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Omaha Reading Challenge 2023: Read a book about or featuring music

The Omaha Public Library (OPL) Reading Challenge is back! OPL staff have created a series of reading challenges to push you outside of your reading comfort zone and into new literary realms. This list contains titles about or featuring music. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

25 items

  • Sellout

    the Major-label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007)

    Ozzi, Dan,
    BookBoston : Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] — 781.6609 Ozzi 2021
  • This Is What It Sounds Like

    What the Music You Love Says About You

    Rogers, Susan, 1956-
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022] — 781.11 Rogers 2022
  • Shine Bright

    a Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

    Smith, Danyel,
    BookNew York : Roc Lit 101, One World, [2022] — 782.4216 Smith 2022
  • BookNew York : Riverhead Books, 2018. — FICTION Gabel 2018
  • Burning Down the Haus

    Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Mohr, Tim,
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2018] — 306.4842 Mohr 2018
  • BookPhiladelphia : Quirk books, [2018] — FICTION Hendrix 2018
  • Our Band Could Be Your Life

    Scenes From the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

    Azerrad, Michael,
    BookBoston : Little, Brown, 2002, ©2001. — 784.54 Azerrad 2002
  • Love Goes to Buildings on Fire

    Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

    Hermes, Will
    BookNew York : Faber and Faber, 2012. — 781.64 Hermes 2012
  • What Are You Doing Here?

    a Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

    Dawes, Laina,
    BookBrooklyn, N.Y. : Bazillion Points, 2012. — 781.66 Dawes 2012
  • BookNew York : Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017] — 780.9 Byrne 2017
  • The Folk Singers and the Bureau

    the FBI, the Folk Artists, and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956

    Leonard, Aaron J.,
    BookLondon [England] : published by Repeater Books, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd, 2020. — 973.9 Leonard 2020
  • BookNew York : Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, [2019] — B Prince 2019
  • Dvořák's Prophecy

    and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music

    Horowitz, Joseph, 1948-
    BookNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022] — 780.973 Horowitz 2022
  • Dangerous Melodies

    Classical Music in America From the Great War Through the Cold War

    Rosenberg, Jonathan, 1958-
    BookNew York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020] — 780.973 Rosenber 2020
  • Strange Stars

    David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-fi Exploded

    Heller, Jason,
    BookBrooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing, [2018] — 781.6609 Heller 2018
  • BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — 306.48425 English 2022