David Bowie

O curador Geoffrey Marsh descreve David Bowie, um dos músicos mais influentes das últimas décadas, como um "leitor voraz". Foi divulgada uma lista dos 100 livros eleitos pelo músico britânico, o que revela profundidade intelectual e uma amplitude de interesses. Eis algumas das obras que seleccionei.
The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby
The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens
A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, Orlando Figes
The Insult, Rupert Thomson
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
The Bird Artist, Howard Norman 
Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Anatole Broyard
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia
The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin
Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music, Gerri Hirshey
Money, Martin Amis
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes
Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess
Tales of Beatnik Glory, Ed Saunders
In Bluebeard’s Castle : Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture, George Steiner
Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
City of Night, John Rechy
Herzog, Saul Bellow
The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Inside the Whale and Other Essays, George Orwell
Silence: Lectures and Writing, John Cage
The Leopard, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard
The Outsider, Colin Wilson
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker
The Outsider, Albert Camus
The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell
The Bridge, Hart Crane
Inferno, from the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
The Iliad, Homero