David Bowie’s 100 Will have to Learn Books

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In 2013, the cura­tors of the excursion­ing muse­um exhib­it “David Bowie Is” launched a listing of David Bowie’s 100 favourite reads, professional­vid­ing us with deep­er insights into his lit­er­ary tastes. Cov­er­ing fic­tion and non-fic­tion, the checklist spans six many years, mov­ing from Richard Wright’s mem­oir Black Boy (1945) to Susan Jacoby’s The Age of Amer­i­can Unrea­son (2008). As we as soon as no longer­ed in anoth­er submit, “his checklist presentations numerous like to Amer­i­can writ­ers, from … Tru­guy Capote to … Hubert Sel­by way of, Jr., Saul Bel­low, Junot Díaz, Jack Ker­ouac and plenty of extra. He’s additionally very keen on fel­low Brits George Orwell, Ian McE­wan, and Julian Barnes and loves Mishi­ma and Bul­gakov.”  You’ll be able to learn the entire checklist under, and, if you select, additionally discover a relat­ed e-book from 2019–Bowie’s E book­shelf: The Hun­dred Books That Modified David Bowie’s Existence.

1. Inter­perspectives With Fran­cis Baron Verulam by way of David Sylvester
2. Bil­ly Liar by way of Kei­th Water­space
3. Room At The Most sensible by way of John Braine
4. On Hav­ing No Head by way of Dou­glass Exhausting­ing
5. Kaf­ka Used to be The Rage by way of Ana­tole Bro­backyard
6. A Clock­paintings Orange by way of Antho­big apple Burgess
7. Town Of Evening by way of John Rechy
8. The Transient Received­drous Existence Of Oscar Wao by way of Junot Diaz
9. Madame Bovary by way of Gus­tave Flaubert
10. Ili­advert by way of Homer
11. As I Lay Demise by way of William Faulkn­er
12. Tadanori Yokoo by way of Tadanori Yokoo
13. Berlin Alexan­der­platz by way of Alfred Döblin
14. Within The Whale And Oth­er Essays by way of George Orwell
15. Mr. Nor­ris Adjustments Trains by way of Christo­pher Ish­er­wooden
16. Halls Dic­tio­nary Of Sub­jects And Sym­bols In Artwork by way of James A. Corridor
17. David Bomberg by way of Richard Cork
18. Blast by way of Wyn­d­ham Lewis
19. Cross­ing by way of Nel­los angeles Lar­son
20. Past The Bril­lo Field by way of Arthur C. Dan­to
21. The Ori­gin Of Con­scious­ness In The Destroy­down Of The Bicam­er­al Thoughts by way of Julian Jaynes
22. In Bluebeard’s Cas­tle by way of George Stein­er
23. Hawksmoor by way of Peter Ack­royd
24. The Divid­ed Self by way of R. D. Laing
25. The Stranger by way of Albert Camus
26. Babies Of The Spring by way of Wal­lace Thur­guy
27. The Quest For Christa T by way of Christa Wolf
28. The Track­strains by way of Bruce Chatwin
29. Nights At The Cir­cus by way of Angela Carter
30. The Mas­ter And Mar­gari­ta by way of Mikhail Bul­gakov
31. The Top Of Omit Jean Brodie by way of Muriel Spark
32. Loli­ta by way of Vladimir Nabokov
33. Her­zog by way of Saul Bel­low
34. Puck­oon by way of Spike Mil­li­gan
35. Black Boy by way of Richard Wright
36. The Nice Gats­by way of by way of F. Scott Fitzger­ald
37. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by way of Yukio Mishi­ma
38. Darkish­ness At Midday by way of Arthur Koestler
39. The Waste Land by way of T.S. Elliot
40. McTeague by way of Frank Nor­ris
41. Mon­ey by way of Mar­tin Amis
42. The Out­sider by way of Col­in Wil­son
43. Abnormal Peo­ple by way of Frank Edwards
