Interviews with Francis Bacon | David Sylvester Billy Liar | Keith Waterhouse Room at the Top | John Braine On Having No Head | Douglass Harding Kafka Was The Rage | Anatole Broyard A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess City of Night | John Rechy The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert Iliad | Homer As I lay Dying | William Faulkner Tadanori Yokoo | Tadanori Yokoo Berlin Alexanderplatz | Alfred Döblin Inside the Whale and Other Essays | George Orwell Mr. Norris Changes Trains | Christopher Isherwood Halls Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art | James A. Hall David Bomberg | Richard Cork Blast | Wyndham Lewis Passing | Nella Larson Beyond the Brillo Box | Arthur C. Danto The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind | Julian Jaynes In Bluebeard’s Castle | George Steiner Hawksmoor | Peter Ackroyd The Divided Self | R. D. Laing The Stranger | Albert Camus Infants of the Spring | Wallace Thurman The Quest For Christa T | Christa Wolf The Songlines | Bruce Chatwin Nights at the Circus | Angela Carter The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov Herzog | Saul Bellow Puckoon | Spike Milligan Black Boy | Richard Wright The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea | Yukio Mishima Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler The Waste Land | T.S. Elliot McTeague | Frank Norris Money | Martin Amis The Outsider | Colin Wilson Strange People | Frank Edwards English Journey | J.B. Priestley A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole The Day of the Locust | Nathanael West Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell The Life and Times of Little Richard | Charles White Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock | Nik Cohn Mystery Train | Greil Marcus Beano | Comic Raw | Graphic Comic White Noise | Don DeLillo Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom | Peter Guralnick Silence: lectures and writing | John Cage Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews | Edited by Malcolm Cowley The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll | Charlie Gillete Octobriana and the Russian Underground | Peter Sadecky The Street | Ann Petry Wonder Boys | Michael Chabon Last Exit to Brooklyn | Hubert Selby, Jr A People’s History of the United States | Howard Zinn The Age of American Unreason | Susan Jacoby Metropolitan Life | Fran Lebowitz The Coast of Utopia | Tom Stoppard The Bridge | Hart Crane All The Emperor’s Horses | David Kidd Fingersmith | Sarah Waters Earthly Powers | Anthony Burgess The 42nd Parallel | John Dos Passos Tales of Beatnik Glory | Ed Saunders The Bird Artist | Howard Norman Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music | Gerri Hirshey Before the Deluge | Otto Friedrich Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson | Camille Paglia The American Way of Death | Jessica Mitford In Cold Blood | Truman Capote Lady Chatterly’s Lover | D.H. Lawrence Teenage | Jon Savage Vile Bodies | Evelyn Waugh The Hidden Persuaders | Vance Packard The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin Viz | Comic Private Eye – Satire Magazine Selected Poems | Frank O’Hara The Trial of Henry Kissinger | Christopher Hitchens Flaubert’s Parrrot | Julian Barnes Maldodor | Comte de Lautréamont On The Road | Jack Kerouac Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders | Lawrence Weschler Zanoni | Edward Bulwer-Lytton Transcendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual | Eliphas Lévi The Gnostic Gospels | Elaine Pagels The Leopard | Giusseppe Di Lampedusa Inferno | Dante Alighieri A Grave for a Dolphin | Alberto Denti di Pirajno The Insult | Rupert Thomson In Between the Sheets | Ian McEwan A People’s Tragedy | Orlando Figes Journey into the Whirlwind | Eugenia Ginzburg