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Hoi, kittlings... here is the old list, in handy alphabetised chunks.
A-C
Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale ('there are people who haven't read that?' - [your name here]), Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Nicholson Baker, Double Fold ('looks as if it will be an interesting consideration of the relationships between books as carriers of information and books as artefacts.' - Macavity)
James Baldwin - Another Country
Georges Bataille - The Story of the Eye
Alfred Bester - Tiger! Tiger! ('Probably the best science fiction I've ever read, by the guy who Harlan Ellison describes as a writing god. Hardboiled prose with more ideas per chapter than most writers use in their entire careers, and a heart and soul too'. - Jack the Bodiless) - currently available under the title 'The Stars their Destination', apparently
William Blake, Complete Poems
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon ('it is still useful to read about what makes a traditionally canonical book canonical. Some might call Bloom a reactionary ... but for a theory of what makes a poetic or literary genius, and why it is valuable to read, he's worthwhile. Particularly good is his reading of Freud as literature rather than "science."' - todd)
Dorothea Brande, Becoming a Writer ('eerily prefigures neuro-linguistic programming in a LOT of particulars. ’ - todd)
John Brunner, Stand On Zanzibar
Scott Bukatman, Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
William Burroughs, works, The Western Lands ('slick use of his bag of tricks' - [your name here]), Cities of the Red Night
Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics ('How the world was made. ' - grant), If On a Winter's Night a Traveller...
Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God ('an encyclopediac survey, following in the tradition of Frazer and Jung, about the structure of myths from prehistory to now. ' - todd); The Man with a Thousand Faces
Albert Camus - The Outsider
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game & Speaker For The Dead
John Carey, The Intellectuals and the Masses
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass
Angela Carter, Love, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
R. W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
G. K. Chesterton, The Man who was Thursday ('My favourite book by my favourite writer. Influenced The Prisoner, Ian Fleming, and shitloads of others. A surreal spy novel written in 1904. ' - Jack the Bodiless)
Jonathan Coe, What a Carve Up! ('Excellent read, and very good on the damage done by big people to little people' - Macavity)
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Under Western Eyes
Peter Conrad, Modern Times, Modern Places
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Julian Cope - Headon ('He's hilarious, and this is a fucking great book of reminiscence...' - Jack the Bodiless)
The complete poems of Stephen Crane
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