Patti Smith’s Recommended Reading List September 1, 2023 The punk poet and author of Just Kids, Patti Smith – Service95 Book Club’s Monthly Read for September – shares her favourite books, by Albertine Sarrazin, Oscar Wilde and more

• Ariel – Sylvia Plath
• Journey To The East – Hermann Hesse
• Moments Of Being – Virginia Woolf
• The Children’s Crusade – Marcel Schwob
• The Wall – Marlen Haushofer
• The Adventures Of Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
• An Episode In The Life Of A Landscape Painter – César Aira
• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
• Kafka On The Shore – Haruki Murakami
• The Death Of Ivan Ilyich And Other Stories – Leo Tolstoy
• The Master And Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
• Villette – Charlotte Brontë
• Illuminations – Arthur Rimbaud
• Rashomon And Seventeen Other Stories – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• A Happy Death – Albert Camus
• The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
• In The Café Of Lost Youth – Patrick Modiano
• Astragal – Albertine Sarrazin
• The Oblivion Seekers – Isabelle Eberhardt
• ­The Thief’s Journal – Jean Genet
• The Happy Prince & Other Stories – Oscar Wilde
• Writing – Marguerite Duras