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June 30, 2025
Greg Miller
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

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 Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, a story of large glasses of gin, otherworldly chemistry and, why not, fake eyebrows too.

The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
May 26, 2025
Greg Miller
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov

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 Gift by Vladimir Nabokov, a multi-level marketing scheme to get you into an emigre's state of mind.

The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
April 21, 2025
Greg Miller
Nova Express by William Burroughs

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 Nova Express (https://bookshop.org/a/105/9780802122087) by William Burroughs - maybe it's science fiction? Maybe it's a spell to thwart mind control ? Maybe it's just not meant to be read?

Nova Express by William Burroughs
March 24, 2025
Greg Miller
Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich

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 Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich, a survey about how people have collectively let their hair down over the past few centuries.

Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich
February 17, 2025
Greg Miller
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

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 Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, which is about how awful it was to travel before you could use noise-canceling headphones to eliminate any possibility of getting into a conversation with someone about murder.

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Greg Miller
August 29, 2022

The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Greg Miller
August 29, 2022
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa

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 we read The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, a slow, stately book about a very hot island a long time ago.

Greg Miller
July 18, 2022

The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard

Greg Miller
July 18, 2022
The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard

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 Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard - a play where a lot happens just off stage and there's a lot of talking about thinking.

Greg Miller
June 20, 2022

In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan

Greg Miller
June 20, 2022
In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan

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 In Between the Sheets, a kind-of-sort-of creepy book of short stories by Ian McEwan.

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