Ongoing History Daily: The David Bowie book club
When he was alive, David Bowie was a voracious reader: novels, history, biography, art, the classics, philosophy, politics, economics—you name it, Bowie read it. Sometimes he’d become so engrossed in something that he’d read a book a day.
Now his son, Duncan, has launched an online project with an Instagram account called “Bowie Book Club.” He’s able to do this because three years before he died, Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that he believed transformed his life.
Sadly, Bowie never got around to writing his autobiography nor are there any memoirs known to exist. This reading list is the closest we can get to how Bowie thought In his lifetime.
