Recommended Reading

Here's a start...

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ,  Tom Wolfe
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968

Long Strange Trip,  Dennis McNally
Publisher: Broadway Books,  2002

On the Bus,  Ken Babbs and Paul Perry
Publisher: Thunder Mouth Press, 1990

The Stories Behind Every Grateful Dead Song
Stephen Peters
Thunder's Mouth Press

The American Book of The Dead
Oliver Trager
Fireside Book  2007

Dark Star
Robert Greenfield
William Morrow  1996


Dead To The Core
Eric C. Wybenga
Delta Book  1997


The Grateful Dead and Philosophy
Steven Gimbel
Carus Publishing  1997

... and now you might like...

Playing in the Band,  David Gans and Peter Simon
Publisher: St Martin's Press  1985

The Deadhead's Taping Compendium Volume 1,  
Michael Getz and John Dwork
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company,  1998

Garcia: An American Life
Blair Jackson
Penguin Books 1999


The Grateful Dead Reader
Dodd and Spaulding
Oxford University Press 2000


Dead Reckoning
John Rocco
Schirmer Books  1999


One More Saturday Night
Sandy Troy
St Martins Press  1991


The Dead Book
Hank Harrison
Hank Harrison  1973

Grateful Dead Lyrics,  David Dodd
Publisher:  Free Press 2005

A Box of Rain,  Lyrics of Robert Hunter
Publisher:  Penguin Group  1990

...and finally...

Dancing With the Dead, Rosie McGee
Available as an ebook at Amazon

Aces Back to Back
Scott W. Allen
1992

Book of the Dead
Herb Greene
Delacorte Press  1990

Owsley and Me ; My LSD Family,  Rhoney Gissen Stanley
Available in paperback and ebook


Garcia
The Editors of Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone Press  1995


Note: Some of these may be out of print.  So bug the publisher, try your library or borrow from a friend.  Keep searching.