DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 MUST READ BOOKS


'The Age of American Unreason' by Susan Jacoby, 2008.

'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' by Junot Díaz, 2007.

'The Coast of Utopia (trilogy)' by Tom Stoppard, 2007.

'Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945' by Jon Savage, 2007.

'Fingersmith' by Sarah Waters, 2002.

'The Trial of Henry Kissinger' by Christopher Hitchens, 2001.

'Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology' by Lawrence Weschler, 1997.

'A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924' by Orlando Figes, 1997.

'The Insult' by Rupert Thomson, 1996.

'Wonder Boys' by Michael Chabon, 1995.

'The Bird Artist' by Howard Norman, 1994.

'Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir' by Anatole Broyard, 1993.

'Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective' by Arthur C. Danto, 1992.

'Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson' by Camille Paglia, 1990.

'David Bomberg' by Richard Cork, 1988.

'Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom' by Peter Guralnick, 1986.

'The Songlines' by Bruce Chatwin, 1986.

'Hawksmoor' by Peter Ackroyd, 1985.

'Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music' by Gerri Hirshey, 1984.

'Nights at the Circus' by Angela Carter, 1984.

'Money: A Suicide Note' by Martin Amis, 1984.

'White Noise' by Don DeLillo, 1984.

'Flaubert's Parrot' by Julian Barnes, 1984.

'The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Quasar of Rock' by Charles White, 1984.

'A People's History of the United States' by Howard Zinn, 1980.

'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole, 1980.

'Interviews with Francis Bacon' by David Sylvester, 1980.

'Darkness at Noon' by Arthur Koestler, 1980.

'Earthly Powers' by Anthony Burgess, 1980.

'Raw' (graphix magazine), 1980-91.

'Viz' (comic), 1979 -

'The Gnostic Gospels' by Elaine Pagels, 1979.

'Metropolitan Life' by Fran Lebowitz, 1978.

'In Between the Sheets' by Ian McEwan, 1978.

'Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews' Edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1977.

'The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind' by Julian Jaynes, 1976.

'Tales of Beatnik Glory' by Ed Sanders, 1975.

'Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll' by Greil Marcus, 1975.

'Selected Poems' by Frank O'Hara, 1974.

'Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s' by Otto Friedrich, 1972.

'In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture' by George Steiner, 1971.

'Octobriana and the Russian Underground' by Petr Sadecky, 1971.

'The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll' by Charlie Gillett, 1970.

'The Quest For Christa T.' by Christa Wolf, 1968.

'Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock' by Nik Cohn, 1968.

'Journey into the Whirlwind' by Eugenia Ginzburg, 1967.

'The Master and Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, 1966.

'In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences' by Truman Capote, 1965.

'Last Exit to Brooklyn' by Hubert Selby Jr., 1964.

'Herzog' by Saul Bellow, 1964.

'City of Night' by John Rechy, 1963.

'Puckoon' by Spike Milligan, 1963.

'The American Way of Death' by Jessica Mitford, 1963.

'The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea' by Yukio Mishima, 1963.

'The Fire Next Time' by James Baldwin, 1963.

'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess, 1962.

'Inside the Whale and Other Essays' by George Orwell, 1962.

'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' by Muriel Spark, 1961.

'Private Eye' (magazine), 1961 -

'On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious' by Douglas E. Harding, 1961.

'Silence: Lectures and Writings' by John Cage, 1961.

'Strange People' by Frank Edwards, 1961.

'The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness' by R. D. Laing, 1960.

'All The Emperor's Horses' by David Kidd, 1960.

'Billy Liar' by Keith Waterhouse, 1959.

'The Leopard' by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958.

'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac, 1957.

'The Hidden Persuaders' by Vance Packard, 1957.

'Room at the Top' by John Braine, 1957.

'A Grave for a Dolphin' by Alberto Denti di Pirajno, 1956.

'The Outsider' by Colin Wilson, 1956.

'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov, 1955.

'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, 1948.

'The Street' by Ann Petry, 1946.

'Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood' by Richard Wright, 1945.

'The Portable Dorothy Parker' by Dorothy Parker, 1944.

'The Outsider' by Albert Camus, 1942.

'The Day of the Locust' by Nathanael West, 1939.

'The Beano' (comic), 1938 -

'The Road to Wigan Pier' by George Orwell, 1937.

'Mr. Norris Changes Trains' by Christopher Isherwood, 1935.

'English Journey' by J.B. Priestley, 1934.

'Infants of the Spring' by Wallace Thurman, 1932.

'The Bridge' by Hart Crane, 1930.

'Vile Bodies' by Evelyn Waugh, 1930.

'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner, 1930.

'The 42nd Parallel' by John Dos Passos, 1930.

'Berlin Alexanderplatz' by Alfred Döblin, 1929.

'Passing' by Nella Larsen, 1929.

'Lady Chatterley's Lover' by D.H. Lawrence, 1928.

'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.

'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot, 1922.

'BLAST' (magazine), edited by Wyndham Lewis, 1914-15.

'McTeague' by Frank Norris, 1899.

'Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual' by Eliphas Lévi, 1896.

'Les Chants de Maldoror' by Comte de Lautréamont, 1869.

'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert, 1856.

'Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale' by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1842.

'Inferno' (from the Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri, about 1308-1321.

'The Iliad' by Homer, about 800 BC.



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