Telegraph's 50 Best Cult Books

1. 1. Slaughterhouse-five;: Or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut Drag me to re-order

2. 2. Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell Drag me to re-order

3. 3. A Rebours by Joris Karl Huysmans Drag me to re-order

4. 4. Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock Drag me to re-order

5. 5. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf Drag me to re-order

6. 6. BELL JAR by SYLVIA PLATH Drag me to re-order

7. 7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Drag me to re-order

8. 8. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger Drag me to re-order

9. 9. The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield Drag me to re-order

10. 10. THE DICE MAN by LUKE RHINEHART Drag me to re-order

11. 11. Chariots of the Gods? by Erich Von Daniken Drag me to re-order

12. 12. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Drag me to re-order

13. 13. The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Drag me to re-order

14. 14. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself by James Hogg Drag me to re-order

15. 15. Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health (English) by L. Ron Hubbard Drag me to re-order

16. 16. Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley Drag me to re-order

17. 17. Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert Drag me to re-order

18. 18. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Drag me to re-order

19. 19. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Drag me to re-order

20. 20. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong Drag me to re-order

21. 21. The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer Drag me to re-order

22. 22. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Drag me to re-order

23. 23. Goedel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter Drag me to re-order

24. 24. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Drag me to re-order

25. 25. The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail by Michael Baigent Drag me to re-order

26. 26. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Drag me to re-order

27. 27. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino Drag me to re-order

28. 28. Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly Drag me to re-order

29. 29. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Drag me to re-order

30. 30. The Magus by John Fowles Drag me to re-order

31. 31. Labyrinths (New Directions Paperbook) by Jorge Luis Borges Drag me to re-order

32. 32. The Leopard: A Novel by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa Drag me to re-order

33. 33. The Master and Margarita. Mikhail Bulgakov (Penguin Classics) by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov Drag me to re-order

34. 34. No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomi Klein Drag me to re-order

35. 35. On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac Drag me to re-order

36. 36. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson Drag me to re-order

37. 37. The Outsider by Colin Wilson Drag me to re-order

38. 38. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Drag me to re-order

39. 39. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914) by Robert Tressell Drag me to re-order

40. 40. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam Drag me to re-order

41. 41. The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron Drag me to re-order

42. 42. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Drag me to re-order

43. 43. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Drag me to re-order

44. 44. ? The Story of O by Pauline Reage Drag me to re-order

45. 45. The Stranger by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward) Drag me to re-order

46. 46. The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda Drag me to re-order

47. 47. Testament of Youth (Penguin Classics) by Vera Brittain Drag me to re-order

48. 48. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Friedrich Nietzsche Drag me to re-order

49. 49. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Drag me to re-order

50. 50. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig Drag me to re-order