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The Rowland S. Howard Reading List: Prose

Alain Fournier Anne Rice Arkady and Boris Strutgatsky Blaise Cendrars Boris Vian Chester Himes, Clive Barker Cormac McCarthy Daniel Woodrell: Winter’s Bone Dashiell Hammett David Grubb: Night of the Hunter David Mitchell: Number9Dream David Peace David Simon Derek Raymond Edgar Allen Poe Edward Gorey Evelyn Waugh Flannery O’Connor: Wiseblood Franz Kafka Fred Vargas Fyodor Dostoyevsky Haruki Murakami J.D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye J.G Ballard: Super-Cannes Jake Arnott James Ellroy James Joyce Jeff Vandermeer: City of Saints and Madmen Jerome Charyn: War Cries Over Avenue C. Jim Thompson John Steinbeck Jonathan Caroll: Child Across The Sky  and Bones of the Moon Joseph Conrad Joyce Carol-Oates: Foxfire Lord Byron Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Journey to the Edge of Night Mark Z. Danielewski: House Of Leaves Martin Amis: London Fields, Time’s Arrow, Michael Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay Michael Moorcock: the Cornelius Quartet Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver and Cryptonomicon Nelson Algren Oscar Wilde Percy Bysshe Shelley Pete Dexter Peter Ackroyd, Peter Straub Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine Raymond Chandler Raymond Queneau: The Bark Tree Raymond Radiguet, Tim Lucas: Throat Sprockets Tim Powers: The Stress of Her Regard William Faulkner William Gibson: Neuromancer

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Manic Street Preachers reading list part 1: Richey’s Favourite Books

Tennessee Williams – Small Crypt Warnings

Tennessee Williams – Suddenly Last Summer

Tennessee Williams – Baby Doll

Anonymous (Beatrice Sparks) – Go Ask Alice

Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar

Arthur Rimbaud – A Season in Hell

William Burroughs – Junky

Albert Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus – The Outsider

Albert Camus – The Fall

Albert Camus – The Plague

Philip Larkin – poems

Primo Levi – Collected Poems

William Blake – poems

Siegfried Sassoon – The War Poems

Julie Burchill – The Boy Looked at Johnny: The Obituary of Rock and Roll

Greil Marcus – Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll

Nik Cohn – Apobpopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock

Charles Shaar Murray – Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop

Albert Goldman – Elvis

Albert Goldman – Lives of John Lennon

George Orwell – 1984

Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita

James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time

Brendan Behan – Borstal Boy

Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero

Bret Easton Ellis – American Psycho

William Golding – Lord of the Flies

William Golding – The Inheritors

John Lahr – Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton

Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Aldous Huxley – Brave New World

Jack Kerouac – Desolation Angels

Luke Rhinehart – The Dice Man

Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man

J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye

William Wharton – Birdy

William Wharton – Pride

Osamu Dazai – No Longer Human

Franz Kafka – The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka – The Trial

Dennis Cooper – Frisk

Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Notes from the Underground

F. Scott Fitzgerald – Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Masuji Ibase – Black Rain

Yukio Mishima – Thirst for Love

Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray

Jean Genet – Miracle of the Rose

J.G. Ballard – Crash

J.G. Ballard – The Atrocity Exhibition

A.E. Hotchner – Blown Away: The Rolling Stones and the Death of the Sixties

R.D. Laing – Knots

Malcolm Lowry – Under the Volcano

T.S. Eliot – The Waste Land

Octave Mirbeau – The Torture Garden

Harold Brodkey – The Runaway Soul

Junichiro Tanizaki – Naomi

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Protomartyr Reading List

Milton Rokeach - The Three Christs of Ypsilanti

William Shakespeare - Hamlet

The Bible

Robert Kiyosaki & Sharon Lechter - Rich Dad Poor Dad

Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square

text of the Hobbs Act

Dante - Inferno 

John Milton - Paradise Lost

Aesop - Fables (”The Dog in the Manger”)

A.W. Bates - Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions & Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe 

Albert Camus - The Stranger

Robert Burton - The Anatomy of Melancholy

Peter Guralnick - Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley

Flann O’Brien - The Third Policeman

Christopher Marlowe - “Hero and Leander”

Heraclitus - Fragments

Máirtin Ó Cadhain - Cré na Cille

Thomas de Quincey - The English Mail-Coach

Robert Hayden - “Night-Blooming Cereus”

Fritz Leiber - Our Lady of Darkness

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels

Ernest Becker - The Denial of Death

#reading list #protomartyr #milton rokeach #the three christs of ypsilanti #william shakespeare #hamlet #the bible #robert kiyosaki #sharon lechter #rich dad poor dad #patrick hamilton #hangover square #hobbs act #inferno #dante #john milton #paradise lost #aesop #the dog in the manger #a.w. bates #emblematic monsters #the stranger #albert camus #the anatomy of melancholy #peter guralnick #careless love #the third policeman #flann o'brien #hero and leander #christopher marlowe