SONGS* ABOUT BOOKS & AUTHORS
*and some Monty Python and Beat Poetry
*and some Monty Python and Beat Poetry
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Angus & Julia Stone – A Book Like This
Benny's Head – A Bookish Girl
Adam's Plastic Pond – A Brief History of English Literature
The Gentle Waves – A Chapter in the Life of Mathew
Tom Waits – A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Television Personalities – A Picture Of Dorian Gray
Simon & Garfunkel – A Poem on the Underground Wall
Simon & Garfunkel – A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)
Nancy Wilson – A Sleepin' Bee
Genesis – A Trick Of The Tail
Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Bruce Springsteen – Adam Raised A Cain - 2010 Remastered Version
The Connells – Adjective Song
X – Adult Books
Johnny Flynn – After Eliot
Crash Test Dummies – Afternoons & Coffeespoons
Titus Andronicus – Albert Camus
Tom Waits – Alice
Norman Mailer – Alimony Blues
Bob Dylan – All Along The Watchtower
Jay Farrar – All In One
The Great American Novel – All the Sad Young Literary Men
Green Carnation – Alone
Tim Kasher – American Lit
The Hot Toddies – Anaïs Nin vs. The Pirates of Santa Cruz
PJ Harvey – Angelene
Stevie Nicks – Annabel Lee
Of Montreal – Art Snob Solutions
The Divine Comedy – Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World
Roxy Music – Avalon
Langston Hughes – Ballad of the Gypsy
Serge Gainsbourg – Baudelaire
David Linx – Becoming Streams
The Divine Comedy – Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Bon Iver – Beth/Rest - Rare Book Room
Jay Farrar – Big Sur
Morrissey – Billy Budd
The Decemberists – Billy Liar
Smooth Toad – Bixby Canyon
Death Cab for Cutie – Bixby Canyon Bridge
Billy Bragg – Blake's Jerusalem
Blossom Dearie – Blossom's Blues
Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Bob Hope Bing Crosby – Bob's Book - Put It There, Pal
Lana Del Rey – Body Electric
Jimmy LaFave – Bohemian Cowboy Blues
Arkells – Book Club
A Smile and a Ribbon – Book Cover
Rick Danko – Book Faded Brown
John Hiatt – Book Lovers
Steven Wright – Book Store
Simon & Garfunkel – Bookends
Eddie From Ohio – Bookends
Library Voices – Bookish
Joy Kills Sorrow – Books
The Ergs – Books About Miles Davis
Absofacto – Books About Nothing
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's – Books About Trains
Hüsker Dü – Books About UFOs
The Tandoori Knights – Books And Ribs
XTC – Books Are Burning - 2001 - Remaster
Maximo Park – Books From Boxes
Camera Obscura – Books Written for Girls
Ty Segall – Booksmarts
Sonic Youth – Bookstore (Mote) - 8 Track Demo
Harrison Hudson – Bookstore Girl
Jeff Landeen – Bookstore In Nepal
Weezer – Brave New World
Reagan Youth – Brave New World
Graham Forster – Breakfast At Tiffanys
Jay Farrar – Breathe Our Iodine
Art Garfunkel – Bright Eyes
Frightened Rabbit – Bright Pink Bookmark
Dick Hyman – Brush Up Your Shakespeare
Modest Mouse – Bukowski
Tom Russell – Bukowski # 1
The Menzingers – Burn After Writing
Honig – Burning Down Bookshops
Third Eye Blind – Burning Man
Jay Farrar – California Zephyr
Lou Reed (Featuring Laurie Anderson) – Call On Me
Suzanne Vega – Calypso
Bob Weir – Cassidy
Horace Pinker – Catch Twenty Two
Guns N' Roses – Catcher In The Rye
Cabins – Catcher In The Rye
Red Directors – Catcher In The Rye
Sammy Walker – Catcher In The Rye
The Boo Radleys – Charles Bukowski Is Dead
Cell:Adore – Chekhov's Gun
Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel #2
John Cale – Child's Christmas In Wales
Van Morrison – Cleaning Windows
Guy Clark – Cold Dog Soup
