10 Hippest Books of All Time

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John Leland, author of Hip: A History, attests these are the hippest books of all time.

  1. 1.
    Leaves of Grass
    by Walt Whitman

  2. 2.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac

  3. 3.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  4. 4.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Raymond Chandler

  5. 5.
    Mumbo Jumbo
    by Ishmael Reed

  6. 6.
    The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Herman Melville

  7. 7.
    Naked Lunch
    by William S. Burroughs

  8. 8.
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain Library)
    by Mark Twain

  9. 9.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

  10. 10.
    Jesus' Son: Stories by
    by Denis Johnson

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Created by Perlle on Jul 18, 2006.
 

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Untitled — 3 years ago

It’s too late. Too damn late.




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