David Bowie’s Top 100 Must-Read Books

• Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
• Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
• Room At The Top by John Braine
• On Having No Head by Douglass Harding
• Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• City Of Night by John Rechy
• The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Iliad 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 Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
• Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall
• David Bomberg by Richard Cork
• Blast by Wyndham Lewis
• Passing by Nella Larson
• Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto
• The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind 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 Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
• Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter
• The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodieby Muriel Spark
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• Herzog by Saul Bellow
• Puckoon by Spike Milligan
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
• Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
• The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
• McTeague by Frank Norris
• Money by Martin Amis
• The Outsider by Colin Wilson
• Strange 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 Times Of Little Richard by Charles White
• Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn
• Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
• Beano (comic, ’50s)
• Raw (comic, ’80s)
• White Noise by Don DeLillo
• Sweet 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 Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley
• The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete
• Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky
• The Street by Ann Petry
• Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
• Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr.
• A People’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 Stoppard
• The Bridge by Hart Crane
• All The Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
• Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
• The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
• Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders
• The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
• Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey
• Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich
• Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
• The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
• Teenage by Jon Savage
• Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
• The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Viz (comic, early ’80s)
• Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)
• Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara
• The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
• Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
• Maldodor by Comte de Lautréamont
• On The Road by Jack Kerouac
• Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler
• Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• Transcendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi
• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
• The Leopard by Giusseppe 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 People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes
• Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg