Here is a list I found of the 50 best cult books (according to Telegraph) I am just curious to see how many I have read.
I will mark the ones I have read in RED and the ones I am planning on reading in ORANGE.
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The
A Rebours by JK Huysmans
Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Chariots of the Gods: Was God An Astronaut? by Erich Von Däniken
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health by L Ron Hubbard
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Iron John: a Book About Men by Robert Bly
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and Russell Munson
The Magus by John Fowles
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borge
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
No Logo by Naomi Klein
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Fear and Loathing in
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám tr by Edward FitzGerald
The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Story of O by Pauline Réage
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Teachings of Don Juan: a
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values by Robert M Pirsig
I really haven't read very many!
A few books I thought should be on the list are
A Clock Work Orange
A Brave New World
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
What books were left off that you thought should be one there?
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