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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