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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Dracula by Bram Stoker, anything by H.P. Lovecraft (epecially Rats In The Walls and Beyond The Mountains Of Madness), The Slave and The Dutchman by Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones, anything by Luigi Pirandello (especially Six Characters In Search Of An Author, Henry IV, and So It Is If You Say So), anything by Samuel Beckett, Old Times and No Man's Land by Harold Pinter, anything by Franz Kafka (especially The Penal Colony, The Metamorphosis, and The Judgement), anything by Ernest Hemingway (especially The Snows Of Mount Kilimanjaro and The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber), anything by Nathaniel Hawthorne (especially The Minister's Black Veil, The Birthmark, Young Goodman Brown, and The Celestial Railroad), anything by Henrik Ibsen (especially Pillar's Of Society, An Enemy Of The People, The Wild Duck, and Hedda Gabler), The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, City Of Glass by Paul Auster, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, Maus: A Survivor's Tale books I (My Father Bleeds History) & II (And Here My Troubles Began) by Art Spiegelman, The Toughest Indian In The World by Sherman Alexie (especially the short story The Lotus Eaters), The Day Of The Locuts and Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West, Soul On Ice by Eldridge Cleaver, Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed, My Antonia by Willa Cather, The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, The Investigation by Peter Weiss, True West by Sam Shepard, The Babysitter by Robert Coover, Clouds by Aristophanes, On Dumpster Diving by Lars Eighner, The Marlboro Man by Sandra Cisneros, anything by Anton Checkov (especially The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and The Cherry Orchard), Book Of The Subgenius: The Sacred Teachings Of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs by The Subgenius Foundation, Death Of A Salesman and The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, anything by Edgar Allen Poe (especially The Fall Of The House Of Usher, The Masque Of The Red Death, The Murders In The Rue Morgue, The Oval Portrait, The Pit And The Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Raven), And The Ass Saw The Angel and King Ink by Nick Cave, anything by Samuel Beckett (especially Krapp's Last Tape, Film, Not I, and Footfalls), Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman, The Island Of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, Foghorn by Hanay Geigoman, The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein, Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez, Yankee Dawg You Die by Philip Kan Gotanda, Uncle Tom's Cabin by George L. Aiken, Angels In America: Millenium Approaches and Angels In America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner, The Search For Signs Of intelligent Life In The Universe by Jane Wagner, M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, Vox by Nicholson Baker, Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Secret Of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien, anything by Tennessee Williams (especially Glass Managerie, Night Of The Iguana, Sweet Bird Of Youth, and The Rose Tattoo) The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O' Neill, Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, anything by Graham Greene (especially The Quiet American, Brighton Rock, The Third Man, and The Destructors), anything by Bertolt Brecht (especially The Good Woman Of Setzuan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Mother Courage And Her Children,and The Three Penny Opera), Inheret The Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee, Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, anything by Henry James (especially The Aspern Papers, The Altar Of The Dead, and The Turn Of The Screw), Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, The Autobiography Of Malcom X, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Here I Stand by Paul Robeson, House Made Of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday, Cane by Jean Toomer, Lolita by Vladimir Nadokov, The Stranger and The Plague by Albert Camus, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Istanbul Boy by Aziz Nesin, Berji Kristin: Tales From The Garbage Hills by Latife Tekin, The Lynchers by John Edgar Wideman, Revolutionary Suicide: The Way Of Liberation by Melvin Newton, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing The Flack Cathers by Tom Wolfe, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, Records Of Salem Witchcraft Copied From The Original Documents, Hope For Flowers by Trina Paulus, The Imporatance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, the screenplays of Ingmar Bergaman (especially screenplays for the films Sawdust And Tinsel, Smiles Of A Summer Night, Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Silence, Persona, Cries And Whispers, and Fanny And Alexander), A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Story Of O by Pauline Reage, Red Badge Of Courage by Stephen Crane, Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block, Three