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
1984
by George Orwell
81,796 members
1,267 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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2
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
72,014 members
1,163 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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3
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
27,917 members
385 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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4
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
31,714 members
557 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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5
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
23,688 members
466 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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6
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
21,327 members
472 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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7
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
13,062 members
485 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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8
The Iliad
by Homer
39,861 members
386 reviews
4
Member
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9
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
35,447 members
501 reviews
3.9
Member
LovingLit
10
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
25,841 members
386 reviews
4
Member
LovingLit
11
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
14,759 members
215 reviews
3.9
Member
LovingLit
12
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
14,735 members
158 reviews
4.2
Member
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13
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
10,987 members
173 reviews
3.8
Member
LovingLit
14
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
7,811 members
285 reviews
4
Member
LovingLit
15
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
6,559 members
147 reviews
4.1
Member
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16
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
5,196 members
169 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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17
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,189 members
62 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
LovingLit
18
Wonder Boys
by Michael Chabon
4,303 members
104 reviews
4
Member
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19
Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
3,926 members
73 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
LovingLit
20
The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
3,540 members
57 reviews
3.9
Member
LovingLit
21
Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby Jr.
3,012 members
34 reviews
3.8
Member
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22
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
2,992 members
57 reviews
3.8
Member
LovingLit
23
Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
2,660 members
51 reviews
3.9
Member
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24
The Bird Artist
by Howard Norman
1,051 members
33 reviews
3.8
Member
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25
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
1,043 members
24 reviews
4
Member
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26
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
26,172 members
390 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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27
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
13,619 members
220 reviews
½ 3.5
28
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
5,375 members
100 reviews
4
29
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
5,189 members
68 reviews
4
30
The Gnostic Gospels
by Elaine Pagels
4,894 members
51 reviews
3.9
31
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
4,754 members
132 reviews
½ 4.4
32
Vile Bodies
by Evelyn Waugh
3,484 members
61 reviews
3.8
33
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,288 members
55 reviews
½ 3.6
34
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
2,711 members
40 reviews
3.8
35
Passing
by Nella Larsen
2,693 members
102 reviews
3.8
36
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
by Julian Jaynes
2,205 members
41 reviews
4.2
37
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
by Camille Paglia
2,034 members
17 reviews
3.8
38
Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd
1,863 members
42 reviews
½ 3.5
39
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
1,858 members
49 reviews
½ 3.6
40
Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess
1,789 members
38 reviews
4.2
41
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
by Orlando Figes
1,694 members
19 reviews
4.2
42
The 42nd Parallel
by John Dos Passos
1,631 members
22 reviews
3.8
43
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
by Frank Norris
1,505 members
30 reviews
½ 3.6
44
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
by R. D. Laing
1,370 members
14 reviews
3.9
45
The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby
1,353 members
47 reviews
½ 3.7
46
The Outsider
by Colin Wilson
1,211 members
14 reviews
3.9
48
The Street
by Ann Petry
1,185 members
23 reviews
4.1
49
Mr Norris Changes Trains
by Christopher Isherwood
1,056 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
50
City of Night
by John Rechy
1,013 members
8 reviews
3.8
51
In Between the Sheets
by Ian McEwan
893 members
12 reviews
½ 3.3
52
The Hidden Persuaders
by Vance Packard
877 members
15 reviews
3.8
53
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
by Christopher Hitchens
874 members
16 reviews
3.9
54
Silence: Lectures and Writings
by John Cage
834 members
3 reviews
4.2
55
Into the Whirlwind
by Eugenia Ginzburg
825 members
14 reviews
4.2
56
Inside the Whale and Other Essays
by George Orwell
796 members
5 reviews
4
57
Puckoon
by Spike Milligan
793 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
58
Mystery train : images of America in rock 'n' roll music
by Greil Marcus
749 members
6 reviews
3.9
59
Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art
by James Hall
714 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
60
Room at the Top
by John Braine
653 members
13 reviews
½ 3.4
61
Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse
631 members
14 reviews
3.9
62
The Quest for Christa T.
by Christa Wolf
605 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
63
The American Way of Death
by Jessica Mitford
517 members
9 reviews
3.9
64
Metropolitan Life
by Fran Lebowitz
495 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
65
Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s
by Otto Friedrich
485 members
8 reviews
4.1
66
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
by Anatole Broyard
461 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
67
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
by Peter Guralnick
428 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
68
The Insult
by Rupert Thomson
409 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
69
The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage
by Tom Stoppard
394 members
2 reviews
4
70
In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture
by George Steiner
369 members
5 reviews
4.1
71
English Journey
by J. B. Priestley
364 members
6 reviews
4
72
Interviews with Francis Bacon
by David Sylvester
318 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
73
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
by Douglas E. Harding
318 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
74
The Bridge
by Hart Crane
268 members
2 reviews
3.8
75
Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
by Jon Savage
266 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
76
Selected Poems
by Frank O'Hara
264 members
2 reviews
4.2
77
The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll
by Charlie Gillett
255 members
1 review
4.2
78
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock
by Nik Cohn
245 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
79
Writers at Work
by Malcolm Cowley
221 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
80
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China
by David Kidd
209 members
6 reviews
4.2
81
Tales of Beatnik Glory
by Ed Sanders
177 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
82
The Life and Times of Little Richard
by Charles White
156 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
83
Infants of the Spring
by Wallace Thurman
132 members
1 review
½ 3.7
84
Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective
by Arthur C. Danto
124 members
2 reviews
3.8
85
Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music
by Gerri Hirshey
116 members
2 reviews
3.9
86
Strange People
by Frank Edwards
90 members
1 review
½ 3.6
87
A Grave for a Dolphin
by Alberto Denti di Pirajno
39 members
1 review
4
88
Octobriana, and the Russian underground
by Peter Sadecky
37 members
3
89
David Bomberg
by Richard Cork
33 members
90
Complete Tadanori Yokoo (Japanese Edition)
by Tadanori Yokoo
16 members
3
91
Master i Margarita. Sobach'e Serdce
by Mikhail Bulgakov
15 members
5
92
Raw No. 2: the Graphix Magazine for Damned Intellectuals
by Art Spiegelman
10 members
4
93
Private Eye
by Private Eye
4 members
94
Blast 1 2 &3
by Wyndham Lewis
1 member