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Bowie’s Bookshelf: the hundred books that changed David Bowie’s life by John O’Connell
Since David Bowie’s untimely death at the age of just 69 in 2016, there have been numerous articles and musings about his love of books and reading.
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To a large extent these have been prompted by the actions of the singer himself when, in 2013, he published a list of his 100 favourite books. For this book, John O’Connell has used this list to try and plot how these favourites influenced Bowie’s development as an artist, musician and cultural pop icon.
If, like me, the first thing you do when you pick up the book is to take a quick trip down the index list of the books that have been included, you’ll almost certainly be struck by the randomness of it – these were books Bowie loved but they weren’t chosen to represent a manifesto or intellectual philosophy.
As a result, plotting these books into Bowie’s oeuvre does inevitably have a slightly art