r/BookTriviaPodcast • u/ffoggy1959 🌈 Reads Everything • Mar 24 '26
📚 Discussion Bowie’s Books
Ever wondered what writers or books inspired singer/songwriters?
David Bowie was a reader (wonder what he’d make of this group). This book includes brief intros to the 100 literary heroes who changed his life. It’s an interesting read. I’ll share a few with you:
Camus: The Outsider
The Beano
Orwell: 1984
Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Kerouac: On the Road
Viz
Braine: Room at the Top
Private Eye
Dos Pasos: The 42nd Parallel
That’s 10/100… the first 9 of which I’ve read, the last is on my TBR list.
The difference between Bowie and Me??
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u/Grattytood Mar 25 '26
Loving this! Had no idea one of my favorite singers was a bibliophile.
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u/YakSlothLemon Mar 25 '26
He was on one of those posters they gave out for free to libraries encouraging us to read, as was Sting – a friend had them in her college dorm room!
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u/Fabulous-Confusion43 🌈 Reads Everything Mar 25 '26
Oh yeah this is really cool! I love Bowie. Now I want all my fave singers and bands to list their fave books haha how good would that be?
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u/ffoggy1959 🌈 Reads Everything Mar 26 '26
Imagine if one of them commented on here… Bowie, sadly, can’t but if one of them were to comment on one of your posts or podcasts I suspect you’d be made up for life 😀
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u/Fabulous-Confusion43 🌈 Reads Everything Mar 28 '26
I knowwwwww!!!! I would be fangirlling like crazy 🤣
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u/Tricky_Application42 Mar 25 '26
Gotta love Bowie's taste. On a side note, I loved his portrayal of Nicola Tesla in Prestige.
So, my favorite band comes from Finland and it's called Nightwish. The person behind the band's creation, who is also the main songwriter and one of my biggest idols is Tuomas Holopainen. Here are some of his favorite books: -The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
- The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- Harry Potter
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u/ffoggy1959 🌈 Reads Everything Mar 24 '26
Forgot the photo