John Darnielle Books in Order
John Darnielle is a critically acclaimed American musician and singer-songwriter. As the primary and often sole member of the influential indie folk band the Mountain Goats, he pens poignant and introspective lyrics that have captivated audiences worldwide. With his distinctive voice and genre-bending style, Darnielle has woven a rich tapestry of storytelling through his music, often incorporating elements of punk, folk, and literary themes. A highly respected and innovative artist, his work has garnered widespread acclaim, earning him a devoted following and numerous awards and nominations. Through his unflinching and deeply personal songwriting, Darnielle continues to explore the complexities of the human experience, solidifying his position as one of the most important voices in contemporary music.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by John Darnielle
- #1AmazonThe Smiths' Meat is Murder (By: Joe Pernice)(2003)
- #2AmazonThe Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society (By: Andy Miller)(2003)
- #3AmazonDusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis (By: Warren Zanes)(2003)
- #4AmazonNeil Young's Harvest (By: Sam Inglis)(2003)
- #5AmazonLove's Forever Changes (By: Andrew Hultkrans)(2003)
- #6AmazonAbba's Abba Gold (By: Elisabeth Vincentelli)(2004)
- #7AmazonPrince's Sign 'O' the Times (By: Michaelangelo Matos)(2004)
- #8AmazonThe Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (By: Joe Harvard)(2004)
- #9AmazonUnknown Pleasures (By: Chris Ott)(2004)
- #10AmazonJimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland (By: John M. Perry)(2004)
- #11AmazonThe Replacements' Let It Be (By: Colin Meloy)(2004)
- #12AmazonJames Brown's Live at the Apollo (By: Douglas Wolk)(2004)
- #13AmazonJethro Tull's Aqualung (By: Allan F. Moore)(2004)
- #14AmazonThe Beatles' Let It Be (By: Steve Matteo)(2004)
- #15AmazonRadiohead's OK Computer (By: Dai Griffiths)(2004)
- #16AmazonPet Sounds (By: Jim Fusilli)(2005)
- #17AmazonThe Ramones' Ramones (By: Nicholas Rombes)(2005)
- #18AmazonLed Zeppelin IV (By: Erik Davis)(2005)
- #19AmazonThe Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street (By: Bill Janovitz)(2005)
- #20AmazonGrace (By: Daphne A. Brooks)(2005)
- #21AmazonArmed Forces (By: Franklin Bruno)(2005)
- #22AmazonMurmur (By: J. Niimi)(2005)
- #23AmazonLow (By: Hugo Wilcken)(2005)
- #24AmazonEndtroducing (By: Eliot Wilder)(2005)
- #25AmazonKick Out the Jams (By: Don McLeese)(2005)
- #26AmazonBruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (By: Geoffrey Himes)(2005)
- #27AmazonThe Band's Music From Big Pink (By: John Niven)(2005)
- #28AmazonNeutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (By: Kim Cooper)(2005)
- #29AmazonThe Stone Roses' The Stone Roses (By: Alex Green)(2006)
- #30AmazonSly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On (By: Miles Marshall Lewis)(2006)
- #31AmazonThe Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique (By: Dan LeRoy)(2006)
- #32AmazonDoolittle (By: Ben Sisario)(2006)
- #33AmazonNirvana's In Utero (By: Gillian G. Gaar)(2006)
- #34AmazonHighway 61 Revisited (By: Mark Polizzotti)(2006)
- #35Amazon33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 1 (By: DavidBarker)(2006)
- #36AmazonThe Who's The Who Sell Out (By: John Dougan)(2006)
- #37AmazonGuided By Voices' Bee Thousand (By: Marc Woodworth)(2006)
- #38AmazonMy Bloody Valentine's Loveless (By: Mike McGonigal)(2006)
- #39AmazonThe Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs (By: L.D. Beghtol)(2006)
- #40AmazonGuns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II (By: Eric Weisbard)(2006)
- #41AmazonStevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life (By: Zeth Lundy)(2006)
- #42AmazonJoni Mitchell's Court and Spark (By: SeanNelson)(2006)
- #43AmazonSonic Youth's Daydream Nation (By: Matthew Stearns)(2007)
- #44AmazonThe Byrds' The Notorious Byrd Brothers (By: Ric Menck)(2007)
- #45AmazonCaptain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica (By: Kevin Courrier)(2007)
- #46AmazonThe Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime (By: Michael T. Fournier)(2007)
- #47AmazonA Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (By: Shawn Taylor)(2007)
- #48AmazonBrian Eno's Another Green World (By: Geeta Dayal)(2007)
- #49AmazonSteely Dan's Aja (By: Don Breithaupt)(2007)
- #50AmazonRid of Me (By: Kate Schatz)(2007)
- #51AmazonPJ Harvey's Rid of Me: A Story (By: Kate Schatz)(2007)