Charles Bukowski – Conusmmation Of Grief Read By Charles Bukowski
Mary Shelley – Copyright Notice 2012
Tori Amos – Cornflake Girl
Bobby Bare Jr – Daddy What If
Dipsomaniacs – Daddy's on a Book Tour
Patricia Barber – Dansons La Gigue
Tired Pony – Dead American Writers
Eric Taylor – Dean Moriarty
The Hardy Boys – Dear Seamus Heaney
Son House – Death Letter Blues
John Wesley Harding – Death Of The Ghostwriter
The Avett Brothers – Denouncing November Blue (Uneasy Writer)
Reckless Kelly – Desolation Angels
Bob Dylan – Desolation Row
Lou Reed – Dime Store Mystery
Rabbitt – Dingleys Bookshop
U2 – Dirty Day
Steve Earle – Dixieland
Mississippi Bones – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Matches – Dog-Eared Page
Gordon Lightfoot – Don Quixote
Kelly Joe Phelps – Don Quixote's Windmill
Madeleine Peyroux – Don't Pick A Fight With A Poet
The Police – Don't Stand So Close To Me
The Real Tuesday Weld – Dorothy Parker Blue
The Damned – Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Say Hi – Dramatic Irony
U2 – Drunk Chicken/America
Munny & the Cameraman – E.B. White
Samo Salamon – E.E. Cummings
Lou Reed – Edgar Allan Poe
Suzanne Vega – Edith Wharton's Figurines
Timesbold – ee cummings
Admiral Freebee – Einstein Brain
Brad Mehldau – Elegy For William Burroughs And Allen Ginsberg
Traffic – Empty Pages
Neal McCarthy – Esperanza (English Version)
Emmylou Harris with The Band – Evangeline
The Gaslight Anthem – Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Every Day I Write The Book
Jill Tracy – Evil Night Together
Joal Ryan – Ezra Pound
Charles Mingus – Fables of Faubus
Bob Nanna – Fahrenheit 451
Johnny Cash – Family Bible
Destroyer – Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Sea of Tears)
Marina and The Diamonds – Fear and Loathing
Lagwagon – Feedbay of Truckstop Poetry
Ten Foot Pole – Fiction
Belle & Sebastian – Fiction
Belle & Sebastian – Fiction Reprise
Buzzcocks – Fiction Romance - 1996 Digital Remaster
Jay Farrar – Final Horrors
William Fitzsimmons – First Page of Kerouac's Tristessa
Amores Vigilantes – Five Blocks With Ferlinghetti
Tom Waits – Flash Pan Hunter/Intro
Gabrielle Chiararo – Flaubert Chante
James Blake – Footnotes
Tom Waits – Frank's Wild Years
Ira Marlowe – Frankenstein The Matchmaker
The Clean – Franz Kafka At The Zoo
Ben Hermanski – Friends and Bookshelves
Case Studies – From Richard Brautigan
Aimee Mann – Ghost World
Garland Jeffreys – Ghost Writer
RJD2 – Ghostwriter
Grand Hallway – Giant Novels
Patti Witten – Goin' Back To Moline
Bright Eyes – Gold Mine Gutted
Johnny Hodges & His Orchestra – Gone With The Wind
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
John Cale – Graham Greene
Laurie Anderson – Gravity's Angel
Klaxons – Gravity's Rainbow
The Gaslight Anthem – Great Expectations
Allen Ginsberg – Gregory Corso's Story
Stefano Guzzetti – Haiku
John Grant – Haiku Fourteen B
Dave Pietro – Hamartia
Jack Kerouac – Hard Hearted Old Farmer
John Vanderslice – Harlequin Press
Cold War Kids – Harold Bloom
Little Green Cars – Harper Lee
The Anniversary – Hart Crane
Poe – Haunted
Sparklehorse – Heart Of Darkness
Carly Simon – Hello Big Man
John Cale – Hemingway
Coastwest Unrest – Henry Miller Library Incident
The Sundays – Here's Where The Story Ends
10,000 Maniacs – Hey Jack Kerouac
The Measure [sa] – Historical Fiction
Sonic Youth – Hits Of Sunshine (For Allen Ginsberg)
Bill Morrissey – Holden's Blues
Weezer – Holiday
R.E.M. – Hollow Man
Cornershop – Hong Kong Book Of Kung Fu
Kenny Loggins – House At Pooh Corner
The Measure [sa] – How Do You Spell 'sartre'?