Lives by Gertrud Stein, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury poetry: "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks; "Songs Of Innocence And Experience" by William Blake; "Lines Composed A Few Miles Above The Tintern Abbey", "I Wandered As Lonely As A Cloud", "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge September 3rd 1802", "London 1802", "The World Is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth; "Christabel", "The Eolian Harp", "The Lime Tree Bower My Prison", "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner", and "Kubla Kahn" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; "Childe Harold's Pilgramage" by George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Ozymandias", " Indian Girl's Song", "Ode To The West Wind", "Prometheus Unbound" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, "On Seeing The Elgin Marbles", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad", "Ode To A Nightingale", "Ode On A Grecian Urn", "Ode On Melancholy", "Ode To Psyche", and "Ode On Innocence" by John Keats, "Sonnets From The Portuguese" numbers 21, 22, 32, and especially 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; "The Lady Of Shalott", "The Charge Of The Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; "The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam" by Edward Fitzgerald; "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning, the poems in We A BaddDDD People by Sonia Sanchez; the poems in Re:Creation and Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgement by Nikki Giovanni, "End Of The World" by Jakob van Hoddis; "The God Of The City" by Georg Heym; "Morning" by Alfred Lichtenstein; "Tongues Untied" by Marlon Riggs, all of the poems in I Orhan Veli by Orhan Veli Kanik; "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Proofrock" by T.S. Elliot; "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas; "Dulce Et Decorum Est", "Anthem For Doomed Youth", "Apologia Pro Poemate Meo", "Miners", "Strange Meeting", "Futility", and "Disbaled" by Wilfred Owen; Where The Sidewalk Ends, A Light In The Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein; The New Kid On The Block by James Stevenson; "Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater" by Thomas De Quincey; "Jaberwocky", "The White Knight's Song", "The Walrus And The Carpenter", "The Hunting Of The Snark", and "The Baker's Tale" by Lewis Carrol books about music: The Life & Music Of Nick Cave: An Illustrated Biography by Maximillian Dax and Johannes Beck; Hank Williams: Snapshots From The Lost Highway by Colin Escott and Kira Florita; Bad Seed: The Biography Of Nick Cave by Ian Johnston; Jazz: The First 100 Years by Henry Martin and Keith Waters; Blues From Robert Johnson To Robert Cray by Tom Russell books about movies: any of the film guides published by the British Film Institute (BFI), Birth Of The Motion Picture by Emmanuelle Toulet, Republic Of Images: A History Of French Filmmaking by Alan Williams, Joel & Ethan Coen: Blood Siblings edited by Paul A. Woods, The Apocalypse Now Book by Peter Cowie, The French New Wave: An Artistic School by Michel Marie, French Cinema Since 1950: Personal Histories by Emma Wilson, The Rough Guide To Cult Movies: The Good, The Bad, And The Very Weird Indeed edited by Paul Simpson, Audrey Hepburn: An Elegant Spirit by Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Dictionary Of Film Quotations by Melinda Corey and George Ochoa, Natural Born Killers by Quentin Terantino books about art: books about art: *note* any books published by Phaidon Books or Taschen Press are all pretty amazing Salvidor Dali edited by Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neiret (published by Taschen), New York Girls by Richard Kern (published by Taschen), Portraits: Helmut Newton (published by Pantheon), Man Ray (published by Taschen, part of the Icons series), Century (published by Phaidon Press), Requiem: By The Photographers Who Died In Vietnam & Indochina edited by Horst Faas (published by Random House), The 20th Century Art Book (published by Phaidon), The Photo Book (published by Phaidon), The Poster Art Of Tomi Ungerer edited by Jack Rennert, American Poster Rennaissance: The Great Age Of Poster Design 1890-1900 by Victor Margolin, Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal (published by Deutsche Guggenheim), Contemporary Masterworks edited by Colin Naylor, Art Now edited by Burkhara Riemscneider and Utta Grosenick (published byTaschen), Frida Kahlo by Frank Milner, The Essential Man Ray by Ingrid Schaffer, The Essential Cindy Sherman by Catherine Morris, Helmut Newton: Autobiography by Helmut Newton, Frida Kahlo And Diego Rivera by Isabel Alcantara and Sandra Egnolff, Masterpieces From The Peggy Guggenheim Collection (published by the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation), Bjork edited by M/M (amazing book of nothing but photographs of Bjork, published by Bloomsbury), Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills (published by the Museum Of Modern Art), Weegee's World edited by Miles Barth, Art At The Turn Of The Millenium (published by Taschen), Art Of The 20th Century (published by Taschen), 20th Century Art (published by Taschen)