Punk

The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise

Craig O'Hara

Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984

Simon Reynolds

White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race

Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay

Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom

Pussy Riot

The Riot Grrrl Collection

Lisa Darms (Editor)

The Story of Crass

George Berger

Punk Is A Four-Letter Word

Ben Weasel

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

Sara Marcus

Love Songs

CRASS and Penny Rimbaud

Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture

David E. James

Absolutely Zippo!: A Fanzine's Anthology

Robert Burnett, Aaron Cometbus, Billie Joe Armstrong, Larry Livermore, and Robert Eggplant

Footnote

Boff Whalley

Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics

Gabriel Kuhn

American Hardcore: A Tribal History

Steven Blush and George Petros

Gang of Four's Entertainment!

Kevin J.H. Dettmar

ABC No Rio Dinero

Marc Miller and Alan W. Moore

Suicide: No Compromise

David Nobahkt

We are Devo!

Jade Dellinger and David Giffels

Dance of Days: Updated Edition: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital

Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins

The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980-1984

Ian Glasper

Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music

Nathan Nedorostek and Anthony Pappalardo

The Band Crime: Punk 77 Revisited: A Photographic Look at the Band Crime and Punk

James Stark

Stealing All Transmissions: A Secret History of the Clash

Randal Doane

Fucked Up + Photocopied: The Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement

Bryan Ray Turcotte

Linder: Frau/Objekt

Fabienne Dumont and Emmanuelle De L'Ecotais

Punk 45: the Singles Cover Art of Punk 1976-80

Jon Savage

Raymond Pettibon

Lynn Kost and Raymond Pettibon

Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980–1984

Ian Glasper

Talking Heads' Fear of Music (33 1/3)

Jonathan Lethem

The Ramones' Ramones

Nicholas Rombes

Patti Smith's Horses

Philip Shaw

Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present

Sytze Steenstra

Talk - Action = 0 (Talk Minus Action Equals Zero): An Illustrated History of D.O.A.

Joey Keithley and Greg Hetson

Positive Force: More Than a Witness: 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action

Robin Bell

Trapped in a Scene: UK Hardcore 1985-1989: Frontline Reports from the Hardcore Punk Underground

Ian Glasper

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991

Michael Azerrad

Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables: the Early Years

Alex Ogg

The Best of Punk Magazine

John Holmstrom

Punk Rock: An Oral History

John Robb and Lars Fredriksen

Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

Alice Bag

Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag

Stevie Chick

Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day

Silke Tudor

Strangled: Identity, Status, Structure and The Stranglers

Phil Knight

I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography

Richard Hell

Gods of the Hammer: The Teenage Head Story

Geoff Pevere

The England's Dreaming Tapes

Jon Savage

Destroy All Movies!!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film

Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly

Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side

Rayya Elias

In The Seventies: Adventures in the Counterculture

Barry Miles

David Bowie Black Book

Barry Miles and Chris Charlesworth

Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews. Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds

Girl in a Band: A Memoir

Kim Gordon

Clothes Music Boys

Viv Albertine

Kim Gordon: Is It My Body? Selected Texts

Branden Wayne Joseph and Kim Gordon

Let Fury Have the Hour: Joe Strummer, Punk, and the Movement that Shook the World

Antonino D'Ambrosio

Hard Art: DC 1979

Lucian Perkins

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

Masha Gessen

Legends of Punk: Photos from the Vault

Rikki Ercoli

Punk Press: Rebel Rock in the Underground Press 1968-1980

Vincent Bernière and Mariel Primois

Dreadnaught: King of Afropunk

D. H. Peligro and William Knoedelseder

From CBGB to the Roundhouse: Music Venues Through the Years

Tim Burrows

See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody

Bob Mould

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir

Carrie Brownstein

Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Michael Stewart Foley

I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir

Mickey Leigh and Legs McNeil

Recombo DNA: The Story of Devo, or How the '60s Became the '80s

Kevin C. Smith

Beyond the Music: How Punks Are Saving the World With DIY Ethics, Skills, & Values

Joe Biel

Anger Is an Energy: A Life Uncensored

John Lydon

Joy Devotion: The Importance of Ian Curtis and Fan Culture

Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label

Alan McGee

Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever

Tom Neely

Going Underground: American Punk

George Hurchalla

NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990

Tony Rettman

No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes: An Oral History of the Legendary City Gardens

Amy Yates Wuelfing and Steven DiLodovico

MDC - Memoir from a Damaged Civilization: Stories of Punk, Fear, and Redemption

Dave Dictor

The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar

Franz Nicolay

Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996

Andrew Earles

Slash: A History of the Legendary L.A. Punk Magazine: 1977-1980

Brian Roettinger (editor)

Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge

Clinton Heylin

Straight Edge: Clean-Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, And Social Change

Ross Haenfler

Schism: New York Hardcore Fanzine

John Porcell, Alex Brown, and Chris Wrenn

Europunk: The Visual Culture of Punk in Europe (1976-1980)

Eric De Chassey (editor) and Jon Savage (editor)

Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution in Ethics, Politics, Spirit, and Sound

Brian Peterson

Spoke: Anecdotes and Images from the Documentary Film Salad Days: a Decade of Punk in Washington, DC, '80-'90

Scott Crawford

We Owe You Nothing: Expanded Edition: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews (Punk Planet Books)

Daniel Sinker

Thou Shalt Not Talk about the White Boys' Club: Challenging the Unwritten Rules of Punk

Hoax

The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club

Peter Hook

Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures

Chris Ott

Death to Trad Rock

John Robb

Cinderella's Big Score : Women of the Punk and Indie Underground (Live Girls)

Maria Raha

I, Shithead : A Life in Punk

Joe Keithley and Jack Rabid

Crass Reflections

Alastair Gordon (Author)

Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk

John Doe and Tom DeSavia

We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene

Stacy Russo

My First Time: A Collection of First Punk Show Stories

Chris Duncan

Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83

Tesco Vee, Dave Stimson, and Steve Miller

Untypical Girls: A Visual Survey of Women in Independent Rock

Sam Knee

My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory

Roger Miret

No More Heroes: A Complete History of UK Punk from 1976 to 1980

Alex Ogg

The Year's Work in the Punk Bookshelf, Or, Lusty Scripts

Brian James Schill

Fix My Head

Cristy C. Road and Mimi Thi Nguyen

Keep Your Eyes Open: The Fugazi Photographs of Glen E. Friedman

Glen E. Friedman and Ian F. Svenonius

From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry

Justin Pearson

The Race to Zero: A Collection of Words from 1994 to 2018

Justin Pearson

Straight Edge: A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History

Tony Rettman

Ripped, Torn and Cut: Pop, Politics and Punk Fanzines from 1976

Keith Gildart

Penny Rimbaud: Of Crass

Penny Rimbaud and V. Vale

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

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