[Note: This list was originally a part of a Manics FAQ that was posted on the web in the mid-1990's. It is not my own creation. However, I've made corrections to some of the book titles and/or authors found in the original document. I believe this is the only corrected version of the list on the web.]
Small Craft Warnings / Suddenly Last Summer / Baby Doll - Tennessee Williams
Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
A Season In Hell - Arthur Rimbaud
Junkie - William Burroughs
The Myth Of Sisyphus / The Outsider / The Fall / The Plague - Albert Camus
Poetry by any of the following:
The Boy Looked At Johnny - Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons
Mystery Train - Greil Marcus
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age Of Rock - Nik Cohn
Crosstown Traffic - Charles Shaar Murray
Elvis - The Last 24 Hours / The Lives Of Lennon - Albert Goldman
1984 - George Orwell
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Fire Next Time / Another Country - James Baldwin
Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
Less Than Zero / American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Lord Of The Flies / The Inheritors - William Golding
Prick Up Your Ears - John Lahr
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Catcher In The Rye - J. D. Salinger
Birdy / Pride - William Wharton
Naomi - Junichiro Tanizaki
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
The Trial / The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Frisk - Dennis Cooper
Notes From The Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bernice Bobs Her Hair - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Black Rain - Masuji Ibuse
Thirst For Love - Yukio Mishima
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Miracle Of The Rose - Jean Genet
Crash / The Atrocity Exhibition - J. G. Ballard
Blown Away - A.E. Hotchner
Knots - R. D. Laing
Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot
The Torture Garden - Octave Mirbeau
The Runaway Soul - Harold Brodkey