Books That Will Induce a Mindfark

Submitted by marslike on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 04:38
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  1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
  3. Life, the Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams
  4. So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish - Douglas Adams
  5. Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
  6. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
  7. Watership Down - Richard Adams
  8. Inferno - Dante Alighieri
  9. The House of the Spirits - Isobel Allende
  10. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  11. The Bicentennial Man - Isaac Asimov
  12. A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  13. The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
  14. Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
  15. Blind Man's Bluff - John Stephen Ayliffe
  16. The Bridge - Iain M. Banks
  17. The Wasp Factory - Iain M. Banks
  18. Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
  19. Griffin and Sabine - Nick Bantok
  20. Chimera - John Barth
  21. Blood Music - Greg Bear
  22. Tiger! Tiger! - Alfred Bester
  23. Temporary Autonomous Zone - Hakim Bey
  24. Dangerous Angels - Francesca Lia Block
  25. Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius
  26. Ficciones (Fictions) - Jorge Luis Borges
  27. The Cirular Ruins - Jorge Luis Borges
  28. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  29. Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
  30. The Kin Of Ata Are Waiting For You - Dorothy Bryant
  31. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
  32. The Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov
  33. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  34. Junkie - William S. Burroughs
  35. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
  36. The Ticket That Exploded - William S. Burroughs
  37. Junky's Christmas - William S. Burroughs
  38. The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
  39. The Stranger - Albert Camus
  40. The Plague - Albert Camus
  41. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  42. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
  43. Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
  44. Xenocide - Orson Scott Card
  45. Children of the Mind - Orson Scott Card
  46. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus - Orson Scott Card
  47. Songmaster - Orson Scott Card
  48. They Became what They Beheld - Edmund Snow Carpenter
  49. Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
  50. Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll
  51. Liber Null - Peter Carroll
  52. Psychonaut - Peter Carroll
  53. Liber Kaos - Peter Carroll
  54. The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge - Carlos Castaneda
  55. A Separate Reality - Carlos Castaneda
  56. Journey to Ixtlan - Carlos Castaneda
  57. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  58. When Rabbit Howls - Truddi Chase
  59. Altered States - Paddy Chayefsky
  60. The Chuang-Tzu - Chuan Chou
  61. 2001: A Space Oddysey - Arthur C. Clark
  62. Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clark
  63. End of the Game and Other Stories - Julio Cortázar
  64. Rayuela (Hopscotch) - Julio Cortázar
  65. Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
  66. House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
  67. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
  68. Libra - Don DeLillo
  69. White Noise - Don DeLillo
  70. A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
  71. The Divine Invasion - Philip K. Dick
  72. VALIS - Philip K. Dick
  73. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  74. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  75. Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  76. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  77. Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
  78. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
  79. Upwingers - F.M. Efsandiary
  80. Diaspora - Greg Egan
  81. Distress - Greg Egan
  82. Permutation City - Greg Egan
  83. The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot
  84. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
  85. A Nation in Torment - Edward Robb Ellis
  86. The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
  87. The Elements - Euclid
  88. To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
  89. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
  90. Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg
  91. Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
  92. The Magus - John Fowles
  93. Civilization and Its Discontents - Sigmund Freud
  94. Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
  95. The Bloodline of the Holy Grail - Laurence Garnder
  96. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett)
  97. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
  98. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
  99. Miracle of The Rose - Jean Genet
  100. Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  101. Burning Chrome - William Gibson
  102. Neuromancer - William Gibson
  103. Count Zero - William Gibson
  104. Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson
  105. Virtual Light - William Gibson
  106. Idoru - William Gibson
  107. All Tomorrow's Parties - William Gibson
  108. Chaos : Making a New Science - James Gleick
  109. Lanark - Alasdair Gray
  110. The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Nikolai Gogol
  111. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  112. Replay - Ken Grimwood
  113. Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson - G. I. Gurdjieff
  114. The Truth Machine - James L. Halperin
  115. Waking the Moon - Elizabeth Hand
  116. Glimmering - Elizabeth Hand
  117. Winterlong - Elizabeth Hand
  118. Aestival Tide Icarus Descending - Elizabeth Hand
  119. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
  120. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
  121. Time Enough For Love - Robert A. Heinlein
  122. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
  123. Dune - Frank Herbert
  124. Het behouden huis - W.F. Hermans
  125. Nooit meer slapen - W.F. Hermans
  126. Dispatches - Michael Herr
  127. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
  128. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
  129. Godel, Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
  130. Metamagical Themas - Douglas Hofstadter
  131. Les Miserables - Victore Hugo
  132. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  133. The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
  134. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
  135. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
  136. The Tooth Fairy - Graham Jotce
  137. Ulysses - James Joyce
  138. Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce
  139. The Penal Colony - Franz Kafka
  140. The Trial - Franz Kafka
  141. America - Franz Kafka
  142. The Castle - Franz Kafka
  143. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
  144. Hyperspace - Michio Kaku
  145. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  146. Visions of Cody - Jack Kerouac
