As a new version of the exhibition David Bowie Is opens this week at the Art Gallery of Ontario, cur

Well red David Bowie in 1973. Photograph: Masayoshi Sukita
As a new version of the exhibition David Bowie Is opens this week at the Art Gallery of Ontario, curators have revealed a list of his top 100 must-read books, giving a fascinating insight into the mind of the influential musician and style icon.
As the Guardian's Alexis Petridis pointed out at the time, the Bowie story is so well-known that "unless it's content to retell a very hackneyed story indeed, David Bowie Is has to find a way of casting new light on some of the most over-analysed and discussed music in rock history."
The reading list, with books presented in chronological order rather than order of preference, provides Ontario with a new angle. American classics of the 50s and 60s are strongly represented On the Road by Jack Kerouac opi nail polish , Truman Capote 's In Cold Blood as are tales of working-class boys made good, which emerged in the postwar years: Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar and Room at the Top by John Braine , and The Outsider by Colin Wilson , a study of creativity and the mindset of misfits. RD Laing's The Divided Self speaks to a fascination with psychotherapy and creativity, as does The Origin of Consciousness in the breakdown of the Bicameral opi nail polish Mind, by Julian Jaynes. There is no evidence that Bowie's scientific inquries extend beyond psychology opi nail polish Stephen Hawking's cosmic theories are out but his tastes are otherwise opi nail polish broad.
A broad taste for fiction emerges, too, from early Ian McEwan ( In Between the Sheets ) and Martin Amis's definitive 1980s novel, Money , to 21st-century fictions such as Sarah Waters ' Fingersmith and Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
And, of course, there's music with soul music especially prominent. Bowie selects Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom by Peter Guralnick, and Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey, as well as Charlie Gillett's The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll. David Bowie's top 100 must-read books
The opi nail polish Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby (2008) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (2007) The Coast of Utopia opi nail polish (trilogy), Tom Stoppard (2007) Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage (2007) Fingersmith, Sarah Waters opi nail polish (2002) The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens (2001) Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler (1997) A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes (1997) The Insult, Rupert opi nail polish Thomson (1996) Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon (1995) The Bird Artist, Howard Norman (1994) Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Anatole Broyard (1993) Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, Arthur C Danto (1992) Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille opi nail polish Paglia (1990) David Bomberg, Richard Cork (1988) Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Peter Guralnick (1986) The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin (1986) Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd (1985) Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music, Gerri Hirshey (1984) Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter (1984) Money, Martin Amis (1984) White Noise, Don DeLillo (1984) Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes (1984) The Life and Times of Little Richard, Charles White (1984) opi nail polish A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn (1980) A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy opi nail polish Toole (1980) Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester (1980) Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler (1980) Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess (1980) Raw, a "graphix magazine" (1980-91) Viz, magazine opi nail polish (1979 ) The Gnostic Gospels, opi nail polish Elaine Pagels (1979) Metropolitan Life, Fran Lebowitz (1978) opi nail polish In Between the Sheets, Ian McEwan (1978) Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, ed Malcolm Cowley (1977) The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes (1976) Tales of Beatnik Glory, Ed Saunders (1975) Mystery Train, Greil Marcus (1975) Selected Poems, Frank O'Hara (1974) Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, Otto Friedrich (1972) n Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture, George Steiner (1971) Octobriana and the Russian Underground, Peter Sadecky (1971) The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Charlie Gillett(1970) The Quest for Christa T, Christa Wolf (1968) Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, Nik Cohn (1968) The Master and Margarita, opi nail polish Mikhail opi nail polish Bulgakov (1967) Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg opi nail polish (1967) Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr (1966) In Cold Blood, Truman opi nail polish Capote (1965) City of Night, John Rechy (1965) Herzog, Saul Bellow (1964) Puckoon, Spike Milligan (1963) The American Way of Death, opi nail polish Jessica Mitford (1963) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea, Yukio Mishima (1963) The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin (1963) A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1962) Inside the Whale and Other Essays, George Orwell (1962) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (1961) Privat