The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe, 1968 A 'gonzo journalist' history of the Merry Pranksters. Lots about the Acid tests and the Dead's involvement. See more information

The Human Be-In, Helen Swick Perry, 1970 A personal account of the Human Be-In in the Polo Fields of Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967. See more information

Altamont: Death of Innocence in the Woodstock Nation, Jonathan Eisen (Ed), 1970 A collection of photographs, interviews and articles about Altamont. See more information

Festival! the Book of American Music Celebrations, Jerry Hopkins, 1970 Covers festivals held at Woodstock, Big Sur, Ann Arbor, Newport, San Jose, Mt. Clemens and others. With photos by Jim Marshall and Baron Wolman. See more information

Woodstock 69: Summer Pop Festivals (A Photo Review), Joseph J Sia, 1970 Photographs of the crowds and performers at the Woodstock, Newport and Atlantic City festivals. See more information

The Sixties: The Decade Remembered Now, by the People Who Lived It Then, 1977 A collection of reminiscences of the Sixties, some collected from magazines and books others produced for this collection. Includes contributions from Lou Adler (on Monterey), Myra Friedman, Wavy Gravy (on Woodstock), Dick Clark, Pete Townshend, Bill Graham and Michael Bloomfield. See more information

Woodstock Festival Remembered, Jean Young, Michael Lang, 1979 A chronicle of the Woodstock Festival from an organisers viewpoint from the original idea through to the aftermath. See more information

Aquarius Rising: The Rock Festival Years, Robert Santelli, 1980 A rock festival history from 1967 (Human Be-In) to 1973 (Watkins Glen). There are many Grateful Dead references throughout. See more information

Summer Of Love: A Photo-Documentary: Haight Ashbury At It's Highest, Gene Anthony, 1980 This book about Haight-Ashbury during the 1965 to 1968 period includes a section that covers the Acid Tests and Human Be-In. See more information

Woodstock Magic, Fran Lantz, Eileen Goudge, 1986 A 'young adults' novel in which the main character travels back in time and attends the Woodstock Festival. See more information

Woodstock: The Summer of Our Lives, J Curry, 1989 Memories of the festival from spectators and performers. See more information

Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969, Bob Spitz, 1989 A backstage view of the preparations and the event. See more information

Woodstock: The Oral History, Joel Makower, 1989 A collection of stories about experiences at Woodstock from the famous and the unknown. See more information

Young Men With Unlimited Capital, Joel Rosenman, John Roberts, Robert Pilpel, 1989 The subtitle is "The inside story of the legendary Woodstock Festival told by the two who paid for it". See more information

Monterey Pop, Joel Selvin, 1992 Shortish text, with lots of photographs, about the Monterey Pop Festival held in June 1967. See more information

Woodstock 1969, The First Festival, Elliott Landy, 1994 A collection of photographs, by many of the leading photographers of the 1960s, accompanied by a lengthy text by Landy. Foreword by Jerry Garcia. See more information

Woodstock Vision: The Spirit of a Generation, Elliot Landy, 1994 A collection of photographs with linking text. Includes photos of Woodstock and of other sixties events and personalities. See more information

Knock On Woodstock, Elliot Tiber, 1994 Full title is "Knock on Woodstock: The Uproarious, Uncensored Story of the Woodstock Festival, the Gay Man Who Made It Happen, and How He Earned His Ticket to Freedom". See more information

Flashing on the Sixties : Photographs, 1997 Includes photographs of the Grateful Dead, Woodstock, the Human Be-In, the Monterey Pop Festival, and many other subjects. See more information

Remembering Woodstock: 30 Years Later, Elliott Landy, 1999 Possibly a short book of photographs.

Woodstock: An Inside Look at the Movie That Shook Up the World And Defined A Generation, Dale Bell (Ed), 1999 An oral history of the making of the Woodstock movie. Composed of recollections by the film crew and festival performers covering both the festival itself and the subsequent preparation of the film. See more information

Back To The Garden, David Sorrentino, 2000 "BACK TO THE GARDEN is the modern day fable of Tommy Redivo, the boy born on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York, on August 17, 1969; entering the living world just as Jimi Hendrix was beginning to play the opening strings of The Star-Spangled Banner on his electric guitar on the stage at Woodstock." See more information

It Happened In Monterey, Elaine Mayes, 2002 A collection of photographs by Elaine Mayes taken during the Monterey Pop Festival. See more information

Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock, Richie Unterberger, 2003 A continuation of the detailed and comprehensive history of folk-rock. Eight Miles High covers the period 1966 to the end of the decade. The book is based on many interviews with major performers of the period. See more information

30 Years of Peace & Music & Other Things, Artie Kornfeld, 2004 The story of Woodstock by the promoter who signed up the musicians and marketed the event. See more information

