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

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

The author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy returns with a powerful and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians. Michael Holme is a violinist, a member of the successful Maggiore Quartet. He has long been haunted, though, by memories of the pianist he loved and left ten years earlier, Julia McNicholl. Now Julia, married and the mother of a small child, unexpectedly reenters his life and the romance flares up once more. Against the magical backdrop of Venice and Vienna, the two lovers confront the truth about themselves and their love, about the music that both unites and divides them, and about a devastating secret that Julia must finally reveal. With poetic, evocative writing and a brilliant portrait of the international music scene, An Equal Music confirms Vikram Seth as one of the world's finest and most enticing writers.

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. It may be a while before hypnotic regression achieves mainstream acceptance, but Montano's own work in that area and the resultant Loving Mozart will certainly assist in its doing so. Loving Mozart adds an important dimension to the musical genius we know as Mozart and his devoted friend Franz Sussmayr. The author blends five years of psychic and conventional research into a mystical novel that intertwines moments in the lives of Mozart and Sussmayr with their 20^th century incarnations – American pianist William Kapell (1922-1953) and the author. Vignettes, encounters, and dialogue experienced in hypnotic regression vivid dreams, and meditation trace an extraordinary testament to Love's transcendence over time and space.

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.