Lists of Bests: If you haven't read 'em, pretend you have http://www.listsofbests.com/list/2130 Hipster Lit Hip*ster: one who possesses tastes, social attitudes and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool." A Hipster would say instead "deck." The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not one of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than two-per-cent body fat. - The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham After reading Robert Lanham's Hipster Handbook (Anchor, $14.95), would-be hipsters will make their way to bookstores with a long list of required reading. "All hipsters are selective about reading and wouldn't be caught dead reading garbage written by Tom Clancy, Belva Plain or Nora Roberts," writes Lanham. "Hipsters often allow hip books to dangle from their bags to show others how cutting-edge they are." Here's Lanham's must reads for the hipster crowd: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:05:01 GMT en-us 0 50 26 0 0 Frisk: A Novel (Cooper, Dennis) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24068 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24068"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41xUXYJc0xL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dennis Cooper</div> Franny and Zooey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7093 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7093"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31lOSBou1DL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> High Fidelity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31222 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31222"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WBVCjhh-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nick Hornby</div> Valley of the Dolls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24089 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24089"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TZ744M7ML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jacqueline Susann</div> Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72598 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72598"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T%2B523mbTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terry Southern</div> The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JphuOIeHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> Infinite Jest: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7157 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7157"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316921173.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Foster Wallace</div> Notable American Women: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9212 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9212"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31hBVJLK3SL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ben Marcus</div> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gD4huNtaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> The Killer Inside Me http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18767 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18767"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KF2YM8DBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Thompson</div> Delta of Venus http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4059 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4059"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DG%2BKiK5wL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anais Nin</div> Mason & Dixon: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81861 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81861"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kYzNfv63L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Cathedral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18667 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18667"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KzTUfRqDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Carver</div> The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room (Contemporary American Fiction Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2643 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2643"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B8vc4-UtL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> A Moveable Feast http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19320 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19320"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511l-DngUML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7831 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7831"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VPNLu89gL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hunter S. Thompson</div> Great Jones Street (Contemporary American Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/231348 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/231348"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41kHwjLXGNL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> Farewell, My Lovely http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11236 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11236"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bH0oi-UkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> We: A Novel of the Future (Transaction Large Print Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/704886 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/704886"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1560004770.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eugene Zamiatin</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oBRQjKchL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> London Fields http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18730 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18730"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XVPOVSIRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Amis</div> Mama Black Widow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/317686 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/317686"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0870679317.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iceberg Slim</div> Tropic of Cancer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24058 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24058"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513zeH8Li3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Miller</div> White Teeth: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9073 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9073"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wIEttzK9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zadie Smith</div> Naked http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7101 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7101"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZAtJwVuEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Sedaris</div> The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, Book 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/226490 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/226490"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SLpnSBlgL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carolyn Keene</div>