This year has already seen the release of a number of superb music books, including Warren Zanes’s Deliver Me from Nowhere (a dissection of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 Americana masterpiece Nebraska), Kiana Fitzgerald’s Ode to Hip-Hop, Alex Pappademas’s Quantum Criminals (on the meaning of Steely Dan) and Lucinda Williams’s memoir Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You. Novels from U.S., U.K., Canada and Ireland are finalists for the Booker Prize for fiction And the hits just keep on coming. This fall, a parade of biographies, autobiographies, historical essays, music miscellanea and works of scholarship hit real and virtual shelves in...