The Bowie Book Club

01/28/2025

This month on the we read The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, which has a cameo from Iggy Pop’s satin pants!
We also chose our 2025 books with our patented pubomancy technique. Check out what is to come!

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 Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, which turns out to be about much more than Iggy Pop's satin pants.

01/24/2025

We will be sharing our reading list for the year in our January episode of the podcast. Meanwhile we're still glowing about the books we loved last year.
We recommend all of these:

We get to sum up another year of reading with a best of list! These were our favorites of 2024, both on and off the BowieBookClub reading list.

01/16/2025

Greg says he’s going to get a donut and a cup of coffee as black as midnight on a moonless night in his honor.

01/11/2025

We’re starting the year with a tale of radical art and New York City in the 1970’s. The Flame Throwers, by Rachel Kushner. A book we think would be right up Bowie’s alley.

01/08/2025

Happy Birthday Bowie.
Read on!

12/31/2024

This month on we read The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which may or may not actually be about Prince Iggy Pop!
Check out the episode on BowieBookClub.com

12/31/2024

This month on we read The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which may or may not actually be about Prince Iggy Pop!

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 Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, which suprisingly ISN'T about Iggy Pop!

12/28/2024

We’ve developed a pretty good holiday tradition of encouraging one another’s listening habits.
Another new year on the way with !

12/20/2024

It's the time of the year when we randomly combine a bunch of end-of-year best-of lists. Check out the compilation on our https://bookshop.org/shop/bowiebookclubpodcast page.
What were your favorite reads this year?
https://bookshop.org/lists/best-of-the-year-2024-edition?new-list-page=true

Here come those end of the year round up lists! The big awards are being named and everybody is sorting through what they liked most on their reading lists this year. Here are some selections from the best of 2024, according to NPR, The New York Times, Shelf Awareness and Lit Hub, assembled with the...

12/10/2024

Cozy reading day. This month’s pick, The Idiot by Dostoevsky, is a perfect tea and quilts kind of read.

12/04/2024

“Towards the end of November, during a warm spell….” we started reading Dostoevsky’s for . We’ll be at it for the rest of December.

11/26/2024

If you read along with us for Buddha of Suburbia you might be interested to know Hanif Kureishi has a memoir coming out at the start of next year! Review attached. Pre-Order from your local indie bookstore!

A life of independence and literary renown is irrevocably altered in Shattered: A Memoir by British Pakistani novelist and screenwriter Hanif

11/26/2024

This month’s episode about ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’ is up now. Possibly one of the most Bowie books we’ve yet read for the podcast.

11/25/2024

This month on the podcast we read 'The Buddha of Suburbia' by Hanif Kureishi, which might be the most Bowie of the Bowie books we've read so far!

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 Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, which might be the most Bowie of the Bowie books we've read so far, in some way...

11/20/2024

Reading for during a power outage.
This month we’re enjoying Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi.

11/10/2024

We’re reading The Buddha of Suburbia, by Hanif Kureishi for this month!

10/28/2024

This month on we read Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, a picaresque novel of a grifter being grifty in Old Russia.

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 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol a picaresque novel of a grifter being grifty in Old Russia.