num_pages: 320
description: Part epic reading guide and part biography of a music legend Bowies Bookshelf is a collection of mini-essays exploring David Bowies list of 100 favorite books in the context of the artists life and work.Imagine a beloved friend sharing their favorite books with youthe ones that shaped them made them who they are and inspired them to achieve their dreams. Now imagine that friend is David Bowie. Three years before he died Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award-winning artist David Bowie shared a list of the hundred books that changed his lifea wide-ranging and eclectic selection that spans beloved classics like F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby and George Orwells 1984 to more esoteric gems like Fran Lebowitzs Metropolitan Life and Hubert Selby Jr.s Last Exit to Brooklyn and even cult comic strips like Beano and Raw.Bowies Bookshelf celebrates each of Bowies favorite books with a dedicated mini-essay exploring each work within the context of Bowies life and its role in shaping one of the most versatile avant-garde and cutting-edge musicians of the twentieth century. A fresh approach to celebrating the enduring legacy of David Bowie Bowies Bookshelf is a resounding tribute to the power art has to change our lives for the better.
language: English
title: Bowie's Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life
publisher: Gallery Books