El músico británico, David Bowie, dio a conocer una lista con sus 100 libros favoritos.

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El músico y compositor de rock británico, David Bowie, dio a conocer una lista con sus 100 libros favoritos.

A propósito de una exhibición que expondrá alrededor de 300 piezas de los archivos personales de Bowie, como; instrumentos, vestuario para conciertos, diarios, letras de canciones, setlists escritos a mano, libros o sketches.

Geoffrey Marsh y Victoria Broakckes, curadores de la mencionada exhibición compartieron la lista de las publicaciones que según Bowie tenemos que leer.

Los 100 libros que tenemos que leer según Bowie:

1. The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby, 2008

2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz, 2007

3. The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard, 2007

4. Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage, 2007

5. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters, 2002

6. The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens, 2001

7. Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler, 1997

8. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes, 1997

9. The Insult, Rupert Thomson, 1996

10. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon, 1995

11. The Bird Artist, Howard Norman, 1994

12. Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Anatole Broyard, 1993

13. Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, Arthur C. Danto, 1992

14. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia, 1990

15. David Bomberg, Richard Cork, 1988

16. Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Peter Guralnick, 1986

17. The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin, 1986

18. Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd, 1985

19. Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music, Gerri Hirshey, 1984

20. Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter, 1984

21. Money, Martin Amis, 1984

22. White Noise, Don DeLillo, 1984

23. Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes, 1984

24. The Life and Times of Little Richard, Charles White, 1984

25. A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn, 1980

26. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980

27. Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester, 1980

28. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler, 1980

29. Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess, 1980

30. Raw (a ‘graphix magazine’) 1980-91

31. Viz (magazine) 1979 –

32. The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels, 1979

33. Metropolitan Life, Fran Lebowitz, 1978

34. In Between the Sheets, Ian McEwan, 1978

35. Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, ed. Malcolm Cowley, 1977

36. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, 1976

37. Tales of Beatnik Glory, Ed Saunders, 1975

38. Mystery Train, Greil Marcus, 1975

39. Selected Poems, Frank O’Hara, 1974

40. Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, Otto Friedrich, 1972

41. In Bluebeard’s Castle : Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture, George Steiner, 1971

42. Octobriana and the Russian Underground, Peter Sadecky, 1971

43. The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Charlie Gillete, 1970

44. The Quest For Christa T, Christa Wolf, 1968

45. Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, Nik Cohn, 1968

46. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967

47. Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg, 1967

48. Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr. , 1966

49. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, 1965

50. City of Night, John Rechy, 1965

51. Herzog, Saul Bellow, 1964

52. Puckoon, Spike Milligan, 1963

53. The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford, 1963

54. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima, 1963

55. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, 1963

56. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962

57. Inside the Whale and Other Essays, George Orwell, 1962

58. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961

59. Private Eye (magazine) 1961 –

60. On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Douglas Harding, 1961

61. Silence: Lectures and Writing, John Cage, 1961

62. Strange People, Frank Edwards, 1961

63. The Divided Self, R. D. Laing, 1960

64. All The Emperor’s Horses, David Kidd,1960

65. Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse, 1959

66. The Leopard, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, 1958

67. On The Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957

68. The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard, 1957

69. Room at the Top, John Braine, 1957

70. A Grave for a Dolphin, Alberto Denti di Pirajno, 1956

71. The Outsider, Colin Wilson, 1956

72. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955

73. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1949

74. The Street, Ann Petry, 1946

75. Black Boy, Richard Wright, 1945

76. The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker, 1944
77. The Outsider, Albert Camus, 1942
78. The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West, 1939
79. The Beano, (comic) 1938 –
80. The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell, 1937
81. Mr. Norris Changes Trains, Christopher Isherwood, 1935
82. English Journey, J.B. Priestley, 1934
83. Infants of the Spring, Wallace Thurman, 1932
84. The Bridge, Hart Crane, 1930
85. Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh, 1930
86. As I lay Dying, William Faulkner, 1930
87. The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos, 1930
88. Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin, 1929
89. Passing, Nella Larsen, 1929
90. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence, 1928
91. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
92. The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922
93. BLAST, ed. Wyndham Lewis, 1914-15
94. McTeague, Frank Norris, 1899
95. Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual, Eliphas Lévi, 1896
96. Les Chants de Maldoror, Lautréamont, 1869
97. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, 1856
98. Zanoni, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1842
99. Inferno, from the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, about 1308-1321
100. The Iliad, Homer, about 800 BC