You don't have to wonder. The police took like a thousand crime scene photos of Paisley and just posted everything online after the investigation was over. (just be careful because they also released pictures of him after he left us)

Here's a list I found.

http://andreamaicreative.com/what-books-were-in-princes-library-at-paisley-park/

One from the ORG

https://prince.org/msg/7/454151

And he also had this JW tract in his office https://www.jw.org/en/lib...eone-dies/

Oh and George Clinton confessed in his autobiography that, around the time they were making Cinderella Theory, he would smoke crack in the bathroom at Paisley then read passages to Prince from Behold A Pale Horse by Bill Cooper.

[Edited 12/9/19 22:35pm]

Strive said:

You don't have to wonder. The police took like a thousand crime scene photos of Paisley and just posted everything online after the investigation was over. (just be careful because they also released pictures of him after he left us)

Here's a list I found.

Aside from these books, copies of the New World Translation Bible, and the English Dictionary and Thesaurus were found in different areas around Paisley Park.

21 Nights - Prince
Technopoly: The Surrender Of Culture To Technology - Neil Postman
The Quickening: Today's Trends, Tomorrow's World - Art Bell
Genesis 6 Giants Volume 2 Master Builders Of Prehistoric And Ancient Civilizations - Stephen Quayle
Tutankhamun: The Exodus Conspiracy - The Truth Behind Archaeology's Greatest Myster - Andrew Collins & Chris Ogilvie-Herald
Forced Into Glory - Lerone Bennett Jr.
The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages Of Vasco Da Gama - Nigel Cliff
Chariots Of The Gods - Eric von Daniken
Women, Race and Class - Angela Davis
A Country Of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America - David K. Shipler
Naked Pictures Of Famous People - Jon Stewart
Inside The Music: Conversations with Contemporary Musicians about Spirituality, Creativity and Consciousness - Dimitri Ehrlich
Funk: Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion - Dave Thompson
Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations - Rainer Maria Rilke

http://andreamaicreative.com/what-books-were-in-princes-library-at-paisley-park/

One from the ORG

BOOKS:

- 2001 yearbook of Jehova's Witnesses

- 2004 Recording Industry Sourcebook *

- Afrikan Matriarchal Foundations

- Bible -New World Traslation – various copies around the house *

- Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America [Jossef Bodansky, Nadia May]

- California – Gallery Books*

- Can Man Live without God - Ravi Zacharias

- Chariots of the Gods - Erich von Däniken

- Egypt: Gods, Myths and Religion- Lucia Gahlin

- Everybody's guide to the Law - Melvin Belli

- Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream - Lerone Bennett, Jr

- Guide to Motion Picture, Broadcasting, Recorded Sound – Alan Gevinson *

- Imponderables- David Feldman

- In Praise of Black Women- Schwarz- Bart*

- Inside the Music - Dimitri Ehrlich *

- Intellectuals and Society – Thomas Sowell *

- Maat: The Moral Idea in Ancient Egypt - Maulana Karenga *

- Metamorphosis -Serge Normant

- Naked Pictures of Famous People- Jon Stewart *

- On love and other difficulties - Rilke (found beside the bed on the green bedroom)

- Oxford Dictionary of the Bible *

- Pharaohs of the Sun- Rita E. Freed, Yvonne J. Markowitz *

- Pousadas de Portugal

- Technopoly -Neil Postman

- The Complete Rhyming Dictionary - edited by Clement Wood

- The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible - James Strong

- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates – Audio book *

- There Goes Gravity- Lisa Robinson *

- The Secret Teaching of All Ages – Manly P. Hall *

- They lived before Adam- Catherine Acholonu *

- What I Know for Sure – Tavis Smiley *

- Women, Race and Class - Angela Davis

https://prince.org/msg/7/454151

And he also had this JW tract in his office https://www.jw.org/en/lib...eone-dies/

Oh and George Clinton confessed in his autobiography that, around the time they were making Cinderella Theory, he would smoke crack in the bathroom at Paisley then read passages to Prince from Behold A Pale Horse by Bill Cooper.

