David Bowie’s 100 Should Learn Books
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In 2013, the curators of the touring museum exhibit “David Bowie Is” launched an inventory of David Bowie’s 100 favourite reads, professionalviding us with deeper insights into his literary tastes. Covering fiction and non-fiction, the record spans six a long time, moving from Richard Wright’s memoir Black Boy (1945) to Susan Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason (2008). As we as soon as noted in another publish, “his record exhibits a variety of like to American writers, from … Truman Capote to … Hubert Selby, Jr., Saul Bellow, Junot Díaz, Jack Kerouac and lots of extra. He’s additionally very keen on fellow Brits George Orwell, Ian McEwan, and Julian Barnes and loves Mishima and Bulgakov.” You possibly can learn the total record beneath, and, for those who select, additionally discover a related ebook from 2019–Bowie’s E-bookshelf: The Hundred Books That Modified David Bowie’s Life.
- Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
- Billy Liar by Keith Waterhome
- Room At The High by John Braine
- On Having No Head by Douglass Arduousing
- Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Metropolis Of Evening by John Rechy
- The Temporary Receiveddrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Iliadvert by Homer
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo
- Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
- Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell
- Mr. Norris Modifications Trains by Christopher Isherwooden
- Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Artwork by James A. Corridor
- David Bomberg by Richard Cork
- Blast by Wyndham Lewis
- Crossing by Nella Larson
- Past The Brillo Field by Arthur C. Danto
- The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Thoughts by Julian Jaynes
- In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner
- Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
- The Divided Self by R. D. Laing
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman
- The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf
- The Tunestrains by Bruce Chatwin
- Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter
- The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Herzog by Saul Bellow
- Puckoon by Spike Milligan
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- The Nice Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
- Darkishness At Midday by Arthur Koestler
- The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
- McTeague by Frank Norris
- Money by Martin Amis
- The Outsider by Colin Wilson
- Unusual People by Frank Edwards
- English Journey by J.B. Priestley
- A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Life And Occasions Of Little Richard by Charles White
- Awopbopaloobop Alopbamincrease: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn
- Mystery Prepare by Greil Marcus
- Beano (comic, ’50s)
- Uncooked (comic, ’80s)
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- Candy Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick
- Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage
- Writers At Work: The Paris Evaluate Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley
- The Sound Of The Metropolis: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillette
- Octobriana And The Russian Belowfloor by Peter Sadecky
- The Road by Ann Petry
- Receivedder Boys by Michael Chabon
- Final Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr.
- A Folks’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
- The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
- Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
- The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Ceasepard
- The Bridge by Hart Crane
- All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
- The forty second Parallel by John Dos Passos
- Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders
- The Hen Artist by Howard Norman
- Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey
- Earlier than The Deluge by Otto Friedrich
- Intercourseual Personae: Artwork And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
- The American Manner Of Loss of life by Jessica Mitford
- In Chilly Blood by Truman Capote
- Woman Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- Teenage by Jon Savage
- Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
- The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
- The Fireplace Subsequent Time by James Baldwin
- Viz (comic, early ’80s)
- Private Eye (satirical magazineazine, ’60s – ’80s)
- Chooseed Poems by Frank O’Hara
- The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
- Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
- Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
- On The Street by Jack Kerouac
- Mr. Wilson’s Cabiweb of Receivedder by Lawrence Weschler
- Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Transcendental Magazineic, Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi
- The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
- Inferno by Dante Alighieri
- A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno
- The Insult by Rupert Thomson
- In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan
- A Folks’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes
- Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg
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