Richey's Favourite Books

[Note: I've made this list as correct as possible, which meant making changes in the document I had. The major changes are indicated like this. Otherwise, I just added the author's first name, or added "THE" to the book's title.
I think this is the only corrected version of this 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

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