All the writers were limited to books and comics in the outsider, crime and confessional genres.
Steve Hussy
"As ever, the list just seems to show my obsession with isolated characters.
David Noone
Pitch black noir and gothic horror marks David Noone's choices.
Ally North
"This seems like mostly female orientated character studies, but I DO love a lot more than that.
u.v. ray
Drugs, obsession, and individualism are the primary themes of u.v. ray's picks...
Another 150 Must-Reads Not Mentioned Before
--- Kingsley Amis
--- Lynda Barry
--- Jeffrey Bernard
--- Amy Bingaman
--- Ray Bradbury
--- Ivan Brunetti
--- Charles Bukowski
---Larry Brown
--- Charles Burns
--- William Burroughs
--- Eddie Bunker
--- Truman Capote
--- Louis-Ferdinard Celine
--- Raymond Chandler
--- Anton Chekhov
--- Harry Crews
--- Fyodor Dostoevsky
--- Debbie Drechsler
--- Will Eisner
--- Dan Fante
--- John Fante
--- Jeffrey P. Frye
--- Barry Gifford
--- Jim Goad
--- William Lindsay Gresham
--- Dashiell Hammett
--- J.R. Helton
--- Chester Himes
--- Herbert Huncke
--- Franz Kafka
--- Jack Kerouac
--- Joe R. Lansdale
--- Jeff Lemire
--- Michael Lesy
--- Eddie Little
--- Malcolm Lowry
--- Norm Macdonald
--- Joe Matt
--- Norman Mailer
--- Richard Matheson
--- Horace McCoy
--- Carson Mell
--- Robert McGowan
--- Yukio Mishima
---Seth Morgan
--- Walter Mosley
--- Mohammad Mrabet
--- Haruki Murakami
--- Friedrich Neitzsche
--- David Noone
--- Kem Nunn
--- Flannery O'Connor
--- Tony O'Neill
--- Thomas Ott
--- Harvey Pekar
--- Donald Ray Pollock
--- Erich Maria Remarque
--- Robert Sabbag
--- Seth
--- Seymour Shubin
--- Iceberg Slim
--- Doug Stanhope
--- Italo Svevo
--- Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
--- Studs Terkel
--- Wallace Terry
--- Jim Thompson
--- Tommy Trantino
--- Dalton Trumbo
--- Willy Vlautin
--- Charles Willeford
--- u.v. ray
They could also only pick two works by the same writer. That screwed me with Bukowski and the Fantes...
The author of Academic, Narcoleptic, Alcoholic and Womanoholic.
I self-banned (to avoid coming across as an MSP egotist) Drug Story. But it's brilliant..."
1. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (J. Fante)
2. Journey To The End Of The Night (L.F. Celine)
3. Factotum (C. Bukowski)
4. The Captain Is Out To Lunch... (C. Bukowski)
5. This Is Not Fame (D. Stanhope)
6. Saguaro (C. Mell)
7. The Free (W. Vlautin)
8. Hangover Square (P. Hamilton)
9. The Day of the Locust (N. West)
10. Hunger (K. Hamsun)
11. Voyage In The Dark (J. Rhys)
12. Mooch (D. Fante)
13. The Criminal (J. Thompson)
14. The Rum Diary (H.S. Thompson)
15. Notes From Underground (F. Dostoevsky)
16. The Bomb Inside My Brain (J. Goad)
17. Voices (S. Shubin)
18. Cherry On Top (C. Mell)
19. A Rage In Harlem (C. Himes)
20. I Am David (A. Holm)
The author of Saint of the City.
If you want to take an eye-opening trip to the dark side, these can guide you...
1. In A Lonely Place (D.B. Hughes)
2. A Hell of a Woman (J. Thompson)
3. The Plague (A. Camus)
4. High Rise (J.G. Ballard)
5. Kicks (J. Reed)
6. Dr. Haggard's Disease (P. McGrath)
7. The Fall of the House of Usher (E.A. Poe)
8. The Singer (C. Unsworth)
9. Bye Bye Blondie (V. Despentes)
10.Hangover Square (P. Hamilton)
11. The Flowers of Evil (C. Baudelaire)
12. Blue of Noon (G. Bataille)
13. Mygale (T. Jonquet)
14. A Rebour (J-K. Huysmans)
15. Wise Blood (F. O'Connor)
16. The Picture of Dorian Gray (O. Wilde)
17. Ice (A. Kavan)
18. Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf (D. Madsen)
19. No Strings (M. SaFranko)
20. The Furnished Room (L. Del Rivo)
The author of Schizophrenic.
I hate lists, but the key with this is that ALL of the stories are about survival."
