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1
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
by William S. Burroughs
3,727 members, 50 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

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printhead73 (1): 1959

2
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
17,266 members, 444 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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printhead73 (2): 1968

3
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
5,004 members, 62 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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printhead73 (3): 1956

4
Story of the Eye
by Georges Bataille
2,132 members, 47 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

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printhead73 (4): 1928

5
In Memoriam to Identity
by Kathy Acker
266 members, 4 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

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printhead73 (5): 1990

6
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
9,861 members, 131 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

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printhead73 (6): 1973

7
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
by Robert Shea
4,311 members, 51 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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printhead73 (7): 1975

8
The Atrocity Exhibition
by J. G. Ballard
1,519 members, 27 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

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printhead73 (8): 1970

9
Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany
3,336 members, 71 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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printhead73 (9): 1975

10
The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
2,229 members, 78 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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printhead73 (10): 1952

11
Ghost World
by Daniel Clowes
3,354 members, 70 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

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printhead73 (11): 1997

12
Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
3,222 members, 70 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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printhead73 (12): 1884

13
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
20,955 members, 339 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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printhead73 (13): 1984

14
Mumbo Jumbo
by Ishmael Reed
899 members, 13 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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printhead73 (14): 1972

15
Pimp: the Story of My Life
by Iceberg Slim
635 members, 12 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

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printhead73 (15): 1967

17
Manifestoes of Surrealism
by André Breton
765 members, 3 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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printhead73 (17): 1924

18
Brion Gysin: Here To Go
by Terry Wilson
87 members, 0 reviews
4.45 stars (4.45 stars)

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printhead73 (18): 1982

19
Cotton Comes to Harlem
by Chester Himes
460 members, 11 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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printhead73 (19): 1965

20
Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
7,074 members, 119 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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printhead73 (20): 1933

21
Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp
by Pierre Cabanne
242 members, 0 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

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printhead73 (21): 1969

23
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
25,778 members, 356 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

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printhead73 (23): 1957

24
T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone
by Peter Lamborn Wilson
731 members, 6 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

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printhead73 (24): 1991

25
The Secret Life of Salvador Dali
by Salvador Dalí
490 members, 10 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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printhead73 (25): 1942

26
Game of Life
by Timothy Francis Leary
63 members, 1 review
4.42 stars (4.42 stars)

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printhead73 (26): 1979

27
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
7,187 members, 127 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

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printhead73 (27): 1962

28
Bible of filth
by R. Crumb
24 members, 1 review
4 stars (4 stars)

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29
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by Andy Warhol
1,116 members, 10 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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printhead73 (29): 1975

30
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
13,241 members, 180 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

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printhead73 (30): 1971

31
The Torture Garden
by Octave Mirbeau
662 members, 8 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

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The 120 Days of Sodom
by Marquis de Sade
1,118 members, 21 reviews
3.02 stars (3.02 stars)

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Underworld
by Don DeLillo
7,381 members, 79 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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printhead73 (33): 1997

35
America
by Jean Baudrillard
701 members, 5 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

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printhead73 (35): 1986

36
The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House
by Paul Bowles
326 members, 3 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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printhead73 (36): 1949/1952/1955

37
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
40,204 members, 642 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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printhead73 (37): 1969

38
Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
by John Waters
475 members, 3 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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printhead73 (38): 1981

39
J R
by William Gaddis
1,206 members, 18 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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printhead73 (39): 1975

40
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
20,970 members, 300 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

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printhead73 (40): 1926

41
Skinny Legs and All
by Tom Robbins
4,187 members, 44 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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printhead73 (41): 1990

42
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll
3,977 members, 29 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

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43
Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories
by Gilbert Hernandez
289 members, 4 reviews
4.51 stars (4.51 stars)

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44
Essential Bukowski: Poetry
by Charles Bukowski
90 members, 1 review
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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printhead73 (44): 1978?

45
The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War
by Stewart Home
93 members, 2 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

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printhead73 (45): 1988

46
Maldoror & The Complete Works of the Comte de La Lautréamont
by Comte de Lautréamont
847 members, 9 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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printhead73 (46): 1868

47
Locus Solus
by Raymond Roussel
495 members, 5 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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printhead73 (47): 1914

48
Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey
2,581 members, 39 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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printhead73 (48): 1964

49
Visual Addiction: The Art of Robert Williams
by Robert Williams
26 members, 0 reviews
4.67 stars (4.67 stars)

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Transreal!
by Rudy Rucker
48 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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printhead73 (50): 1991

51
The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
489 members, 4 reviews
4.42 stars (4.42 stars)

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52
Pork #1
by S. Clay Wilson
4 members, 0 reviews
5 stars (5 stars)

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The Image of the Beast
by Philip José Farmer
182 members, 1 review
3.33 stars (3.33 stars)

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printhead73 (53): 1968

54
Death on the Installment Plan
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
1,793 members, 21 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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printhead73 (54): 1936

55
Funeral Rites
by Jean Genet
482 members, 4 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

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printhead73 (55): 1948

56
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
by Gore Vidal
148 members, 1 review
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
19,704 members, 430 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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printhead73 (58): 1980

59
Ulysses
by James Joyce
21,587 members, 311 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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printhead73 (59): 1922

60
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
4,766 members, 100 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

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printhead73 (60): 1953

61
Ed the Happy Clown
by Chester Brown
226 members, 6 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

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The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell
by Aldous Huxley
4,031 members, 43 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

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printhead73 (62): 1954/1956

63
Look and Move on
by Mohammed Mrabet
24 members, 0 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

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printhead73 (63): 1976

64
At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
2,995 members, 58 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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printhead73 (64): 1939

65
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
by B. Traven
889 members, 16 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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printhead73 (65): 1927

66
Watchmen
by Alan Moore
17,538 members, 471 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

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Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
3,441 members, 106 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

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printhead73 (67): 1952

68
Miami Blues
by Charles Willeford
504 members, 15 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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printhead73 (68): 1984

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Red Harvest
by Dashiell Hammett
2,711 members, 79 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

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printhead73 (71): 1929

72
SCUM Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas
704 members, 17 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

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printhead73 (72): 1967

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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman
2,777 members, 21 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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printhead73 (73): 1988

74
New Noir
by John Shirley
46 members, 0 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

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printhead73 (74): 1993

75
Abolition of Work and Other Essays
by Bob Black
86 members, 3 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

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printhead73 (75): 1986

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Psychedelics Encyclopedia
by Peter Stafford
156 members, 0 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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printhead73 (76): 1977

77
Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
by Alexander Shulgin
415 members, 1 review
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

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printhead73 (77): 1991

78
The Sot-Weed Factor
by John Barth
1,928 members, 32 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

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printhead73 (78): 1960

79
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe
5,909 members, 72 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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printhead73 (79): 1968

80
The Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla
by Nikola Tesla
39 members, 1 review
2.75 stars (2.75 stars)

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81
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
by Lenny Bruce
670 members, 3 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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printhead73 (81): 1967

82
Wrong: Stories
by Dennis Cooper
205 members, 0 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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printhead73 (82): 1992

83
Deathbird Stories
by Harlan Ellison
1,361 members, 20 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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printhead73 (83): 1975

84
Brighton Rock
by Graham Greene
4,786 members, 105 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

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printhead73 (84): 1938

85
Apocalypse Culture (Expanded and Revised)
by Adam Parfrey
460 members, 4 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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