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Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962) -- Albert Camus, The Outsider (1942) -- Nik Cohn, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom (1969) -- Dante Alighieri, 'Inferno' (c.1308-20) -- Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) -- Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) -- Frank O'Hara, Selected Poems (2009) -- Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (2001) -- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955) -- Martin Amis, Money (1984) -- Colin Wilson, The Outsider (1956) -- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856) -- Homer, The Iliad -- James Hall, Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art (1974) -- Saul Bellow, Herzog (1964) -- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) -- John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) -- Greil Marcus, Mystery Train (1975) -- The Beano (founded 1938) -- Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life (1978) -- Richard Cork, David Bomberg (1988) -- Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) -- George Steiner, In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Re-Definition of Culture (1971) -- D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1930) -- Petr Sadecký, Octobriana and the Russian Underground (1971) -- Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror (1868) -- John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writing (1968) -- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) 29. Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor (1985) -- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1962) -- Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984) -- Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual (1856) -- Sarah Waters, Fingersmith (2002) -- William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930) -- Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) -- Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957) -- Edward Bulwer Lytton, Zanoni (1842) -- George Orwell, Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940) -- John Rechy, City of Night (1963) -- David Sylvester, The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon (1987) -- Julian Jaynes, The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) -- Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot (1984) -- J. B. Priestley, English Journey (1934) -- Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar (1959) -- Alberto Denti di Piranho, A Grave for a Dolphin (1956) -- RAW (1986-91) -- Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason (2008) 49. Richard Wright, Black Boy (1945)
Viz (1979-present) -- Ann Petry, The Street (1946) -- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (1958) -- Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985) -- Douglas Harding, On Having No Head (1961) -- Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage (1990) -- Charles White, The Life and Times of Little Richard (1984) -- Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys (1995) -- Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon (1940) -- Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) -- John Braine, Room at the Top (1957) -- Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (1979) -- Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (1966) -- Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: the Russian Revolution 1891-1924 (1996) -- Rupert Thomson, The Insult (1996) -- Gerri Hirshey, Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music (1984) -- Arthur C. Danto, Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective (1992) -- Frank Norris, McTeague (1899) -- Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (1940) -- Nella Larsen, Passing (1929) -- Hubert Selby Jnr, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) -- Frank Edwards, Strange People: Unusual Humans Who Have Baffled the World (1961) -- Nathaniel West, The Day of the Locust (1939) -- Tadanoori Yokoo, Tadanoori Yokoo (1997) -- Jon Savage, Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture (2007) -- Wallace Thurman, Infants of the Spring (1932) -- Hart Crane, The Bridge (1930) -- Eugenia Ginzburg, Into the Whirlwind (1967) -- Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory (1975) -- John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel (1930) -- Peter Guralnick, Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom (1986) -- Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines (1987) -- Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -- Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death (1963) -- Otto Friedrich, Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s (1972) -- Private Eye (1961-the present) -- R. D. Laing, The Divided Self (1959) -- Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders (1957) -- Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930) -- Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (1980) -- Wyndham Lewis, Blast (1914) -- Ian McEwan, In Between the Sheets (1978) -- David Kidd, All the Emperor's Horses (1961) -- Malcolm Cowley (ed.), Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 1st Series (1958) -- Christa Wolf, The Quest for Christa T (1968) -- Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia (2002) -- Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers (1980) -- Howard Norman, The Bird Artist (1994) -- Spike Milligan, Puckoon (1963) -- Charlie Gillett, The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock 'n' Roll (1970) -- Lawrence Weschler, Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (1995).
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