David Bowie's Reading List
Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 95 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.
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Favorite books recommended by David Bowie, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/david-bowie-favorite-books/.
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John Lennon · Buy on Amazon
Peter Ackroyd · Buy on Amazon
"There’s a great mysticism in his work. I’ve read everything he’s ever written. That disquieting underbelly that he sees in London, that’s how I perceive it too."
Dante Alighieri · Buy on Amazon
Martin Amis · Buy on Amazon
James Baldwin · Buy on Amazon
Saul Bellow · Buy on Amazon
John Braine · Buy on Amazon
Anatole Broyard · Buy on Amazon
Mikhail Bulgakov (also rec’d by David Bowie , Johnny Depp , Patti Smith & Salman Rushdie ) · Buy on Amazon
Anthony Burgess · Buy on Amazon
John Cage · Buy on Amazon
Albert Camus (also rec’d by Philip Seymour Hoffman ) · Buy on Amazon
Truman Capote (also rec’d by David Bowie , Henry Rollins & Philip Seymour Hoffman ) · Buy on Amazon
Angela Carter · Buy on Amazon
Michael Chabon · Buy on Amazon
Bruce Chatwin · Buy on Amazon
Richard Cork · Buy on Amazon
Malcolm Cowley · Buy on Amazon
Hart Crane · Buy on Amazon
Arthur C. Danto · Buy on Amazon
Don DeLillo · 1985 · Buy on Amazon
Junot Diaz · Buy on Amazon
Alfred Döblin · Buy on Amazon
Frank Edwards · Buy on Amazon
William Faulkner · 1930 · Buy on Amazon
Orlando Figes · Buy on Amazon
F. Scott Fitzgerald · Buy on Amazon
Gustave Flaubert (also rec’d by David Bowie , Ernest Hemingway , Kim Gordon & Philip Roth ) · Buy on Amazon
Otto Friedrich · Buy on Amazon
Charlie Gilette · Buy on Amazon
Eugenia Ginzburg · Buy on Amazon
James A. Hall · Buy on Amazon
Douglas Harding · 1961 · Buy on Amazon
Gerri Hirshey · Buy on Amazon
Christopher Hitchens · Buy on Amazon
Homer · Buy on Amazon
Christopher Isherwood · Buy on Amazon
Susan Jacoby · Buy on Amazon
Jack Kerouac (also rec’d by Bob Dylan & John Lennon ) · Buy on Amazon
David Kidd · Buy on Amazon
Arthur Koestler · Buy on Amazon
R. D. Laing · Buy on Amazon
Giusseppe · Buy on Amazon
Nella Larson · Buy on Amazon
Comte de Lautréamont · Buy on Amazon
Fran Lebowitz · Buy on Amazon
Eliphas Lévi · Buy on Amazon
Wyndham Lewis · Buy on Amazon
Greil Marcus (also rec’d by David Bowie & Kim Gordon ) · Buy on Amazon
Ian McEwan · Buy on Amazon
Spike Milligan · Buy on Amazon
Yukio Mishima · Buy on Amazon
Jessica Mitford · Buy on Amazon
Vladimir Nabokov (also rec’d by Kim Gordon & Patti Smith ) · Buy on Amazon
Howard Norman · Buy on Amazon
Frank Norris (also rec’d by Stephen King ) · Buy on Amazon
Frank O’Hara · Buy on Amazon
George Orwell (also rec’d by John Lennon , Stephen King & Steve Jobs ) · Buy on Amazon
"A political thesis and an impression of the way in another country."
George Orwell · Buy on Amazon
Vance Packard · Buy on Amazon
Elaine Pagels · Buy on Amazon
John Dos Passos · Buy on Amazon
Ann Petry · Buy on Amazon
Alberto Denti di Pirajno · Buy on Amazon
J.B. Priestley · Buy on Amazon
John Rechy · Buy on Amazon
Peter Sadecky · Buy on Amazon
Ed Sanders · Buy on Amazon
Jon Savage · Buy on Amazon
Hubert Selby, Jr. · Buy on Amazon
Muriel Spark · Buy on Amazon
George Steiner · Buy on Amazon
Tom Stoppard · Buy on Amazon
David Sylvester · Buy on Amazon
Rupert Thomson · Buy on Amazon
Wallace Thurman · Buy on Amazon
John Kennedy Toole · Buy on Amazon
Keith Waterhouse · Buy on Amazon
Sarah Waters · 2002 · Buy on Amazon
Evelyn Waugh · Buy on Amazon
Lawrence Weschler · Buy on Amazon
Nathanael West · Buy on Amazon
Charles White · Buy on Amazon
Colin Wilson · Buy on Amazon
Christa Wolf · Buy on Amazon
Richard Wright · Buy on Amazon
Tadanori Yokoo · Buy on Amazon
Howard Zinn · Buy on Amazon