Bookshelf

Books Worth Reading

This list is, and never will be, complete

Art/Film/Music/Performance

Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger

Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order by Rudolf Arnheim

Selected Writings by Antonin Artaud

Austin Osman Spare: The Occult Life of London’s Legendary Artist by Phil Baker

Man Ray: American Artist by Neil Baldwin

Death Drive: There Are No Accidents by Stephen Bayley

The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk by Steven Lee Beeber

Culture Wars: Documents From the Recent Controversies edited by Richard Bolton

Diane Arbus: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth

Manifestoes of Surrealism by Andre Breton

How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce

Theory Of the Avant Garde by Peter Burger

Autobiography by Benvenuto Cellini

Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement by Whitney Chadwick

Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics edited by Herschel B. Chipp

Diary Of a Genius by Salvador Dali

The Secret Life of Salvador Dali

Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse and the Birth of Modern Art by Dan Franck

Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare by Alice Goldfarb Marquis

Experimental Music Since 1970 by Jennie Gottschalk

The Russian Experiment in Art 1863 – 1922 by Camilla Gray

Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr. by Rudolph Grey

Here to Go: Planet R-101 by Brion Gysin and Terry Wilson

20th Century Boy: Notebooks Of the Seventies by Duncan Hannah

Noise/Music: A History by Paul Hegarty

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera

Bauhaus: Crucible of Modernism by Elaine S. Hochman

Neoism, Plagiarism & Praxis by Stewart Home

Bottom Feeders: From Free Love to Hard Core - The Rise and Fall of Counterculture Heroes Jim and Artie Shaw by John Hubner

Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and

Exploitation Films by Kier-La Janisse

Modern Art and the Object by Ellen H. Johnson

Passages in Modern Sculpture by Rosalind E. Krauss

The Sleazoid Express: A Mind Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinemas of Times Square

by Bill Landiss and Michelle Clifford

Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy Listening, and Moodsong by Joseph Lanza

Pissing Figures 1280 - 2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn

Memoirs Of a Sword Swallower by Dan Mannix

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History Of the Porn Film Industry

by Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osbourne, and Peter Pavia

Shrine Circus: A History Of the Mystic Shriners Yankee Circus in Egypt by John H. McConnell

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia

Eurock: European Rock and the Second Culture edited by Archie Patterson

Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music by Alexander S. Reed

My Art, My Life: An Autobiography by Diego Rivera

King Of the Conjurers: Memoirs of Robert-Houdin by Robert-Houdin

Documentary Film by Paul Rotha, Sinclair Road, & Richard Griffith

Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage by William Rubin

England’s Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond by Jon Savage

Sleaze Artists: Cinema At the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics edited by Jeffrey Scounce

Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol by Tony Scherman and David Dalton

The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal

Flash Of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art and Philosophy by Robert Farris Thompson

Industrial Culture Handbook edited by V. Vale and Andrea Juno

Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture: A Century of Romantic Futurisms by Ricarda Vidal

Fight Your Own War: Power Electronics and Noise Culture edited by Jennifer Wallis

Popism: The Warhol Sixties by Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett

Shock Value by John Waters

Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America by Leslie Zemeckis

Asian Studies

Waltzing With a Dictators: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy by Raymond Bonner

The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon Of the Triads by Daniel Booth

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

The Sacred Willow: Four Generations In the Life Of a Vietnamese Family by Duong, Van Mai Elliot

Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

Island of Bali by Miguel Covarrubias

Ho Chi Minh: A Life by William J. Duiker

The King Never Smiles: The Biography of Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul M. Handley

Sukarno: A Political Biography by John David Legge

The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia by Alfred W. McCoy with Cathleen B. Read and 

     Leonard P. Adams II

Early Kingdoms Of the Indonesian Archipelago and the Malay Peninsula by Paul Michael Munoz

The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future by Milton Osborne

The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World In

      the Summer of 1900 by Diana Preston

A Modern History of Indonesia by M.C. Ricklefs

A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia's Search for Stability by Adam Schwarz

