“你心目中的完美幸福是什么？”
'阅读。'

“你最喜欢的人类素质是什么？”
“还书的能力。”

在去世的三年前前三年，大卫•鲍伊（David Bowie）列出了改变他一生的一百本书，这个清单形成了一本类似自传的书。从《包法利夫人》到《发条橙》，从《伊利亚特》到Beano，这些出版物助长了他的创造力并塑造了他这个人。

约翰•奥康奈尔（John O'Connell）在《大卫•鲍伊的书》中以一百篇短文的形式探讨了这份清单，每篇短文都对鲍伊作为普通人，表演者和创作者，鲍伊作为艺术家的作品以及他所处的时代提出了看法。

David Bowie once said that his idea of perfect happiness was reading. Three years before he died, he made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Lolita to Madame Bovary, the Beano to The Iliad, these were the books that had fuelled his creativity and shaped who he was.

In Bowie's Books, John O'Connell explores this list in the form of one hundred short essays, each offering a perspective on the man, performer and creator that is Bowie, his work as an artist and the era that he lived in. Bowie's Books is much more than a list of books you should read in your lifetime: it is a unique insight into one of the greatest minds of our times, and an indispensable part of the legacy that Bowie left behind.