David Bowie’s Formative Reading List of Favourite Books

Today is the first anniversary of the passing of singer David Bowie. David Bowie was a passionate reader and as part of a 2013 retrospective of his work at the AGO, Bowie shared 100 of his favourite books.

Working from this list of 75 works from the list gathered by Maria Popova, here are some of David Bowie's reading recommendations that you can find at the Leddy Library for some of your own inspiration:

 

• A clockwork orange.

  Type	Book
  Author	Anthony Burgess
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21203515260002181
  Publisher	Ballantine Books
  Date	1962
  Call Number	PN1997.C655 K8

• A confederacy of dunces /

  Type	Book
  Author	John Kennedy Toole
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21201790580002181
  Publisher	Grove Weidenfeld
  Date	1980
  Call Number	PS3570.O54 C66 1987

• A people's history of the United States, 1492-present

  Type	Book
  Author	Howard Zinn
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21198491360002181
  Publisher	Perennial Classics
  Date	2003
  Call Number	E178 .Z75 2003

• A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution

  Type	Book
  Author	Orlando. Figes
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21209272420002181
  Edition	1st American ed..
  Publisher	Viking
  Date	1997
  Call Number	DK260 .F54 1997

• Before the deluge; a portrait of Berlin in the 1920's.

  Type	Book
  Author	Otto Friedrich
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21216493180002181
  Publisher	Harper & Row
  Date	1972
  Call Number	DD880 .F75

• Beyond the brillo box: the visual arts in post-historical perspective /

  Type	Book
  Author	Arthur C Danto
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21215280380002181
  Publisher	University of California Press
  Date	1992
  Call Number	BH39 .D349 1998

• Billy Liar.

  Type	Book
  Author	Keith Waterhouse
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21229579850002181
  Publisher	M Joseph
  Date	1959
  Call Number	PR6073.A82 B5

• Black boy: a record of childhood and youth /

  Type	Book
  Author	Richard Wright
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:default_scope:UWINDSOR_ALMA21227265290002181
  Publisher	Harper & brothers
  Date	1966
  Call Number	PS3545.R815 Z5 1966

• David Bomberg /

  Type	Book
  Author	Richard Cork
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21220737400002181
  Publisher	Yale University Press
  Date	1987
  Call Number	ND497.B62 C67 1987

• Fingersmith /

  Type	Book
  Author	Sarah Waters
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21200024030002181
  Publisher	Virago
  Date	2002
  Call Number	PR6073.A828 F56 2002

• Fire next time.

  Type	Book
  Author	James Baldwin
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21232548980002181
  Publisher	Dial Press
  Date	1963
  Call Number	E185.61 .B195

• Flaubert's parrot /

  Type	Book
  Author	Julian Barnes
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21214809820002181
  Publisher	Knopf
  Date	1985
  Call Number	PR6052.A6657 F56 1985

• Gnostic Gospels

  Type	Book
  Author	Elaine H Pagels
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21208636830002181
  Publisher	Random House
  Date	1979
  Call Number	BT1390 .P3

• Herzog.

  Type	Book
  Author	Saul Bellow
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21214615880002181
  Publisher	Viking Press
  Date	1964
  Call Number	PS3503.E4488 H45

• In Bluebeard's castle; some notes towards the redefinition of culture

  Type	Book
  Author	George Steiner
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21216493960002181
  Series	T.S. memorial lectures (London, England) ; 1970
  Publisher	Faber & Faber
  Date	1971
  Call Number	CB428 .S85 1971a

• In cold blood: a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences /

  Type	Book
  Author	Truman Capote
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21203964980002181
  Publisher	New American Library of Canada
  Date	1967
  Call Number	HV 6533 .K3 C3 1965

• Inside the whale and other essays /

  Type	Book
  Author	George Orwell
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21217517240002181
  Publisher	Penguin Books in Association with Secker & Warburg
  Date	1969
  Call Number	PR6029.R8 I6 1969

• Interviews with Francis Bacon, 1962-1979

  Type	Book
  Author	David. Sylvester
  Contributor	Francis Bacon
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21193938120002181
  Edition	New and enl. ed..
  Publisher	Thames and Hudson
  Date	1980
  Call Number	ND497.B16 S92 1980

• Journey into the whirlwind /

  Type	Book
  Author	Evgenii︠a︡ Ginzburg
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21214371010002181
  Publisher	Brace & World
  Date	1967
  Call Number	DK268.3 G513

• Lolita: a play /

  Type	Book
  Author	Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21231679310002181
  Publisher	Dramatists Play Service c1984
  Date	1955
  Call Number	PS3551.L25 L6 1984

• Money: a suicide note /

  Type	Book
  Author	Martin Amis
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21229407010002181
  Publisher	J Cape
  Date	1984
  Call Number	PR6051.M5 M6 1984

• Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder /

  Type	Book
  Author	Lawrence Weschler
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21218724870002181
  Publisher	Vintage Books
  Date	1996
  Call Number	AM101.L725 W47 1996