Florence + The Machine – Howl
Solander – Huckleberry Finn
Casey Donahew Band – Hunter S. Thompson (Rocketship)
Frank Sinatra – I Could Write A Book
Miles Davis Quintet – I Could Write A Book
Procol Harum – I Keep Forgetting
Frank Turner – I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous
Bodi Bill – I Like Holden Caulfield - Two In One Version
Harpers Bizarre – I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
Gregory Corso – I Met This Guy Who Died
Nick Lowe – I Read A Lot
Jets To Brazil – I Typed For Miles
The Trouble With Templeton – I Wrote A Novel
Dave's True Story – I'll Never Read Trollope Again
Blossom Dearie – I'm Hip
Matt the Electrician – I'm Sorry Hemingway
Father John Misty – I'm Writing a Novel
William S. Burroughs – Ich Bin Von Kopf Bis Fuss Auf Liebe Eingestellt (Falling In Love Again)
Sam Phillips – If I Could Write
The Band Perry – If I Die Young
The Weakerthans – Illustrated Bible Stories for Children
Sonic Youth – In The Mind Of The Bourgeois Reader
Meg & Dia – Indiana
Hold Tight! – Irony Is For Fuckers
The Owls – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Boardroom Heroes – Ishmael
Billy Koumantzelis – Jack Kerouac’s Morning Beer Shot
Manic Street Preachers – Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
Aimee Mann – Jacob Marley's Chain
Pernice Brothers – Jacqueline Susann
William Parker – James Baldwin To The Rescue
Steve Hackett – Jane Austen's Door
Ron Sexsmith – Jazz At The Bookstore
Noah And The Whale – Jocasta
Judith Holofernes – John Irving
Teddy Thompson – Jonathan's Book
The Clox – Jules Verne
Doc Cheatham – Just An Old Manuscript
Graham Parker – Just Like Hermann Hesse
Pete Shelley – Keats Song
Morphine – Kerouac
Dizzy Gillespie – Kerouac
The Appleseed Cast – Kilgore Trout
Born Ruffians – Kurt Vonnegut
Richard Séguin – L'ange vagabond
The Clancy Brothers – Lady Chatterley
Dire Straits – Lady Writer
Graham Parker – Last Bookstore in Town
TimLee3 – Last Page Of The Book
Marilyn Monroe – Lazy
Sonic Youth – Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso)
Field Music – Let's Write A Book
Hunter S. Thompson – Letter To William S. Burroughs And Ode To Jack Hunter S. Thompson
My Morning Jacket – Librarian
Final Fantasy – Library
Reina del Cid & the Cidizens – Library Girl
Arctic Monkeys – Library Pictures
Stars – Life 2: The Unhappy Ending
Ella Fitzgerald – Like Young
As The Poets Affirm – Literary Non-Fiction
Jose Vanders – Literature Lovers
The World War I's – Little Librarian
Belle & Sebastian – Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John
Cannonball Adderley – Lolita
Ennio Morricone – Lolita
Lana Del Rey – Lolita
Throw Me The Statue – Lolita
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Long Hard Book
John Parish – Longfellow Forlorn
The Pogues – Lorca's Novena
Billy Kyle – Lorna Doone Shortbread
Paper Bird – Lost Boys
Roger Waters – Lost Boys Calling
Woody Allen – Lost Generation
Franz Ferdinand – Love and Destroy - Live
Jimmy Buffett – Love In The Library
The Mountain Goats – Lovecraft In Brooklyn
Jay Farrar – Low Life Kingdom
John Cale – Macbeth
Ciccone Youth – Macbeth
Kinky Friedman – Marilyn and Joe
Tom Waits – Medley: Jack & Neal / California Here I Come
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Memoir
Descendents – 'Merican
Léo Mérie – Mexico City Blues
Zero 7 – Milton At Midnight
Led Zeppelin – Misty Mountain Hop
Steve Goodman – Moby Book
Led Zeppelin – Moby Dick