44. Eng­lish Jour­ney by way of J.B. Priest­ley
45. A Con­fed­er­a­cy Of Dunces by way of John Kennedy Toole
46. The Day Of The Locust by way of Nathanael West
47. 1984 by way of George Orwell
48. The Existence And Instances Of Lit­tle Richard by way of Charles White
49. Awop­bopaloobop Alop­bam­increase: The Gold­en Age of Rock by way of Nik Cohn
50. Mys­tery Educate by way of Greil Mar­cus
51. Beano (com­ic, ’50s)
52. Uncooked (com­ic, ’80s)
53. White Noise by way of Don DeLil­lo
54. Candy Soul Tune: Rhythm And Blues And The South­ern Dream Of Unfastened­dom by way of Peter Gural­nick
55. Silence: Lec­tures And Writ­ing by way of John Cage
56. Writ­ers At Paintings: The Paris Overview Inter­perspectives edit­ed by way of Mal­colm Cow­ley
57. The Sound Of The Town: The Upward thrust Of Rock And Roll by way of Char­lie Gillette
58. Octo­bri­ana And The Russ­ian Beneath­floor by way of Peter Sadecky
59. The Side road by way of Ann Petry
60. Received­der Boys by way of Michael Chabon
61. Remaining Go out To Brook­lyn Through Hubert Sel­by way of, Jr.
62. A Folks’s His­to­ry Of The Unit­ed States by way of Howard Zinn
63. The Age Of Amer­i­can Unrea­son by way of Susan Jaco­by way of
64. Met­ro­pol­i­tan Existence by way of Fran Lebowitz
65. The Coast Of Utopia by way of Tom Prevent­pard
66. The Bridge by way of Hart Crane
67. All The Emperor’s Hors­es by way of David Kidd
68. Fin­ger­smith by way of Sarah Waters
69. Earth­ly Pow­ers by way of Antho­big apple Burgess
70. The forty second Par­al­lel by way of John Dos Pas­sos
71. Stories Of Beat­nik Glo­ry by way of Ed Saun­ders
72. The Chicken Artist by way of Howard Nor­guy
73. Nowhere To Run The Sto­ry Of Soul Tune by way of Ger­ri Hir­shey
74. Prior to The Del­uge by way of Otto Friedrich
75. Intercourse­u­al In line with­son­ae: Artwork And Deca­dence From Nefer­ti­ti To Emi­ly Dick­in­son by way of Camille Paglia
76. The Amer­i­can Approach Of Dying by way of Jes­si­ca Mit­ford
77. In Chilly Blood by way of Tru­guy Capote
78. Girl Chatterly’s Lover by way of D.H. Lawrence
79. Teenage by way of Jon Sav­age
80. Vile Bod­ies by way of Eve­lyn Waugh
81. The Concealed­den In line with­suaders by way of Vance Packard
82. The Hearth Subsequent Time by way of James Bald­win
83. Viz (com­ic, ear­ly ’80s)
84. Pri­vate Eye (satir­i­cal magazine­a­zine, ’60s – ’80s)
85. Make a selection­ed Poems by way of Frank O’Hara
86. The Tri­al Of Chicken­ry Kissinger by way of Christo­pher Hitchens
87. Flaubert’s Par­rot by way of Julian Barnes
88. Mal­doror by way of Comte de Lautréa­mont
89. On The Street by way of Jack Ker­ouac
90. Mr. Wilson’s Cab­i­internet of Received­der by way of Lawrence Weschler
91. Zanoni by way of Edward Bul­w­er-Lyt­ton
92. Tran­scen­den­tal Magazine­ic, Its Document­trine and Rit­u­al by way of Eliphas Lévi
93. The Gnos­tic Gospels by way of Elaine Pagels
94. The Leop­ard by way of Giuseppe Di Lampe­dusa
95. Infer­no by way of Dante Alighieri
96. A Grave For A Dol­phin by way of Alber­to Den­ti di Pira­jno
97. The Insult by way of Rupert Thom­son
98. In Between The Sheets by way of Ian McE­wan
99. A Folks’s Tragedy by way of Orlan­do Figes
100. Jour­ney Into The Whirl­wind by way of Euge­nia Ginzburg

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