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days Of the Tamil Tigers by Gordon Weiss

From Third World to First: The Singapore Story 1965 - 2000 by Lee Kuan Yew

Caribbean Studies

A Continent of Islands: Searching For the Caribbean Destiny by Mark Kurlansky

Fidel Castro: A Critical Portrait by Tad Szulc

Cuba: A History by Hugh Thomas

The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica by Ian Thompson

Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola by Michelle Wucker

Central and South American Studies

I Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu

European Studies

The Polish Revolution: Solidarity by Timothy Garton Ash

Baader–Meinhof: The Inside Story Of the R.A.F. by Stefan Aust

The Trial Of the Templars by Malcolm Barber

A History Of the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer and Nili Keren

Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite: The Rise and Fall Of the Ceausescus by Edward Behr

The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Denis Bredin

Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma

The Troubles: Ireland’s Ordeal 1966 – 1996 and the Search for Peach by Tim Pat Coogan

The IRA: A History

A History Of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia by David M. Crowe

Tulipomania: The Story Of the World’s Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused

by Mike Dash

The Druids by Peter Beresford Ellis

The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804-1999 by Misha Glenny

Inquisition: The Reign of Fear by Toby Green

Goodness Beyond Virtue: The Jacobins During the French Revolution by Patrice Higonnet

A History of Pagan Europe by Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick

The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt

A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum

The Basque History Of the World by Mark Kurlansky

The Early History of Rome by Livy

Paris In the Terror: June 1793 - July 1794 by Stanley Loomis

Napoleon by Emil Ludwig

A History of Transylvania by Stefan Pascu

Lives by Plutarch

The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History by C.W. Previte-Orton

The Origins of Fascism in Italy by Gaetano Salvemini

Twelve Days: The Story Of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen

The Rise and Fall Of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

Yugoslavia: Death Of a Nation by Laura Silber and Allan Little

King Zog of Albania: Europe’s Self Made Muslim Monarch by Jason Tomes

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West

The Prague Spring and Its Aftermath: Czechoslovak Politics 1968 – 1970 by Kieran Williams

Caligula: A Biography by Aloys Winterling

History Of the Goths by Herwig Wolfram

The Polish Way by Adam Zamoyski
Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation Of the Modern State 1789 - 1848

Fiction & Literature

Fire On the Mountain by Edward Abbey

The Monkey Wrench Gang

Desert Solitaire

The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren

A Walk On the Wild Side

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Skinhead by Richard Allen

Suedehead

Money by Martin Amis

The Bridge On the Drina by Ivo Andric

The Nibelungenlied: The Lay Of the Nibelungs by an anonymous author

Njal's Saga

I Robot by Isaac Asimov

The Martian Way

Earth Is Room Enough

The Gods Themselves

Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology Of the 1930s edited by Isaac Asimov

The Crystal World/Crash/Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard

High Rise

The Atrocity Exhibition

The Drowned World

The Wind from Nowhere

Empire Of the Sun

Story Of the Eye by Georges Bataille

Lord of Dark Places by Hal Bennett

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 by Richard Brautigan

Mad Love by Andre Breton

Anthology of Black Humor edited by Andre Breton

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Post Office
Women

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Junky

Exterminator

Three Novels:The Soft Machine/Nova Express/The Wild Boys

The Ticket that Exploded

The Cat Inside

The Revised Boy Scout Manual: An Electronic Revolution

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Plague

The Fall

War With the Newts by Karel Capek

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Explosions In a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

The First Third & Other Writings by Neal Cassady

And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave

Journey To the End Of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Death On the Installment Plan

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

A Fall of Moondust

Rendezvous with Rama

Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness 

The Feminists by Parley J. Cooper

The Happy Birthday of Death by Gregory Corso

Diary Of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley

Moonchild

Hidden Faces by Salvador Dali

Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos

Maldoror and Poems by Comte de Lautreamont

Underworld by Don DeLillo
White Noise

Ratner's Star

Juliette by The Marquis de Sade

The Complete Novels: Justine, Philosophy In the Bedroom, Eugenie de Franval and Other Writings

