2012 Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock & Roll, HarperCollins, New York, 2012.

2009 Led Zeppelin: Shadows Taller Than Our Souls, It Books.

2008 Cobain Unseen, Little, Brown and Company, 2008.

2005 Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, Sceptre, 2005.

Sure by the end Cross is painting a picture mostly through research because he was not in the same room as Cobain when Cobain killed himself.

2001 Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, Hyperion, 2001. Charles Cross has been criticised that he fabricated some of the book, because he wasn't there in Cobain's final days.

1998 Classic Rock Albums: Nevermind: Nirvana, Music Sales Group, 1998/2003.

1991 Led Zeppelin: Heaven and Hell, Harmony, 1991.

1989 Backstreets: Springsteen, the Man and His Music, Harmony Books, New York 1989/1992.

Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Heavier Than Heaven, which is the first film to be made from Cross' work. Cross delivered a moving eulogy for Lucille when a proper headstone was dedicated at the site. The gravesite of Lucille Hendrix was lost because the standard welfare marker of her day, an inscribed brick, became buried in decades of mud from the area's notorious rains.

In 2004, while conducting research for his biography of Jimi Hendrix, Cross rediscovered the gravesite of Jimi Hendrix's mother, Lucille Jeter Hendrix, in an abandoned section of Greenwood Memorial Park, where Jimi Hendrix himself is buried in an elaborate granite memorial. His 2001 biography of Kurt Cobain ( Heavier Than Heaven) was winner of the 2002 ASCAP Award for Outstanding Musical Biography. He is also the founder of Backstreets Magazine, a periodical for fans of Bruce Springsteen. He was the Editor of The Rocket in Seattle for fifteen years (1986–2000) during the height of the Seattle music mania. He is primarily known for his coverage of Bruce Springsteen, Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix. Cross is a Seattle-based music journalist, author and editor.

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