6 de março de 2014

Bowie's must-read books

Com um obrigada gigante à Filipa Santos por me ter dado a conhecer este artigo. Desta lista de 75 livros, posso dizer que tenho em comum com um dos meus ídolos apenas 6 leituras: A breve e assombrosa vida de Oscar Wao, de Junot Diaz, In between the sheets, de Ian McEwan, O leopardo, de Lampedusa, On the road, de Jack Kerouac, Lolita, de Nabokov, e Mil novecentos e oitenta e quatro, de George Orwell.


  • The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby (2008)
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (2007)
  • The Coast of Utopia (trilogy) by Tom Stoppard (2007)
  • Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875–1945 by Jon Savage(2007)
  • Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (2002)
  • The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens(2001)
  • Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler(1997)
  • A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890–1924 byOrlando Figes (1997)
  • The Insult by Rupert Thomson (1996)
  • Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon (1995)
  • The Bird Artist by Howard Norman (1994)
  • Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Anatole Broyard (1993)
  • Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective by Arthur C. Danto (1992)
  • Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia (1990)
  • David Bomberg by Richard Cork (1988)
  • Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom by Peter Guralnick (1986)
  • The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin (1986)
  • Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd (1985)
  • Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey(1984)
  • Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter (1984)
  • Money by Martin Amis (1984)
  • White Noise by Don DeLillo (1984)
  • Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes (1984)
  • The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White (1984)
  • A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn(1980)
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
  • Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester (1980)
  • Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (1980)
  • Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess (1980)
  • Raw, a “graphix magazine” (1980–1991)
  • Viz, magazine (1979–)
  • The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels (1979)
  • Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz (1978)
  • In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan (1978)
  • Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews by ed Malcolm Cowley (1977)
  • The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes (1976)
  • Tales of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders (1975)
  • Mystery Train by Greil Marcus (1975)
  • Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara (1974)
  • Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s by Otto Friedrich (1972)
  • In Bluebeard’s Castle: Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture by George Steiner (1971)
  • Octobriana and the Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky(1971)
  • The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll by Charlie Gillett (1970)
  • The Quest for Christa T by Christa Wolf (1968)
  • Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn (1968)
  • The Master and Margarita  by Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
  • Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg (1967)
  • Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. (1966)
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1965)
  • City of Night by John Rechy (1965)
  • Herzog by Saul Bellow (1964)
  • Puckoon by Spike Milligan (1963)
  • The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford (1963)
  • The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima (1963)
  • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (1963)
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
  • Inside the Whale and Other Essays by George Orwell (1962)
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1961)
  • Private Eye, magazine (1961–)
  • On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious by Douglas Harding (1961)
  • Silence: Lectures and Writing by John Cage (1961)
  • Strange People by Frank Edwards (1961)
  • The Divided Self by R. D. Laing (1960)
  • All the Emperor’s Horses by David Kidd (1960)
  • Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse (1959)
  • The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa (1958)
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
  • The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard (1957)
  • Room at the Top by John Braine (1957)
  • A Grave for a Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno (1956)
  • The Outsider by Colin Wilson (1956)
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
  • The Street by Ann Petry (1946)
  • Black Boy by Richard Wright (1945)
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