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• On the Road

  Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969

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  On the Road is a thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lover, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stranger in a Strange Land

  Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-1988,

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  A nonhuman visitor brings into doubt the values and self-evident truths of Western society.

• A Clockwork Orange

  Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993

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  Presents Burgess' satire of the present inhumanity of man to man through a futuristic culture where teenagers rule with violence.

• Fight Club

  a Novel

  Palahniuk, Chuck

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  In a confusing world poised on the brink of mayhem, Tyler Durden, a projectionist, waiter, and anarchic genius, comes up with an idea to create clubs in which young men can escape their humdrum existence and prove themselves in barehanded fights.

• Mark Z. Danielwski's House of Leaves

  Danielewski, Mark Z.

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  A family relocates to a small house on Ash Tree Lane and discovers that the inside of their new home seems to be without boundaries.

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

  a Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

  Thompson, Hunter S.

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  In Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, Raoul Duke (Thompson) and his attorney Dr. Gonzo (inspired by a friend of Thompson) are quickly diverted to search for the American dream. Their quest is fueled by nearly every drug imaginable and quickly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bell Jar

  Plath, Sylvia

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  Presents the American poet's semi-autobiographical account of Esther Greenwood, a talented writer who struggles for intimacy and meaning in her artist life.

• Kafka on the Shore

  Murakami, Haruki, 1949-

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  An unlikely alliance forms between Kafka Tamura, a fifteen-year-old runaway, and the aging Nakata, a man who has never recovered from a wartime affliction, as they embark on a surreal odyssey through a strange, fantastical world.

• A Confederacy of Dunces

  Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969

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  Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, --selfish, domineering, deluded, tragic and larger than life-- is a noble crusader against a world of dunces. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. In magnificent revolt against the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sandman. [Volume 1], Preludes & Nocturnes

  Gaiman, Neil

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  An attempt to summon and imprison Death, results, instead, in the capture of Morpheus, the Sandman, who must regain the tools of his powers. Volume 1 of the series.

• Gravity's Rainbow

  Pynchon, Thomas

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  Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, is under suspicion by his superiors and soon on the run from enemies through Germany.

• Siddhartha

  An Indian Poem

  Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962

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  Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce material pleasures and discover ultimate spiritual truths.

• Atlas Shrugged

  Rand, Ayn

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  The decisions of a few industrial leaders shake the roots of capitalism and reawaken one man's awareness of himself as an heroic being.

• Infinite Jest

  a Novel

  Wallace, David Foster

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  The story of an intelligent but zany dysfunctional family is set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy and follows such themes as heartbreak, philosophy, and advertising.

• American Psycho

  a Novel

  Ellis, Bret Easton

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  Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare - this work is a black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Howl

  a Graphic Novel

  Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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  The famous poem that began a major censorship trial. Illustrated with stills from the computer animation that was included in the 2010 movie by the same name.

• Naked Lunch

  the Restored Text

  Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997,

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  The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes intended to be read in any order. Follow the narration of junkie William Lee, who takes on various aliases, from the U.S. to Mexico, eventually to Tangier and the dreamlike Interzone.