If you’ve listened to the podcast you know something about our highly scientific method of choosing what books we’re going to read. The patented process involves having a drink or three and finding numbers around us in the pub - this year it was at the venerable Cafe Racer one of the last bastions of old, weird Seattle and a great place to get cheese fries and look at disturbing found art.

We ran the numbers into our working list of David Bowie’s 100 books and, ta da! here you have it, our list for 2020 - in no particular order (in fact, in a completely nonsensical order).

The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby - listen now

McTeague by Frank Norris - listen now

Cats! by T.S. Eliot (just kidding - it's The Waste Land) - listen now

Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia - listen now

Black Boy by Richard Wright - listen now

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark - listen now

Teenage by Jon Savage - listen now

The Street by Ann Petry - listen now

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn - listen now

Journey Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White - listen now

Mystery Train by Greil Marcus

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