A Handful of Darkness by Philip K. Dick

The Man In the High Castle

Ubik

Flow My Tears the Policeman Said

A Scanner Darkly

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Counter Clock World

VALIS

Memoirs Of a Beatnik by Diane Di Prima

The Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

The Brothers Karamazov

The House Of the Dead

The Man In the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Name Of the Rose
The Prague Cemetery

What Is the What by David Eggers

Rockabilly by Harlan Ellison

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Farina

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

A Coney Island Of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love In the Time of Cholera

Funeral Rites by Jean Genet

Our Lady Of the Flowers

Herds by Stephen Goldin

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

I Claudius by Robert Graves

The Last Museum by Brion Gysin

The Process

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

The Thin Man

Red Harvest

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Pan

The Bomb by Frank Harris

The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek

Stranger In a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Go Now by Richard Hell

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Godmakers

Go by John Clellon Holmes

Slow Death by Stewart Home
Cunt
Blow Job

The Iliad by Homer

The Odyssey 

The Elementary Particles by Michel Houllebecq

Notre Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Down There by Joris–Karl Huysmans

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

Let's Go Play At the Adams' by Mendal W. Johnson

Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Castle

The Hypnotist by Jack Kahler

Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac

Dr. Sax

On the Road

Desolation Angels

The Subterraneans

The Dharma Bums

Tristessa

Maggie Cassidy

Big Sur

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Sometimes a Great Notion

The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight

Being There by Jerzy Kosinski

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Tomb and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
The Colour Out of Space


The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen

Harlot’s Ghost by Norman Mailer

The Executioner’s Song
The Naked and the Dead

An American Dream

World Without Men by Charles Eric Maine

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning

The Levant Trilogy

The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham

The Magician

Daddy Was an Undertaker by McDill McCown Gassman

The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt

The Metal Monster

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Tropic of Capricorn

Sexus

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. 

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima

Runaway Horses

The Temple of Dawn

The Decay Of the Angel

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Magic Bird of Chomo Lung Ma by Sybille Noel

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
Wiseblood
Everything that Rises Must Converge

Metamophoses by Ovid

The Satyricon by Petronius

Garbage World by Charles Platt

Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
V.
Gravity's Rainbow

Slow Learner

Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais

Story of O by Pauline Reage

City of Night by John Rechy

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

The Last Days of Louisiana Red

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume 

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Shame

Grimus

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher–Masoch

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Wall

The Age of Reason

The Reprieve

Troubled Sleep

The Texas - Israeli War: 1999 by Jake Saunders & Howard Waldrop

Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr, 

The Room

The Demon

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus

Othello

Hamlet

King Lear

The Tempest

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Altered Ego by Jerry Sohl

Three Fisted Tales of Bob: Short Stories In the Subgenius Mythos edited by The Reverend Ivan Stang

Lust for Life by Irving Stone

More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

The Harder They Come by Michael Thelwell

Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

After Dark My Sweet by Jim Thompson

Savage Night

House of Glass by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Footsteps

The Earth of Mankind

Child of All Nations

The Lord Of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Palm Wine Drinkard and My Life In the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola

Wolves’ Dream by Abdon Ubidia

Rabbit Run by John Updike

Rabbit Redux

20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Butterfly Stories by William T. Vollmann

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 

The Sirens of Titan

Slaughterhouse Five

Hocus Pocus

The Time Machine/The War Of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

High Priest of California/Wild Wives by Charles Willeford

General History

Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers: A History of Torture and Its Instruments by Geoffrey Abbott

The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence by Richard Aldritch

The Trial Of the Templars by Malcolm Barber

The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism by Matthew Carr

The Devil's Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe by James Chambers

Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America by John Charles Chasteen

