Books from David Bowie’s 2013 Reading List

David Bowie’s 2013 reading selection ranges from Madame Bovary and Berlin Alexanderplatz to music history, philosophy and essays.

Source: https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2013/10/1/bowies-top-100-books-the-complete-list

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

1. Interviews with Francis Bacon — David Sylvester
2. Billy Liar — Keith Waterhouse
3. Room at the Top — Braine, John
4. On Having No Head — Douglas Edison Harding
5. Kafka was the rage — Anatole Broyard
6. A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess
7. City of Night — John Rechy
8. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz
9. Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
10. The Iliad — Homer, Emily Wilson
11. As I Lay Dying — William Faulkner
12. Berlin Alexanderplatz — Alfred Döblin
13. Inside the whale, and other essays — George Orwell
14. Mr Norris Changes Trains — Christopher Isherwood
15. Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art — James A. Hall
16. David Bomberg — Richard Cork
17. Passing — Nella Larsen, Matthew Hodgson, Tamar Mishmar
18. Beyond the brillo box — Arthur Coleman Danto
19. The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind — Julian Jaynes
20. In Bluebeard's castle — George Steiner, G. Steiner
21. Hawksmoor — Peter Ackroyd
22. The Divided Self — R. D. Laing
23. Infants of the spring — Wallace Thurman
24. The Songlines — Bruce Chatwin
25. Nights at the circus — Angela Carter
26. The Master and Margarita — Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
27. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie — Muriel Spark
28. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov
29. Herzog — Saul Bellow
30. Puckoon — Spike Milligan
31. Black Boy — Richard Wright
32. The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea — 三島由紀夫
34. Darkness at noon — Arthur Koestler
35. McTeague — Frank Norris
36. Money — Martin Amis
37. The outsider. — Colin Wilson
38. Strange People — Frank Edwards
39. English journey — J. B. Priestley
40. A Confederacy of Dunces — John Kennedy Toole
41. The Day of the Locust — Nathanael West
42. 1984 — XAVIER COSTE, George Orwell
43. The life and times of Little Richard — White, Charles
44. Mystery train — Greil Marcus
45. White Noise — Don DeLillo, Mosche Hana'ami
46. Sweet Soul Music — Peter Guralnick
47. Writers at work — Malcolm Cowley
48. The sound of the city — Charlie Gillett
49. Octobriana, and the Russian underground — Peter Sadecky
50. The street — Ann Lane Petry, Ann Petry
51. Wonder Boys — Michael Chabon
52. Last Exit to Brooklyn — Hubert Selby, Jr., Hubert Selby Jr.
53. A people's history of the United States — Howard Zinn, Kathy Emery, Ellen Reeves, Matt Damon, Howard Zinn
54. The age of American unreason — Susan Jacoby, Cassandra Campbell
55. Metropolitan Life — Fran Lebowitz
56. The Coast of Utopia — Tom Stoppard
57. The bridge — Hart Crane
58. All The Emperors Horses — David Kidd
59. Fingersmith — Sarah Waters
60. Earthly Powers — Anthony Burgess
61. The 42nd Parallel — John Dos Passos
62. Tales of beatnik glory — Ed Sanders
63. The bird artist — Howard A. Norman
64. Before the deluge — Otto Friedrich
65. Sexual Personae — Camille Paglia
66. The American way of death — Jessica Mitford
67. In Cold Blood — Truman Capote
68. Lady Chatterly's Lover — D. H. Lawrence
69. Teenage — Jon Savage
70. Vile Bodies — Evelyn Waugh
71. The hidden persuaders — Vance Packard
72. The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin
73. Selected Poems — Frank O'Hara
74. The trial of Henry Kissinger — Christopher Hitchens
75. Flaubert's Parrot — Julian Barnes
76. On the Road — Jack Kerouac
77. Zanoni — Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
78. The gnostic Gospels — Elaine Pagels
79. The Divine Comedy of Dante — Dante Alighieri
80. A Grave for a Dolphin — Alberto Denti di Pirajno
81. The Insult — Rupert Thomson
82. In Between the Sheets — Ian McEwan
83. A people's tragedy — Orlando Figes