Reading Matters 2
This is a small selection of some of my favourite reading matter. Mainly fiction, and inevitably lots of William Burroughs is featured, but do check out some of the more obscure stuff as well.
Over time I'll be adding pop-up links to short descriptions and small cover images. Star ratings reflect a personal view and reflect both a qualitative judgment and how significant the book was for me when I first encountered it.
Publisher details relate to the edition on my shelves. Where known, original publication date is in [square brackets].
Philosophy texts can be found here.
Author |
Title |
Rating |
Publisher |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Amis, Martin |
Dark Secrets (also published as 'Dead Babies') |
**** |
Panther |
1975 |
Amis, Martin |
Money |
**** |
Jonathan Cape |
1984 |
Amis, Martin |
London Fields |
**** |
Jonathan Cape |
1989 |
Amis, Martin |
The Information |
***** |
Flamingo |
1995 |
Bowles, Paul |
The Sheltering Sky |
*** |
Granada |
1984 [1949] |
Bowles, Paul |
Let It Come Down |
**** |
Arena |
1952 |
Bowles, Paul |
Up Above the World |
**** |
Arena |
1984 [1966] |
Burgess, Anthony |
A Clockwork Orange |
**** |
Penguin |
1972 [1962] |
Burroughs, Willliam S |
Naked Lunch |
**** |
Grove Press |
1959 |
Burroughs, William S |
Dead Fingers Talk |
***** |
John Calder |
1963 |
Burroughs, William S |
Port of Saints (illustrated edition) |
***** |
Covent Garden Press |
1973 |
Burroughs, William S and Gysin, Brion |
The Third Mind |
***** |
John Calder |
1979 |
Burroughs, William S |
Ah Pook is Here & Other Texts |
**** |
John Calder |
1979 |
Burroughs, William S |
Cities of the Red Night - (my all time No. 1) |
****** |
John Calder |
1981 |
Burroughs, William S |
The Place of Dead Roads |
***** |
John Calder |
1984 |
Burroughs, William S |
Queer |
*** |
Picador |
1985 |
Burroughs, William S |
The Western Lands |
** |
Picador |
1987 |
Burroughs, WIlliam S |
The Seven Deadly Sins |
*** |
Lococo - Mulder |
1991 |
Carroll, Jim |
The Basketball Diaries |
*** |
Bantam |
1980 |
Cohen, Ira; Malanga, Gerard; MacLise, Angus |
Ratio:3 v.1 - Media Shamans |
**** |
- |
1991 |
Crowley, Aleister |
Moonchild |
*** |
Samuel Weiser |
1985 [1917/1929] |
Dali, Salvador |
50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship |
***** |
Dial |
1948 |
Dwyer, Simon |
Rapid Eye 1 |
***** |
R.E. Publishing |
1989 |
Eco, Umberto |
The Name of the Rose |
*** |
Picador |
1983 |
Eco, Umberto |
Foucault's Pendulum |
**** |
Secker & Warburg |
1989 |
Faulkner, William |
Sanctuary |
**** |
Penguin |
1984 [1931] |
Gallico, Paul |
The Man Who Was Magic |
**** |
Pan |
1968 |
Geiger, John |
Chapel of Extreme Experience |
**** |
Gutter Press |
2002 |
Genet, Jean |
Miracle of the Rose |
**** |
Anthony Blond |
1965 |
Ginsberg, Allen |
Kaddish |
***** |
City Lights Books |
1961 |
Ginsberg, Allen |
Reality Sandwiches |
***** |
City Lights Books |
1966 |
Gysin, Brion |
The Process |
***** |
Quartet |
1985 [1969] |
Gysin, Brion (ed. Weiss, Jason) |
Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader |
**** |
Wesleyan University Press |
2001 |
Home, Stewart |
Red London |
*** |
AK Press |
1994 |
Huxley, Aldous |
Island |
*** |
Flamingo |
1994 [1962] |
MacLise, Angus |
The Map of Dusk |
**** |
SZ Press |
1984 |
Malanga, Gerard |
Incarnations |
***** |
Black Sparrow Press |
1974 |
Meyrick, Gustav |
The Golem |
*** |
Dedalus |
1985 [1915/1928] |
Pullman, Philip |
His Dark Materials |
***** |
Point |
1995 |
Roszak, Theodore |
Flicker |
***** |
Bantam |
1992 |
Self, Will |
The Quantity Theory of Insanity |
**** |
Bloomsbury |
1991 |
Smith, Patti |
Babel |
*** |
Putnam |
1978 |
Warhol, Andy |
A |
** |
Grove Press |
1968 |
Warhol, Andy |
From A to B & Back Again |
***** |
Cassell/Dempsey |
1975 |
Warhol, Andy & Hackett, Pat |
Popism - The Warhol '60s |
*** |
Hutchinson |
1981 |
Welch, Denton |
A Voice Through A Cloud |
*** |
Penguin |
1983 [1950] |
