This list provides an overview of fiction with a plot that predominantly features music or musical themes.

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An Equal Music. Vikram Seth. Vintage Books. 2000. ISBN 037570924X (paperback).

Loving Mozart. Mary Montanno. Cantus Verus Press. 1995. ISBN 096425770X (paperback).

Loving Mozart is an engrossing psychological mystery novel weaving Mozart's 18^th-century life with lives in the 20^th Century.

The Autobiography of Maria Callas, a Novel. Alma H. Bond. Birch Brook Press. 1998. ISBN 0913559490 (hardcover), 0913559482 (paperback).

"The Autobiography of Maria Callas" is written in the first person, as if Callas herself were speaking. According to Kathryn Lance in the Arizona Daily Star, "Bond has truly seen to the heart of Callas.in the form of an autobiography that reads as if authentically written by her subject." Ed Ditterline in a syndicated column headed "Bond With Callas in a Brilliant New Masterpiece" writes, "For four years Dr. Bond has lived, breathed, studied, analyzed and absorbed the music an the life of Maria Callas. I believe that her resulting work may well give more reality to her life than the 40 or so byzantine biographies that have been written about the great singer and actress.Buy a first edition.and wait for the Wagnerian scream which will soon be emitting from the emotionally deaf opera world." .

Voices in the Dark. Lindsay Townsend. Magna Large Print (UK). 1999. ISBN 0750513721 (hardcover).

Mystery thriller set in the world of Italian opera.

The Gold Bug Variations. Richard Powers. Harper Perennial. 1992. ISBN 0060975008 (paperback).

The Soloist. Mark Salzman. Vintage Books / Random House. 1994. ISBN 0679759263 (hardcover).

A vivid and imaginative portrait of the pursuit of music and of the challenging relationship between teacher and student.