- #52AmazonU2's Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall (By: Stephen Catanzarite)(2007)
- #53AmazonBelle & Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister (By: Scott Plagenhoef)(2007)
- #54AmazonPink Moon (By: Amanda Petrusich)(2007)
- #55AmazonCeline Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (By: Carl Wilson)(2007)
- #56AmazonSwordfishtrombones (By: David Smay)(2007)
- #57AmazonThrobbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats (By: Drew Daniel)(2007)
- #58AmazonMaster of Reality(2008)
- #59AmazonPatti Smith's Horses (By: Philip Shaw)(2008)
- #60AmazonSlayer's Reign in Blood (By: D.X. Ferris)(2008)
- #61AmazonIsrael Kamakawiwo'ole's Facing Future (By: Dan Kois)(2008)
- #62AmazonRichard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights (By: Hayden Childs)(2008)
- #63AmazonThe Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen (By: Bob Gendron)(2008)
- #64AmazonThe Pogues' Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (By: Jeffrey T. Roesgen)(2008)
- #65AmazonFlying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin (By: Bob Proehl)(2008)
- #66AmazonWire's Pink Flag (By: Wilson Neate)(2008)
- #67AmazonBig Star's Radio City (By: Bruce Eaton)(2008)
- #68AmazonElliott Smith's XO (By: Matthew LeMay)(2009)
- #69AmazonIllmatic (By: Matthew Gasteier)(2009)
- #70AmazonMadness' One Step Beyond... (By: Terry Edwards)(2009)
- #71AmazonFlaming Lips' Zaireeka (By: MarkRichardson)(2009)
- #72AmazonFleetwood Mac's Tusk (By: Rob Trucks)(2009)
- #73AmazonAC DC's Highway To Hell (By: Joe Bonomo)(2010)
- #74AmazonPublic Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (By: Christopher R. Weingarten)(2010)
- #75AmazonPavement's Wowee Zowee (By: Bryan Charles)(2010)
- #76AmazonVan Dyke Parks' Song Cycle (By: Richard Henderson)(2010)
- #77AmazonSlint's Spiderland (By: Scott Tennent)(2010)
- #78AmazonRadiohead's Kid A (By: Marvin Lin)(2010)
- #79AmazonJohnny Cash's American Recordings (By: Tony Tost)(2011)
- #80AmazonWeen's Chocolate and Cheese (By: Hank Shteamer)(2011)
- #81AmazonThe Rolling Stones' Some Girls (By: Cyrus R.K. Patell)(2011)
- #82AmazonNine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine (By: Daphne Carr)(2011)
- #83AmazonTalking Heads' Fear of Music (By: Jonathan Lethem)(2011)
- #84AmazonDinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me (By: Nick Attfield)(2011)
- #85AmazonTelevision's Marquee Moon (By: Bryan Waterman)(2011)
- #86AmazonPortishead's Dummy (By: R.J. Wheaton)(2011)
- #87AmazonAretha Franklin's Amazing Grace (By: Aaron Cohen)(2011)
- #88AmazonDangerous (By: Susan Fast)(2012)
- #89AmazonFlood (By: Elizabeth Sandifer,S. Alexander Reed)(2013)
- #90AmazonSerge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson (By: Darran Anderson)(2013)
- #91AmazonKanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (By: Kirk Walker Graves)(2014)
- #92AmazonSigur Rós's (By: Ethan Hayden)(2014)
- #93AmazonAndrew W.K.'s I Get Wet (By: Phillip Crandall)(2014)
- #94AmazonAphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II (By: Marc Weidenbaum)(2014)
- #95AmazonEntertainment! (By: Kevin J.H. Dettmar)(2014)
- #96AmazonSmile (By: Luis A. Sanchez)(2014)
- #97AmazonBlank Generation (By: Pete Astor)(2014)
- #98AmazonJ Dilla's Donuts (By: Jordan Ferguson)(2014)
- #99AmazonOasis' Definitely Maybe (By: Alex Niven)(2014)
- #100AmazonExile in Guyville (By: Gina Arnold)(2014)
- #101AmazonThe Grey Album (By: Charles Fairchild)(2014)
- #102AmazonBeat Happening (By: Bryan C. Parker)(2015)
- #103AmazonFresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (By: Michael Stewart Foley)(2015)
- #104AmazonFreedom of Choice (By: Fred Armisen,Evie Nagy)(2015)
- #105AmazonWorkingman's Dead (By: Buzz Poole)(2015)
- #106AmazonA Live One (By: Walter Holland)(2015)
- #107AmazonMetallica (By: David Masciotra)(2015)
- #108AmazonBitches Brew (By: George Grella Jr.)(2015)
- #109AmazonParallel Lines (By: Kembrew McLeod)(2016)
- #110AmazonThe Geto Boys (By: Rolf Potts)(2016)
- #111AmazonPsychocandy (By: Paula Mejia)(2016)
- #112AmazonHangin' Tough (By: Rebecca Wallwork)(2016)
- #113AmazonDig Me Out (By: Jovana Babovic)(2016)
- #114AmazonDonny Hathaway's Donny Hathaway Live (By: Emily J. Lordi)(2016)
- #115AmazonAngelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks (By: Clare Nina Norelli)(2017)
- #116AmazonYoung Marble Giants' Colossal Youth (By: Michael Blair)(2017)
