Na liście stu ulubionych książek David Bowie umieścił "Mistrza i Małgorzatę" Bułhakowa, "Mechaniczną pomarańczę" Burgessa i "W drodze" Kerouaca, ale też "Z zimną krwią" Capote'a, "Ciemność w południe" Koestlera, a nawet wiersze O'Hary i eseje o muzyce Cage'a. Najstarsza książka z listy została wydana w 1945 r., najnowsza w 2008 r.

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David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books:

The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby, 2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz, 2007 - Krótki i niezwykły żywot Oscara Wao (Díaz Junot)
The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard, 2007
Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage, 2007
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters, 2002 - Złodziejka (Waters Sarah)
The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens, 2001
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler, 1997
A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes, 1997 - Tragedia narodu: Rewolucja rosyjska 1891–1924 (Figes Orlando)
The Insult, Rupert Thomson, 1996
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon, 1995 - Cudowni chłopcy (Chabon Michael)
The Bird Artist, Howard Norman, 1994
Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Anatole Broyard, 1993
Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, Arthur C. Danto, 1992
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia, 1990 - Seksualne persony: Sztuka i dekadencja od Neferetiti do Emily Dickinson (Paglia Camille)
David Bomberg, Richard Cork, 1988
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Peter Guralnick, 1986
The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin, 1986 - Ścieżki śpiewu (Chatwin Bruce)
Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd, 1985 - Hawksmoor (Ackroyd Peter)
Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music, Gerri Hirshey, 1984
Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter, 1984 - Wieczory cyrkowe (Carter Angela)
Money, Martin Amis, 1984 - Forsa (Amis Martin)
White Noise, Don DeLillo, 1984 - Biały szum (DeLillo Don)
Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes, 1984 - Papuga Flauberta (Barnes Julian (pseud. Kavanagh Dan))
The Life and Times of Little Richard, Charles White, 1984
A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn, 1980
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980 - Sprzysiężenie głupców (Toole John Kennedy)
Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester, 1980 - Rozmowy z Francisem Baconem: Brutalność faktu (Sylvester David)
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler, 1980 - Ciemność w południe (Koestler Arthur)
Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess, 1980 - Ziemska władza (Burleigh Michael)
Raw (a ‘graphix magazine’) 1980-91
Viz (magazine) 1979 –
The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels, 1979 - Ewangelie gnostyckie (Pagels Elaine)
Metropolitan Life, Fran Lebowitz, 1978
In Between the Sheets, Ian McEwan, 1978 - W pościeli (McEwan Ian)
Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, ed. Malcolm Cowley, 1977
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, 1976
Tales of Beatnik Glory, Ed Saunders, 1975
Mystery Train, Greil Marcus, 1975
Selected Poems, Frank O’Hara, 1974
Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, Otto Friedrich, 1972
In Bluebeard’s Castle: Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture, George Steiner, 1971 - W zamku Sinobrodego: Kilka uwag w kwestii przedefiniowania kultury (Steiner George)
Octobriana and the Russian Underground, Peter Sadecky, 1971
The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Charlie Gillete, 1970
The Quest For Christa T, Christa Wolf, 1968 - Rozmyślania nad Christą T. (Wolf Christa)
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, Nik Cohn, 1968
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967 - Mistrz i Małgorzata (Bułhakow Michaił (Bułhakow Michał))
Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg, 1967
Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr., 1966 - Piekielny Brooklyn (Selby Hubert Jr)
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, 1965 - Z zimną krwią (Capote Truman (właśc. Streckfus Persons Truman))
City of Night, John Rechy, 1965
Herzog, Saul Bellow, 1964 - Herzog (Bellow Saul)
Puckoon, Spike Milligan, 1963
The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford, 1963
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima, 1963
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, 1963 - Następnym razem pożar: Wybór esejów (Baldwin James)
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962 - Mechaniczna pomarańcza (wersja R) (Burgess Anthony (Burgess Wilson John Anthony))
Inside the Whale and Other Essays, George Orwell, 1962
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961 - Pełnia życia panny Brodie (Spark Muriel)
Private Eye (magazine) 1961 –
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Douglas Harding, 1961
Silence: Lectures and Writing, John Cage, 1961
Strange People, Frank Edwards, 1961
The Divided Self, R. D. Laing, 1960 - Podzielone "ja": Egzystencjalistyczne studium zdrowia i choroby psychicznej (Laing Ronald David)
All The Emperor’s Horses, David Kidd, 1960
Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse, 1959 - Billy Kłamca (Waterhouse Keith)
The Leopard, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, 1958 - Lampart (Lampedusa Giuseppe Tomasi di)
On The Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957 - W drodze (Kerouac Jack)
The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard, 1957
Room at the Top, John Braine, 1957 - Wielka kariera (Braine John)
A Grave for a Dolphin, Alberto Denti di Pirajno, 1956
The Outsider, Colin Wilson, 1956 - Outsider (Wilson Colin (ur. 1931))
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955 - Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir (pseud. Sirin W.))
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1949 - Rok 1984 (Orwell George (właśc. Blair Eric Arthur))
The Street, Ann Petry, 1946
Black Boy, Richard Wright, 1945

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