Rock 'n' Roll Novels


This is one of my interests and I've compiled a running list of rock novels here.  These are novels that either centrally focus on rock music, or where rock plays a substantial role. If you know of any novel(s) missing from my list, I'd appreciate you letting me know.  Thanks!

--Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
--The Carpet Frogs: Music After Tomorrow by Alan Arlt
--Fuel-Injected Dreams by James Robert Baker
--Espedair Street by Iain Banks
--Anything Goes by Madison Smartt Bell
--The Primal Screamer by Nick Blinko
--Twisted Kicks by Tom Carson
--Kiss the Sky by Farai Chideya
--Tender by Mark Childress
--Baroque-a-nova by Kevin Chong
--Gimme More by Liza Cody
--The Dwarves of Death by Jonathan Coe
--The Rotters Club by Jonathan Coe
--I Am Still the Greatest Says Johnny Angelo by Nik Cohn
--Rock Dreams by Nik Cohn
--Twentieth-Century Dreams by Nik Cohn
--Rock Star by Jackie Collins
--Owen Noone and the Marauder by Douglas Cowie
--Unknown Pleasures by Jason Cowley
--Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
--The Commitments by Roddie Doyle
--Sick of Being Me by Sean Egan
--Spider Kiss (formerly Rockabilly) by Harlan Ellison
--Groupie by Jenny Fabian
--The Tale of Willy's Rats by Mick Farren
--the Flops cd w/ Sam Magavern short story
--Gary Benchley, Rock Star by Paul Ford
--The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano
--Idoru by William Gibson
--Rock Star's Rainbow by Kevin Glavin
--The Anomalies by Joey Goebel
--Our Noise by Jeff Gomez
--Jambeaux (1979) by Laurence Gonzalez
--Please Step Back by Ben Greenman
--Miss Misery by Andy Greenwald
--The Gangster of Love by Jessica Hagedorn
--Pike's Folly by Mike Heppner
--Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing by Abram Shalom Himelstein and Jamie Schweser
--High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
--The Lonely Planet Boy by Barney Hoskyns
--Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
--The Last Rock Star Book or: Liz Phair, a Rant by Camden Joy
--Graced Land by Laura Kalpakian
--The Angel Riots by Ibi Kaslik
--The Exes by Pagan Kennedy
--Pinball by Jerzy Kosinski
--From Blue to Black by Joel Lane
--Rock & Roll Is Dead by Steve Lawson
--Be Cool by Elmore Leonard
--You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
--Never Mind Nirvana by Mark Lindquist
--Espresso Bongo by Wolf Mankowitz
--The Armageddon Rag by George R. R. Martin
--Saturday by Ian McEwan
--The Last of the Savages by Jay McInerney
--Off the Record by David Menconi
--Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno
--We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon by Corey Mesler
--Garden State by Rick Moody
--Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
--Girl by Blake Nelson
--Rock Star Superstar by Blake Nelson
--The Band's Music from Big Pink by John Niven
--You Think You Hear by Matt O'Keefe
--Down and Out On Murder Mile by Tony O'Neill
--Don't Make Me Stop Now by Michael Parker
--If You Want Me To Stay by Michael Parker
--Platinum Logic by Tony Parsons
--It Feels So Good When I Stop by Joe Pernice
--The Smiths' Meat Is Murder by Joe Pernice
--The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta
--Never Mind the Pollacks by Neal Pollack
--King Dork by Frank Portman
--Love Songs and Lies by Libby Purves
--The Crying of Lot 49/Vineland/Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
--Whale Music by Paul Quarrington
--Northern Sky by Mark Radcliffe
--Cut My Hair by Jamie S. Rich
--A Sweetheart Deal by Ben Richards
--The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
--Powder by Kevin Sampson
--Glimpses by Lewis Shiner
--Say Goodbye: The Laurie Moss Story by Lewis Shiner
--The Rich Man's Tale by Scott Spencer
--Passing Through the Flame by Norman Spinrad
--Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
--How Soon Is Never? by Marc Spitz
--Too Much Too Late by Marc Spitz
--Johnny Cowslip by A.G. Street
--Hard Core Logo by Michael Turner
--The Singer by Cathi Unsworth
--Goodnight Steve McQueen by Louise Wener
--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) by Tom Wolfe