Grateful Dead: The Official Book of the Deadheads, P. Bassett, C. Bassett, J. Grushkin , 1983 A portrait of the Dead through the eyes of deadheads. The book is a treasure trove of photographs, drawings, stories, memories, magazine articles, letters, quizzes, posters and more. See more information

Deadheads: Rago And Friends, Claire Burch, 1993 A celebration of the life of a quadraplegic poet and his circle of friends. Includes numerous photographs many of which were taken at Grateful Dead shows. See more information

Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads, David Shenk, Steve Silberman, 1994 A dictionary/encyclopedia referencing the world of the Grateful Dead. Includes entries for all band members and those connected to the Dead, entries for albums and explanations of the many words and phrases that have special meaning among Deadheads. See more information

Adolescents and Their Music: If It's Too Loud, You're Too Old, Jonathan S. Epstein (Editor), 1994 A collection of essays that includes Secular Rituals in Popular Culture: A Case For Grateful Dead Concerts and Dead Head Identity by Robert Sardiello which analyses the role of ritual in Grateful Dead concerts. See more information

Deadheads: Stories from Fellow Artists, Friends, and Followers of the Grateful Dead, L. Kelly, 1995 A collection of deadhead stories and reminiscences of the band and life on the road. Includes reminiscences from John Perry Barlow and Tom Constanten. An updated edition was published in 2015. See more information

Kind Veggie Burritos: Recipes for Touring, Tailgating, Camping and Home, Beth Livingston, 1995 A collection of recipes for Deadheads, by Deadheads. See more information

The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads, An Annotated Bibliography, Dodd/Weiner, 1997 A detailed and comprehensive bibliography of books, book chapters, magazine articles, academic papers, record reviews, fan magazines and newsletters related to or mentioning the Grateful Dead. See more information

Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World, Jonathan Epstein (Ed), 1998 This collection includes an essay about deadhead culture by Robert Sardiello called Identity And Status Stratification In Deadhead Subculture. See more information

Deadhead Social Science: You Ain't Gonna Learn What You Don't Want...., Rebecca G. Adams/Robert Sardiello (Eds), 2000 Deadhead Social Science is a collection of papers examining various aspects of the complex subculture surrounding the rock band, the Grateful Dead. See more information

The Grateful Dead Reader (Readers on American Musicians), David G. Dodd and Diana Spaulding (Editors), 2000 A collection of some of the best writing about the Dead. The articles and excerpts are taken from magazines, journals, books and newspapers and are arranged chronologically. See more information

Deadhead Forever: Property Of Haze, Scott Meyer, Molly Jay (Eds), 2001 A Deadheads scrapbook. Three decades or memorabilia, Dead lore and stories "pasted" onto the pages with drop-shadow photography. See more information

Inappropriate Relationships: The Unconventional, the Disapproved & the Forbidden, Goodwin/Cramer (Eds.), 2002 This collection includes a article by Rebecca Adams and Jane Rosen-Grandon called Mixed Marriages: Music Community Membership as a Source of Marital Strain which is based on their work with deadheads. See more information

Traces of the Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music, Robin Sylvan, 2002 This work includes a chapter called Eyes Of The World: The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads. See more information

Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity, Mary Fong & Rueyling Chuang (Eds), 2004 This collection includes a article by Natalie J. Dollar called Communicating Deadhead Identity: Exploring Identity from a Cultural Communication Perspective. See more information

Going Down the Road Feeling (Bad) Glad, The Grateful Fred Gilliam, 2005 For twenty-eight years, Fred Gilliam has followed the Grateful Dead throughout the world, seeing over three hundred shows. In this book, he writes about his friends, family, and other people he meets on his journeys. See more information

Metaphysical Media: The Occult Experience in Popular Culture, Emily D. Edwards, 2005 Chapter 2 of this book, Out Of Body: Transmission And Transcendence Through Popular Culture, includes a 5 page section about the Grateful Dead and deadheads. See more information

The Easiest Best Thing Is Be Kind, Editor: M. Luke Myers, 2007 The Easiest Best Thing Is Be Kind collects together poems, stories and essays by a number of authors collectively known as Deadheads for Darfur. See more information

Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead, Peter Conners, 2009 Told against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late '80s to the mid-'90s, Growing Up Dead is the story of Peter Conners's journey from straight-laced suburban kid to touring Deadhead. See more information

