Classic
Literature |
| The
Bible | The Revelation, New Testament |
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Dante Alighieri |
The Divine Comedy, Book I, The Inferno |
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Marquis de Sade | Justine
The Hundred
and Twenty Days of Sodom |
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William Shakespeare | Richard III
The Merchant
of Venice
Titus Andronicus |
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Ben Jonson | Volpone or The Fox |
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Christopher Marlowe | The Tragical History of
Doctor Faustus
The Jew of Malta |
| Johann
Wolfgang Goethe |
Faust I |
| William
Blake | Songs
of Innocence and Experience |
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S.T. Coleridge | Kubla Khan |
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Joseph Conrad | Into
the Heart of Darkness |
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Charles Baudelaire | The Flowers of Evil |
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Arthur Rimbaud | Collected Works |
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Edgar Allen Poe | Collected Works |
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H.P. Lovecraft |
Collected Works |
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20th Century Literature |
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| Franz Kafka |
The Trial
The Metamorphosis
The Verdict |
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Vladimir Nabokov |
Lolita |
| Kurt Vonnegut
|
Slaughterhouse 5 |
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Charles Bukowski | Collected Works |
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William Burroughs |
Naked Lunch
Nova Express
Junkie |
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Henry Miller |
Quiet Days in Clichy |
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Hunter S. Thompson | Fear
and Loathing in Las Vegas |
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H.G. Ballard |
Crash |
| Jack Kerouac
| On
the Road |
| J.D. Salinger
| The Catcher in the Rye |
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Hubert Selby |
Last Exit to Brooklyn |
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Anais Nin |
Delta of Venus |
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Albert Camus |
The Stranger
The
Plague |
| Jean Paul
Sartre | Nausea |
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Contemporary Literature
(less than 20 years old) |
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Douglas Coupland | Generation X |
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Ray Shell |
Iced |
| James Kelman |
How Late it Was |
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Irvine Welsh |
Trainspotting |
| Hanif
Kureishi |
The Black Album |
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Phillipe Dijan | Betty Blue |
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Ian Banks |
The Wasp Factory |
| Henry
Rollins |
Pissing in the Gene Pool
The Art to Choke Hearts |
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Jeri Cain |
Angel with a Criminal Kiss
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Martin Amis | Einstein's Monster |
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Bret Easton Ellis | American Psycho |
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Ethan Hawke | The Hottest State |
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Stewart O'Nan | The Speed Queen |
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Nick Hornby | About a Boy |
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Marie Darrieussecq | Pig Tales |
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Chuck Palahniuk | Fight Club |
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John Hodge | A Life Less Ordinary |
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Philosophical and
Political Writings |
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Sun Zei |
The Art of War |
Niccolo Macchiavelli | The Art of War
The Prince |
Friedrich
Nietzsche | Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
Ralph Giordano | If Hitler Had Won the
War |
Malcolm
X | Autobiography |
Albert Camus | The
Myth of Sisyphus |
Art Spiegelman |
Maus |
Robert
Shea
Robert R. Wilson |
Illuminatus |
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Utopias and Dystopias |
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Thomas
Moore | Utopia |
H. G. Wells | When the Sleeper Wakes
The Time Machine
War of the Worlds
The Island of Doctor Moreau, |
Jewgenij Samjatin | We |
Aldous Huxley | Brave New World |
George Orwell | 1984 |
Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 |
Philip K. Dick | Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep (Bladerunner) |
Morton Rue | The Wave |
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20th Century Theatre and Musical |
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Samuel
Beckett | Waiting for Godot
Endgame |
Harold Pinter | The Caretaker |
Peter Shaffer | Amadeus
Equus
Black Comedy |
Arthur Miller |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf |
The Who | Tommy
Quadrophenia |
Pink Floyd | The
Wall |
Robert
Wilson
Tom Waits
William Burroughs |
The Black Rider |
Randy Newman | Faust |
