Cult Classics

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Feel free to add books that you think have become cult classics or vote up your favorites. This starting list is from the book Bibliophile.
1
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
44,267 members
1,128 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
43,986 members
806 reviews
4.2
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3
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
34,984 members
962 reviews
4.1
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4
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
29,334 members
600 reviews
½ 4.3
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5
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,243 members
647 reviews
4.1
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6
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
24,909 members
347 reviews
4.1
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7
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
23,569 members
510 reviews
3.9
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8
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
20,750 members
278 reviews
3.8
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9
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
20,696 members
308 reviews
3.8
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10
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
20,322 members
496 reviews
3.9
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11
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
19,325 members
438 reviews
4.1
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12
Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
19,188 members
274 reviews
3.9
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13
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
19,031 members
394 reviews
3.9
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14
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter
14,957 members
136 reviews
½ 4.3
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15
The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
14,333 members
284 reviews
3.8
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16
The Clan of the Cave Bear
by Jean M. Auel
13,884 members
300 reviews
3.9
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17
Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
10,827 members
228 reviews
4.1
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18
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
10,303 members
503 reviews
4.1
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19
Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk
9,294 members
105 reviews
3.9
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20
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
9,011 members
157 reviews
4.2
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21
Stoner
by John Williams
8,941 members
428 reviews
½ 4.3
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22
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
8,887 members
134 reviews
½ 4.4
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23
Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
6,656 members
169 reviews
4
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24
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
by Douglas Coupland
5,681 members
63 reviews
½ 3.7
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25
Ham on Rye: A Novel
by Charles Bukowski
5,298 members
93 reviews
4.1
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26
Valley of the Dolls
by Jacqueline Susann
4,197 members
88 reviews
½ 3.6
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27
Speedboat
by Renata Adler
1,242 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
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28
Água Viva
by Clarice Lispector
1,079 members
20 reviews
3.9
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29
Building Stories
by Chris Ware
1,068 members
42 reviews
½ 4.4
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30
I Love Dick
by Chris Kraus
919 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6
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