- #117AmazonUptown Saturday Night (By: William Fulton,Patrick Rivers)(2017)
- #118AmazonThe Suburbs (By: Eric Eidelstein)(2017)
- #119AmazonBob Mould's Workbook (By: Walter Biggins,Daniel Couch)(2017)
- #120AmazonHomogenic (By: Emily MacKay)(2017)
- #121AmazonThe Raincoats (By: Jenn Pelly)(2017)
- #122AmazonJawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (By: Ronen Givony)(2018)
- #123AmazonFugazi's In on the Kill Taker (By: Joe Gross)(2018)
- #124AmazonDrive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera (By: Rien Fertel)(2018)
- #125AmazonSiouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow (By: Samantha Bennett)(2018)
- #126AmazonTori Amos's Boys for Pele (By: Amy Gentry)(2018)
- #127Amazondc Talk’s Jesus Freak (By: Will Stockton,D. Gilson)(2018)
- #128AmazonOdetta’s One Grain of Sand (By: Matthew Frye Jacobson)(2019)
- #129AmazonTom Petty’s Southern Accents (By: Michael Washburn)(2019)
- #130AmazonThe Shangri-Las’ Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las (By: Ada Wolin)(2019)
- #131AmazonManic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible (By: David Evans)(2019)
- #132AmazonMassive Attack’s Blue Lines (By: Ian Bourland)(2019)
- #133AmazonThe Wild Tchoupitoulas’ The Wild Tchoupitoulas (By: Bryan Wagner)(2019)
- #134AmazonWendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach (By: Roshanak Kheshti)(2019)
- #135AmazonMurder Ballads (By: Santi Elijah Holley)(2020)
- #136AmazonD’Angelo’s Voodoo (By: Faith Pennick)(2020)
- #137AmazonDavid Bowie's Diamond Dogs (By: Glenn Hendler)(2020)
- #138AmazonElton John's Blue Moves (By: Matthew Restall)(2020)
- #139AmazonJudy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall (By: Manuel Betancourt)(2020)
- #140AmazonSuicide's Suicide (By: Andi Coulter)(2020)
- #141AmazonVarious Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (By: Ray Padgett)(2020)
- #142AmazonJanet Jackson's The Velvet Rope (By: Ayanna Dozier)(2020)
- #143AmazonElvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis (By: Eric Wolfson)(2020)
- #144Amazon24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth (By: Zach Schonfeld)(2020)
- #145AmazonCarole King's Tapestry (By: Loren Glass)(2021)
- #146AmazonPearl Jam's Vs. (By: Clint Brownlee)(2021)
- #147AmazonDonna Summer's Once Upon a Time (By: Alex Jeffery)(2021)
- #148AmazonDuran Duran's Rio (By: Annie Zaleski)(2021)
- #149AmazonRoxy Music's Avalon (By: Simon A. Morrison)(2021)
- #150AmazonSam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 (By: Colin Fleming)(2021)
- #151AmazonJanelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid (By: Alyssa Favreau)(2021)
- #152AmazonLyric and Coloratura Arias (By: Ginger Dellenbaugh)(2021)
- #153AmazonKendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (By: Sequoia Maner)(2022)
- #154AmazonBritney Spears's Blackout (By: Natasha Lasky)(2022)
- #155AmazonEarth, Wind & Fire's That's the Way of the World (By: Dwight E. Brooks)(2022)
- #156AmazonMinnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (By: Brittnay L. Proctor)(2022)
- #157AmazonBabes in Toyland’s Fontanelle (By: Selena Chambers)(2023)
- #158AmazonMadvillain's Madvillainy (By: Will Hagle)(2023)
- #159AmazonBBC Radiophonic Workshop (By: William L. Weir)(2023)
- #160AmazonBody Count (By: Ben Apatoff)(2023)
- #161AmazonErotica (By: Michael Dango)(2023)
- #162AmazonKate Bush's Hounds Of Love (By: Leah Kardos)(2024)
- #163AmazonJohn Cale's Paris 1919 (By: Mark Doyle)(2025)
- #164AmazonCocteau Twins' Blue Bell Knoll (By: Chris Tapley)(2025)
- #165AmazonThe B-52s' Cosmic Thing (By: Pete Crighton)(2025)
About John Darnielle
John Darnielle is a critically acclaimed American musician and singer-songwriter. As the primary and often sole member of the influential indie folk band the Mountain Goats, he pens poignant and introspective lyrics that have captivated audiences worldwide. With his distinctive voice and genre-bending style, Darnielle has woven a rich tapestry of storytelling through his music, often incorporating elements of punk, folk, and literary themes. A highly respected and innovative artist, his work has garnered widespread acclaim, earning him a devoted following and numerous awards and nominations. Through his unflinching and deeply personal songwriting, Darnielle continues to explore the complexities of the human experience, solidifying his position as one of the most important voices in contemporary music.
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