Confessions Of a Dead Head: Trips and Travels with a Magical Band, The Starburst Commander, 2009 See more information

Sunshine Daydream: One Girl's Tale Of Life On The Bus, Talia Rose, 2009 "One girl's tale of years spent on Grateful Dead Tour and beyond. A beautiful and sometimes sordid tale of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll." See more information

Dead Letters: The Very Best Grateful Dead Fan Mail, Paul Grushkin (Ed), 2011 Beginning in their earliest days, the Grateful Dead saved tens of thousands of letters sent to them by Deadheads reflecting on the spectacular concerts they'd attended and requesting tickets. These letters are inspirational and hugely insightful, but more significantly, the envelopes in which they arrived are brilliantly illustrated and unique within the world of rock. This book collects hundreds of those envelopes, as well as a selection of letters, all presented in thematic chapters. See more information

Tangled Up In Tunes: Ballad Of A Dylanhead, Howard F. Weiner, 2012 A memoir exploring life on the road following the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan in the 1980's. See more information

Dancing with the Dead: A Photographic Memoir, Rosie McGee, 2012 A memoir with over 200 photographs. "Photographer and Grateful Dead insider Rosie McGee pulls us into her 10-year memoir of living, traveling and working with the Dead and other notables of the legendary Sixties." See more information

Grateful Memories: Ten Years On The Road Taping The Grateful Dead, Jim Daley, 2014 "Grateful Memories chronicles 10 years of my life on the road, primarily from 1979 thru 1989, following the Grateful Dead on tour in many different cities across the USA with a core group of friends while recording the music along the way. I describe my adventure while introducing my real life traveling companions, and new friends I meet along the way. Each chapter covers a group of shows or an entire tour, so each one is a story on it's own." See more information

Deadheads: Stories from Fellow Artists, Friends, and Followers of the Grateful Dead, L. Kelly, 2015 This 20th anniversary edition of Deadheads celebrates fifty years of music and includes the best stories from the original edition, two new chapters, as well as new interviews with various friends, artists, and followers of the Grateful Dead. The original edition was published in 1995. See more information

Diary Of A Deadhead, Candace D. Carson, 2015 Diary of a Deadhead tells one woman's intriguing spiritual adventure following the band. Part memoir, part American history, author Candace D. Carson uses her personal experiences in the turbulent 1960s and '70s to illustrate the larger story of her generation as they grappled with the scars of the Vietnam War. See more information

Superfans: Music's Most Dedicated: From Beatlemania to the Beyhive, Tobias Anthony, 2018 This book has a four page section about Deadheads.

Dead Style: A Long Strange Trip Into The Magical World Of Tie-Dye, Mordechai "Mister Mort" Rubinstein, 2020 "An in-depth look at the influence of the Grateful Dead and hippie culture on contemporary fashion and street style by GQ's style-in-the-wild correspondent and fashion expert." See more information

Authentically Dead: Terrapin Station: A Grateful Dead Family Reunion Ron Odenthal and Lisa Ritz 2022 "Authentically Dead chronicles Terrapin Station - A Grateful Dead Family Reunion, the August 2002 festival which reunited the remaining original members of the band with tens of thousands of followers who came together to dance again.... This photography collection focuses on the Deadheads as they honored the memory of Jerry while also celebrating the re-union of Mickey, Bill, Phil, and Bobby, capturing the exuberance for which Grateful Dead concerts are legendary." See more information about the book

Grateful Dead Tour Tales: Volume One: 1984-1987, George Michaels, 2022 Tour Tales tells the story of George Michaels, a young rock music fan growing up in northern New Jersey during the early nineteen eighties, who one day rediscovers the Grateful Dead, and his whole life changes. See more information

Once Upon a Time on Grateful Dead Tour Trina Calderón 2024 A short story collection about the absurd and often hilarious adventures on Grateful Dead tour. See more information about the book

Grateful Dead Tour Tales Volume Two: 1988-1989, George Michaels, 2024 Tour Tales Two continues right where Tour Tales One left off. It's now nineteen eighty-eight, and for better or for worse, the Grateful Dead are back in style. See more information

When Push Comes to Shove: Real Life on Dead Tour, Hollie A. Rose, 2024 Tour journal from the late 1980's. See more information

Last updated February 2020