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We continue the rubric "". In this article, we will tell you about the favorite books of singer David Bowie.
Almost no list of great people is complete without David Bowie. ranked him 29th among the 100 Greatest Britons, 39th among the 100 Greatest Rock Artists, and 23rd on the list of the 100 Greatest Vocalists of All Time.
In 2013, Bowie's assistant sent a letter to the curators of the David Bowie Is exhibition on the singer's career. It contained a list of 100 books that David had read and many of which he carried with him. In the letter, he also spoke about Bowie's love for Orwell's work: the singer was inspired by the writer's books when creating the Diamond Dogs album.
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
- The Iliad, Homer.
- When I Was Dying by William Faulkner.
- The Outsider by Albert Camus.
- The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov.
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert.
- "Nights at the Circus," Angela Carter.
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.
- Money by Martin Amis.
- The Shore of Utopia by Tom Stoppard.
A complete list is available.
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