David Bowie's Top 100

100 Works 640,154 Books 10,449 Reviews ½ 4.0
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All, 2018 (1), 2013 (4), 2008 (1), 2007 (3), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 1997 (2), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1980-91 (1), 1990 (1), 1988 (1), 1986 (2), 1985 (1), 1984 (6), 1980 (6), 1979 (1), 1978 (2), 1977 (1), 1976 (1), 1975 (2), 1974 (2), 1972 (1), 1971 (2), 1970 (1), 1968 (2), 1967 (2), 1966 (1), 1965 (2), 1964 (1), 1963 (4), 1962 (2), 1961 (3), 1960 (2), 1959 (1), 1957 (3), 1956 (2), 1955 (1), 1949 (1), 1946 (1), 1945 (1), 1944 (1), 1942 (1), 1939 (1), 1938 – present (1), 1937 (1), 1935 (1), 1934 (1), 1932 (1), 1930 (4), 1929 (1), 1928 (1), 1925 (1), 1922 (1), 1914 (1), 1899 (1), 1896 (1), 1869 (1), 1856 (1), 1842 (1)
WorkYear
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
2018
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
2013
The Iliad by Homer
2013
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
2013
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
2013
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
2007
Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture by Jon Savage
2007
The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, Salvage by Tom Stoppard
2007
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
2002
The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
2001
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
1997
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler
1997
The Insult by Rupert Thomson
1996
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
1995
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
1994
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Anatole Broyard
1993
Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective by Arthur C. Danto
1992
Raw
1980-91
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
1990
David Bomberg by Richard Cork
1988
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
1986
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom by Peter Guralnick
1986
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
1985
Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
1984
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
1984
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
1984
White Noise by Don DeLillo
1984
Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey
1984
The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White
1984
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
1980
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
1980
Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
1980
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1980
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
1980
Viz (comic), early '80s
1980
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
1979
Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
1978
In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
1978
Writers at Work by Malcolm Cowley
1977
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
1976
Mystery train : images of America in rock 'n' roll music by Greil Marcus
1975
Tales of Beatnik Glory by Ed Sanders
1975
Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art by James Hall
1974
Selected Poems by Frank O'Hara
1974
Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, A by Otto Friedrich
1972
Octobriana, and the Russian underground by Peter Sadecky
1971
In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture by George Steiner
1971
The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll by Charlie Gillett
1970
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn
1968
The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
1968
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
1967
Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg
1967
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
1966
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
1965
City of Night by John Rechy
1965
Herzog by Saul Bellow
1964
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
1963
Puckoon by Spike Milligan
1963
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
1963
The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford
1963
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
1962
Inside the Whale and Other Essays by George Orwell
1962
Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage
1961
Strange People by Frank Edwards
1961
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious by Douglas E. Harding
1961
Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China by David Kidd
1960
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R. D. Laing
1960
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
1959
Room at the Top by John Braine
1957
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
1957
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
1957
A Grave for a Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno
1956
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
1956
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1955
1984 by George Orwell
1949
The Street by Ann Petry
1946
Black Boy by Richard Wright
1945
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
1944
The Stranger by Albert Camus
1942
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
1939
Beano (Beano Summer Fun Bumpers) by D. C. Thomson & Co.
1938 – present
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
1937
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
1935
English Journey by J. B. Priestley
1934
Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman
1932
The Bridge by Hart Crane
1930
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
1930
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
1930
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
1930
Passing by Nella Larsen
1929
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
1928
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
1922
Blast 1 by Wyndham Lewis
1914
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris
1899
Transcendental Magic by Éliphas Lévi
1896
Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
1869
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1856
Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
1842

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