[Edited 12/9/19 22:35pm]

I'm impressed he was reading Rilke.

Kzonker said:

I know Prince knew his Bible inside and out.

oh really?

Wish I had a dollar,

for everytime you say,

"Don't you miss the feelin' numbers gave you,

back in the day?"

[Edited 12/10/19 17:48pm]

Strive said:

You don't have to wonder. The police took like a thousand crime scene photos of Paisley and just posted everything online after the investigation was over. (just be careful because they also released pictures of him after he left us)

Here's a list I found.

Aside from these books, copies of the New World Translation Bible, and the English Dictionary and Thesaurus were found in different areas around Paisley Park.

21 Nights - Prince
Technopoly: The Surrender Of Culture To Technology - Neil Postman
The Quickening: Today's Trends, Tomorrow's World - Art Bell
Genesis 6 Giants Volume 2 Master Builders Of Prehistoric And Ancient Civilizations - Stephen Quayle
Tutankhamun: The Exodus Conspiracy - The Truth Behind Archaeology's Greatest Myster - Andrew Collins & Chris Ogilvie-Herald
Forced Into Glory - Lerone Bennett Jr.
The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages Of Vasco Da Gama - Nigel Cliff
Chariots Of The Gods - Eric von Daniken
Women, Race and Class - Angela Davis
A Country Of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America - David K. Shipler
Naked Pictures Of Famous People - Jon Stewart
Inside The Music: Conversations with Contemporary Musicians about Spirituality, Creativity and Consciousness - Dimitri Ehrlich
Funk: Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion - Dave Thompson
Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations - Rainer Maria Rilke

http://andreamaicreative.com/what-books-were-in-princes-library-at-paisley-park/

One from the ORG

BOOKS:

- 2001 yearbook of Jehova's Witnesses

- 2004 Recording Industry Sourcebook *

- Afrikan Matriarchal Foundations

- Bible -New World Traslation – various copies around the house *

- Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America [Jossef Bodansky, Nadia May]

- California – Gallery Books*

- Can Man Live without God - Ravi Zacharias

- Chariots of the Gods - Erich von Däniken

- Egypt: Gods, Myths and Religion- Lucia Gahlin

- Everybody's guide to the Law - Melvin Belli

- Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream - Lerone Bennett, Jr

- Guide to Motion Picture, Broadcasting, Recorded Sound – Alan Gevinson *

- Imponderables- David Feldman

- In Praise of Black Women- Schwarz- Bart*

- Inside the Music - Dimitri Ehrlich *

- Intellectuals and Society – Thomas Sowell *

- Maat: The Moral Idea in Ancient Egypt - Maulana Karenga *

- Metamorphosis -Serge Normant

- Naked Pictures of Famous People- Jon Stewart *

- On love and other difficulties - Rilke (found beside the bed on the green bedroom)

- Oxford Dictionary of the Bible *

- Pharaohs of the Sun- Rita E. Freed, Yvonne J. Markowitz *

- Pousadas de Portugal

- Technopoly -Neil Postman

- The Complete Rhyming Dictionary - edited by Clement Wood

- The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible - James Strong

- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates – Audio book *

- There Goes Gravity- Lisa Robinson *

- The Secret Teaching of All Ages – Manly P. Hall *

- They lived before Adam- Catherine Acholonu *

- What I Know for Sure – Tavis Smiley *

- Women, Race and Class - Angela Davis

https://prince.org/msg/7/454151

And he also had this JW tract in his office https://www.jw.org/en/lib...eone-dies/

Oh and George Clinton confessed in his autobiography that, around the time they were making Cinderella Theory, he would smoke crack in the bathroom at Paisley then read passages to Prince from Behold A Pale Horse by Bill Cooper.

[Edited 12/9/19 22:35pm]