İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonrası doğan çocukların ortak bir noktası vardı, suyun akış yönünü değiştirmek! Bu amaçla çıktıkları yolda ellerine geçen ilk enstrümanla bugün hepimizin kalbine dokunan eserler verdiler. Bunu Sex Pistols gibi kasten ve rahatsız edici şekilde yapan müzik grupları olduğu kadar Led Zeppelin gibi stadyuma insanları doldurup onları heyecanlandırarak yapanları da vardı. Peki ya David Bowie müziği ile şairliğini, değişkenliği ile bakış açısını ve yaratıcılığını neye borçluydu? Onu diğerlerinden bir tık farklı kılan neydi? Yalnızca iki ayrı renge sahip gözleri mi? Belki de sıkı bir okuyucu olması! 2016’da öldükten sonra “Rock and Roll” arkadaşı Mick Jagger onun hakkında “Dostluğumuzda her zaman bir bilgi alışverişi vardı” demişti. Özel hayatında da sahnede olduğu kadar gizemli, çekici ve şuh olan David Bowie’nin yüz maddelik en sevdiği kitaplar listesinden bakalım kaçını okudunuz, okumadınız?
1. David Sylvester – Interviews With Francis Bacon
2. Keith Waterhouse – Billy Liar
3. John Braine – Room At The Top
4. Douglass Harding – On Having No Head
5. Anatole Broyard – Kafka Was The Rage
6. Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
7. John Rechy – City Of Night
8. Junot Díaz – The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
9. Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary
10. Homeros – İlyada
11. William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
12. Tadanori Yokoo – Tadanori Yokoo
13. Alfred Döblin – Berlin Alexanderplatz
14. George Orwell – Inside The Whale And Other
15. Christopher Isherwood – Mr. Norris Changes Trains
16. James A. Hall – Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art
17. Richard Cork – David Bomberg
18. Wyndham Lewis – Blast
19. Nella Larsen – Passing
20. Arthur C. Danto – Beyond The Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective
21. Julian Jaynes – The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind
22. George Steiner – In Bluebeard’s Castle
23. Peter Ackroyd – Hawksmoor
24. R. D. Laing – The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
25. Albert Camus – The Stranger
26. Wallace Thurman – Infants Of The Spring
27. Christa Wolf – The Quest For Christa
28. Bruce Chatwin – The Songlines
29. Angela Carter – Nights At The Circus
30. Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master And Margarita
31. Muriel Spark – The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
32. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
33. Saul Bellow – Herzog
34. Spike Milligan – Puckoon
35. Richard Wright – Black Boy
36. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
37. Yukio Mishima – The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
38. Arthur Koestler – Darkness At Noon
39. T.S. Eliot – The Waste Land
40. Frank Norris – McTeague
41. Martin Amis – Money
42. Colin Wilson – The Outsider
43. Frank Edwards – Strange People
44. J.B. Priestley – English Journey
45. John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy Of Dunces
46. Nathanael West – The Day Of The Locust
47. George Orwell – 1984
48. Charles White – The Life And Times Of Little Richard
49. Nik Cohn – Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock
50. Greil Marcus – Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music
51. Beano (comic, ’50s)
52. Raw (comic, ’80s)
53. Don DeLillo – White Noise
54. Peter Guralnick – Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom
55. John Cage – Silence: Lectures And Writing
56. Malcolm Cowley – Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited
57. Charlie Gillett – The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll
58. Petr Sadecky – Octobriana And The Russian Underground
59. Ann Petry – The Street
60. Michael Chabon – Wonder Boys
61. Hubert Selby, Jr. – Last Exit To Brooklyn
62. Howard Zinn – A People’s History Of The United States
63. Susan Jacoby – The Age Of American Unreason
64. Fran Lebowitz – Metropolitan Life
65. Tom Stoppard – The Coast Of Utopia
66. Hart Crane – The Bridge
67. David Kidd – All The Emperor’s Horses
68. Sarah Waters – Fingersmith
69. Anthony Burgess – Earthly Powers
70. John Dos Passos – The 42nd Parallel
71. Ed Sanders – Tales Of Beatnik Glory
72. Howard Norman – The Bird Artist
73. Gerri Hirshey – Nowhere To Run: The Story Of Soul Music
74. Otto Friedrich – Before The Deluge
75. Camille Paglia – Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson
76. Jessica Mitford – The American Way Of Death
77. Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
78. D. H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover
79. Jon Savage – Teenage
80. Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies
81. Vance Packard – The Hidden Persuaders
82. James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time
83. Viz (comic magazine, early ’80s)
84. Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)
85. Frank O’Hara – Selected Poems
86. Christopher Hitchens – The Trial Of Henry Kissinger
87. Julian Barnes – Flaubert’s Parrot
88. Comte de Lautréamont – Le Chants de Maldordor
89. Jack Kerouac – On The Road
90. Lawrence Weschler – Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder
91. Edward Bulwer-Lytton – Zanoni
92. Éliphas Lévi – Transcendental Magic: Its Doctine and Ritual
93. Elaine Pagels – The Gnostic Gospels
94. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – The Leopard
95. Dante Alighieri – Inferno
96. Alberto Denti di Pirajno – A Grave for a Dolphin
97. Rupert Thomson – The Insult
98. Ian McEwan – In Between the Sheets
99. Orlando Figes – A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924
100. Eugenia Ginzburg – Journey Into the Whirlwind
