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 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel which manages to tell the story of uber-competent arch-fixer Thomas Cromwell without a single mention of turkey legs.
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Stuff We Talked About
The Half Moon in Putney - live music since 1963, but no record Bowie played there!
Nook and Cranny books - give them a visit if you're in North Seattle!
Guest Directors - great Seattle band
Stand with Minnesota - support heroic people in a terrible situation that they absolutely should not be in.
What Are We Reading
Greg:
- The Silver Book - Olivia Laing
- Pompeii - Richard Harris
- Slow Horses - Mick Herron
- A Guest in the House - Emily Carroll
Kristianne:
- Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
- The Orientalist - Tom Reiss
- The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk
2026 Book List!
- Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
- Grendel by John Gardner
- [The Last Temptation of Christ](Nikos Kazantzakis) by Nikos Kazantzakis
- The Immoralist by Andre Gide
- Cheap Novelties by Ben Katchor
- Basquiat - The Notebooks edited by Larry Warsh
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- V by Tommy Boy Pynchy
- Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
- From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
- Lanark by Alisdair Gray
- City of Thieves by David Benoiff
What Song Did We Choose?
What's Up Next
- Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano