Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

The Meaning of the Blues by Paul Oliver

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac

Satori in Paris by Jack Kerouac

Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion

The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe

Crash by J.G. Ballard

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse edited with an introduction by Alan Bold

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz - NYRB Classics

The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor

Sister of the Road - The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha as told to Dr. Ben Reitman

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Crash by J.G. Ballard

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye by Horace McCoy

Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States by George R. Stewart - NYRB Classics

Necessary Illusions - Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky