Books, Albums of 2001, Bono

3 Jan 2002
The 2002 Hot Press Annual issue features Bono's Favourite Books and CD's of the moment.

Albums Bono has been listening to include:

As If To Nothing by Craig Armstrong

Gold by Ryan Adams

Is This It by The Strokes

White Blood Cells by The White Stripes

Love and Theft by Bob Dylan

Wonderland by The Charlatans.



As for his preferred reading, the list runs like this:

The New Testament, translated by Eugene Peterson

The Books of Wisdom, translated by Eugene Peterson

The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J T Leroy

My Dark Places by James Elroy

Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes


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