David Bowe Included Julian Jaynes’s “The Origin of Consciousness” in His List of Must Read Books
by Liz Bury
David Bowie’s Top 100 Must-Read Books
As a new version of the exhibition David Bowie Is opens this week at the Art Gallery of Ontario, curators have revealed a list of his top 100 must-read books, giving a fascinating insight into the mind of the influential musician and style icon.
The show, which offered unprecedented access to Bowie’s own archive, became the most popular ever mounted by London’s V&A when it ran there earlier this year.
As the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis pointed out at the time, the Bowie story is so well-known that “unless it’s content to retell a very hackneyed story indeed, David Bowie Is has to find a way of casting new light on some of the most over-analysed and discussed music in rock history.”