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David Bowie's Formative Reading List

By Maria Popova at the Marginalian:
"A retrospective of the artist's work at the Art Gallery of Ontario featured 75 of Bowie's must-read books — a fascinating tour of his cross-disciplinary curiosity and the fuel for his combinatorial creativity. Although all but two of the books were published within Bowie's lifetime — with the exceptions published within two years of his birth — he makes up for the presentism bias with an extraordinary diversity of disciplines, topics, and sensibilities, ranging from poetry to history to theory of mind, with plenty of fiction and a few magazines for good measure."
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The Age of American Unreason (Susan Jacoby)
The Age of American Unreason
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Susan Jacoby
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz)
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2
Junot Diaz
The Coast of Utopia (Tom Stoppard)
The Coast of Utopia
3
Tom Stoppard
Teenage: The Creation of Youth
Teenage: The Creation of Youth
4
Fingersmith (Sarah Waters)
Fingersmith
5
Sarah Waters
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
6
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (Lawrence Weschler)
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
7
Lawrence Weschler
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution
8
The Insult
The Insult
9
Wonder Boys (Michael Chabon)
Wonder Boys
10
Michael Chabon
The Bird Artist (Howard Norman)
The Bird Artist
11
Howard Norman
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
12
Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective
Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective
13
Sexual Personae (Camille Paglia)
Sexual Personae
14
Camille Paglia
David Bomberg (Richard Cork)
David Bomberg
15
Richard Cork
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
16
The Songlines (Bruce Chatwin)
The Songlines
17
Bruce Chatwin
Hawksmoor (Peter Ackroyd)
Hawksmoor
18
Peter Ackroyd
Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music
Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music
19
Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
Nights at the Circus
20
Angela Carter
Money (Martin Amis)
Money
21
Martin Amis
White Noise (Don Delillo)
White Noise
22
Don Delillo
Flaubert's Parrot (Julian Barnes)
Flaubert's Parrot
23
Julian Barnes
The Life and Times of Little Richard
The Life and Times of Little Richard
24
A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
A People's History of the United States
25
Howard Zinn
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
26
John Kennedy Toole
Interviews With Francis Bacon (David Sylvester)
Interviews With Francis Bacon
27
David Sylvester
Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)
Darkness at Noon
28
Arthur Koestler
Earthly Powers (Anthony Burgess)
Earthly Powers
29
Anthony Burgess
Raw
Raw
30
Viz
Viz
31
The Gnostic Gospels (Elaine Pagels)
The Gnostic Gospels
32
Elaine Pagels
Metropolitan Life (Fran Lebowitz)
Metropolitan Life
33
Fran Lebowitz
In Between the Sheets (Ian McEwan)
In Between the Sheets
34
Ian McEwan
Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
35
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Julian Jaynes)
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
36
Julian Jaynes
Tales of Beatnik Glory (Ed Saunders)
Tales of Beatnik Glory
37
Ed Saunders
Mystery Train (Greil Marcus)
Mystery Train
38
Greil Marcus
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (Frank O'Hara)
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
39
Frank O'Hara
Before the Deluge (Otto Friedrich)
Before the Deluge
40
Otto Friedrich
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