Music and Musicians

 

Listed below are selected novels which fall into this category. This list is not comprehensive; rather, it is a list of some of the more popular titles within this category.

 

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Author

Title

Charlotte Vale Allen

Night Magic

V.C. Andrews

Honey

Piers Anthony

The Gutbucket Quest

Ace Atkins

Leavin' Trunk Blues
Dark End of the Street

Linda Barnes

Steel Guitar

Peter Beagle

Unicorn Sonata

Eileen Berger

Coin Conspiracy

Thomas Bernhard

The Loser

Peter Bowen

The Stick Game

Christopher Bram

The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes

Bruce Brooks

Midnight Hour Encores

James Lee Burke

Half of Paradise

Orson Scott Card

Songmaster

Paul Charles

I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass

Frank Conroy

Body & Soul

Jilly Cooper

Score!
Appassionata

Philip Craig

Vineyard Blues

Louis De Bernieres

Corelli's Mandolin

Mary Dickson

Maddy's Song

Carole Nelson Douglas

Cat in a Midnight Choir

Roddy Doyle

The Barrytown Trilogy

Andre Dubus

Bluesman

Louise Erdrich

The Master Butchers Singing Club

Timothy Findley

The Piano Man's Daughter

Fannie Flagg

Standing in the Rainbow

Ronald Frame

The Lantern Bearers

Clare Francis

Requiem

Carlos Fuentes

Inez

Janice Galloway

Clara

Steve Gannon

A Song for the Asking

John Gano

Death at the Opera

Elizabeth George

A Traitor to Memory

Barbara Gowdy

Mister Sandman

Batya Gur

Murder Duet: a Musical Case

Carolyn Haines

Crossed Bones

Jane Hamilton

Disobedience

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Grave Music

Jon Hassler

Rookery Blues

Gar Anthony Haywood

All the Lucky Ones are Dead

Robert Hellenga

Blues Lessons

Nat Hentoff

Jazz Country

Carl Hiassen

Basket Case

Oscar Hijuelos

A Simple Habana Melody (from when the world was good)
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Richard Hill

Riding Solo with the Golden Horde

Nick Hornby

High Fidelity

Nancy Huston

Prodigy: a Novella

Jon Jackson

Man With an Axe

H. Paul Jeffers

Rubout at the Onyx

Karen Kijewski

Honky Tonk Kat

Cassandra King

The Sunday Wife

Daniel Klein

Blue Suede Clues
Kill Me Tender

Phyllis Knight

Shattered Rhythms

Pierre La Mure

Beyond Desire

J. D. Landis

Longing

David Leavitt

The Page Turner

Gaston Leroux

Phantom of the Opera

Jonathan Lowy

Elvis and Nixon

Nathaniel  Mackey

Atet, A.D.

Bernard MacLaverty

Grace Notes

Rett MacPherson

Killing Cousins

Andrei Makine

Music of a Life

Sally Mandel

Heart and Soul

George Martin

The Armageddon Rag

Paule Marshall

The Fisher King

Daniel Philippe Mason

The Piano Tuner

Paolo Maurensig

Canone Inverso

Evan Maxwell

Season of the Swan

John Maxwell

Point Fury

McCaffrey, Anne

Dragonsinger
The Masterharper of Pern
Space Opera

Sharyn McCrumb

The Songcatcher

McKillip, Patricia

Song for the Basilisk
Heir of Sea and Fire
The Riddle-Master of Hed

Annette Meyers

Murder: the Musical

Bill Moody

Looking for Chet Baker

Janet Neel

O Gentle Death

Ann Patchett

Bel Canto

Barbara Paul

A Cadenza for Caruso

Richard Powers

The Time of Our Singing

Terry Pratchett

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

E. Annie Proulx

Accordion Crimes

Anne Rice

Violin

John Ridley

Everybody Smokes in Hell

Salman Rushdie

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Vikram Seth

An Equal Music

Rose Tremain

Music and Silence

Katharine Weber

The Music Lesson

Barbara Wilson

The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonists

Tim Wynveen

Sweeter Life

 

 

 

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