Drowned in Sound Library

By Drowned in Sound

Drowned in Sound Library

By Drowned in Sound

A selection of books recommended by Drowned in Sound founder Sean Adams.

Now What?: On a Mission to Fix Broken Britain

Carol Vorderman

£22.00 £20.90

I get a little shoutout in Carol's book.

The Nineties: When Surface Was Depth

Michael Bracewell

£7.99

Fascinating read about the pre-internet music era

Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present

JR Moores

£15.99 £15.19

Written by DiS and Quietus contributor JR Moores

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground

Michael Azerrad

£17.99 £17.09

The DIY music bible

I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music

Sylvia Patterson

£10.99 £10.44

Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: A modern-day interpretation of a finance classic

Tim Phillips

£9.99

Great Jones Street

Don DeLillo

£9.99 £9.49

One of the greatest opening pages of any novel

This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

Various

£20.00 £19.00

The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

Jude Rogers

£16.99

Best Music Writing 2011

Daphne Carr and Alex Ross

£16.99 £16.14

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Adrienne Maree Brown

£12.50 £11.87

England's Dreaming

Jon Savage

£12.99 £12.34

The Pitchfork 500:Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to Present

Plagenhoef and Schneider

£10.99

Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984

Simon Reynolds

£14.99 £14.24

A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings Of Richard Meltzer

Richard Meltzer

£24.99 £23.74

The New Journalism

Tom Wolfe

£14.99 £14.24

You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto

Jaron Lanier

£10.99 £10.44

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

Lester Bangs

£10.99 £10.44

The Dark Stuff

Nick Kent

£6.99 £6.64

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Third Edition)

Sherry Turkle

£14.99 £14.24

The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories

Frank (Columbia University) Rose

£14.99

Curation: The power of selection in a world of excess

Michael Bhaskar

£10.99 £10.44

How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief

Stephen Witt

£12.99 £12.34

Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters

Rebecca (Y) Solnit

£12.99 £12.34