  147. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
  148. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
  149. Newton's Cannon - J. Gregory Keyes
  150. A Calculus of Angels - J. Gregory Keyes
  151. Empire of Unreason - J. Gregory Keyes
  152. The Waterborn - J. Gregory Keyes
  153. The Blackgod - J. Gregory Keyes
  154. The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder
  155. The Dark Tower series - Stephen King
  156. The Tommyknockers - Stephen King
  157. The Stand - Stephen King
  158. The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
  159. A Seperate Peace - John Knowles
  160. The Jared Kimberlain series - Jon Land
  161. The Painted Bird - Jerry Kosinski
  162. Lady Chatterly's Lover - D. H. Lawrence
  163. Politics of Ecstasy and Info-Psychology - Timothy Leary
  164. The Silver Metal Lover - Tanith Lee
  165. The Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem
  166. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
  167. The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem
  168. Eden - Stanislaw Lem
  169. Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis
  170. Perelandra - C.S. Lewis
  171. That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis
  172. Et Tu, Babe - Mark Leyner
  173. The Tetherballs of Bouganville - Mark Leyner
  174. Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer - John C. Lilly
  175. The Teenage Liberation Handbook - Grace Llewellyn
  176. Sea of Glass - Barry B. Longyear
  177. Why Are We In Vietnam? - Norman Mailer
  178. Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
  179. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  180. Where Did I Come From? - Peter Mayle
  181. The Archaic Revival - Terence McKenna
  182. The Invisible Landscape - Terence McKenna and Dennis McKenna
  183. True Hallucinations - Terence McKenna
  184. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Arthur Miller
  185. Plexus - Henry Miller
  186. Paradise Lost - John Milton
  187. Utopia - Thomas Moore
  188. The Bluest Eye - Tony Morrison
  189. A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakumi
  190. The Wind-up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakumi
  191. The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
  192. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
  193. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  194. The Eight - Katherine Neville
  195. The Gay Science - Friedrich Nietzsche
  196. Vurt - Jeff Noon
  197. Nymphomation - Jeff Noon
  198. The User Illusion - Tor Nørretranders
  199. Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
  200. The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
  201. The Things They Carried - Timothy O'Brien
  202. 1984 - George Orwell
  203. Animal Farm - George Orwell
  204. Sexual Personae - Camille Paglia
  205. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
  206. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
  207. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
  208. Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
  209. A Void - Georges Perec
  210. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  211. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
  212. The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
  213. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
  214. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
  215. Ishmael and The Story of B - Daniel Quinn
  216. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
  217. The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
  218. Adventures of Wim - Luke Rhinehart
  219. Search for the Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
  220. Not That You Asked - Andy Rooney
  221. Life Itself - Robert Rosen
  222. Unintended Consequences - John Ross
  223. The Cost of Living - Arundhati Roy
  224. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  225. Software, Wetware, and Freeware - Rudy Rucker
  226. The Ecstacy Club - David Rushkoff
  227. Seeing Voices - Oliver Sacks
  228. Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
  229. The Demon-haunted World - Carl Sagan
  230. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  231. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
  232. Blindness - Jose Saramago
  233. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
  234. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  235. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  236. The House of God - Samuel Shem
  237. Mount Misery - Samuel Shem
  238. Life During Wartime - Lucius Shepard
  239. Hyperion - Dan Simmons
  240. The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
  241. Confessions - St. Augustine
  242. Starmaker - Olaf Stapledon
  243. How to Write - Gertrude Stein
  244. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
  245. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
  246. Zodiac - Neal Stephenson
  247. Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
  248. Das Parfum - Patrick Süskind
  249. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
  250. Old Path, White Clouds - Thich Nhat Hanh
  251. Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
  252. The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
  253. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
  254. The Kreuzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
  255. Letters from the Earth - Mark Twain
  256. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
  257. Close to the Machine - Ellen Ullman
  258. The Bible - Various
  259. I Shall Spit On Your Grave - Boris Vian
  260. A Fire upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
  261. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
  262. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
  263. Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
  264. Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
  265. Slaughter-house Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  266. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
  267. Filth - Irvine Welsh
  268. Firewall - Lawrence E. Walsh
  269. The Book - Alan Watts
  270. The Joyous Cosmology - Alan Watts
  271. The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts
  272. The Way Of Zen - Alan Watts
  273. Sex, Ecology, Spirituality - Ken Wilbur
  274. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  275. The Bridge of San Lois Ray - Thornton Wilder
  276. The Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
  277. Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
  278. Cosmic Trigger - Robert Anton Wilson
  279. Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson
  280. Peace - Gene Wolfe
  281. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  282. Autobiography Of A Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda
  283. Anna... Soror - Marguerite Yourcenar
  284. Alexis - Marguerite Yourcenar
  285. Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
  286. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
  287. A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
  288. Seat Of The Soul - Gary Zukav
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