The Bowie Book Club

07/30/2024

Our July author, Dion Fortune, gets her own section at in

07/23/2024

This month on we learned about all the conferences out there on the astral plane.
Psychic Self-Defense by Dion Fortune.
Check it out:

Welcome to another episode of the **Bowie Book Club**, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read a book mostly about conferences on the astral plane, Psychic Self-Defense by Dion Fortune.

07/17/2024

Beware, your psychic attack may simply be a case of constipation.
We’re taking Dion Fortune’s for the this month.

07/10/2024

Young Adult Fiction?
Someone should have a talk with the Google Books category team.
This month on we jump into the wild world of Psychic Self Defense, by Dion Fortune.

06/19/2024

We kicked off Season2 with the amazing novel by Virginia Woolf, a book that essentially proves that David Bowie and Tilda Swinton are one person.

Welcome to another episode of the **Bowie Book Club**, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Orlando by Virginia Woolf, a book that essentially proves that David Bowie and Tilda Swinton are one person.

06/13/2024

What are you reading this summer? Here is a meta-list of some of the most mentioned titles on various summer reading round ups if you need suggestions.

https://bookshop.org/lists/the-summer-reading-list-of-lists?

Lit Hub made a list of books that were included on several Summer Reading round ups. This is an abreviated meta list of what to read this summer. The first book made it on to 10 different Summer Reading lists, the second made it on to 9, etc. Check out Lit Hub's strategy and the various lists they c...

06/08/2024

So incredibly excited to be launching Season 2 with by Virginia Woolf.
Season 2 is full of the books we WISH had been on the list. Check it out on BowieBookClub.com

05/24/2024

The most recent episode of not only covers our last book on the list, but also reviews our best and worst reads over the past eight (!!) years.
Check it out at http://www.bowiebookclub.com/episodes/2024/5/20/a-grave-for-a-dolphin-by-alberto-denti-and-the-end-of-season-one

05/19/2024

We reached the end of the 100 books on the list! Unbelievable. We spent our Grave For a Dolphin planning meeting reminiscing on the titles we most enjoyed & the ones we’d consider revisiting.

05/09/2024

This month for the podcast we’re reading (part of) Grave For a Dolphin by Alberto Denti Di Pirajno.
This book has been impossible to find for under half a grand ($$!!)so we’re reading the one chapter we have and trying to find out everything else we can using sleuthing.

Thank you to Charlotte Mouillerac for making this possible!

04/25/2024

This month on the podcast we read Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a steamy occult pot-boiler that is NOT a vampire story, as much as Kristianne wanted it to be.

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, an overheated occult pot-boiler that manages to keep the hot esoteric gobbletygook flying...

04/25/2024

Our 2024 TBR pile has been updated! The last 8 books of the year come from the list of books that SHOULD have been on the 100 most influential titles.
Check it out on our Bookshop.org page:
https://bookshop.org/lists/our-books-for-2024?

We are finishing up Bowie's list of 100 most influential books and starting our Season 2 titles, full of suggestions we would have wanted Bowie to have read. A few of the remaining books from Bowie's list are not available on Bookshop:Private EyeNowhere to Run by Gerri HirsheyA Grave for a Dolphin b...

04/21/2024

Talking about Rosicrucians and the French Revolution.

04/11/2024

“Men desire four things in life-love, wealth, fame, power. The first I cannot give thee, the rest are at my disposal...” our pick this month is Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It’s not about vampires, though Kristianne wishes it were.

03/25/2024

This month on we read Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey - interviews with foundational artists of soul music as they deal with aging, and (in the case of Screaming Jay Hawkins) serve drinks out of a skull.

Welcome to another episode of the **Bowie Book Club**, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Nowhere to Run by Gerri Hirshey - interviews with foundational artists of soul music as they deal with aging, and (in...

03/18/2024

Last chance to get in any season two suggestions!
These are some titles we assume Bowie most likely read; titles that help us understand him a little better. We’ve also included titles we would totally have handsold him if we had been Bowie’s personal booksellers.
See the full list on our bookshop.org page.
https://bookshop.org/lists/book-list-for-bowie-season-2

03/06/2024

“For David” …. You know where our speculation will go, right?
Reading Nowhere to Run this month for

02/28/2024

This time on we read ‘Private Eye,’ a half-serious, half-silly British political magazine that is the ultimate in IYKYK.
We’ve also assembled the list of titles we think COULD have been on Bowie’s 100 Books and will be picking from it next month!

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Private Eye, a half-serious, half-silly British political magazine that is the ultimate i IYKYK.

02/23/2024

Reading through 1980’s copies of for . Could this be where learned about Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter?
abounds still!

02/08/2024

We’re reading for the podcast this month.

02/01/2024

What other titles do you think SHOULD HAVE been on Bowie’s book list?

We’re making a list of books we think could have made the list or books we wished had been on the list.
We'll be randomly selecting from this list for the second season of the Podcast.

Here are some of the books that could have been on Bowie's list of 100 books. Or books we wished had been on the list. We'll be randomly selecting from this list for the second season of the BowieBookClub Podcast. We've assembled titles that we know he read or most likely read; titles that help us u...

01/22/2024

This month on we read ‘Darkness at Noon’ by Arthur Koestler, a tale of human pyschology under duress that makes a fitting conclusion to the Russian books that Bowie included on his reading list.

We also reveal the order of the last four books (!!!) and talk ask you what else we should add to the list of books that SHOUD HAVE been on Bowie’s list.

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, a tale of human pyschology under duress that makes a fitting end to the Russian book...

01/09/2024

Celebrating this evening by reading this month’s pick with the dog on the couch.
Dark days of winter. Feels dark at noon.

01/02/2024

Another year of reading and fun speculations about the reading list made.
We’ve listed our favorite books of 2023, from both on and off the list on our bookshop page.

https://bookshop.org/lists/best-of-2023-the-bowie-book-club-podcast

Here’s to a new year of reading ahead!

12/19/2023

This time on we read The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard, a quaint little preview of the non-stop psychological prodding we endure now. We also shared our lists!
What we’re your favorite books this year?

Greg Miller December 18, 2023 The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard Greg Miller December 18, 2023 Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read The Hidden Persuaders ...

12/11/2023

This month on we’re reading about men who sold the world in Vance Packard’s “Hidden Persuaders”

11/30/2023

A depiction of the scene we discussed in the recent episode of presenting his song, from the book BOWIE by Steve Horton & Michael Allred.

11/28/2023

It's best-of the year book list season!
We made a little mash-up list compiled from a couple of the end-of-year lists. We'll be making our own lists and checking them twice on the next episode!

The New York Times Books, Shelf Awareness, NPR Books, NYPL The New York Public Library

Here come the lists! Awards are being named and The New York Times has released its best of the year round up. Here are some selections from the best of 2023, according to NPR, The New York Public Library, The New York Times and Shelf Awareness, assembled with the same scientific principles we use t...

11/28/2023

Get your berets and espresso cups! This month on we read an art history class in a single book: Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto.

Welcome to another episode of the **Bowie Book Club**, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books ha reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Beyond the Brillo Box byArthur C. Danto - if you like art, philosophy and the philosophy of art, you might get through...

11/10/2023

Our pick this month is ‘Beyond the Brillo Box’ by Arthur Danto. A crash course in contemporary art theory.