Our 2019 Book List
If you’ve listened to the podcast you know something about our highly scientific method of choosing what books we’re going to read. The patented process involves having a drink or three and finding numbers around us in the pub - this year it was an old favorite - The Pub at Third Place Books in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood, which features a large selection of boardgames, books, beers and collectively drawn sketchbooks.
We plug the numbers into our working list of David Bowie’s 100 books and, ta da! The books are revealed. These aren’t in any order yet, since we’re waiting to line up some special guests, etc.
Here's the list!
Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guralnick Amazon | IndieBound
Silence by John Cage Amazon | IndieBound
Sound of the City by Charlie Gillett Amazon | IndieBound
Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual by Éliphas Lévi Amazon | IndieBound
Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz Amazon
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter Amazon | IndieBound
Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard Amazon | IndieBound
Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Amazon | IndieBound
Inferno by Dante Amazon | IndieBound
The Insult by Rupert Thomson Amazon | IndieBound
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman Amazon | IndieBound
Day of the Locust by Nathanael West Amazon | IndieBound
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And here’s photographic evidence of our mystical process!


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Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, which is about how awful it was to travel before you could use noise-canceling headphones to eliminate any possibility of getting into a conversation with someone about murder.
Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, which turns out to be about much more than Iggy Pop's satin pants.
Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which suprisingly ISN'T about Iggy Pop!
Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, which might be the most Bowie of the Bowie books we've read so far, in some ways.
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Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, a hard-boiled story of mysterious realms, stiff drinks and super-powered artifacts.
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