Ciccone Youth – Moby-Dik
Pretty Girls Make Graves – Modern Day Emma Goldman
Eartha Kitt – Monotonous
Audrey Hepburn – Moon River
James Wesley Stemple – More Book Covers
Stereophonics – Mr. Writer
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Mrs. Hemingway
Gateway District – Murakami Novels
Emmylou Harris – My Antonia
Bob Dylan – My Back Pages - Remastered
Patti Smith – My Blakean Year
Stars – My Favourite Book (Flack)
Duke Ellington – My Little Brown Book
Warren Zevon – My Ride's Here
American Music Club – Myopic Books
Hailey Wojcik – Nabokov's Butterfly
The Homewreckers – Nancy Drew
The Weather Underground – Neal Cassady
Fatboy Slim – Neal Cassady Starts Here
The Doobie Brothers – Neal's Fandango
J Church – New York Times Book Review
Ernest Hemingway – Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
The Black Crowes – Nonfiction
George Gershwin – Novelette In Fourths
Gregory Alan Isakov – O' City Lights
Lana Del Rey – Off To The Races
The Doubleclicks – Oh, Mr. Darcy
Woodpecker! – Old Photos of Coney Island in the Queens Museum v. Coney Island This Afternoon
Lou Reed – Old Poe
Tom Waits – On The Road
Jay Farrar – One Fast Move Or I'm Gone
John Prine – Onomatopoeia
Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys – Oop-Bop Sh-Bam
Natalie Merchant – Ophelia
Andrew Bird – Orpheo Looks Back
The Donkeys – Orwell's Town
Company of Thieves – Oscar Wilde
Monty Python – Oscar Wilde
Grand Archives – Oslo Novelist
Lagwagon – Owen Meaney
Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma
Patty Larkin – Pablo Neruda
Sons Of The Never Wrong – Pablo Neruda
The Mouse Folk – Paperback
Tegan And Sara – Paperback Head
Paul McCartney – Paperback Writer - Live At Citi Field
John Cale – Paris 1919
Mark Murphy – Parker's Mood
The Chills – Part Past Part Fiction
Sonic Youth – Pattern Recognition
The Clientele – Paul Verlaine
Ramones – Pet Cemetery
The Young Fresh Fellows – Picture Book
Bastille – Poet
Lizzie West – Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Woman (Thank You)
Adriana Calcanhotto – Portrait of Gertrude (Excerpt from "Gertrude Stein Reads From Her Poetry")/Sieben Frühe Lieber
The Shins – Pressed In A Book
The Smiths – Pretty Girls Make Graves - 2011 Remastered Version
Aaron Diehl – Prologue
Blonde Redhead – Publisher
Patty Larkin – Pundits & Poets
Belle & Sebastian – Put The Book Back On The Shelf
Ken McLeod – Quotation: Douglas Adams
Counting Crows – Rain King
Led Zeppelin – Ramble On
Van Morrison – Rave On, John Donne
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – Raymond Chandler Evening
I Am Robot And Proud – Read & Re-read
The Teardrop Explodes – Read It In Books
Morrissey – Reader Meet Author
McGuinness Flint – Reader To Writer - 1996 Digital Remaster
Idlewild – Readers & Writers
John Cooper Clarke – Readers Wives
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton – Reading in Bed
Jefferson Airplane – Rejoyce
Stephen Scott – Renaissance Suite: 1. The Harlem Renaissance
Muse – Resistance
Scissor Sisters – Return To Oz
Paul Simon – Rewrite
Joan Baez – Rexroth's Daughter
Simon & Garfunkel – Richard Cory
Steve Harley – Riding The Waves (For Virginia Woolf)
Donovan – Riki Tiki Tavi [*]
Massimo Volume – Robert Lowell
Chariots of Eggs – Robert Ludlum
Thin Lizzy – Roisin Dubh
Maud Gonne – Roman A Clef
Lump Sum – roman à clef
Parade – Romance Morlock
Honest Bob And The Factory-To-Dealer Incentives – Romance Novel Guy
Tonio K. – Romeo And Jane
