Bands that named themselves after books (titles/lines/passages etc)
 

The obvious ones:

The Velvet Underground
The Doors
Joy Division
The Fall

Joy Division?

I don't think that was a book, or even a line or passage from a book.

Wasn't it just the name that the german army gave to brothels in concentration camps?

Soft Machine

The Go-Between(s)

They took the name proper from 'The House Of Dolls' by Yehiel De-Nur. I highly recommend it to you too.

Belle & Sebastian
Steppenwolf
Coldplay

I stand corrected.:)

The Bible - crap band, but it fits in with the thread.

Steely Dan

Not a book but an author: Harry Crewes.

Steely Dan. Named after a dildo in Naked Lunch.

In which the prostitution wing of a concentration camp is named Joy Division.

Duh!

Pere Ubu

What's that from?

Let's have a kiss, then, Porkie.

It's the name of the main protagonist in the excellent:

Another one:

Liaisons Dangereuses

i only know about crap bands:

straylight run
hot water music

come to think of it, fugazi comes from a book ian was reading about vietnam.

my bloody valentine, after the movie...

The Feelies (after the movies from Brave New World)