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Author’s note:  I added links to Bookshop.org whenever possible so that you can purchase books of interest through independent booksellers, if you choose not to borrow the titles from your local library. : ) Happy reading!

Author(s) / Editor(s) Title Publisher Year
Ablaze, Karen This City Is Ablaze! The Story of A Post-Punk Popzine, 1984-1994 Mittens on Publishing 2013
Albertine, Viv Clothes, Cothes, Clothes: Music, Music, Music: Boys, Boys, Boys: A Memoir Thomas Dunne Books 2014
Bag, Alice Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage To Hollywood Stage, A Chicana Punk Story Feral House 2011
Barile, Nancy I’m Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-And-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion Bazillion Points LLC 2021
Bock, Jannika Riot Grrrl: A Feminist Re-Interpretation Of The Punk Narrative AV Akademikerverlag 2012
Brownstein, Carrie Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir Riverhead Books 2016
Buchanan, Rebekah Writing a Riot: Riot Grrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers 2018
Clegg, Mindy Punk Rock State University of New York Press 2022
Crasshole, Walter, Yony Leyser and Liam Warfield, editors Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History PM Press 2021
Darms, Lisa The Riot Grrrl Collection Feminist Press 2013
Duncombe, Stephen and Maxwell Tremblay, editors White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race Verso 2011
Ensminger, David, editor Punk Women: 40 Years of Musicians Who Built Punk Rock Microcosm Publishing 2021
Friedman, Jonathan The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music Routledge 2016
Furness, Zack, editor Punkademics: The Basement Show in the Ivory Tower Minor Compositions 2012
Gaar, Gillian G. She’s A Rebel: The History of Women In Rock & Roll Seal Press 2002
Geffen, Sasha Glitter Up The Dark: How Pop Music Broke The Binary University of Texas Press 2020
Germaine, Gogo Glory Guitars: Memoir of a 90s Teenage Punk Rock Grrrl University of Hell Press 2022
Gessen, Masha Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot Riverhead Books 2014
Goldman, Vivien Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot University of Texas Press 2019
Gonzales, Michele Cruz Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band PM Press 2016
Haenfler, Ross Subcultures: The Basics Routledge 2023
Hanna, Kathleen Rebel Girl: My Life As A Feminist Punk Ecco Press 2024
Heylin, Clinton From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock (Updated) Chicago Review Press 2005
Hopper, Jessica The First Collection Of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic MCD X Fsg Originals 2021
Hopper, Jessica The Girls’ Guide to Rocking: How to start a band, book gigs, and get rolling to rock stardom Workman Publishing 2009
Kane, Daniel “Do You Have a Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City Columbia University Press 2017
Kilgariff, Karen Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide Forge 2021
Lankford, Ronald Women Singer-Songwriters In Rock: A Populist Rebellion In The 1990s Scarecrow Press 1990
LaPointe, Sasha Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk Counterpoint 2023
Larsen, Sara The Riot Grrrl Thing Roof Books 2019
Leblanc, Lauraine Pretty in Punk: Girls’ Gender Resistance In A Boys’ Subculture Rutgers University Press 1999
Leonard, Marion Gender in the Music Industry: Rock, Discourse, and Girl Power Routledge 2007
Licona, Adela Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric State University of New York Press 2012
Lornell, Kip, editor, and Rasmussen, Anne, editor The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States (American Made Music Series) University Press of Mississippi 2016
Malkin, John Punk Revolution!: An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2023
Marcus, Sara Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution Harper Perennial 2010
McDonnell, Evelyn, editor Women Who Rock: Bessie To Beyoncé, Girl Groups To Riot Grrrl Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2018
Meltzer, Marisa Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution In Music Faber and Faber 2010
Miller, Christopher & Bryan Ray Turcotte Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement: 20th Anniversary Edition Gingko Press 2020
Mohr, Tim Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall Algonquin Books 2019
Monem, Nadine, editor Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now! Black Dog Publishing 2007
Nault, Curran Queercore: Queer Punk Media Subculture Routledge 2019
Negra, Diane, editor Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture Duke University Press 2007
Oakes, Kaya Slanted And Enchanted: The Evolution Of Indie Culture Henry Holt and Co. 2009
Patton, Raymond Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution Oxford University Press, USA 2018
Pearson, David Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States Oxford University Press, USA 2020
Piepmeier, Alison Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism New York University Press 2009
Prato, Greg Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music ECW Press 2009
Press, Joy and Reynolds, Simon The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock’N’Roll Harvard University Press 1996
Raha, Maria Cinderella’s Big Score: Women Of The Punk And Indie Underground Seal Press 2005
Reddington, Helen The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era Equinox Publishing 2012
Reini-Grandell, Lynette Wild Things: A Trans-Glam-Punk-Rock Love Story Minnesota Historical Society Press 2023
Robb, John Punk Rock: An Oral History PM Press 2012
Rossi The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir She Writes Press 2024
Russo, Stacey We Were Going To Change The World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene Santa Monica Press 2017
Sabin, Roger, editor Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk Routledge 1999
Silverthorne, Diane Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl: The Musicalization of Art Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2018
Subcultures Network, editor Ripped, Torn and Cut: Pop, Politics and Punk Fanzines from 1976 Manchester University Press 2019
Taylor, Katherine Yeske She’s a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism Backbeat Books 2024
Turner, Cherie The Riot Grrrl Movement: Feminism of a New Gen. Rosen Publishing Group 2000
Warfield, Liam, editor; Crasshole, Walter, editor; Leyser, Yony, editor Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution: An Oral History PM Press 2021
Weidman, Rich Punk: The Definitive Guide To The Blank Generation And Beyond Backbeat Books 2023
Weiss, Penny (editor) Feminist Manifestos: A Global Documentary Reader New York University Press 2018
Whitney, Eleanor Riot Woman: Using Feminist Values to Destroy the Patriarchy: Using Feminist Values to Destroy the Patriarchy Microcosm Publishing 2021
Wiedlack, Maria Katharina Queer Feminist Punk: An Anti-Social History zaglossus 2015
Zeisler, Andi We were Feminists Once : from Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement Public Affairs 2016