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 (sort of) A Grave for a Dolphin by Ally Teeth (or Alberto Denti, Duke of Pirajno, if you must), a story about a manic pixie dream fish and the marine biologist (at least that's what AI thinks) who loved her.
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Stuff We Talked About
Our Favorite Bowie Books
Kristianne:
- Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter
- The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
- Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
Greg:
- Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter
- Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
- Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo
- The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa
- Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
Our Top Ten Most Influential Books
Subject to change several times an hour.
Kristianne:
- Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Saga by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
- Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler
- Stories from the Nerve Bible by Laurie Anderson
- Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
Greg:
- Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx
- Love and Rockets by Los Bros Hernandez
- The Spirit Color Album by Will Eisner
- Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman
- The Great Comic Book Heroes ed. by Jules Feiffer
- Raw ed. by Art Spieglman and Francoise Mouly
- The Outsiders by South East Hinton
- Cometbus by Aaron Cometbus
- The Book With No Name by Kit Williams
- What It Is by Lynda Barry
What Are We Reading
We were so busy talking about our influential books that we forgot to talk about what we're reading at the moment, but here they are:
Kristianne:
- The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
- Earth Path by Starhawk
Greg:
- The Upstairs Delicatessen by Dwight Garner
- Cosmic Scholar by John Szwed
- Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem
What Song Did We Choose?
Look, we finished the list, we get to use this again!
What's Up Next
Orlando by Virginia Woolf