The Killers – Romeo And Juliet
Lou Reed – Romeo Had Juliette
Dexter Romweber's Infernal Racket – Romeo is Bleeding
Peter Wolf – Romeo Is Dead
Steve Forbert – Romeo's Tune
Futures – Sal Paradise
The Crookes – Sal Paradise
Jay Farrar – San Francisco
Bombay Show Pig – Sancho Panza
Hello Saferide – Sancho Panza
The Passion of Anna – Sartre - Jean-Paul Sartre
Sufjan Stevens – Saul Bellow
Audio Recording Club – Scenes From Your Favorite Mystery Novel
Nirvana – Scentless Apprentice
XTC – Science Friction - CBS Demo
Jay Farrar – Sea Engines
The Waterboys – September 1913
U2 – Shadows And Tall Tress
Fink – Shakespeare
The Mahones – Shakespeare Road
Ed Sanders – Shakespeare's 57th Sonnet
The Smiths – Shakespeare's Sister
Robert Lund – Shakespearean Pie
Peter Bradley Adams – She Has to Come Down
Television Personalities – She's Never Read My Poems
Tom Waits – Shiver Me Timbers
Don Cherry – Siddhartha
Al Stewart – Sirens Of Titan
Joni Mitchell – Slouching Towards Bethlehem
The Books – Smells Like Content
The Strokes – Soma
The Strokes – Soma
Barry Adamson – Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Decemberists – Song for Myla Goldberg
Stephane Furic – Song Of The Open Road
The Decemberists – Sonnet
Patti Smith – Spell
R.E.M. – Star Me Kitten - Featuring W.S. Burroughs
Gregory Isaacs – Story Book Children
Belle & Sebastian – Storytelling
Leon Russell – Stranger in a Strange Land
Bad Religion – Stranger Than Fiction
The Pogues – Streams Of Whiskey
The Hold Steady – Stuck Between Stations
Lee Konitz – Subconscious Lee
Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues
Björk – Sun In My Mouth
Nickel Creek – Sweet Afton
Zella Day – Sweet Ophelia
The Antlers – Sylvia
Ryan Adams – Sylvia Plath
The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil
The Beards – T.S. Eliot
Cream – Tales Of Brave Ulysses
Bob Dylan – Tangled up in Blue
The Police – Tea In The Sahara - 2003 Stereo Remastered Version
Matmos – Teen Paranormal Romance
Deb Talan – Tell Your Story Walking
Blur – Tender
Broadcast – Tender Buttons [Chosen by Warp co-founder Steve Beckett]
Josh Tillman – Tender Is The Night in Paperback
The Cannanes – Tennyson
Freedom Fighters – Textbook Editor
Grateful Dead – That's It For The Other One
Prince – The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
L.K.Potts – The Ballad of Poker Alice
Bluegrass - Various Artists – The Battle of Evermore
Phil Ochs – The Bells
Monty Python – The Book Ad
Lambchop – The Book I Haven't Read
Talking Heads – The Book I Read
Pere Ubu – The Book Is On The Table - Single Version
Julie Doiron – The Book Song
The Divine Comedy – The Booklovers
Frances England – The Books I Like to Read
Dirt Farm – The Bookstore
Johnny Flynn – The Box
Azure Blue – The Catcher in the Rye
Simon & Garfunkel – The Dangling Conversation
Jimmy Durante – The Day I Read A Book
John Adams – The Dharma at Big Sur, Part II: Sri Moonshine
Nicola Conte – The Dharma Bums
Frank Turner – The Fisher King Blues
Arthur & Yu – The Ghost Of Old Bull Lee
Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost Of Tom Joad
Nanci Griffith – The Giving Tree
Brad Ross – The Great American Novelist
The Anniversary – The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
The Go-Betweens – The House That Jack Kerouac Built
David Bowie – The Jean Genie
Erik Enocksson – The Joy of D.H. Lawrence
Ed Sanders – The Keats Negative Capability Letter
Saxon Shore – The Last Days Of A Tragic Allegory
