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Basquiat's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 12 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

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Favorite books (2021)

Favorite books recommended by Basquiat, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/basquiat-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

Gray’s Anatomy

Susan Standring · Buy on Amazon

Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy

Robert Farris Thompson · Buy on Amazon

"Probably the best book I ever read on African art."

H. W. Janson · Buy on Amazon

African Rock Art

Burchard Brentjes · Buy on Amazon

The Complete Notebooks

Leonardo da Vinci · Buy on Amazon

Symbol Sourcebook

Henry Dreyfuss · Buy on Amazon

Artistic Anatomy

Paul Richer · Buy on Amazon

Bird Lives! The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie ‘Yardbird’ Parker

Ross Russell · Buy on Amazon

Black Beauty, White Heat: A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz

Frank Driggs & Harris Lewine · Buy on Amazon

William S. Burroughs (also rec’d by Kurt Cobain & Richey Edwards ) · Buy on Amazon

"He’s my favourite living author. Definitely. I think it’s really close to what Mark Twain writes, as far as the point of view. It’s pretty similar, I think."

The Subterraneans

Jack Kerouac (also rec’d by Jim Morrison ) · Buy on Amazon

Herman Melville (also rec’d by Bob Dylan , Bruce Springsteen , John Irving , Norman Mailer , Patti Smith , Penn Jillette , Ray Bradbury , Steve Jobs & Tilda Swinton ) · Buy on Amazon

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