25 Books Read by David Bowie
A look into the reads that kept David Bowie’s imagination buzzing in the background of every reinvention. These books trace the curiosity and inner worlds he never fully put into words.
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The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot · 2018
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes · 2006
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Hubert Selby · 2011
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin · 1992
The Bird Artist
Norman Howard · 2002
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Junot Díaz · 2008
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Yukio Mishima · 1994
Billy Liar
Keith Waterhouse · 2013
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes · 2000
Zanoni
Edward Bulwer Lytton · 2013
The Leopard A Novel
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa · 2007
The Sound of the City
Charlie Gillett · 1971
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 1980
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1994
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark · 2017
White Noise
Don DeLillo · 1999
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 2002
The Odyssey
Homer · 2018
The Iliad
Homer · 2017
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 2010
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald · 2022
On the Road The Original Scroll
Jack Kerouac · 2008
1984
George Orwell · 1950
<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1989
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 2019
