No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.
Meet Me In The Bathroom - Lizzy Goodman
Songs That Saved Your Life; The Art Of The Smiths 1982-7 - Simon Goddard
The Story Of Northern Soul - David Nowell
The Rest is Noise: Alex Ross
45: Bill Drummond
Yeah Yeah Yeah: Bob Stanley
Ok Computer guitar tab book
Ive got a really good book about music posters but cant remember what its called
High Fidelity
Nearly had this but decided that music wasn’t the main theme
Meet Me In The Bathroom - Lizzy Goodman
33 & 1/3 J Dilla’s Donuts - Jordan Ferguson
Espedair Street - Iain Banks
I was scraping the barrel at this point!
You and me both my friend!
Apparently I only like music books with long titles 
Simon Reynolds - Rip It Up & Start Again
Michael Azerrad - Our Band Could Be Your Life
Not sure what else counts as not being a biography/autobiography (haven’t got round to reading Meet Me in the Bathroom yet)
Bill Drummond - 17
David Byrne - How Music Works
Hanif Kureishi & Jon Savage (editors) - The Faber Book of Pop
Honourable mention for a great fiction book which is about, but not about, music: Magnus Mills - The Forensic Records Society.
Michael Azerrad - Our Band Could Be Your Life
Lizzy Goodman - Meet Me In The Bathroom
David Byrne - How Music Works
Been meaning to read this for ages. And OBCBYL actually.
Electric Eden – Rob Young
Organic Music Societies (Blank Forms)
Do Not Sell at Any Price: (The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78rpm Records) – Amanda Petrusich
Honourable Mention: Monolithic Undertow – In Search of Sonic Oblivion (Harry Sword) – very much loved the subject matter but didn’t love the writing.
Ah yeah this would be up there for me but is basically a memoir/autobiography no?
There’s way more to them than music but maybe Stuart Cosgrove’s three: Detroit '67, Memphis '68, Harlem '69.
I really need to read Our Band Could Be Your Life
My goodreads ‘Want to Read’ list is gonna get a top up this afternoon, tell you that for free.
Ben Watson - Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics Of Poodle Play
Iain Banks - Espedair Street
Various - Triptych: Three Studies Of Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life - Bill Brewster
Energy Flash - Simon Reynolds
Bass, Mids, Tops - Joe Muggs
Other highly recommended
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah - Bob Stanley
Exploding - Stan Cornyn
An Individual Note - Daphne Oram
Musicophilia - Oliver Sachs
Techno Rebels - Dan Sicko
Organic Music Societies - Blank Forms 06
And stuff like this too if it counts…
