From the editors of Le Culte du Moi

Suggested Readings --- a never ending book club


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"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." -P.J. O'Rourke

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Edward Gorey - Amphigorey

Jon Savage - England's Dreaming

Bram Stoker - Dracula


Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment


M.T. Anderson- FEED


Don Delillo - White Noise


Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland


Lewis Carroll  (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) - Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There


Haruki Murakami- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated


Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth

Antoine de Saint Exupéry - Le Petit Prince

Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea


Albert Camus - The Stranger

Carlos Fuentes - The Death of Artemio Cruz

Williams Shakespeare - Hamlet, Othello, everything else

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World


Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things


Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake


Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss


J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace


Books Our Readers Suggested:


John Steinbeck - Cannery Row

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five


Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) -  The Dr. Seuss Sleep Book

Khaled Hussein - A Thousand Splendid Suns

Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake

Richard Preston - The Hot Zone

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

Jon Savage - England’s Dreaming

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye

Web Poll

Okay Okay. So people always say, "don't judge a book by its cover"...but, What is a favorite book by which you can most easily judge a person?
The Da Vinci Code
The Bible
The Notebook
The Communist Manifesto
Pride and Prejudice
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Chicken Soup for the [blank] Soul.
Green Eggs and Ham
Harry Potter
On the Road

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J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger
“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”

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