Center Divide – The Last Temptation of Odysseus
Justin Wells – The Last Temptation of Odysseus
Hefner – The Librarian
Swingin' Utters – The Librarians Are Hiding Something
Roudoudou – The Lover and His Lass
Roudoudou – The Lusty Horn Song
The Fugs – The National Haiku Contest - 2006 Remastered
The Next Great American Novelist – The Next Great American Novelist
June Tabor – The Old Man's Song - Don Quixote
Aztec Two-Step – The Persecution And Restoration Of Dean Moriarty [On The Road]
Jean Ritchie – The Printer's Bride
Mark Lanegan – The Raven
Nothing Ever Stays – The Revenge of Holden Caufield
PJ Harvey – The River
Chris Stamey – The Room Above the Bookstore
Muse – The Small Print
The Alarm (IRS) – The Stand - Long Version
Rosanne Cash – The Summer I Read Collette
Fionn Regan – The Underwood Typewriter
Jay Farrar – The Void
Eugene Mirman – The Will To Whatevs Book Tour And An Amazing Boy With AspergerÕs
Modest Mouse – The World At Large
Jay Farrar – These Roads Don't Move
Say Hi – They Write Books About This Sort of Thing
Spoon – This Book Is A Movie
Belle & Sebastian – This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
The Pogues – Thousands Are Sailing
The Tiger Lillies – To Be or Not to Be
The 5 Browns – To Kill A Mockingbird: “Main Title”
Brobdingnagian Bards – Tolkien (The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings)
Vashti Bunyan – Train Song
Eileen Laverty – Tread Softly
The Smashing Pumpkins – Tristessa
Horslips – Trouble (With A Capital T)
Künnecke & Smukal – Truman Capote
Robyn Hitchcock – TS Eliot Rap - Spoken Word
Anny Celsi – 'Twas Her Hunger Brought Me Down
Magic Arm – Type Endlessly
Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses
Donovan – Under The Greenwood Tree
The Pines – Ungrammatical
Dionne Warwick – Valley Of The Dolls [Theme From]
The Velvet Underground – Venus In Furs
Charles Trenet – Verlaine
The Scattered Pages – Virginia Woolf
Indigo Girls – Virginia Woolf
Vic Chesnutt – Wallace Stevens
Trampled By Turtles – Walt Whitman
Billy Bragg – Walt Whitman's Niece
The Black Heart Procession – Wasteland
Kind of Like Spitting – We Are Both Writers
Alela Diane – We Are Nothing
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – We Call Upon The Author
The Dandy Warhols – Welcome To The Monkey House
Galt MacDermot – What A Piece Of Work Is Man
Cornershop – What Did the Hippie Have In His Bag?
Lowe, Nick – When I Write The Book
Eddie From Ohio – When The Last Page Is Turned
Mumford & Sons – White Blank Page
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
Green Day – Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?
James Brown – Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? - Single Version
Phil Ochs – William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park And Escapes Unscathed
Jay Farrar – Williamine
Belle & Sebastian – Wrapped Up In Books
Star Wheel Press – Write a Novel (Modern Loss)
Sean Flinn & The Royal We – Write Me A Novel
Peter Bjorn And John – Writer's Block
Just Jack – Writer's Block
PT Walkley – Writers Block
South of France – Writers Block
Lloyd Cole – Writers Retreat!
Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
White Flag – Wuthering Heights
The Cranberries – Yeats' Grave
Ken Nordine – Yellow
Bo Diddley – You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover
Bob Dylan – You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Young Adult Fiction