50 Essential Cult Novels according to Flavorwire. Read my reviews here.
- Speedboat by Renata Adler
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- On The Road by Jack Kerouac
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Stoner by John Williams
- Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
- Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne
- Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
- Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
- Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Lanark by Alasdair Gray
- This Is Not a Novel by David Markson
- The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
- Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
- The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
- Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
- Generation X by Douglas Coupland
- The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
- Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
- The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
- The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
- V. by Thomas Pynchon
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison
- Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
- Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann
- Ice by Anna Kavan
- The Magus by John Fowles
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