• Mystery train: images of America in rock 'n' roll music /

  Type	Book
  Author	Greil Marcus
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21229219970002181
  Publisher	E P Dutton
  Date	1975
  Call Number	ML3561.R62 M35

• Nights at the circus /

  Type	Book
  Author	Angela Carter
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21224974900002181
  Publisher	Chatto & Windus
  Date	1985
  Call Number	PR6053.A73 N5 1985

• Nineteen eighty-four

  Type	Book
  Author	George Orwell
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21219572720002181
  Series	Everyman's library ; 134
  Publisher	Knopf
  Date	1992
  Call Number	PR6029.R8 N49 1992

• On the road /

  Type	Book
  Author	Jack Kerouac
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21222946320002181
  Publisher	Penguin Books
  Date	1991
  Call Number	PS3521.E735 O5 1991

• Puckoon; a novel,

  Type	Book
  Author	Spike Milligan
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21222321730002181
  Publisher	Penguin Books
  Date	1965
  Call Number	PR6063.I3777 P8 1965

• Room at the top , a novel.

  Type	Book
  Author	John Braine
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21217489750002181
  Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
  Date	1957
  Call Number	PR6052.R265 R6

• Sexual personae.

  Type	Book
  Author	Camille Paglia
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21226974470002181
  Publisher	Yale University Press
  Date	1990
  Call Number	PN751 .P34 1990

• Silence ; lectures and writings.

  Type	Book
  Author	John Cage
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21220684780002181
  Publisher	Wesleyan University Press
  Date	1961
  Call Number	ML60 .C13

• The age of American unreason /

  Type	Book
  Author	Susan Jacoby
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21223890410002181
  Publisher	Pantheon Books
  Date	2008
  Call Number	E169.Z83 J33 2008

• The American way of death.

  Type	Book
  Author	Jessica Mitford
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21231676570002181
  Publisher	Simon and Schuster
  Date	1963
  Call Number	GT3203 .M5

• The bird artist /

  Type	Book
  Author	Howard A Norman
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21212049060002181
  Publisher	Picador USA
  Date	1994
  Call Number	PS8577.O7542 B57 1994

• The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao /

  Type	Book
  Author	Junot Díaz
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21231286680002181
  Publisher	Riverhead Books
  Date	2008
  Call Number	PS 3554 .I259 B75 2008

• The coast of Utopia: [a trilogy] /

  Type	Book
  Author	Tom Stoppard
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21193982680002181
  Publisher	Faber & Faber
  Date	2008
  Call Number	PR6069.T6 C62 2008

• The divided self: a study of sanity and madness.

  Type	Book
  Author	R. D Laing
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21287442890002181
  Publisher	Quadrangle Books
  Date	1969
  Call Number	RC465 .L3 1969

• The hidden persuaders.

  Type	Book
  Author	Vance Packard
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21225929290002181
  Publisher	D McKay Co
  Date	1958
  Call Number	HF5822 .P3

• The leopard.

  Type	Book
  Author	Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21201546470002181
  Date	1960
  Call Number	PQ4843.O53 G3131960

• The master and Margarita /

  Type	Book
  Author	Mikhail Bulgakov
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21225841060002181
  Publisher	Grove Press
  Date	1967
  Call Number	PG3476.B78 M313

• The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind /

  Type	Book
  Author	Julian Jaynes
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21193435040002181
  Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
  Date	1976
  Call Number	BF311 .J36

• The outsider /

  Type	Book
  Author	Colin Wilson
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21209230140002181
  Publisher	Pan Books
  Date	1978
  Call Number	PR6073.I44 O8 1978

• The prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

  Type	Book
  Author	Muriel Spark
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21200639420002181
  Publisher	Macmillan
  Date	1962
  Call Number	PR6037.P29 P7

• The songlines /

  Type	Book
  Author	Bruce Chatwin
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21224973800002181
  Publisher	Cape
  Date	1987
  Call Number	DU105.2 .C43 1987

• The sound of the city: the rise of rock and roll /

  Type	Book
  Author	Charlie Gillett
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21194210750002181
  Publisher	Da Capo Press
  Date	1970
  Call Number	ML3534 .G54 1996

• The street /

  Type	Book
  Author	Ann Petry
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21224895360002181
  Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Co
  Date	1991
  Call Number	PS3531.E933 S75 1991

• The trial of Henry Kissinger /

  Type	Book
  Author	Christopher Hitchens
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21228619430002181
  Publisher	Verso
  Date	2002
  Call Number	E 840.8 .K58 H58 2002

• White noise /

  Type	Book
  Author	Don DeLillo
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21202544120002181
  Publisher	Viking
  Date	1985
  Call Number	PS3554.E4425 W48 1985

• Writers at work , the Paris review interviews

  Type	Book
  URL	http://primo.uwindsor.ca/UWINDSOR:ALMA:UWINDSOR_ALMA21211229380002181
  Publisher	Viking Press
  Date	1958
  Call Number	PN453 .P3