
| Sound of Silver | LCD Soundsystem | CD POPULAR L |
| Lola versus Powerman | Kinks | CD POPULAR K |
| Forbidden Places | Meat Puppets | CD POPULAR M |
| The Move | Move | CD POPULAR M |
| Sergio & Odair Assad Play Piazzolla | Assad Brothers | CD CLASSICAL P |
| Lullabies to Paralyze | Queens of the Stone Age | CD POPULAR Q |
| Raising Hell | Run DMC | CD POPULAR R |
| Either/Or | Elliott Smith | CD POPULAR S |
| The Queen is Dead | Smiths | CD POPULAR S |
| Angst in my Pants | Sparks | CD POPULAR S |
| Illinois | Sufjan Stevens | CD POPULAR S |
| Joe's Garage | Frank Zappa | CD POPULAR Z |
| Harvest | Neil Young | CD POPULAR Y |
| Odessey and Oracle | Zombies | CD POPULAR Z |
Thank you to Guiltless Cult, Scientific Maps, Wait Until Dusk, Ben Karis, Swamp Baby, and Ashley Pond for their recommendations.
Compiled by the APL Readers Services Department -- September 2007