The Book Sense Music Literature Bestseller List

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Based on four weeks of sales ended September 28, 2003, at hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

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The Book Sense Music Literature 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 Tour That Changed the World
Larry Kane, Running Press, $22.95, 0762415924
3. Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
Jimmy McDonough, Anchor, $16.95, 0679750967
4. Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey
Peter Guralnick (Ed.), Amistad, $27.95, 0060525444
5. I Hope You Dance
Mark D. Sanders, Rutledge Hill, $14.99, 1558538445
6. Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
Lester Bangs, Anchor, $15, 0375713670
7. The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
Gavin McInnes, Warner, $16.95, 0446692816
8. A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
Dennis McNally, Broadway, $18.95, 0767911865
9. Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road With the Grateful Dead
Steve Parish, St. Martin's Press, $25.95, 031230353X
10. Cash: The Autobiography
Johnny Cash, HarperSanFrancisco, $7.99, 0061013579
11. According to the Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones, Chronicle, $40, 0811840603
12. The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Tupac Shakur, S&S, $21, 0671028448
13. Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera
Johanna Fiedler, Anchor, $15.95, 1400032318
14. Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Reader
Michael Streisguth (Ed.), Da Capo, $16.95, 0306812258
15. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground 1981 - 1991
Michael Azerrad, Little Brown, $15.95, 0316787531
16. Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music
Anthony Ashton, Walker, $10, 0802714099
17. Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
Stuart Isacoff, Vintage, $13, 0375703306
18. Zen Guitar
Philip Toshio Sudo, S&S, $12, 068483877X
19. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Legs McNeil, Penguin, $16, 0140266909
20. The Facts of Life: And Other Dirty Jokes
Willie Nelson, Random House, $12.95, 0375758607
21. Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
Chuck Klosterman, Scribner, $14, 0743406567
22. Songcatchers: In Search of the World's Music
Mickey Hart, National Geographic, $30, 079224107X
23. Robert Johnson: Lost and Found
Barry Lee Pearson, Univ. of Illinois, $24.95, 025202835X
24. The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture
Bakari Kitwana, Basic Civitas, $14, 0465029795
25. Teach Yourself Visually: Guitar
MaranGraphics Development, Visual, $24.99, 0764525816
26. Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight From Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock
Richie Unterberger, Backbeat, $19.95, 0879307439
27. Bomb the Suburbs: Grafitti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
William Upski Wimsatt, Soft Skull, $12, 1887128964
28.

Martin Guitar Masterpieces: A Showcase of Artist's Edition, Limited Editions, and Custom Guitars
Dick Boak, Bulfinch, $40, 0821228358

29. Songwriter's Market: 1,700 Places to Market Your Songs
Ian Bessler (Ed.), Writers Digest, $24.99, 1582971889
30. Guitar: Music History Players
Richard Chapman, DK, $20, 078949700X
31. Guitar for Dummies
Mark Phillips, Jon Chappell, Wiley, $24.99, 076455106X
32. Danny Boy: The Legend of the Beloved Irish Ballad
Malachy McCourt, New American, $9.95, 0451208064
33. One Love: Life With Bob Marley & the Wailers
Lee Jaffe, Norton, $25, 0393323684
34. Bass Guitar for Dummies
Patrick Pfeiffer, Wiley, $24.99, 0764524879
35. This Business of Music: The Definitive Guide to the Music Industry
M. William Krasilovsky, Billboard, $29.95, 0823077284