The 50 coolest books ever

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Films you can quote for cheap giggles down the pub; records (vinyl, natch) earn you kudos among a select coterie of like-minded obsessives; but nothing – absolutely nothing – says understated cool (always the coolest cool) like a well-thumbed copy of A Confederacy of Dunces.

Want in on the action? Get yourself down to your local bookstore immediately and get acquainted with the following 50 tomes. Gallons of cool guaranteed.

  1. 1.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis
  2. 2.
    Less Than Zero
    by Bret Easton Ellis
  3. 3.
    A Clockwork Orange (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Anthony Burgess
  4. 4.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac
  5. 5.
    Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
    by William S. Burroughs
  6. 6.
    Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Joseph Heller
  7. 7.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  8. 8.
  9. 9.
    Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
    by Chris Ware
  10. 10.
    The Dice Man
    by Luke Rhinehart
  11. 11.
    Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
    by Douglas Coupland
  12. 12.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole
  14. 14.
    Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
    by Jonathan Safran Foer
  15. 15.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers
  16. 16.
    Fear of Flying
    by Erica Jong
  17. 17.
    Crash: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard
  18. 18.
    Money [Paperback]
    by Martin Amis (Author)
  19. 19.
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    If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
    by Italo Calvino
  20. 20.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  21. 21.
    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    by Patrick Suskind
  22. 22.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson
  23. 23.
    Factotum (Paperback)
    by Charles Bukowski (Author)
  24. 24.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami
  25. 25.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand
  26. 26.
    Trainspotting
    by Irvine Welsh
  27. 27.
    Black Hole
    by Charles Burns
  29. 29.
    The WASP FACTORY: A NOVEL
    by Iain Banks
  30. 30.
    The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand
  31. 31.
    Morvern Callar
    by Alan Warner
  32. 32.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell
  33. 33.
    Fight Club
    by Chuck Palahniuk
  34. 34.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt
  35. 35.
    Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Jeffrey Eugenides
  36. 36.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote
  37. 37.
    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon
  38. 38.
    Watchmen
    by Alan Moore
  39. 39.
    Diary: A Novel
    by Chuck Palahniuk
  40. 40.
    Ghost World
    by Daniel Clowes
  41. 41.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe
  42. 42.
    Last Exit to Brooklyn (An Evergreen book)
    by Hubert Selby Jr.
  43. 43.
    Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)
    by Allen Ginsberg
  44. 44.
    The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Jack Kerouac
  45. 45.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  46. 46.
    Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
    by Cormac McCarthy
  47. 47.
    The Corrections: A Novel (Recent Picador Highlights)
    by Jonathan Franzen
  48. 48.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
    by Michael Chabon
  49. 49.
    American Tabloid: A Novel
    by James Ellroy
  50. 50.
    Underworld
    by Don DeLillo
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Created by VeganMedusa on Jan 15, 2012.
 

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