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Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyoncé. Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl Edited by Evelyn McDonnell Black Dog & Leventhal

Yes, the dust jacket is bright pink, for better or worse, but the essays are all-encompassing, as the title suggests. Includes a range of writers, though accompanying portraiture may not be to taste. Each profile is written by a woman, with more than 100 in all. The subjects were chosen, as McDonnell says, both painstakingly and arbitrarily as she went about honouring “rock” as a verb, not a noun. ($40)

Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop Vikki Tobak Ten Speed

Hip-hop photographers share their contact sheets, paired with interviews and essays, spanning nearly 40 years. There’s Fab 5 Freddy at a White Castle in the Bronx, 1982. Jump to 1993 for a never-before-seen photo of Tupac and Nas at a Club Amazon party in Manhattan. Time trip again to 2012 Atlanta to see Gucci Mane on the set of the Shooters video. ($43)

Hindsight & All the Things I Can’t See in Front of Me Justin Timberlake Harper Design

It’s his first book, in which he writes: “You have to dare to suck.” As a twoyear-old in Memphis, family lore goes, he harmonized nicely with Don Henley on the car radio. He revels in his years on Saturday Night Live, and his bromance with Jimmy Fallon. Of early ‘N Sync: “We had a lot of fun, and we really cared about what we were doing. We wanted to be good at it.” ($30)