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
94,702 members
1,451 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
83,228 members
1,306 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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3
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
30,508 members
426 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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4
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,404 members
637 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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5
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,999 members
519 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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6
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
23,646 members
513 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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7
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
14,434 members
519 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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8
The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
3,868 members
66 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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9
The Iliad
by Homer
47,875 members
449 reviews
4
Member
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10
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
41,051 members
584 reviews
3.9
Member
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11
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,804 members
418 reviews
4
Member
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12
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
17,303 members
176 reviews
4.2
Member
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13
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
16,928 members
239 reviews
3.9
Member
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14
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
12,448 members
182 reviews
3.8
Member
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15
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
8,711 members
311 reviews
4.1
Member
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16
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
7,714 members
171 reviews
4.1
Member
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17
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
5,889 members
192 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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18
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,712 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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19
Wonder Boys
by Michael Chabon
4,595 members
105 reviews
3.9
Member
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20
Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
4,325 members
82 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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21
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
3,715 members
68 reviews
3.8
Member
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22
Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby Jr.
3,318 members
36 reviews
3.8
Member
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23
Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
2,958 members
56 reviews
3.9
Member
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24
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
1,181 members
25 reviews
4
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25
The Bird Artist
by Howard Norman
1,146 members
35 reviews
3.8
Member
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26
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
29,965 members
429 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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27
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
15,407 members
242 reviews
½ 3.5
28
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
6,204 members
165 reviews
½ 4.4
29
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
5,974 members
121 reviews
4
30
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
5,907 members
73 reviews
4
31
The Gnostic Gospels
by Elaine Pagels
5,478 members
57 reviews
3.9
32
Vile Bodies
by Evelyn Waugh
3,651 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
33
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,610 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
34
Passing
by Nella Larsen
3,593 members
134 reviews
3.8
35
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
3,153 members
43 reviews
3.8
36
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
by Julian Jaynes
2,470 members
46 reviews
4.2
37
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
by Camille Paglia
2,262 members
21 reviews
3.8
38
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
2,086 members
58 reviews
½ 3.6
39
Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd
1,993 members
42 reviews
½ 3.5
40
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
by Orlando Figes
1,980 members
21 reviews
4.2
41
Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess
1,946 members
39 reviews
4.2
42
The 42nd Parallel
by John Dos Passos
1,849 members
30 reviews
3.8
43
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
by Frank Norris
1,656 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
44
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
by R. D. Laing
1,556 members
15 reviews
3.9
45
The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby
1,452 members
49 reviews
½ 3.7
46
The Street
by Ann Petry
1,442 members
29 reviews
4.1
47
The Outsider
by Colin Wilson
1,331 members
15 reviews
3.9
49
Mr Norris Changes Trains
by Christopher Isherwood
1,202 members
25 reviews
½ 3.7
50
City of Night
by John Rechy
1,136 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
51
In Between the Sheets
by Ian McEwan
992 members
15 reviews
½ 3.3
52
Inside the Whale and Other Essays
by George Orwell
991 members
8 reviews
4
53
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
by Christopher Hitchens
988 members
18 reviews
3.9
54
The Hidden Persuaders
by Vance Packard
972 members
16 reviews
3.8
55
Silence: Lectures and Writings
by John Cage
961 members
5 reviews
4.2
56
Into the Whirlwind
by Eugenia Ginzburg
925 members
17 reviews
4.2
57
Puckoon
by Spike Milligan
868 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
58
Mystery train : images of America in rock 'n' roll music
by Greil Marcus
829 members
7 reviews
3.9
59
Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art
by James Hall
817 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
60
Room at the Top
by John Braine
720 members
14 reviews
½ 3.4
61
Billy Liar: a novel
by Keith Waterhouse
683 members
15 reviews
3.8
62
The Quest for Christa T.
by Christa Wolf
667 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
63
The American Way of Death
by Jessica Mitford
559 members
11 reviews
3.9
64
Metropolitan Life
by Fran Lebowitz
533 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
65
Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, A
by Otto Friedrich
531 members
9 reviews
4.1
66
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
by Anatole Broyard
515 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
67
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
by Peter Guralnick
477 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
434 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
70
In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture
by George Steiner
417 members
7 reviews
4
71
English Journey
by J. B. Priestley
414 members
7 reviews
3.9
72
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
by D. E. Harding
379 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
73
Interviews with Francis Bacon
by David Sylvester
371 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
74
The Bridge
by Hart Crane
308 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
75
Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
by Jon Savage
307 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
76
Selected Poems
by Frank O'Hara
289 members
4 reviews
4.2
77
The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll
by Charlie Gillett
282 members
1 review
½ 4.3
78
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock
by Nik Cohn
262 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
79
Writers at Work
by Malcolm Cowley
245 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
80
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China
by David Kidd
239 members
7 reviews
4.1
81
Tales of Beatnik Glory
by Ed Sanders
185 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
82
The Life And Times Of Little Richard
by Charles White
180 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
83
Infants of the Spring
by Wallace Thurman
151 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
126 members
3 reviews
3.9
86
Strange People
by Frank Edwards
97 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
41 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