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Book Magazine's Summer Session Cool 101

These were books listed in an article by Anna Weinberg in Book Magazine.

(found at: http://web.archive.org/web/20020802102940/www.bookmagazine.com/issue23/coolest.shtml)
1. Fight Club: A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk
  
2. CRUDDY: An Illustrated Novel
by Lynda Barry
  
3. Jesus' Son
by Denis Johnson
  
4.
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 Look Back in Anger: A Play in Three Acts
by John Osborne
  
5. Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript, and Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public ... Pres (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
by Allen Ginsberg
  
6. A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anthony Burgess
  
7. You Can't Win
by Jack Black
  
8. Notes From Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
9.
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 The Stranger
by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)
  
10. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
11. The Second Sex (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Simone de Beauvoir
  
12. Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Jean-Paul Sartre
  
13. The Anatomy of Melancholy
by Robert Burton
  
14. Push (Panorama de Narrativas)
by Sapphire
  
15.
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 Fury
by Salman Rushdie
  
16. Sexing the Cherry
by Jeanette Winterson
  
17. White Teeth: A Novel
by Zadie Smith
  
18. Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
  
19. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
  
20. The Intuitionist: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
  
21. Sleepwalk and Other Stories
by Adrian Tomine
  
22. People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn
  
23. Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon
  
24. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault
  
25. Power Politics: Second Edition
by Arundhati Roy
  
26. Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs
by Noam Chomsky
  
27.
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 Elvis and Me
by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
  
28. Valley of the Dolls
by Jacqueline Susann
  
29. Hollywood Babylon
by Kenneth Anger
  
30. Geek Love: A Novel
by Katherine Dunn
  
31. Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
by John Waters
  
32. Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
by Dominick Dunne
  
33. The Fabulous Moolah: First Goddess of the Squared Circle
by Lillian Ellison
  
34. On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
  
35. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S. Thompson
  
36. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
  
37.
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 The Beach
by Alex Garland
  
38. Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
39.
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 The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
by Ernesto Che Guevara
  
40. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
  
41. Neuromancer
by William Gibson
  
42. The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K.Le Guin
  
43. Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
  
44. Tea From An Empty Cup (Tea from an Empty Cup)
by Pat Cadigan
  
45. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
by James Joyce
  
46. Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke
  
47.
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 100 Selected Poems
by E. E. Cummings
  
48.
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 The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
  
49. Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
  
50.
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 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
by Dylan Thomas
  
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Created by Robin on Feb 24, 2007.