Listmania!
A literary list of a existional dyslexic
On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics)On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
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A bohemian odyssey
The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classics)The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Dazzling surreal humour .A big inspiration for the song "Sympathy for the Devil".
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics)The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm X
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A man who first turns his back on a dissolute life. Then bravely and analytically stands up to his oppressors both black and white
Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
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Describes the bright hopes and desperate disillusionment of a chaotic, brutal war
England's DreamingEngland's Dreaming by Jon Savage
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The sex pistols with all the filth and fury
If This Is a Man, and The Truce (Everyman's Library Classics)If This Is a Man, and The Truce (Everyman's Library Classics) by Primo Levi
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Two works of autobiography. "If This is a Man" tells of Levi's experiences as a victim of the Holocaust
Voltaire's Coconuts: Or Anglomania in EuropeVoltaire's Coconuts: Or Anglomania in Europe by Ian Buruma
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Voltaire's Coconuts weaves a compelling story of the ways in which European exiles and emigrés have fallen under the spell of the intangible mix of snobbery,liberalism,xenophobia & tolerance
The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Picador Books)The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Picador Books) by Hunter S. Thompson
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This collection of essays and articles shows Thompson to be a true leader in counter culture
Dispatches (Picador)Dispatches (Picador) by Michael Herr
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Herr's take on Vietnam: a hallucinatory mess and bitchs brew of John Waynes on LSD
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
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A wonderfully curious and imaginative adventure through an alternative future-now Japan
For Whom the Bell TollsFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Lean Hemingwayesq style and insight into the human condition
POPism: The Warhol SixtiesPOPism: The Warhol Sixties by Andy Warhol
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The late artist's intimate journals revealing insights into Warhol's 1960's world -Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Solzhenitsyn’s writing is void of sentimentality .This book conveys the barbarity of the Stalin era Gulag.
Junky (Penguin Modern Classics)Junky (Penguin Modern Classics) by William S Burroughs
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Welcome to the sordid underground world of the 1940's drug addict and associated lifestyle
Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy DivisionTouching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division by Deborah Curtis
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Revealing the duality of a man. This one with a Heart of darkness
The Forgotten Soldier (Cassell Military Paperbacks)The Forgotten Soldier (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Guy Sajer
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An account from the German side on the eastern front WW2 .A true clash of the titans
The Autobiography of a Super Tramp (Oxford Paperbacks)The Autobiography of a Super Tramp (Oxford Paperbacks) by William Henry Davies
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A tramps journey of discovery around England & accross America in the late 19th century. Excellent read and much better then the group of the same name.
The Trial (Vintage Classics)The Trial (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
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A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit. A crime whose nature is never revealed to him.