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• The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby, 2008
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz, 2007
• The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard, 2007
• Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage, 2007
• Fingersmith, Sarah Waters, 2002
• The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens, 2001
• Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler, 1997
• A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes, 1997
• The Insult, Rupert Thomson, 1996
• Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon, 1995
• The Bird Artist, Howard Norman, 1994
• Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Anatole Broyard, 1993
• Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, Arthur C. Danto, 1992
• Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia, 1990
• David Bomberg, Richard Cork, 1988
• Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Peter Guralnick, 1986
• The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin, 1986
• Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd, 1985
• Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music, Gerri Hirshey, 1984
• Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter, 1984
• Money, Martin Amis, 1984
• White Noise, Don DeLillo, 1984
• Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes, 1984
• The Life and Times of Little Richard, Charles White, 1984
• A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn, 1980
• A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980
• Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester, 1980
• Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler, 1980
• Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess, 1980
• Raw (a ‘graphix magazine’) 1980-91
• Viz (magazine) 1979 –
• The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels, 1979
• Metropolitan Life, Fran Lebowitz, 1978
• In Between the Sheets, Ian McEwan, 1978
• Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, ed. Malcolm Cowley, 1977
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, 1976
• Tales of Beatnik Glory, Ed Saunders, 1975
• Mystery Train, Greil Marcus, 1975
• Selected Poems, Frank O’Hara, 1974
• Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, Otto Friedrich, 1972
• In Bluebeard’s Castle : Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture, George Steiner, 1971
• Octobriana and the Russian Underground, Peter Sadecky, 1971
• The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Charlie Gillete, 1970
• The Quest For Christa T, Christa Wolf, 1968
• Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, Nik Cohn, 1968
• The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967
• Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg, 1967
• Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr. , 1966
• In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, 1965
• City of Night, John Rechy, 1965
• Herzog, Saul Bellow, 1964
• Puckoon, Spike Milligan, 1963
• The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford, 1963
• The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima, 1963
• The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, 1963
• A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962
• Inside the Whale and Other Essays, George Orwell, 1962
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961
• Private Eye (magazine) 1961 –
• On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Douglas Harding, 1961
• Silence: Lectures and Writing, John Cage, 1961
• Strange People, Frank Edwards, 1961
• The Divided Self, R. D. Laing, 1960
• All The Emperor’s Horses, David Kidd,1960
• Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse, 1959
• The Leopard, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, 1958
• On The Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957
• The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard, 1957
• Room at the Top, John Braine, 1957
• A Grave for a Dolphin, Alberto Denti di Pirajno, 1956
• The Outsider, Colin Wilson, 1956
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1948
• The Street, Ann Petry, 1946
• Black Boy, Richard Wright, 1945
• The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker, 1944
• The Outsider, Albert Camus, 1942
• The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West, 1939
• The Beano, (comic) 1938 –
• The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell, 1937
• Mr. Norris Changes Trains, Christopher Isherwood, 1935
• English Journey, J.B. Priestley, 1934
• Infants of the Spring, Wallace Thurman, 1932
• The Bridge, Hart Crane, 1930
• Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh, 1930
• As I lay Dying, William Faulkner, 1930
• The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos, 1930
• Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin, 1929
• Passing, Nella Larsen, 1929
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence, 1928
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
• The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922
• BLAST, ed. Wyndham Lewis, 1914-15
• McTeague, Frank Norris, 1899
• Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual, Eliphas Lévi, 1896
• Les Chants de Maldoror, Lautréamont, 1869
• Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, 1856
• Zanoni, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1842
• Inferno, from the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, about 1308-1321
• The Iliad, Homer, about 800 BC