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro On the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael           Dobbs

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History Of the World by Niall Fergusson

Opium and Empire: The Lives and Careers of  William Jardine and James Matheson 

           by Richard J. Grace

The Crusades: Islam and Christianity In the Struggle for World Supremacy by Geoffrey Hindley

Genghis Khan: Emperor of All Men by Harold Lamb

Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

The Darker Nations: A People’s History Of the Third World by Vijay Prashad

Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman and John Jacobs

The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs

      by Jim Rasenberger

The Freemasons: A History Of the World’s Most Powerful Secret Society by Jasper Ridley

Love for Sale: A World History of Prostitution by Nils Johan Ringdal

The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders

History of Food by Magellone Toussaint-Samat

A Criminal History of Mankind by Colin Wilson

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin

Rats, Lice and History by Hans Zinsser

Middle Eastern Studies

The Dream Palace Of the Arabs by Fouad Ajami

God’s Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad by Charles Allen

Destiny Disrupted: A History Of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary

Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest For the Historical Jesus by Richard Carrier

On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Have Reason to Doubt

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family In the American Century by Steve Coll

Ghost Wars: The Secrets History Of the CIA, Afghanistan, and the Bin Ladens From the Soviet

     Invasion to September 10, 2001

Ibn Saud: The Desert Warrior Who Created the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

by Michael Darlow and Barbara Bray

A History Of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani

Complete Works by Josephus

The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall Of the Turkish Empire by Lord Kinross

Days of Fear: The Inside Story Of the Iraqi Invasion and Occupation of Kuwait by John Levins

The Middle East: A Brief History Of the Last 2,000 Years by Bernard Lewis

Ataturk: The Biography Of the Founder of Modern Turkey by Andrew Mango

Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring that Wasn’t by Toby Matthieson

The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam’s Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda

by Yaroslav Trofimov

North American Studies

Farmers in Rebellion: The Rise and Fall Of the Southern Farmers Alliance and People’s Party in

Texas by Donna A. Barnes

Rads: The 1970 Bombing Of the Army Math Research Center At the University of Wisconsin and  Its Aftermath by Tom Bates

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of  Solidarity by Dan Berger

Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires In the Early American West by Ned Blackhawk

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics Of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Martin Jr. 

Parting the Waters: America In the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch

The Teamsters by Steven Brill

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History Of the American West by Dee Brown

A Rumor of War by Phillip Caputo

Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter

Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy Of the 1960s by Robert Cohen

Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon by Fred Emery

Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico by T.R. Fehrenbach

Brother Love: Murder, Money, and a Messiah by Sydney P. Freedberg

The Last Gunfight: The Real Story Of the Shootout at the OK Corral and How It Changed the

American West by Jeff Guinn

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley

Patty Hearst: Her Own Story by Patricia Campbell Hearst and Alvin Moscow

The Hatfields and the McCoys by Virgil Carrington Jones

Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler

The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O’Hair by Bryan F. LeBeau

Serpico by Peter Maas

Miami and the Siege of Chicago by Norman Mailer

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiesson

The Smartest Guys In the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McClean and Peter Elklind

Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times To the Present by Richard S. Newman

Murder At the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race & Riot in Wartime L.A. by Eduardo Obregon Pagan

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent

In the Hands Of the Great Spirit: The 20,000 Year History of American Indians by Jake Page

The Rosenberg File by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton

The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation by Dick J. Reavis

John Brown Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War and Seeded Civil Rights by David S. Reynolds

The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights

by Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen

Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante

Jesse James: Last Rebel Of the Civil War by T.J. Stiles

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki

The Brotherhood of Eternal Love: From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia The Story of the LSD Counterculture by Stewart Tendler & David May

Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson

The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square by James Traub

Murder Inc., The Story Of the Syndicate by Burtun Turkus and Sid Feder

The Movement: A History Of the American New Left 1959-1972 by Irwin Unger

Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life by Robert M. Utley

Parade to Glory: The Shriners and Their Caravan to Destiny by Fred Van Deventer

Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind by Bruce Watson

God, Harlem, U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story by Jill Watts

