Seeking Books About Women In Music

Gal’s Guide is building an independent women’s history library and is seeking works by women and about women. This month we have a list of books by and about women in music.

UPDATE: The Gal's Guide Library opened March 6, 2020.

Each link goes to our Amazon Smile Charity Wish List.

If you have these books and would like to donate used copies

Mail book donations to:
Gal’s Guide
c/o Nickel Plate Arts
107 S. 8th Street
Noblesville, IN 46060

Thank you!

Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyonce. Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl by Evelyn McDonnell

Rock-and-Roll Woman: The 50 Fiercest Female Rockers by Meredith Ochs

Aretha: The Queen of Soul―A Life in Photographs by Meredith Ochs

I, Tina: My Life Story by Tina Turner

GOT IT!! Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business by Dolly Parton

ELLA: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald by Geoffrey Mark

Reba: My Story by Reba McEntire

Will Survive: The Book by Gloria Gaynor

I Put A Spell On You: The Autobiography Of Nina Simone by Nina Simone

Love, Janis by Laura Joplin

Women of Motown: An Oral History by Susan Whitall

Still Woman Enough: A Memoir  by Loretta Lynn

The Woman I Am by Helen Reddy

Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth by John Szwed

Let’s Talk About Pep by Sandy Denton

Lisa Lopes: The Life of a Supernova by Nancy Krulik

Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from the Motown to the Modern by Julia Downes

Aaliyah Remembered by William Sutherland

A Natural Woman: A Memoir by Carole King

Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe