It's MPR Books Day! At The Current, Classical MPR, and MPR News, we're talking about books we love—and sharing that love with our listeners with special thank-you books for those who become MPR members today.

The Current is about more than music, and we started our Rock and Roll Book Club because we wanted to share our love of reading with our members. We also wanted to hop on board with The Thread, a new twist on book talk from our colleagues at MPR News.

Each month, we pick one great book that's related to the music we play: a musician's memoir, a history, a collection of rock criticism. One of our staff members writes a review to kick the month off, and throughout the month we play the music and share other insights into the book and its author.

Here are some quotes from the reviews we've published so far.

"It's crazy to imagine the Kim Gordon who seemed so cool, so chill, and so beyond caring to be prolific about how frumpy and uncool and unsure she was of herself. What? Seriously?" (Jade on Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band)

"As a woman who is also a rock critic, and as a woman who is a rock critic who also plans to publish books in the immediate future, this whole collection is so up my alley that I can practically see it out my window. So I'm not going to pretend to review this book at an arm's length. How could I? I spent half the time I was reading it with my heart in my throat." (Andrea Swensson on Jessica Hopper's The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic)

"His autobiography will definitely entertain, possibly infuriate, and most likely leave you feeling that while Morrissey is a great artist to listen to or see, he might not be someone who would be easy to live or work with." (Jim McGuinn on Morrissey's Autobiography)

"It's a crackling tale of an enormous, sustained heist that incorporated elements beyond what any screenwriter could dare. The fewer details I reveal, the more enjoyable the reading experience, but I assure that your jaw will physically drop at multiple points." (Mac Wilson on Stephen Witt's How Music Got Free)

"Bob Dylan himself might even like this book, because it's truly about the music. That conversation seems like the only one that journalists never want to have with him." (Bill DeVille on Jon Bream's Dylan: Disc By Disc)

In partnership with The Thread, we're reaching out to local bookstores and record shops to help make it easy for you to find our picks at your favorite neighborhood retailer: watch for special Rock and Roll Book Club signage at selected shops soon.

We hope you'll read along with us and share your thoughts using the hashtag #RockandRollBookClub. What books would you like to see us feature next?