Legacy of Ashes: A History Of the CIA by Tim Weiner

A Dynasty of Western Outlaws by Paul I. Wellman

A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt by Tom Wicker

A Peoples History Of the United States: 1492 – Present by Howard Zinn

Occult

The Book Of the Dead edited by E.A. Wallis Budge

Magick in Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley

A History of Secret Societies by Arkon Daraul

The White Goddess by Robert Graves

The Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer & James Sprenger

Tantra: The Indian Cult of Ecstasy by Philip Lawson

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances A. Yates

Philosophy

Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927 – 1939 by Georges Bataille

The Rebel by Albert Camus

Society Of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

Anti Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

The Cynic Philosophers from Diogenes to Julian edited by Robert Dobbins

History of Madness by Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish: The Birth Of the Prison

The History of Sexuality Volume One

Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel

Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

The Basic Problems of Phenomenology

An Introduction to Metaphysics

Experience and Judgment by Edmund Husserl

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Fear and Trembling/The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard

Twilight Of the Idols/The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

The Gay Science

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

The Birth of Tragedy/The Case of Wagner

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Great Dialogues of Plato by Plato

The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre

Major Works by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Violence by Slavoj Zizek
The Parallax View

Politics

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

On Revolution

Statism and Anarchy by Mikhail Bakunin

God and the State

The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky

On War by Carl von Clausewitz

Fascism and Big Business by Daniel Guerin

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays by Richard Hifstadter

The American Constitution: Its Origin and Development by Alfred H. Kelly & Winfred A. Harbison

Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx

The Ralph Nader Reader by Ralph Nader

What Is Property? By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

How to Start Your Own Country by Erwin S. Strauss

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements by George Woodcock

Psychology

Language and Responsibility by Noam Chomsky

Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett

Freud: A Life for Our Time by Peter Gay

Brainwashing by Edward Hunter

Mysterium Coniunctionis by C.G. Jung

Psychology and Alchemy

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind by George Lakoff

Behavior Control by Perry London

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich by Myron Sharaf

Altered States of Consciousness edited by Charles T. Tart

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo

Science/Technology/Engineering

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union For the Domination of Space

by Deborah Chadbury

Source Book of Medical History edited by Logan Clendening

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Speed Duel: The Inside Story Of the Land Speed Record In the 1960s by Samuel Hawley

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan

Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle

The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead by Heather Pringle

The Making Of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Tunnels by Gosta Sandstrom

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh

The Killer of Little Shepherds: The Case Of the French Ripper and the Birth of Forensic Sciences

by Douglas Starr

Extremely Loud: Sound As a Weapon by Juliette Volcler

Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective by Samuel J. Walker

The Industrial Revolution: The Making Of the Modern World 1776-1914 by Gavin Weightman

The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson

Society & Culture

In the Belly Of the Beast by Jack Henry Abbot

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Make Love Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History by David Allyn

Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber

Hell’s Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club

by Ralph “Sonny” Barger and Keith and Kent Zimmermann

The Rastafarians by Leonard E. Barrett Sr.

Outsiders: Studies In the Sociology of Deviance by Howard S. Becker

Hasidism: A New History by David Biale et al

The Mudd Club by Richard Boch

Blood Revenge: The Enactment and Management of Conflict in Montenegro and Other Tribal
Societies by Christopher Boehm

Fear: A Cultural History by Joanna Bourke

Among the Thugs by Bill Buford

Land Of the Lost Souls: My Life On the Streets by Cadillac Man

Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex by Pat Califia

Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney by Horace Campbell

Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti

Rastafari: Roots and Ideology by Barry Chevannes

Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

The Beat Generation by Bruce Cook

Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder From the Frontier To the Inner City

by David T. Courtwright

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats by G. William Domhoff

Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier

Bright Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

A Brief History of Heresy by C.R. Evans

Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life Of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (And Shot Andy Warhol) 

by Breanne Fahs

The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future by FC

Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by Sir James George Frazer

Tales of Times Square by Josh Alan Friedman

Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard

Honey From a Weed: Feasting and Fasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades, and Apulia by Patience Gray

