David Bowie's list of books he loved in his life

I highly doubt that Tony Robbins' "Money" was on David Bowie's list of his 100 favorite books. I had to read "Money", and it was crap. And David Bowie was a man of discriminating taste. Money was published in late 2014 and Bowie died two years later. He probably already knew he had cancer when Money came out, and he had made his wad decades before. Doesn't make sense, and it makes me doubt the rest of the list, which is surprisingly high in contemporary US fiction for someone with Bowie's international exposure.

I think the lesson here is that you can't just have a bot scrape together a mishmash of book titles and descriptions without knowing anything about books. Bowie was a reader and if this list is to be of interest to other readers, it needs to be correct and hand-curated by someone who knows literature.

David Bowie, talking about being a young man in London said that he always used to have a Penguin book in one of his jacket pockets, because the top of it would peek out and make him look more interesting. He said he didn&#x27;t regret it, because every so often he&#x27;d find himself bored and at a loose end and actually read one of them, and read many great books he wouldn&#x27;t have read if he hadn&#x27;t been posing.<p>Entertainingly enough, I learned this at the V&amp;A, at the David Bowie Is exhibition.

Of all these, I&#x27;d recommend The Master and Margherita. It is mischievous with deep allegory.

I would highly recommend Julian Jaynes&#x27;s &quot;The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind&quot; from this list. It largely changed how I think about consciousness--even if some of his grander ideas are difficult to prove.

What does this list of books (and its &quot;curators&quot;) have to do with David Bowie?

Can&#x27;t recommend David Sylvester&#x27;s interviews with Francis Bacon enough. Brilliant book, even if you&#x27;re not a fan of the painter.

Madame Bovary?<p>That prompted flashbacks to senior year of high school. I <i>hated</i> reading that book!

The Master and Margarita. I love this book. Movie is good too.