My Favorite Books

1. Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille

2. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy

3. The Devils of Loudon, Aldous Huxley

4. Against Nature, J. K. Huysmans

5. Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck

6. The Soft Machine, William Burroughs

7. Kinski Uncut, Klaus Kinski

8. The Stranger, Albert Camus

9. The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis

10. The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain

11. My Life and Loves, Frank Harris

12. Vox, Nicholson Baker

13. The Room, Hubert Selby Jr.

14. Impressions of Africa, Raymond Roussel

15. Candide, Voltaire

16. The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy

17. Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger

18. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

19. The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek

20. The Dwarf, Par Lagerkvist

21. The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski

22. Listen, Little Man!, Wilhelm Reich

23. Old Masters: A Comedy, Thomas Bernhard

24. The Tetherballs of Bougainville, Mark Leyner

25. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

26. Pop. 1280, Jim Thompson

27. Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino

28. The Fermata, Nicholson Baker

29. Illuminations, Walter Benjamin

30. Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden, Aleister Crowley

31. After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Aldous Huxley

32. The Grifters, Jim Thompson

33. The Diary of a Madman, Nikolai Gogol

34. I, Claudius, Robert Graves

35. Crash, J. G. Ballard

36. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

37. Roman Nights, Pier Paolo Pasolini

38. About Looking, John Berger

39. An Assassin's Diary, Arthur Bremer

40. The Night of the Hunter, Davis Grubb

41. Gargoyles, Thomas Bernhard

42. The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien

43. The Mezzanine, Nicholson Baker

44. Prisoners' Inventions, Angelo

45. Diary of a Superfluous Man, Ivan Turgenev

46. Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy

47. Maldoror, Comte de Lautreamont

48. Being There, Jerzy Kosinski

49. Locus Solus, Raymond Roussel

50. Ubik, Philip K. Dick

- Dan Gleason