David Bowie Was a Reader

January 13, 2016

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David Bowie, who died this week at age 69, was not just a rock star. He is widely considered to be a cultural icon, a man who changed music, movies and more. He was also an avid reader. In 2013 he posted his top 100 books on Facebook. His reading was as wide ranging and eclectic as the man himself and encompasses the written word from Homer and Vladimir Nabokov to Gustave Flaubert and Junta Diaz.

What a person reads tells us a lot about them. Explore this side of David Bowie’s life for a view of what made him who he was.