Remembering Woodstock, Andy Bennett (ed), 2004 "Different aspects of the Woodstock festival will be discussed in this wide ranging book which brings together a number of established and new writers in the fields of sociology, media studies and popular music studies. Each of the five chapters which will focus on a specific aspect of the Woodstock festival and its continuing significance in relation to the music industry, the rock festival 'tradition', sixties nostalgia and the cultural impact of popular music.". See more information

Woodstock: An Encyclopedia of the Music and Art Fair, James E. Perone, 2005 An encyclopedic reference guide to Woodstock. See more information

Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time, Ian Inglis (ed), 2006 This book includes discussion of Woodstock, Monterey and Altamont. "Since the emergence of rock'n'roll in the early 1950s, there have been a number of live musical performances that were not only memorable in themselves, but became hugely influential in the way they shaped the subsequent trajectory and development of popular music." See more information

Taking Woodstock, Elliot Tiber with Tom Monte, 2007 See more information

Woodstock: Three Days that Rocked the World, Mike Evans and Paul Kingsbury (Eds), 2009 "Relive the moment and “get back to the garden” with this day-by-day, act-by-act account of everything that went down on Yasgur's farm. With interviews and quotes from those who were there and a wealth of photographs and graphic memorabilia, Woodstock is the ultimate celebration of a landmark in modern cultural history."

Woodstock Documented: The Recordings That Captured And Preserved The 1969 Woodstock Festival, Scott Parker, 2010 In Woodstock Documented, Scott Parker examines the various audio and video documents that captured and preserved the 1969 Woodstock Festival. See more information

A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival, Harvey Kubernik and Kenneth Kubernik, 2011 This chronicle features a wealth of previously unpublished material from the producer's archives, rare items from collectors, personal photographs from concert-goers, and dozens of new interviews with musicians involved with the concert. See more information

Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day, Joel Selvin, 2016 "The product of twenty years of exhaustive research and dozens of interviews with many key players, including medical staff, Hells Angels members, the stage crew, and the musicians who were there, and featuring sixteen pages of color photos, Altamont is the ultimate account of the final event in rock's formative and most turbulent decade."

Woodstock: The 1969 Rock and Roll Revolution, Ernesto Assante, 2018 "In Woodstock, journalist and music critic Ernesto Assante presents those unforgettable days through exclusive interviews and photos he has recorded throughout his entire career. Michael Lang, Carlos Santana, Joe Cocker, Grace Slick, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Bob Weir, Roger Daltrey, Graham Nash, will all take us to Bethel to re-live and give thanks to the extraordinary figures that made Woodstock a legend that still echoes today."

Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont, Saul Austerlitz, 2018 "In Just a Shot Away, writer and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story of “Woodstock West,” where the Rolling Stones hoped to end their 1969 American tour triumphantly with the help of the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, and 300,000 fans. Instead the concert featured a harrowing series of disasters .... Using scores of new interviews .... Austerlitz shows that you can't understand the ‘60s or rock and roll if you don't come to grips with Altamont."

Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music, Michael Lang, 2019 "This is the official 50th-anniversary celebration of Woodstock, by the festival's co-creator and co-founder, Michael Lang. A large illustrated edition, it includes hundreds of photographs and documents accompanied by Lang's fascinating memories and insights into the most famous and influential festival of all time."

50 Years: The Story of Woodstock Live, Julien Bitoun, 2019 Detailed text and evocative photographs tell the full story of every single act that performed - when they took to the stage, what songs they played, who was there, what they were like.

Woodstock 50th Anniversary: Back to Yasgur's Farm, Mike Greenblatt, 2019 Celebrating "the greatest peaceful event in history," Woodstock 50th Anniversary: Back to Yasgur's Farm offers a dazzlingly and compelling front-row seat to the most important concert in rock history, an implausible happening filled with trials and triumphs that defined a generation.

Woodstock: 50 Years of Peace and Music, Daniel Bukszpan, 2019 Longtime music writer Daniel Bukszpan offers insights on how the festival is still making an impact on pop culture, while candid interviews, set lists, and beautiful photographs relive the beautiful chaos and once-in-a-lifetime performances at Yasgur's farm.

Woodstock: Three Days that Rocked the World: 50th Anniversary Edition, Mike Evans and Paul Kingsbury (Eds), 2019 "A special 50th anniversary edition of our lavishly illustrated ultimate guide to Woodstock, with a day-by-day, act-by-act account of everything that went down on Yasgur's farm—along with interviews and quotes from those who were there."

Woodstock and Altamont: The music festivals that defined the 1960s, Brian Ireland, 2019 "Published to tie in with the 50th anniversary of these festivals, Brian Ireland revisits the events, taking stock of their historical importance, and to note their influence not just on popular culture and society, but as part of a new musical culture that developed in the late 1960s."

Altamont 1969: Bill Owens, Sasha Frere-Jones (Author), Claudia Zanfi (Editor), 2019 "Bill Owens: Altamont 1969 presents a new and previously unpublished series of photographs of the Rolling Stones' infamous concert at the Altamont Speedway in California."

Last updated February 2020