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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 (Susan Jacoby)
2
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
3
The Coast of Utopia (Tom Stoppard)
The Coast of Utopia (Tom Stoppard)
4
Teenage: The Creation of Youth
Teenage: The Creation of Youth
5
Fingersmith (Sarah Waters)
Fingersmith (Sarah Waters)
6
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
7
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (Lawrence Weschler)
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (Lawrence Weschler)
8
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution
9
The Insult
The Insult
10
Wonder Boys (Michael Chabon)
Wonder Boys (Michael Chabon)
11
The Bird Artist (Howard Norman)
The Bird Artist (Howard Norman)
12
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
13
Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective
Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective
14
Sexual Personae (Camille Paglia)
Sexual Personae (Camille Paglia)
15
David Bomberg (Richard Cork)
David Bomberg (Richard Cork)
16
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
17
The Songlines (Bruce Chatwin)
The Songlines (Bruce Chatwin)
18
Hawksmoor (Peter Ackroyd)
Hawksmoor (Peter Ackroyd)
19
Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music
Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music
20
Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
21
Money (Martin Amis)
Money (Martin Amis)
22
White Noise (Don Delillo)
White Noise (Don Delillo)
23
Flaubert's Parrot (Julian Barnes)
Flaubert's Parrot (Julian Barnes)
24
The Life and Times of Little Richard
The Life and Times of Little Richard
25
A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
26
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
27
Interviews With Francis Bacon (David Sylvester)
Interviews With Francis Bacon (David Sylvester)
28
Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)
Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)
29
Earthly Powers (Anthony Burgess)
Earthly Powers (Anthony Burgess)
30
Raw
Raw
31
Viz
Viz
32
The Gnostic Gospels (Elaine Pagels)
The Gnostic Gospels (Elaine Pagels)
33
Metropolitan Life (Fran Lebowitz)
Metropolitan Life (Fran Lebowitz)
34
In Between the Sheets (Ian McEwan)
In Between the Sheets (Ian McEwan)
35
Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
36
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Julian Jaynes)
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Julian Jaynes)
37
Tales of Beatnik Glory (Ed Saunders)
Tales of Beatnik Glory (Ed Saunders)
38
Mystery Train (Greil Marcus)
Mystery Train (Greil Marcus)
39
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (Frank O'Hara)
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (Frank O'Hara)
40
Before the Deluge (Otto Friedrich)
Before the Deluge (Otto Friedrich)
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