Here it is! The List. Compiled from my reading of Patti’s books, and an internet search. Organized alphabetically by the author’s last name. Titles in bold are books I’ve read.
Cesar Aira:
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
Louisa May Alcott:
Little Women
Artaud:
Anthology
W.H. Auden:
Letters from Iceland
Walter Benjamin:
The Arcades Project
Anything!
William Blake:
Songs of Innocence
Roberto Bolano:
Amulet
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Anything!
Heinrich Boll:
The Lost Honor of Katarina Blum
Paul Bowles:
The Sheltering Sky
Andre Breton:
Nadja
Hermann Brock:
The Death of Virgil
Charlotte Bronte:
Villette
Emily Bronte:
Wuthering Heights
Mikhail Bulgakov:
The Master and Margarita
William Burroughs:
The Wild Boys
Albert Camus:
A Happy Death
The First Man
Jim Carroll:
The Petting Zoo
Lewis Carroll:
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
Jean Cocteau:
Orphee
Joseph Conrad:
Heart of Darkness
Dante:
The Divine Comedy
Osamu Dazai:
No Longer Human
The Setting Sun
Gerard de Nerval:
The Women of Cairo
Arthur Conan Doyle:
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Rene Daumal:
A Night of Serious Drinking
David Edmonds and John Eidinow
Wittgenstein’s Poker
Isabelle Everhardt:
The Oblivion Seekers
Jean Genet:
The Thief’s Journal
Anything!
Allen Ginsberg:
Howl
Nikolai Gogol:
Dead Souls
Brion Gysin:
The Process
Nathanial Hawthorne:
The Scarlet Letter
Hermann Hesse:
Journey to the East
The Glass Bead Game
H.E. Huntley:
The Divine Proportion
Henrik Ibsen:
Four Major Plays
Anna Kavan:
Ice
The Scarcity of Love
Anything!
Jack Kerouac:
Big Sur
Federico Garcia Lorca:
Poet in New York
H.P. Lovecraft:
Anything!
Malcome Lowry:
Under the Volcano
Maurice Maeterlinck:
The Blue Bird
Herman Melville:
The Glass Bead Game
Billy Budd
Henry Miller:
Black Spring
Mohammed Mrabet:
The Beach Cafe
Haruki Murakami:
Dance, Dance, Dance
Kafka on the Shore
A Wild Sheep Chase
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Anything!
Robert Musil:
The Confusions of Young Torless
Vladimir Nabokov:
Lolita
Nabokov’s Butterflies
Ouida:
A dog of Flanders
Nicanor Parra:
After-Dinner Declarations
Fernando Pessoa:
The Book of Disquiet
Sylvia Plath:
Ariel
Winter Trees
Marcel Proust:
Swann in Love
Arthur Rimbaud:
A Season in Hell
Illuminations
J.D. Salinger:
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
Franny and Zooey
W.D. Sebald:
After Nature
Anything!
William Shakespeare:
Coriolanus
Mary Shelley:
Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus
Sam Shepard:
Hawk Moon
Margaret Sidney:
The Little Peppers and How They Grew
Betty Smith:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Susan Sontag:
Against Interpretation
Alexander Trocchi:
Cain’s Book
Amos Tutuola:
The Palm Wine Drinkard
Mark Twain:
The Prince and the Pauper
Rosemary Wells:
The Little Lame Prince
Oscar Wilde:
The Happy Prince
Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Tractatus Logico
Virginia Woolf:
The Waves
Bertram David Wolfe:
The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera
Wind-Up Bird 