The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson

Crash by J G Ballard

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Patron Saint of Eyeliner by Jeremy Reed

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Justine by Marquis de Sade

Ice by Anna Kavan

The Cornelius Chronicles by Michael Moorcock

The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

Antonin Artaud: Blows and Bombs by Stephen Barber

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

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