David Bowie:
January 8th 1947 -
January 10th 2016
David Bowie's Top 100 books:
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| The man who ate books. |
- Interviews With Francis Bacon by David SylvesterBilly Liar by Keith WaterhouseRoom At The Top by John BraineOn Having No Head by Douglass HardingKafka Was The Rage by Anatole BroyardA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessCity Of Night by John RechyThe Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertIliad by HomerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerTadanori Yokoo by Tadanori YokooBerlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred DöblinInside The Whale And Other Essays by George OrwellMr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher IsherwoodHalls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. HallDavid Bomberg by Richard CorkBlast by Wyndham LewisPassing by Nella LarsonBeyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. DantoThe Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian JaynesIn Bluebeard’s Castle by George SteinerHawksmoor by Peter AckroydThe Divided Self by R. D. LaingThe Stranger by Albert CamusInfants Of The Spring by Wallace ThurmanThe Quest For Christa T by Christa WolfThe Songlines by Bruce ChatwinNights At The Circus by Angela CarterThe Master And Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Prime Of Miss Jean Brodieby Muriel SparkLolita by Vladimir NabokovHerzog by Saul BellowPuckoon by Spike MilliganBlack Boy by Richard WrightThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio MishimaDarkness At Noon by Arthur KoestlerThe Waste Land by T.S. ElliotMcTeague by Frank NorrisMoney by Martin AmisThe Outsider by Colin WilsonStrange People by Frank EdwardsEnglish Journey by J.B. PriestleyA Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West1984 by George OrwellThe Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles WhiteAwopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik CohnMystery Train by Greil MarcusBeano (comic, ’50s)Raw (comic, ’80s)White Noise by Don DeLilloSweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter GuralnickSilence: Lectures And Writing by John CageWriters At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm CowleyThe Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie GilleteOctobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter SadeckyThe Street by Ann PetryWonder Boys by Michael ChabonLast Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr.A People’s History Of The United States by Howard ZinnThe Age Of American Unreason by Susan JacobyMetropolitan Life by Fran LebowitzThe Coast Of Utopia by Tom StoppardThe Bridge by Hart CraneAll The Emperor’s Horses by David KiddFingersmith by Sarah WatersEarthly Powers by Anthony BurgessThe 42nd Parallel by John Dos PassosTales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed SaundersThe Bird Artist by Howard NormanNowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri HirsheyBefore The Deluge by Otto FriedrichSexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille PagliaThe American Way Of Death by Jessica MitfordIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteLady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. LawrenceTeenage by Jon SavageVile Bodies by Evelyn WaughThe Hidden Persuaders by Vance PackardThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinViz (comic, early ’80s)Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)Selected Poems by Frank O’HaraThe Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher HitchensFlaubert’s Parrot by Julian BarnesMaldodor by Comte de LautréamontOn The Road by Jack KerouacMr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence WeschlerZanoni by Edward Bulwer-LyttonTranscendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual by Eliphas LéviThe Gnostic Gospels by Elaine PagelsThe Leopard by Giusseppe Di LampedusaInferno by Dante AlighieriA Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di PirajnoThe Insult by Rupert ThomsonIn Between The Sheets by Ian McEwanA People’s Tragedy by Orlando FigesJourney Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia GinzburgHappy Reading!
