The Book Sense Music Bestseller List -- From Porter to Punk

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Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense across the U.S. for the four-week period ending September 12, 2004.

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

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The Book Sense Music Bestseller List
1. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
Thaddeus Carhart, Random House, $13.95, 0375758623
2. Ticket to Ride: Inside the Beatles' 1964 & 1965 Tours That Changed the World (With Audio CD)
Larry Kane, Penguin, $14, 014303426X
3. Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend
Stephen Davis, Gotham, $27.50, 1592400647
4. Dylan's Visions of Sin
Christopher Ricks, Ecco, $26.95, 0060599235
5. Wilco: Learning How to Die
Greg Kot, Broadway, $14, 0767915585
6. Songbook
Nick Hornby, Riverhead, $13, 1573223565
7. Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Song Book
Peter Blood (Ed.), Sing Out Publications, $17.95, 0962670472
8. Cole Porter: A Biography
William McBrien, Vintage, $15, 0679727922
9. The New Complete Guitarist
Richard Chapman, DK, $20, 0789497018
10. So What!: The Good, the Mad, and the Ugly
Metallica, Steffan Chirazi, Broadway, $29.95, 0767918819
11. Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader
Hank Bordowitz (Ed.), Da Capo, $17.95, 0306813408
12. Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music
Anthony Ashton, Walker, $10, 0802714099
13. Younger Than That Now: The Collected Interviews With Bob Dylan
Jim Ellison (Ed.), Thunder's Mouth, $16.95, 1560255900
14. Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf
James Segrest, Mark Hoffman, Pantheon, $26.95, 0375422463
15. Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses
R. Gary Patterson, Fireside, $14, 0743244230
16. Duende: A Journey Into the Heart of Flamenco
Jason Webster, Broadway, $14, 0767911679
17. Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
Jimmy McDonough, Anchor, $16.95, 0679750967
18. Elvis Presley: The Man, the Life, the Legend
Pamela Clarke Keogh, Atria, $35, 0743456033
19. The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Tupac Shakur, S&S, $21, 0671028448
20. Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times
Neil Peart, ECW Press, $19.95, 1550226665
21. The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band and Their Music
The Mockingbird Foundation, Backbeat Books, $24.95, 0879307994
22. When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence
Connie Bruck, Random House, $16.95, 0812972171
23. The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
Gavin McInnes, Warner, $16.95, 0446692816
24. Cash: The Autobiography
Johnny Cash, HarperSanFrancisco, $7.99, 0061013579
25. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Legs McNeil, Penguin, $16, 0140266909
26. All You Need to Know About the Music Business - 5th Edition
Donald S. Passman, S&S, $30, 0743246373
27. Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip Hop Planet
Patrick Neate, Riverhead, $14, 1594480125
28.

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

29. Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo
Andy Greenwald, St. Martin's, $14.95, 0312308639
30. Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
Elijah Wald, Amistad, $24.95, 0060524235