Lists of Bests: Rough Guide's "Cult Fiction: The Authors" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/34941 From the book "The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction":http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/226850, this is a list of authors who "have all, in their intriguing, surprising and often strange ways, contributed to [the] life force [of fiction]. Two of them - Arthur Rimbaud and Allen Ginsberg - are so cult they're included even though they haven't written any fiction." _This list is alphabetical by author, with all the books listed as "Essential Reading" for each._ See also Cult Fiction: The Isolation Ward: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/35080 and Cult Fiction: Mostly Factual: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/35088 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:37:15 GMT en-us 0 50 347 50 0 The Woman in the Dunes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18764 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18764"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679733787.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kobo Abe</div> The Ruined Map: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9283 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9283"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375726527.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kobo Abe</div> How German Is It = Wie Deutsch Ist Es: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25118 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25118"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811207765.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Abish</div> Blood and Guts in High School: A Novel (Acker, Kathy) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24061 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24061"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/080213193X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathy Acker</div> Empire of the Senseless http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83800 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83800"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802131794.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathy Acker</div> The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec By Henri Toulouse Lautrec (novella) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792352 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathy Acker</div> The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8147 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8147"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345453743.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> Walk on the Wild Side http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792353 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nelson Algren</div> Skinhead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792356 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Allen</div> Suedehead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2309591 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Allen</div> Money http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2339265 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2339265"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099461889.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Amis</div> Dead Babies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2731230 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2731230"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099437333.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martin Amis</div> The President http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/998626 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/998626"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0881339512.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel Angel Asturias</div> Men of Maize (Pittsburgh Editions of Latin American Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1218361 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1218361"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0822955148.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel Angel Asturias</div> The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/ Ghosts/ the Locked Room http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47343 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/47343"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140169636.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> The Invention of Solitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2247036 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2247036"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143112228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> Crash: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6375 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6375"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312420331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. G. Ballard</div> Vermilion Sands http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792359 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792359"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/016XCV6ZMEL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J G Ballard</div> The Atrocity Exhibition (Flamingo Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74910 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/74910"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0007116861.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.G. Ballard</div> The Deadly Percheron http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830355 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830355"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1933618108.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Franklin Bardin</div> Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792360 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Franklin Bardin</div> The Tidewater Tales (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23972 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23972"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080185556X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Barth</div> Chimera http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17161 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17161"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618131701.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Barth</div> Sixty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482328 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482328"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141180935.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald Barthelme</div> Story of the Eye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26801 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26801"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0872862097.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64194456_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georges Bataille</div> The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2798 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2798"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140187286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Heinrich Böll</div> Group Portrait With Lady (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1017179 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1017179"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140187278.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Heinrich Boll</div> Borges: Collected Fictions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140286802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3722 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3722"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437883.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/678274 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/678274"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0374529787.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Bowles</div> The Sheltering Sky http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/686898 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/686898"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060199164.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Bowles</div> Spider's House: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314972 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/314972"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061137030.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Bowles</div> Fifty Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792542 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kay Boyle</div> Martian Quest: The Early Brackett http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/339862 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/339862"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1893887111.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056536686_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leigh Brackett</div> The Long Tomorrow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2521207 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2521207"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345248333.01-AU3IITJMZ54UT._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45226763_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leigh Brackett</div> Trout Fishing in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52070 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52070"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099747715.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Brautigan</div> Stories in an Almost Classical Mode http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/442092 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/442092"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679724311.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold Brodkey</div> Women: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2531059 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2531059"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061177598.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44616424_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Bukowski</div> Post Office http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792545 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792545"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01EBN7KAEGL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Bukowski</div> Factotum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792546 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792546"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01BKBB044YL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Bukowski</div> The Master and Margarita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016046 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1016046"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1411683056.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikhail Bulgakov</div> Naked Lunch http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24069 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24069"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802132952.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William S. Burroughs</div> The Western Lands http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792552 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William S. Burroughs</div> The Five Great Novels of James M. Cain (Picador) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167323 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James M. Cain</div> Invisible Cities http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2729154 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2729154"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099429837.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> If on a winter's night a traveler http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4121 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4121"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156439611.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422689_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18614"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46690014_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The Fall http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18616 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18616"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720227.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43057100_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> The Basketball Diaries http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52563 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52563"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140100180.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056419793_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Carroll</div> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1003477 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Carroll</div>