1. Voyage In The Dark (J. Rhys)
2. Daddy's Girl (D. Drechsler)
3. Ham On Rye (C. Bukowski)
4. Northline (W. Vlautin)
5. The Handmaid's Tale (M. Attwood, adaption by R. Nault)
6. One Hundred Demons (Lynda Barry)
7. Dirty Havana Trilogy (P-J. Gutierrez)
8. Did You See Me? (S. Calle)
9. Drug Story (u.v.ray)
10.Fahrenheit 451 (R. Bradbury)
11. The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer (J. Lynch)
12. Nausea (J-P. Sartre)
13. Calvin & Hobbes (B. Watterson)
14. Alcoholic (S. Hussy)
15. Steppenwolf (H. Hesse)
16. Hangover Square (P. Hamilton)
17. Wide Sargasso Sea (J. Rhys)
18. Dead End (T. Ott)
19. The Motel Life (W. Vlautin)
20. Jimmy Corrigan (C. Ware)
The author of We Are Glass, Black Cradle, The Migrant, Spiral Out and Drug Story.
1. The Outsider (A. Camus)
2. Atomised (M. Houellebecq)
3. Less Than Zero (B. Easton Ellis)
4. Joe Gould's Secret (J. Mitchell)
5. The Motel Life (W. Vlautin)
6. Betty Blue (P. Dijan)
7. 1984 (G. Orwell)
8. Slaughterhouse 5 (K. Vonnegut)
9. Of Mice And Men (J. Steinbeck)
10. The Catcher In The Rye (J.D. Salinger)
11. Survivor (C. Palahniuk)
12. Last Exit To Brooklyn (H. Selby Jr.)
13. The Fuck Up (A. Nersesian)
14. Junky (W. Burroughs)
15. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (H.S. Thompson)
16. The Big Sleep (R. Chandler)
17. Fireball (T. Keevil)
18. Factotum (C. Bukowski)
19. The Sea Wolf (J. London)
20. Lock The Lock (T. Trantino)
Adapted from the Savage Kick Reading List
--- Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Rashomon
Everyday Drinking
Syllabus
What It Is
Low Life
More Low Life
Reach For The Ground
Let Me Out
Fahrenheit 451
Schizo
Post Office
Women
Hollywood
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
Love Is A Dog From Hell
Last Night of the Earth Poems
South of No North
Septuagenarian Stew
Shakespeare Never Did This
Hot Water Music
The Most Beautiful Woman In Town
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Notes of A Dirty Old Man
Dirty Work
On Fire
Black Hole
Queer
Dog Eat Dog
Animal Factory
No Beast So Fierce
In Cold Blood
Death On The Installment Plan
Castle To Castle
Farewell, My Lovely
Ward Number Six and Other Stories
Feast Of Snakes
A Childhood
Classic Crews
House Of The Dead
Crime and Punishment
The Gambler
The Summer Of Love
The Spirit
A Contract With God
Invisible People
Life On Another Planet
To The Heart Of The Storm
Chump Change
Corksucker / Short Dog
A Gin Pissing Raw Meat...
Fante
1933 Was A Bad Year
Ask The Dust
The Road To Los Angeles
Dreams From Bunker Hill
West Of Rome
The Brotherhood of the Grape
The Big Hunger
The Wine Of Youth
Bank Blogger
Bank Robber: Stories From The Life
One Crazy Day
The Wild Life of Sailor & Lula
The Redneck Manifesto
Answer Me #1-4
Shit Magnet
Church Ladies
Nightmare Alley
The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man
Red Harvest
Below The Line
If He Hollers Let Him Go
Blindman With A Pistol
The Real Cool Killers
Big Gold Dream
All Shot Up
Heats On
Cotton Comes To Harlem
Plan B
Herbert Huncke Reader
The Trial
Metamophosis
Amerika
On The Road
Big Sur
Savage Season
By Bizarre Hands
The Drive-In
Mucho Mojo
Cold in July
The Bottoms
Freezer Burn
Rumble Tumble
A Fine Dark Line
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--- David Lapham
Stray Bullets
Stray Bullets: Sunshine and Roses
Murder Me Dead
Essex County
Lost Dogs
The Underwater Welder
Frogcatchers
Roughneck
Wisconsin Death Trip
Another Day In Paradise
Under The Volcano
Based On A True Story
Peepshow
Naked And The Dead
Advertisements For Myself
I Am Legend
Kiss Tommorow Goodbye
The Blue Bourbon Orchestra
The Purple Egg Game
NAM
A Long Perambulation
South Main Stories
Spring Snow
Runaway Horses
The Temple Of Dawn
The Decay Of An Angel
Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
Homeboy
Devil In A Blue Dress
The Lemon
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Saint of the City
Dogs of Winter
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Wise Blood
Black Neon
Cinema Panopticum
Greetings from Hellville
The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8
The Forest
Tales Of Error
American Splendor
Knockemstiff
All Quiet On The Western Front
Snowblind
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken
The Hunch
The Captain
Witness To Myself
Anyone's My Name
The Man From Yesterday
Never Quite Dead
Lonely No More
Why Me?
The Good and the Dead
Remember Me Always
Pimp
Trick Baby
Digging Up Mother
Confessions Of Zeno
Diary of a Mad Old Man
The Key
Working
Bloods
A Hell Of A Woman
A Swell Looking Babe
Killer Inside Me
The Getaway
POP. 1280
After Dark My Sweet
Captain Delicious and the Kid from "SK#4"
The Angel
Perseverence
Johnny Got His Gun
Don't Skip Out On Me
The Woman Chaser
We Are Glass
Spiral Out
The Migrant
A Cigarette Burn In The Sky