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Sciences

by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt

Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker by Ron Hahne, Ben Morea & The Black Mask Group

Gentleman of Leisure: A Year In the Life Of a Pimp by Linda Hall & Bob Adelman

When Pirates Rules the Waves by Paul Harris

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter

The Happy Hooker: My Own Story by Xaviera Hollander with Robin Moore & Yvonne Dunleavy

Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History by Ibn Khaldun

Uprising: Crips and Bloods Tell the Story of America’s Youth In the Crossfire

by Yusuf Jah and Sister Shah’ Keya

Situationist International Anthology edited by Ken Knabb

Hell’s Angels: Three Can Keep a Secret If Two Are Dead by Yves Lavigne

Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History Of an Era by Timothy Leary

Acid Dreams: The Social History of LSD, the CIA, the Sixties and Beyond

by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain

Death and the Idea of Mexico by Claudio Lomnitz

The Hell Fire Clubs: Sex, Satanism, and Secret Societies by Evelyn Lord

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Secret Societies edited by Norman MacKenzie

Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America by J. Gordon Melton

Voodoo in Haiti by Alfred Metraux

The 60s Communes: Hippies and Beyond by Timothy Miller

Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson

Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic by Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe

Apocalypse Culture edited by Adam Parfrey

The Haight Ashbury: A History by Charles Perry

Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue In the Land Of the Free by Charles P. Pierce

Graffiti: Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing by Robert Reisner

Freewheelin Frank: Secretary Of the Angels by Frank Reynolds

One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture by Kenneth D. Rose

The Making Of a Counter Culture: Reflections On the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition

by Theodor Roszak

Them: Adventures With Extremists by Jon Ronson

Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture 1875 – 1945 by Jon Savage

Houdini: The Career of Erich Weiss by Kenneth Silverman

Free Love: Marriage and Middle Class Radicalism in America 1825 – 1860 by John C. Surlock

The Black Swan: The Impact Of the Highly Improbable by Nicholas Taleb

Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson

Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means

by William T. Vollmann

The Sociology of Deviance by Joseph G. Weis

Arabs Without God by Brian Whitaker

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society by Norbert Wiener

Scientologist: William S. Burroughs and the Weird Cult by David S. Wills

The Rebels: A Brotherhood of Outlaw Bikers by Daniel R. Wolf

The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story Of the Process Church Of the Final Judgment

edited by Timothy Wylie

Countercultures: The Promise and Peril Of a World Turned Upside Down by Milton J. Yinger

Travel

The Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad

A Walk In the Woods: Rediscovering America On the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson

Noa Noa by Paul Gauguin

The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinksi

Blue Eyed Devil: A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America by Michael Muhammad Knight

Journey To the End of Islam

A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Between the Woods and the Water

Off the Rails in Phnom Penh: Into the Dark Heart of Guns, Girls, and Ganja by Amit Gilboa

The World’s Most Dangerous Places by Robert Young Pelton and Aral Coskun

The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo

Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinth by Jonathan Raban

Four Corners: A Journey Into the Heart of Papua New Guinea by Kira Salak

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux

Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger

Bad Lands: A Tour On the Axis of Evil by Tony Wheeler

True Crime

Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme by Jess Bravin

Helter Skelter: The True Story Of the Manson Murders  by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Manson in His Own Words by Nuell Emmons

Zodiac: The Shocking True Story Of the Hunt For the Nation's Most Elusive Serial Killer by Robert

     Graysmith

The Rochester Mob Wars by Blair T. Kenny

Son of Sam by Lawrence D. Klausner

A Sniper In the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders by Gary M. Lavergne

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebook by Donald Rumbelow