Cult books of the world (from BiF, Sweden)

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This list of books with a cult following was printed in a Swedish literary journal called Biblioteket i fokus (The Library in Focus) in the mid-nineties.

  1. 1.
    post office: A Novel
    by Charles Bukowski

  2. 2.
    Women

  3. 4.
    Venus in Furs
    by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

  4. 5.
    Survivor: A Novel
    by Chuck Palahniuk

  5. 6.
    Fight Club: A Novel
    by Chuck Palahniuk

  6. 7.
    Choke
    by Chuck Palahniuk

  7. 8.
    Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  8. 9.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  9. 10.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  10. 11.
    Naked Lunch
    by William S. Burroughs

  11. 12.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  12. 13.
    Goethe: Die Leiden Des Jungen Werthers (German Texts)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  13. 14.
    Det går an
    by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

  14. 16.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  15. 17.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  16. 18.
    ?
    A fugitive crosses his tracks
    by Aksel Sandemose

  17. 19.
    Notes of a Dirty Old Man
    by Charles Bukowski

  18. 20.
    A Year in Provence
    by Peter Mayle

  19. 21.
    Finnegans Wake
    by James Joyce

  20. 22.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

  21. 23.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)

  22. 24.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  23. 25.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  24. 26.
    One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

  25. 27.
    ?
    Jack
    by Ulf Lundell

  26. 29.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

  27. 31.
    Mein Kampf

  28. 32.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  29. 33.
    Jonathan Livingston Seagull
    by Richard Bach

  30. 34.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

  31. 35.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

  32. 36.
    The New York Trilogy (Green Integer)
    by Paul Auster

  33. 37.
    ULYSSES
    by James Joyce

  34. 38.
    Popular Music (P.S.)
    by Mikael Niemi

  35. 39.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  36. 40.
    ?
    THE NAME OF THE ROSE
    by UMBERTO ECO

  37. 41.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  38. 42.
    Steppenwolf
    by Herman Hesse

  39. 43.
    ?
    The Song of the Red Ruby
    by Agnar Mykle

  40. 44.
    The Dice Man
    by Luke Rhinehart

  41. 45.
    Winter's Tale
    by Mark Helprin

  42. 46.
    The Beach
    by Alex Garland

  43. 47.
    Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    by Robert M. PIRSIG

  44. 49.
    Less Than Zero
    by Bret Easton Ellis

  45. 50.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis

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Created by almq88 on Nov 01, 2010.
 

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