David Bowie's Top 100

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David Bowie gives the world a glimpse into what it's like to read as David Bowie with this list of his 100 favorite books. This was released as part of The Art Gallery of Ontario's leg of the David Bowie Is exhibition.
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,953 members
515 reviews
4.1
14 Members
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,630 members
575 reviews
3.9
13 Members
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
93,924 members
1,447 reviews
4.2
13 Members
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
28,565 members
415 reviews
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10 Members
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
15,259 members
241 reviews
½ 3.5
9 Members
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
23,500 members
508 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
14,420 members
519 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
5,856 members
189 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,152 members
633 reviews
4.1
10 Members
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
30,601 members
423 reviews
½ 3.6
9 Members
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Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
8,625 members
310 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
29,702 members
426 reviews
½ 3.7
8 Members
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The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
1,167 members
25 reviews
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7 Members
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As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
16,835 members
238 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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The Iliad
by Homer
47,329 members
445 reviews
4
8 Members
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Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
27,539 members
229 reviews
4.1
7 Members
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Passing
by Nella Larsen
3,538 members
133 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd
1,988 members
41 reviews
½ 3.5
6 Members
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
12,355 members
182 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
2,070 members
57 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
7,601 members
169 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
4,295 members
80 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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Herzog
by Saul Bellow
5,691 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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Wonder Boys
by Michael Chabon
4,577 members
105 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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The Street
by Ann Petry
1,426 members
29 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
3,120 members
43 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
17,158 members
172 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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The Gnostic Gospels
by Elaine Pagels
5,452 members
56 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
3,658 members
67 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
6,096 members
165 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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Vile Bodies
by Evelyn Waugh
3,643 members
67 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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Mr Norris Changes Trains
by Christopher Isherwood
1,195 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby Jr.
3,302 members
35 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
by R. D. Laing
1,545 members
15 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Bird Artist
by Howard Norman
1,140 members
35 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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In Between the Sheets
by Ian McEwan
991 members
15 reviews
½ 3.3
3 Members
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The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby
1,451 members
49 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin
3,840 members
65 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Silence: Lectures and Writings
by John Cage
953 members
5 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Inside the Whale and Other Essays
by George Orwell
983 members
8 reviews
4
3 Members
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Into the Whirlwind
by Eugenia Ginzburg
919 members
16 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
by Orlando Figes
1,955 members
21 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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The Insult
by Rupert Thomson
433 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
by Camille Paglia
2,249 members
21 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The 42nd Parallel
by John Dos Passos
1,840 members
30 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Nights at the Circus
by Angela Carter
2,937 members
56 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Metropolitan Life
by Fran Lebowitz
535 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,581 members
59 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Billy Liar: a novel
by Keith Waterhouse
678 members
15 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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City of Night
by John Rechy
1,134 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll
by Charlie Gillett
283 members
1 review
½ 4.3
2 Members
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The Outsider
by Colin Wilson
1,321 members
15 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Bridge
by Hart Crane
306 members
2 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China
by David Kidd
241 members
7 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Maldoror
by Comte de Lautréamont
816 members
7 reviews
4
2 Members
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Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
5,957 members
120 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage
by Tom Stoppard
454 members
3 reviews
3.9
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Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
by Jon Savage
307 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
by Christopher Hitchens
979 members
19 reviews
3.9
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Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
by Anatole Broyard
514 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective
by Arthur C. Danto
140 members
2 reviews
3.8
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David Bomberg
by Richard Cork
42 members
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Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
by Peter Guralnick
477 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
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Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music
by Gerri Hirshey
126 members
3 reviews
3.9
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68
The Life And Times Of Little Richard
by Charles White
179 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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Interviews with Francis Bacon
by David Sylvester
371 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
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70
Raw No. 1: The Graphix Magazine of Postponed Suicides
by Art Spiegelman
14 members
½ 4.4
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71
Writers at Work
by Malcolm Cowley
244 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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72
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
by Julian Jaynes
2,446 members
46 reviews
4.2
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73
Tales of Beatnik Glory
by Ed Sanders
186 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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Mystery train : images of America in rock 'n' roll music
by Greil Marcus
830 members
7 reviews
3.8
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Selected Poems
by Frank O'Hara
287 members
3 reviews
4.2
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In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture
by George Steiner
415 members
7 reviews
4
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Octobriana, and the Russian underground
by Peter Sadecky
39 members
3
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78
The Quest for Christa T.
by Christa Wolf
664 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
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79
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock
by Nik Cohn
262 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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80
Puckoon
by Spike Milligan
863 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
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81
The American Way of Death
by Jessica Mitford
555 members
11 reviews
3.9
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82
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
by D. E. Harding
380 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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83
The Hidden Persuaders
by Vance Packard
967 members
16 reviews
3.8
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84
Room at the Top
by John Braine
716 members
15 reviews
½ 3.4
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85
A Grave for a Dolphin
by Alberto Denti di Pirajno
49 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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86
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
5,874 members
73 reviews
4
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87
Transcendental Magic
by Éliphas Lévi
775 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
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88
Zanoni
by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
317 members
8 reviews
3.9
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89
Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, A
by Otto Friedrich
525 members
8 reviews
4.1
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90
Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess
1,937 members
39 reviews
4.2
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91
English Journey
by J. B. Priestley
409 members
6 reviews
3.9
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92
Strange People
by Frank Edwards
98 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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93
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
by Frank Norris
1,644 members
31 reviews
½ 3.7
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94
Infants of the Spring
by Wallace Thurman
152 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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95
Blast 1
by Wyndham Lewis
128 members
1 review
4.1
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96
Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art
by James Hall
812 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
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97
Complete Tadanori Yokoo (Japanese Edition)
by Tadanori Yokoo
21 members
2 reviews
3
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