Not individual bands but the genres as a whole. I think I remember seeing one advertised on this site a few years back actually but don't recall a title or anything.
Actually, if there are any good documentaries or sites that have good reads then that would be cool too.
edit: I've done a little searching and the only book that sounds like it's really good is "Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and Its Legacy" which I think is the one I found out about here at ProgArchives a while back, although amazon says it was published in early 2010 and I could have sworn it was at least a year before that when I saw it here. I'm probably wrong though.
Edited by PinkFloydrulez - June 10 2011 at 09:08