top 10 books of my adolescence (17-21):
Rimbaud: complete works, selected letters
Death on the installment plan (Mort a credit); Louis-Ferdinand
Celine
Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and ordinary
tales of madness;
Charles Bukowski
Sea of Fertility tetralogy (first of which is Spring
snow);
Yukio Mishima
Crime and punishment; Fyodor Dostoevsky
Martin Eden; Jack London
Hunger; Knut Hamsun
Devil in the flesh; Raymond Radiguet
Myth of Sisyphus and other essays; Albert Camus
How to talk dirty and influence people; Lenny Bruce
top 10 books read as an adult:
Book of embraces; Eduardo Galleano
Rain of gold; Victor Villasenor
Declarations of independence; Howard Zinn
The sex radicals: free love in high Victorian America;
by Hal Sears
Le ton beau de Marot:
in praise of the music of language; Douglas R.Hofstadter
Love, anarchy, and Emma Goldman; Candace Falk
Selected works; Voltairine de Cleyre
Dream world; Kent Winslow
Another day of life; Ryszard Kapuscisnki
Confessions of a barbarian; Edward Abbey