The 16 Best Books About Music From the Last Decade

"God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop" ($17)

The women who have fueled hip hop's popularity from the very beginning are regularly neglected and ignored in the retelling of the remarkable story of hip hop's origins. That is, until Kathy Iandoli published this book as a tribute to those in front of and behind the scenes whose hard work was instrumental in establishing hip hop as a global movement.