C U L T . B O O K S

 

For the last couple of years I've been doing a 'cult books' column for the Penguin website.

 

News: These are all going to be archived on the new Hamish Hamilton website, due up in December.

I'll link through when I can. Until then:

 

If you'd like to have a look at the column, it can be found here.

First you have to sign up for the Penguin Readers' Groups. (Just enter an email address and a password.)

Then click on Cult Choice - upper left.

The earlier columns are archived.

 

So far I've discussed:

(Not sure if all these are up yet):

 

Stanislaw Lem, Solaris

James Herbert, The Fog and The Rats

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

Arthur Schnitzler, Dream Story

Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Torless

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge

Stephen Davis, Hammer of the Gods: Led Zeppelin Unauthorized

Robert Walser, Institute Benjamenta

Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk (May 04)

Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (Apr 04)

Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes (Mar 04)

James Young, Nico: Songs they never play on the radio (Feb 04)

Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana (Jan 04)

Mike Harrison, Light (Dec 03)

Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog (Nov 03)

Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (Oct 03)

Petronius, The Satyricon (Sep 03)

William Golding, The Inheritors (Aug 03)

James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (Jul 03)

Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives (June 03)

Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger (May 03)

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (Apr 03)

Dashiell Hammett, Maltese Falcon (Mar 03)

Anais Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Feb 03)

Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler (Jan 03)

C.S.Lewis, Narnia Chronicles (Dec 02)

Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen (Nov 02)

Sylvia Plath, Ariel (Sep 02)

Stevie Smith, Novel on Yellow Paper (Aug 02)

Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress (Jul 02)

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are not the only fruit (Jun 02)

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Elizabeth Smart (Mar 02)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (Apr 02)

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (Mar 02 - not up for some reason)

Nog by Rudolph Wurltizer (Feb 02)

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (Jan 02)

The Machine in Ward Eleven by Charles Willeford (Dec 01)

Destroy All Monsters by Ken Hollings (Nov 01)

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Sept/Oct 01)

What is Cult Literature? (Aug 01)

Naked Lunch by William Burroughs (Jul 01)

Women in Love by DH Lawrence (Jun 01)

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (May 01)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Apr 01)

Lord Of the Flies by William Golding (Mar 01)

The Beach by Alex Garland (Jan 01)

 

 

If you have any suggestions as to other books I might write about, I'd be very interested to hear.