Harper Perennial Modern Classics, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit "A masterpiece. ... One of the most prophetic dystopian works." --Wall Street Journal Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature... More about Brave New World (P.S
Ballantine Books, February 1992. Trade Paperback. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here... More about The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told to Alex Haley
Random House Inc, January 2002. Trade Paperback. Woooooooo-hooooooo. Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all... More about Hotel World
W. W. Norton & Company, June 1995. Trade Paperback. A brilliant reading from the novel by one of the wittiest commentators and literary figures of this century. "Antony Burgess reads chapters of his novel A Clockwork Orange" with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it is a fantasy set in an... More about A Clockwork Orange
Grove Press, December 2013. Trade Paperback. Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but... More about Naked Lunch
Picador, February 2009. Trade Paperback. An intense collection of interconnected stories that portray life through the eyes of a young man in a small Iowa town, by the author of "Already Dead: A California Gothic," "Angels" and "Resuscitation of a Hanged Man." More about Jesus' Son: Stories
Scribner, September 1995. Trade Paperback. A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of... More about Garden of Eden
Scribner, July 2010. Trade Paperback. Ernest Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches. Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most enduring works. Since Hemingway's personal papers... More about A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
Plume, April 1983. Trade Paperback. 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that... More about 1984
City Lights Books, September 1987. Trade Paperback. In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds... More about Story of the Eye
I cannot think of a stranger, more intriguing book of literary erotica.
Vintage, September 1998. Trade Paperback. "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war; a bildungsroman about a compassionate young man's search for his own identity as well... More about The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International
Grove Press, 1975. Trade Paperback. More about Tropic of Cancer
St Martins Pr, October 2001. Trade Paperback. In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive... More about Crash
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1991. Trade Paperback. Few novels have had as profound an impact as On the Road, and Kerouac's vision continues to inspire: three generations of writers, musicians, artists, and poets cite their discovery of On the Road as the event that "set them free." This hardcover edition commemorates... More about On the Road
The ultimate beat tome and the book largely responsible for me landing on these shores. An entirely different American dream. Jack and Neal were hipsters before it was a dirty word. Essential.
City Lights Publishers, November 2015. Hardcover. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has influenced American culture like few other poets. But in 1955, shortly before he would gain fame as the beloved author of "A Coney Island of the Mind," he was an unpublished and mostly unknown poet. He launched City Lights Publishers that... More about Pictures of the Gone World: 60th Anniversary Edition (City Lights Pocket Poets Series
Grove Press, October 2012. Trade Paperback. Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the... More about Junky
