David Bowie's 100 favourite books
The hundred books David Bowie named as his favourites in 2013, when the V&A's David Bowie Is exhibition opened, from Homer to the Beano.
96 books
Books by David Bowie →The best-known books on the list
- Madame Bovary
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert - The Great Gatsby
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald - Iliad
IliadHomer - 1984
1984George Orwell - Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's LoverD. H. Lawrence - The Stranger
The StrangerAlbert Camus - Inferno
InfernoDante Alighieri - McTeague
McTeagueFrank Norris - The Master And Margarita
The Master And MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov - Lolita
LolitaVladimir Nabokov - On The Road
On The RoadJack Kerouac - A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess - Zanoni
ZanoniBaron Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton - In Cold Blood
In Cold BloodTruman Capote - Darkness At Noon
Darkness At NoonArthur Koestler - The Leopard
The LeopardGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - Vile Bodies
Vile BodiesEvelyn Waugh - Herzog
HerzogSaul Bellow - Passing
PassingNella Larsen - Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin AlexanderplatzAlfred Döblin - A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole - Black Boy
Black BoyRichard Wright - As I Lay Dying
As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner - The Day of the Locust
The Day of the LocustNathanael West
All 96 books, by author
- AHawksmoor · Peter Ackroyd
- Inferno · Dante Alighieri
- Money · Martin Amis
- BThe fire next time · James Baldwin
- Flaubert's Parrot · Julian Barnes
- Herzog · Saul Bellow
- Room at the Top a Novel · John Braine
- Kafka was the rage · Anatole Broyard
- The Master And Margarita · Mikhail Bulgakov
- A Clockwork Orange · Anthony Burgess
- Earthly Powers · Anthony Burgess
- CSilence: Lectures And Writing · John Cage
- The Stranger · Albert Camus
- In Cold Blood · Truman Capote
- Nights at the circus · Angela Carter
- Wonder Boys · Michael Chabon
- The Songlines · Bruce Chatwin
- Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock · Nik Cohn
- David Bomberg · Richard Cork
- Writers at work · Malcolm Cowley
- The bridge · Hart Crane
- DBeyond The Brillo Box · Arthur Coleman Danto
- Maldodor · Lautréamont comte de
- White Noise · Don DeLillo
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao · Junot Díaz
- Berlin Alexanderplatz · Alfred Döblin
- EStrange People · Frank Edwards
- The Waste Land · T. S. Eliot
- FAs I Lay Dying · William Faulkner
- A people's tragedy · Orlando Figes
- The Great Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Madame Bovary · Gustave Flaubert
- Before the deluge · Otto Friedrich
- GThe Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll · Charlie Gillett
- Journey Into The Whirlwind · Eugenia Ginzburg
- Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom · Peter Guralnick
- HDictionary of subjects and symbols in art · James Hall
- On Having No Head · D. E. Harding
- Nowhere to run · Gerri Hirshey
- The trial of Henry Kissinger · Christopher Hitchens
- Iliad · Homer
- IMr Norris Changes Trains · Christopher Isherwood
- JThe age of American unreason · Susan Jacoby
- The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind · Julian Jaynes
- KOn The Road · Jack Kerouac
- All The Emperors Horses · David Kidd
- Darkness At Noon · Arthur Koestler
- LThe Divided Self · R. D. Laing
- The Leopard · Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Passing · Nella Larsen
- Lady Chatterley's Lover · D. H. Lawrence
- Metropolitan Life · Fran Lebowitz
- Transcendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual · Eliphas Lévi
- Blast · Wyndham Lewis
- Zanoni · Baron Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton
- MMystery train · Greil Marcus
- In Between the Sheets · Ian McEwan
- Puckoon · Spike Milligan
- The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea · Yukio Mishima
- The American way of death · Jessica Mitford
- NLolita · Vladimir Nabokov
- The bird artist · Howard A. Norman
- McTeague · Frank Norris
- OSelected Poems · Frank O'Hara
- 1984 · George Orwell
- Inside the whale and other essays · George Orwell
- PThe hidden persuaders · Vance Packard
- The gnostic Gospels · Elaine Pagels
- Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson · Camille Paglia
- The 42nd Parallel · John Dos Passos
- The street · Ann Lane Petry
- A Grave for a Dolphin · Alberto Denti di Pirajno
- English Journey · J. B. Priestley
- RCity of Night · John Rechy
- SOctobriana, and the Russian underground · Peter Sadecky
- Tales Of Beatnik Glory · Ed Sanders
- Teenage · Jon Savage
- Last Exit to Brooklyn · Jr Hubert Selby
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie · Muriel Spark
- In Bluebeard's castle · George Steiner
- The Coast of Utopia (Box Set) · Tom Stoppard
- Interviews with Francis Bacon · David Sylvester
- TThe Insult · Rupert Thomson
- Infants of the spring · Wallace Thurman
- A Confederacy of Dunces · John Kennedy Toole
- WBilly Liar · Keith Waterhouse
- Fingersmith · Sarah Waters
- Vile Bodies · Evelyn Waugh
- Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder · Lawrence Weschler
- The Day of the Locust · Nathanael West
- The life and times of Little Richard · Charles White
- The outsider · Colin Wilson
- The Quest For Christa T · Christa Wolf
- Black Boy · Richard Wright
- YTadanori Yokoo · Tadanori Yokoo
- ZA People's History of the United States · Howard Zinn
Titles we couldn't find (4)
These are on the list too, but they have no page here yet.
- Beano
- Private Eye
- Raw
- Viz