David Bowie's List of Top 100 Books

Description
The David Bowie retrospective exhibition "David Bowie Is" included this list of 100 of his favorite books. Bowie's list appears to be unranked.
1
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
93,874 members
1,445 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
82,580 members
1,299 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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3
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
30,591 members
423 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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4
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,134 members
632 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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5
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,943 members
515 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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6
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
23,490 members
508 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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7
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
14,420 members
519 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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8
The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
3,839 members
65 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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9
The Iliad
by Homer
47,293 members
445 reviews
4
Member
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10
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,607 members
575 reviews
3.9
Member
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11
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,553 members
414 reviews
4
Member
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12
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
17,152 members
172 reviews
4.2
Member
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13
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
16,827 members
238 reviews
3.9
Member
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14
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
12,342 members
182 reviews
3.8
Member
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15
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
8,623 members
310 reviews
4.1
Member
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16
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
7,586 members
169 reviews
4.1
Member
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17
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
5,853 members
189 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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18
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,686 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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19
Wonder Boys
by Michael Chabon
4,577 members
105 reviews
3.9
Member
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20
Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
4,302 members
80 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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21
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
3,658 members
67 reviews
3.8
Member
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22
Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby Jr.
3,302 members
35 reviews
3.8
Member
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23
Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
2,937 members
56 reviews
3.9
Member
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24
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
1,167 members
25 reviews
4
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25
The Bird Artist
by Howard Norman
1,140 members
35 reviews
3.8
Member
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26
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
29,692 members
426 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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27
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
15,253 members
241 reviews
½ 3.5
28
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
6,092 members
165 reviews
½ 4.4
29
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
5,954 members
120 reviews
4
30
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
5,872 members
73 reviews
4
31
The Gnostic Gospels
by Elaine Pagels
5,447 members
56 reviews
3.9
32
Vile Bodies
by Evelyn Waugh
3,642 members
67 reviews
½ 3.7
33
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,580 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
34
Passing
by Nella Larsen
3,534 members
133 reviews
3.8
35
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
3,120 members
43 reviews
3.8
36
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
by Julian Jaynes
2,445 members
46 reviews
4.2
37
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
by Camille Paglia
2,249 members
21 reviews
3.8
38
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
2,069 members
57 reviews
½ 3.6
39
Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd
1,986 members
41 reviews
½ 3.5
40
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
by Orlando Figes
1,953 members
21 reviews
4.2
41
Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess
1,938 members
39 reviews
4.2
42
The 42nd Parallel
by John Dos Passos
1,839 members
30 reviews
3.8
43
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
by Frank Norris
1,645 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
44
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
by R. D. Laing
1,545 members
15 reviews
3.9
45
The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby
1,448 members
49 reviews
½ 3.7
46
The Street
by Ann Petry
1,424 members
29 reviews
4.1
47
The Outsider
by Colin Wilson
1,322 members
15 reviews
3.9
49
Mr Norris Changes Trains
by Christopher Isherwood
1,195 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
50
City of Night
by John Rechy
1,133 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
51
In Between the Sheets
by Ian McEwan
991 members
15 reviews
½ 3.3
52
Inside the Whale and Other Essays
by George Orwell
982 members
8 reviews
4
53
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
by Christopher Hitchens
979 members
19 reviews
3.9
54
The Hidden Persuaders
by Vance Packard
967 members
16 reviews
3.8
55
Silence: Lectures and Writings
by John Cage
954 members
5 reviews
4.2
56
Into the Whirlwind
by Eugenia Ginzburg
919 members
16 reviews
4.1
57
Puckoon
by Spike Milligan
863 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
58
Mystery train : images of America in rock 'n' roll music
by Greil Marcus
830 members
7 reviews
3.8
59
Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art
by James Hall
812 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
60
Room at the Top
by John Braine
717 members
15 reviews
½ 3.4
61
Billy Liar: a novel
by Keith Waterhouse
679 members
15 reviews
3.8
62
The Quest for Christa T.
by Christa Wolf
664 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
63
The American Way of Death
by Jessica Mitford
555 members
11 reviews
3.9
64
Metropolitan Life
by Fran Lebowitz
535 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
65
Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, A
by Otto Friedrich
527 members
8 reviews
4.1
66
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
by Anatole Broyard
514 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
67
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
by Peter Guralnick
478 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
68
The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage
by Tom Stoppard
455 members
3 reviews
3.9
69
The Insult
by Rupert Thomson
432 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
70
In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture
by George Steiner
415 members
7 reviews
4
71
English Journey
by J. B. Priestley
409 members
6 reviews
3.9
72
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
by D. E. Harding
381 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
73
Interviews with Francis Bacon
by David Sylvester
371 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
74
Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
by Jon Savage
307 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
75
The Bridge
by Hart Crane
306 members
2 reviews
3.8
76
Selected Poems
by Frank O'Hara
287 members
3 reviews
4.2
77
The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll
by Charlie Gillett
284 members
1 review
½ 4.3
78
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock
by Nik Cohn
262 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
79
Writers at Work
by Malcolm Cowley
244 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
80
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China
by David Kidd
241 members
7 reviews
4.1
81
Tales of Beatnik Glory
by Ed Sanders
186 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
82
The Life And Times Of Little Richard
by Charles White
179 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
83
Infants of the Spring
by Wallace Thurman
152 members
1 review
½ 3.7
84
Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective
by Arthur C. Danto
140 members
2 reviews
3.8
85
Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music
by Gerri Hirshey
128 members
3 reviews
3.9
86
Strange People
by Frank Edwards
98 members
1 review
½ 3.6
87
A Grave for a Dolphin
by Alberto Denti di Pirajno
49 members
1 review
½ 3.5
88
David Bomberg
by Richard Cork
42 members
89
Octobriana, and the Russian underground
by Peter Sadecky
39 members
3
90
Complete Tadanori Yokoo (Japanese Edition)
by Tadanori Yokoo
21 members
2 reviews
3
91
Master i Margarita. Sobache serdtse. (in Russian)
by Mikhail Bulgakov
19 members
5
92
Raw No. 2: the Graphix Magazine for Damned Intellectuals
by Art Spiegelman
11 members
4
93
Private Eye
by Private Eye
4 members
94
Blast 1 2 &3
by Wyndham Lewis
1 member