25 Books Read by David Bowie by Hypelist - Hypelist
25 Books Read by David Bowie
Hypelist - Updated 12/12/25
A look into the reads that kept David Bowie’s imagination buzzing in the background of every reinvention. These books trace the curiosity and inner worlds he never fully put into words.
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 2019
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1989
1984
George Orwell · 1950
On the Road The Original Scroll
Jack Kerouac · 2008
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald · 2022
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 2010
The Iliad
Homer · 2017
The Odyssey
Homer · 2018
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 2002
White Noise
Don DeLillo · 1999
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark · 2017
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1994
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 1980
The Sound of the City
Charlie Gillett · 1971
The Leopard A Novel
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa · 2007
Zanoni
Edward Bulwer Lytton · 2013
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes · 2000
Billy Liar
Keith Waterhouse · 2013
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Yukio Mishima · 1994
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
