David Bowie's Top 100
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 43 lists
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · 38 lists
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1948 · 36 lists
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · 26 lists
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac · 1957 · 24 lists
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The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 · 23 lists
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As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner · 1915 · 18 lists
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 · 18 lists
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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1962 · 17 lists
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1965 · 16 lists
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz · 2007 · 14 lists
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 1980 · 13 lists
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark · 1961 · 13 lists
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White Noise
Don DeLillo · 1984 · 13 lists
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The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · 2000 · 11 lists
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Herzog
Saul Bellow · 1961 · 10 lists
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Money
Martin Amis · 1880 · 9 lists
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence · 1900 · 8 lists
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Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler · 1948 · 7 lists
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The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot · 1991 · 7 lists
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin · 1929 · 6 lists
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Fingersmith
Sarah Waters · 2002 · 6 lists
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The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West · 1939 · 6 lists
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Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter · 1984 · 5 lists
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Black Boy
Richard Wright · 1945 · 4 lists
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Hawksmoor
Peter Ackroyd · 1985 · 4 lists
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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin · 1962 · 4 lists
- 29
Earthly Powers
Anthony Burgess · 1980 · 3 lists
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Flaubert’s Parrot
Julian Barnes · 1984 · 3 lists
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Inferno
Dante Alighieri · 1782 · 3 lists
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The Outsider
Albert Camus · 1967 · 3 lists
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Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh · 1930 · 3 lists
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A People's Tragedy
Orlando Figes · 1996 · 2 lists
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Billy Liar
Keith Waterhouse · 1959 · 2 lists
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
Hubert Selby Jr. · 1964 · 2 lists
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Metropolitan Life
Fran Lebowitz · 1978 · 2 lists
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Passing
Nella Larsen · 1929 · 2 lists
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The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels · 1979 · 2 lists
- 40
The Quest for Christa T.
Christa Wolf · 1968 · 2 lists
- 41
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Yukio Mishima · 1963 · 2 lists
- 42
The Street
Ann Petry · 1989 · 2 lists
- 43
25 Years of Viz: Silver Plated Jubilee
William Cook · 2004 · 1 list
- 44
A Grave for a Dolphin
Alberto Denti di Pirajno · 1956 · 1 list
- 45
All The Emperor's Horses
David Kidd · 2011 · 1 list
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Blast #1
Wyndham Lewis · 2016 · 1 list
- 50
City of Night
John Rechy · 1963 · 1 list
- 51
Complete Tadanori Yokoo
Tadanori Yokoo · 1971 · 1 list
- 52
David Bomberg
Richard Cork · 1958 · 1 list
- 53
Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art
James Hall · 1979 · 1 list
- 54
English Journey
J.B. Priestley · 1934 · 1 list
- 55
In Between the Sheets
Ian McEwan · 1978 · 1 list
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Infants of the Spring
Wallace Thurman · 1932 · 1 list
- 58
Inside the Whale and Other Essays
George Orwell · 1962 · 1 list
- 59
Interviews with Francis Bacon
David Sylvester · 1975 · 1 list
- 60
Journey into the Whirlwind
Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg · 2014 · 1 list
- 61
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
Anatole Broyard · 1993 · 1 list
- 62
Maldoror and the Complete Works
Comte de Lautréamont · 2004 · 1 list
- 63
McTeague
Frank Norris · 2023 · 1 list
- 64
Mr. Norris Changes Trains
Christopher Isherwood · 1935 · 1 list
- 65
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
Lawrence Weschler · 1 list
- 66
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll
Greil Marcus · 2008 · 1 list
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Octobriana and the Russian Underground
Peter Sadecky · 1971 · 1 list
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Puckoon
Spike Milligan · 1963 · 1 list
- 72
READ YOURSELF RAW
Art Spiegelman · 1987 · 1 list
- 73
Room at the Top
John Braine · 1957 · 1 list
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Silence: Lectures and Writings
John Cage · 1973 · 1 list
- 76
Strange People
Frank Edwards · 1998 · 1 list
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Tales of Beatnik Glory
Ed Sanders · 1975 · 1 list
- 79
Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
Jon Savage · 2007 · 1 list
- 80
The 42nd Parallel
John Dos Passos · 1961 · 1 list
- 81
The Age of American Unreason
Susan Jacoby · 2008 · 1 list
- 82
The American Way of Death Revisited
Jessica Mitford · 1998 · 1 list
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The Bird Artist
Howard Norman · 1994 · 1 list
- 85
The Bridge
Hart Crane · 1927 · 1 list
- 86
The Coast of Utopia
Tom Stoppard · 2006 · 1 list
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The Hidden Persuaders
Vance Packard · 1957 · 1 list
- 89
The Insult
Rupert Thomson · 1996 · 1 list
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The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara · 1974 · 1 list
- 93
The Songlines
Bruce Chatwin · 1987 · 1 list
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
Christopher Hitchens · 2012 · 1 list
- 96
Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual
Éliphas Lévi · 2018 · 1 list
- 97
Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon · 1851 · 1 list
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Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale
Edward Bulwer-Lytton · 2005 · 1 list
