David Bowie's List of Top 100 Books

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The David Bowie retrospective exhibition "David Bowie Is" included this list of 100 of his favorite books. Bowie's list appears to be unranked.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
77,290 members
1,223 reviews
4.2
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
67,984 members
1,104 reviews
3.9
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
26,877 members
369 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
30,400 members
536 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
22,435 members
443 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
20,567 members
451 reviews
3.9
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
12,531 members
471 reviews
3.8
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The Iliad
by Homer
37,060 members
364 reviews
4
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
33,683 members
483 reviews
3.9
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10
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
24,765 members
375 reviews
4
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A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
14,102 members
147 reviews
4.2
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12
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
14,084 members
209 reviews
3.9
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13
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
10,540 members
161 reviews
3.8
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14
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
7,570 members
278 reviews
4
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15
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
6,212 members
145 reviews
4.1
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Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,004 members
59 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
4,963 members
162 reviews
½ 3.7
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Wonder Boys
by Michael Chabon
4,199 members
97 reviews
4
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Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
3,799 members
71 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
3,401 members
56 reviews
3.9
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby Jr.
2,882 members
35 reviews
3.8
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
2,769 members
55 reviews
3.8
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Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
2,540 members
48 reviews
3.9
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The Bird Artist
by Howard Norman
1,018 members
33 reviews
3.8
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The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
970 members
23 reviews
4
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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
24,942 members
370 reviews
½ 3.7
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
12,975 members
208 reviews
½ 3.5
28
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
5,142 members
94 reviews
4
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Black Boy
by Richard Wright
4,912 members
66 reviews
4
30
The Gnostic Gospels
by Elaine Pagels
4,689 members
45 reviews
3.9
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
4,379 members
118 reviews
½ 4.3
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Vile Bodies
by Evelyn Waugh
3,343 members
60 reviews
3.8
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Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,150 members
52 reviews
½ 3.6
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
2,572 members
37 reviews
3.8
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Passing
by Nella Larsen
2,412 members
91 reviews
3.8
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
by Julian Jaynes
2,093 members
41 reviews
4.2
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
by Camille Paglia
1,955 members
15 reviews
3.8
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Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd
1,795 members
38 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
1,779 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
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Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess
1,731 members
35 reviews
4.2
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A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
by Orlando Figes
1,577 members
19 reviews
4.2
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The 42nd Parallel
by John Dos Passos
1,562 members
21 reviews
3.8
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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
by Frank Norris
1,462 members
30 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby
1,306 members
47 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
by R. D. Laing
1,291 members
12 reviews
3.9
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The Outsider
by Colin Wilson
1,160 members
14 reviews
3.9
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The Street
by Ann Petry
1,087 members
22 reviews
4.1
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Mr Norris Changes Trains
by Christopher Isherwood
1,007 members
25 reviews
½ 3.7
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City of Night
by John Rechy
970 members
9 reviews
3.8
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In Between the Sheets
by Ian McEwan
848 members
12 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Hidden Persuaders
by Vance Packard
837 members
13 reviews
3.8
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
by Christopher Hitchens
834 members
16 reviews
3.9
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Silence: Lectures and Writings
by John Cage
793 members
3 reviews
4.2
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Puckoon
by Spike Milligan
764 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
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Into the Whirlwind
by Eugenia Ginzburg
749 members
13 reviews
4.1
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Mystery train : images of America in rock 'n' roll music
by Greil Marcus
712 members
7 reviews
3.9
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Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art
by James Hall
680 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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Inside the Whale and Other Essays
by George Orwell
630 members
4 reviews
4
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Room at the Top
by John Braine
630 members
13 reviews
½ 3.4
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Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse
605 members
13 reviews
3.9
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The Quest for Christa T.
by Christa Wolf
579 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
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The American Way of Death
by Jessica Mitford
507 members
9 reviews
3.9
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Metropolitan Life
by Fran Lebowitz
482 members
6 reviews
3.8
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Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s
by Otto Friedrich
461 members
8 reviews
4.1
66
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
by Anatole Broyard
447 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
67
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
by Peter Guralnick
414 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Insult
by Rupert Thomson
396 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage
by Tom Stoppard
378 members
2 reviews
4
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In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture
by George Steiner
349 members
5 reviews
4
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English Journey
by J. B. Priestley
341 members
5 reviews
4
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On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
by Douglas E. Harding
303 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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Interviews with Francis Bacon
by David Sylvester
297 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Bridge
by Hart Crane
258 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Selected Poems
by Frank O'Hara
257 members
2 reviews
4.2
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Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
by Jon Savage
254 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll
by Charlie Gillett
245 members
1 review
4.1
78
Awopbopaloobop alopbamboom : the golden age of rock
by Nik Cohn
236 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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Writers at Work
by Malcolm Cowley
214 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
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Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China
by David Kidd
202 members
7 reviews
4.2
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Tales of Beatnik Glory
by Ed Sanders
167 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Life and Times of Little Richard
by Charles White
142 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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Infants of the Spring
by Wallace Thurman
122 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music
by Gerri Hirshey
115 members
2 reviews
4
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Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective
by Arthur C. Danto
115 members
1 review
3.8
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Strange People
by Frank Edwards
88 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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A Grave for a Dolphin
by Alberto Denti di Pirajno
39 members
1 review
4
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Octobriana, and the Russian underground
by Peter Sadecky
34 members
3
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David Bomberg
by Richard Cork
29 members
90
Complete Tadanori Yokoo (Japanese Edition)
by Tadanori Yokoo
15 members
3
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Master i Margarita. Sobach'e Serdce
by Mikhail Bulgakov
13 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