The Book Sense Music Bestseller List

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Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense across the U.S. for the eight-week period ending September 4, 2005.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

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The Book Sense Music Bestseller List

1.

Chronicles: Volume One
Bob Dylan, S&S, $24, 0743228154

2.

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Chuck Klosterman, Scribner, $23, 0743264452

3.

Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
Toby Faber, Random House, $23.95, 0375508481

4.

Sinatra: The Life
Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan, Knopf, $26.95, 0375414002

5.

Bono: In Conversation With Michka Assayas
Michka Assayas, Riverhead, $23.95, 1573223093

6.

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
Thaddeus Carhart, Random House, $13.95, 0375758623

7.

Guitar: An American Life
Tim Brookes, Atlantic Monthly, $24, 0802117961

8.

Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
Greil Marcus, PublicAffairs, $25, 1586482548

9.

Dylan's Visions of Sin
Christopher Ricks, Ecco, $15.95, 0060599243

10.

From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens
50 Cent, MTV Books, $23, 0743486447

11.

Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd
Nick Mason, Chronicle, $29.95, 0811848248

12.

The Rock Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge
David Kamp, Steven Daly, Broadway, $12.95, 0767918738

13.

Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture
Thurston Moore (Ed.), Universe, $22.50, 0789311992

14.

Songbook
Nick Hornby, Riverhead, $13, 1573223565

15.

The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Motley Crue, Regan Books, $15.95, 0060989157

16.

The Mastery of Music: Ten Pathways to True Artistry
Barry Green, Broadway, $14.95, 0767911571

17.

The Wu-Tang Manual
The RZA, Riverhead, $16, 1594480184

18.

Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader
Mac Montandon (Ed.), Thunder's Mouth, $16.95, 1560256672

19.

Scar Tissue
Anthony Kiedis, Hyperion, $24.95, 1401301010

20.

Guitar for Dummies
Jon Chappell, Mark Phillips, Wiley, $24.99, 076455106X

21.

Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook
Annie Patterson (Ed.), Sing Out, $22.95, 1881322122

22.

The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memoir
Dave Van Ronk, with Elijah Wald, Da Capo, $26, 0306814072

23.

The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Tupac Shakur, S&S, $21, 0671028448

24.

Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
Chuck Klosterman, Scribner, $14, 0743406567

25.

With Billie
Julia Blackburn, Pantheon, $25, 0375406107

26.

Music Lust: Recommended Listening for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Nic Harcourt, Sasquatch, $16.95, 1570614377

27.

And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey
Studs Terkel, New Press, $25.95, 1595580034

28.

The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
Renee Fleming, Viking, $24.95, 0670033510

29.

Zen Guitar
Philip Toshio Sudo, S&S, $12, 068483877X

30.

Cash: The Autobiography
Johnny Cash, with Patrick Carr, HarperSanFrancisco, $7.99, 0061013579