One of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, Toby Litt, author of Corpsing, deadkidsongs, Exhibitionism, Finding Myself and Ghost Story brings us a monthly selection on cult literature.
Ariel by Sylvia Plath Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld The Beach by Alex Garland and The Magus by John Fowles Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus Brave New World by Aldous Huxley By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham Destroy All Monsters by Ken Hollings Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson Finnegans Wake by James Joyce The Fog and The Rats by James Herbert The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Hammer of the Gods: Led Zeppelin Unauthorized by Stephen Davis Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton Heart's Journey in Winter by James Buchan I am Legend by Richard Matheson If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter The Inheritors by William Golding Institute Benjamenta by Robert Walser The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier Light by M. John Harrison Lightduress by Paul Celan Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Machine in Ward Eleven by Charles Willeford The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Mount Analogue by Renee Daumal The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs Nico: Songs They Never Play on the Radio by James Young Nog by Rudolf Wurlitzer The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rainer Maria Rilke Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson The Outsider by Albert Camus The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron The Satyricon by Titus Petronius Sheepshagger by Niall Griffiths The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles Solaris by Stanislaw Lem Spy on the House of Love by Anais Nin The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich by Solomon Volkov The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte