david bowie reading list

David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books (according to this article):

[ ] The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby, 2008
[x] The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz, 2007
[ ] The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard, 2007
[ ] Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage, 2007
[ ] Fingersmith, Sarah Waters, 2002
[ ] The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens, 2001
[ ] Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler, 1997
[ ] A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes, 1997
[ ] The Insult, Rupert Thomson, 1996
[ ] Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon, 1995
[ ] The Bird Artist, Howard Norman, 1994
[ ] Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Anatole Broyard, 1993
[ ] Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, Arthur C. Danto, 1992
[ ] Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia, 1990
[ ] David Bomberg, Richard Cork, 1988
[ ] Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Peter Guralnick, 1986
[ ] The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin, 1986
[ ] Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd, 1985
[ ] Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music, Gerri Hirshey, 1984
[ ] Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter, 1984
[ ] Money, Martin Amis, 1984
[ ] White Noise, Don DeLillo, 1984
[ ] Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes, 1984
[ ] The Life and Times of Little Richard, Charles White, 1984
[x] A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn, 1980
[x] A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980
[ ] Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester, 1980
[ ] Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler, 1980
[ ] Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess, 1980
[ ] Raw (a ‘graphix magazine’) 1980-91
[ ] Viz (magazine) 1979 –
[ ] The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels, 1979
[ ] Metropolitan Life, Fran Lebowitz, 1978
[ ] In Between the Sheets, Ian McEwan, 1978
[ ] Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, ed. Malcolm Cowley, 1977
[x] The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, 1976
[ ] Tales of Beatnik Glory, Ed Saunders, 1975
[ ] Mystery Train, Greil Marcus, 1975
[ ] Selected Poems, Frank O’Hara, 1974
[ ] Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, Otto Friedrich, 1972
[ ] In Bluebeard’s Castle: Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture, George Steiner, 1971
[ ] Octobriana and the Russian Underground, Peter Sadecky, 1971
[ ] The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Charlie Gillete, 1970
[ ] The Quest For Christa T, Christa Wolf, 1968
[ ] Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, Nik Cohn, 1968
[ ] The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967
[ ] Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg, 1967
[ ] Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr., 1966
[ ] In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, 1965
[ ] City of Night, John Rechy, 1965
[ ] Herzog, Saul Bellow, 1964
[ ] Puckoon, Spike Milligan, 1963
[ ] The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford, 1963
[ ] The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima, 1963
[ ] The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, 1963
[x] A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962
[ ] Inside the Whale and Other Essays, George Orwell, 1962
[ ] The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961
[ ] Private Eye (magazine) 1961 –
[ ] On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Douglas Harding, 1961
[ ] Silence: Lectures and Writing, John Cage, 1961
[ ] Strange People, Frank Edwards, 1961
[ ] The Divided Self, R. D. Laing, 1960
[ ] All The Emperor’s Horses, David Kidd, 1960
[ ] Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse, 1959
[ ] The Leopard, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, 1958
[x] On The Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957
[ ] The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard, 1957
[ ] Room at the Top, John Braine, 1957
[ ] A Grave for a Dolphin, Alberto Denti di Pirajno, 1956
[ ] The Outsider, Colin Wilson, 1956
[x] Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
[x] Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1949
[ ] The Street, Ann Petry, 1946
[ ] Black Boy, Richard Wright, 1945

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