Bowie's Bookshelf

Named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 12 biggest music memoirs this fall.

“An artful and wildly enthralling path for Bowie fans in particular and book lovers in general.” —Publishers Weekly 

“The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.” - David Bowie

Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. In 100 short essays, music journalist John O’Connell studies each book on Bowie’s list and contextualizes it in the artist’s life and work.