[np] How to read like Bowie

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/special_feature_how_read_bowie


      David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books:

/The Age of American Unreason/, *Susan Jacoby*, 2008

/The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao/, *Junot Diaz*, 2007

/The Coast of Utopia (trilogy)/, *Tom Stoppard*, 2007

/Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945/, *Jon Savage*, 2007

/Fingersmith/, *Sarah Waters*, 2002

/The Trial of Henry Kissinger/, *Christopher Hitchens*, 2001

/Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder/, *Lawrence Weschler*, 1997

/A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924/, *Orlando Figes*, 
1997

/The Insult/, *Rupert Thomson*, 1996

/Wonder Boys/, *Michael Chabon*, 1995

/The Bird Artist/, *Howard Norman*, 1994

/Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir/, *Anatole Broyard*, 1993

/Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective/, 
*Arthur C. Danto*, 1992

/Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson/, 
*Camille Paglia*, 1990

/David Bomberg/, *Richard Cork*, 1988

/Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom/, 
*Peter Guralnick*, 1986

/The Songlines/, *Bruce Chatwin*, 1986

/Hawksmoor/, *Peter Ackroyd*, 1985

/Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music/, *Gerri Hirshey*, 1984

/Nights at the Circus/, *Angela Carter*, 1984

/Money/, *Martin Amis*, 1984

/White Noise/, *Don DeLillo*, 1984

/Flaubert’s Parrot/, *Julian Barnes*, 1984

/The Life and Times of Little Richard/, *Charles White*, 1984

/A People’s History of the United States/, *Howard Zinn*, 1980

/A Confederacy of Dunces/, *John Kennedy Toole*, 1980

/Interviews with Francis Bacon/, *David Sylvester*, 1980

/Darkness at Noon/, *Arthur Koestler*, 1980

/Earthly Powers/, *Anthony Burgess*, 1980

/Raw/ (a ‘graphix magazine’) 1980-91

/Viz/ (magazine) 1979 –

/The Gnostic Gospels/, *Elaine Pagels*, 1979

/Metropolitan Life/, *Fran Lebowitz*, 1978

/In Between the Sheets/, *Ian McEwan*, 1978

/Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews/, ed. *Malcolm Cowley*, 1977

/The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind/, 
*Julian Jaynes*, 1976

/Tales of Beatnik Glory/, *Ed Saunders*, 1975

/Mystery Train/, *Greil Marcus*, 1975

/Selected Poems/, *Frank O’Hara*, 1974

/Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s/, *Otto 
Friedrich*, 1972

/In Bluebeard’s Castle : Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of 
Culture/, *George Steiner*, 1971

/Octobriana and the Russian Underground/, *Peter Sadecky*, 1971

/The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll/, *Charlie Gillete*, 1970

/The Quest For Christa T/, *Christa Wolf*, 1968

/Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock/, *Nik Cohn*, 1968

/The Master and Margarita/, *Mikhail Bulgakov*, 1967

/Journey into the Whirlwind/, *Eugenia Ginzburg*, 1967

/Last Exit to Brooklyn/, *Hubert Selby Jr.* , 1966

/In Cold Blood/, *Truman Capote*, 1965

/City of Night/, *John Rechy*, 1965

/Herzog/, *Saul Bellow*, 1964

/Puckoon/, *Spike Milligan*, 1963

/The American Way of Death/, *Jessica Mitford*, 1963

/The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea/, *Yukio Mishima*, 1963

/The Fire Next Time/, *James Baldwin*, 1963

/A Clockwork Orange/, *Anthony Burgess*, 1962

/Inside the Whale and Other Essays/, *George Orwell*, 1962

/The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie/, *Muriel Spark*, 1961

/Private Eye/ (magazine) 1961 –

/On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious/, *Douglas 
Harding*, 1961

/Silence: Lectures and Writing/, *John Cage*, 1961

/Strange People/, *Frank Edwards*, 1961

/The Divided Self/, *R. D. Laing*, 1960

/All The Emperor’s Horses/, *David Kidd*,1960

/Billy Liar/, *Keith Waterhouse*, 1959

/The Leopard/, *Giuseppe Di Lampedusa*, 1958

/On The Road/, *Jack Kerouac*, 1957

/The Hidden Persuaders/, *Vance Packard*, 1957

/Room at the Top/, *John Braine*, 1957

/A Grave for a Dolphin/, *Alberto Denti di Pirajno*, 1956

/The Outsider/, *Colin Wilson*, 1956

/Lolita/, *Vladimir Nabokov*, 1955

/Nineteen Eighty-Four/, *George Orwell*, 1948

/The Street/, *Ann Petry*, 1946

/Black Boy/, *Richard Wright*, 1945

/The Portable Dorothy Parker/, *Dorothy Parker*, 1944

/The Outsider/, *Albert Camus*, 1942

/The Day of the Locust/, *Nathanael West*, 1939

/The Beano/, (comic) 1938 –

/The Road to Wigan Pier/, *George Orwell*, 1937

/Mr. Norris Changes Trains/, *Christopher Isherwood*, 1935

/English Journey/, *J.B. Priestley*, 1934

/Infants of the Spring/, *Wallace Thurman*, 1932

/The Bridge/, *Hart Crane*, 1930

/Vile Bodies/, *Evelyn Waugh*, 1930

/As I lay Dying/, *William Faulkner*, 1930

/The 42nd Parallel/, *John Dos Passos*, 1930

/Berlin Alexanderplatz/, *Alfred Döblin*, 1929

/Passing/, *Nella Larsen*, 1929

/Lady Chatterley’s Lover/, *D.H. Lawrence*, 1928

/The Great Gatsby/, *F. Scott Fitzgerald*, 1925

/The Waste Land/, *T.S. Eliot*, 1922

/BLAST/, ed. *Wyndham Lewis*, 1914-15

/McTeague/, *Frank Norris*, 1899

/Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual/, *Eliphas Lévi*, 1896

/Les Chants de Maldoror/, *Lautréamont*, 1869

/Madame Bovary/, *Gustave Flaubert*, 1856

/Zanoni/, *Edward Bulwer-Lytton*, 1842

/Inferno, from the Divine Comedy/, *Dante Alighieri*, about 1308-1321

/The Iliad/, *Homer*, about 800 BC


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