Kathleen Odean | YA Books

TEEN BOOKS

SONGS ABOUT BOOKS, FICTION, AND POETRY
This is a list compiled by the listserve YALSA-BK in March 2004. As a group compilation, it is imperfect but useful. The songs are listed by recording artist, then title, sometimes followed by album/cd name. Some of the songs refer to specific novels or poems, others just have something to do with books. Some are well-known, others fairly obscure.

10,000 Maniacs Hey Jack Kerouac
10,000 Maniacs, with Natalie Merchant Cherry Tree
Alan Parsons Project Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Artists for Literacy Songs Inspired by Literature
Aztec Two-Step The Ballad of Humpty Dumpty and Cinderella See It Was Like This
Aztec Two-Step The Persecution and Restoration of Dean Moriarty
Beatles Paperback Writer
Belle and Sebastian Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying
Belle and Sebastian Judy and the Dream of Horses
Belle and Sebastian Lazy Line Painter Jane
Belle and Sebastian Put the Book back on the Shelf,
Belle and Sebastian This is Just a Modern Rock Song
Belle and Sebastian Wrapped up in Books Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Blind Guardian Nightfall In Middle Earth
Bob Seger Turn the Page
Broadcast The Book Lovers Book Lovers EP
Cake Open Book
Carrie Newcomer Moon over Tuscon My True Name
Christopher Lee, Mary Hopkin, Frankie Miller, Alexis Korner, P.P. Arnold, Derek Brimstone, and Chris Farlowe The king of Elfland's daughter
Clyde and the Rank Strangers The Safety Patrol Song (and Others)
Cole Porter Brush up your Shakespeare
Cream Tales of Brave Ulysses
Dashboard Confessional Ender will save us all
Decemberists Song for Myla Goldberg Her Majesty the Decemberists
Dylan Ballad of a Thing Man
Dylan Desolation Row
Dylan Idiot Wind
Dylan Joey
Eddie From Ohio Loitering in the Lobby
Elvis Costello Everyday I Write the Book
Elvis Costello Every Day I Write the Book
Gordon Lightfoot If You Could Read My Mind
Grateful Dead Touch of Gray
Indigo Girls Romeo & Juliet
Indigo Girls Virgina Woolf 1200 Curfews
Iron Maiden Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Jefferson Airplane White Rabbit
Jim Roll Inhabiting the Ball
Jimmy Buffett Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Jimmy Buffett Love in the Library
Jimmy Buffett Remittance Man
Jimmy Buffett Barometer Soup
Jimmy Buffett The Ballad of Skip Wiley
Jimmy Durante I'll never forget the day I read a book
Joel McNeely Shadows of the Empire
John Roberts and Tony Barrand Naulakha Redux
John Roberts and Tony Barrand Oak and Ash and Thorn Dark Ships in the Forest
Joni Mitchell Fiction
Judy Collins Hard Times for Lovers
June Tabor Old Man's Song Aquaba
Karan Casey Song of Wandering Aengus "Songlines"
Kate Bush Sensual World
Kate Bush Wuthering Heights
Led Zeppelin Misty Mountain Hop
Led Zeppelin Ramble On
Led Zeppelin The Battle of Evermore
Loggins and Messina House at Pooh Corner
Loreena McKennett Dante's Prayer
Loreena McKennett The Highwayman
Loreena McKennett The Lady of Shallot
Metallica One
Moody Blues Are You Sitting Comfortably
Moxy Fruvous My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors
Patty Larkin The Book I'm Not Reading
Phish Icarus
Phish Prince Caspian
Play, Cinderella
Poe Haunted,
Pop Will Eat Itself Can U Dig It
Rage Against the Machine's Bulls on Parade which talks about library censorship.
Rancid Arrested In Shanghai
Rock Bottom Remainders - Stephen King, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson, Dave Berry
Rock Bottom Remainders Proofreading Woman
Rockwell Church Click Your Heels
Rush "Fly By Night," "Caress of Steel," "2112,"
Rush Red Barchetta Moving Pictures
Simon and Garfunkel Dangling Conversation
Simon and Garfunkle Richard Cory
Springsteen My Best Was Never Good Enough Ghost of Tom Joad
Sting Moon Over Bourbon Street
Sting La Belle Dame Sans Regrets
Suzanne Vega Book of Dreams
Talking Heads The Book I Read
Tanuja Desai Hidier
The Cure Charlotte Sometimes
The Magnetic Fields Lemony Snicket is a member The Book of Love 69 Love Songs
The Nields soundtrack This Town is Wrong
The Police Don't Stand So Close To Me
The Smiths Cemetery Gates The Queen is Dead
Tom Leher Oedipus Rex
Tori Amos Carbon
Tori Amos In Tear in Your Hand
Velocity Girl Lisa Librarian