Reading List 2006

Despite suffering quite badly from ADD, which makes reading and more so writing, fucking difficult due to an inability to retain a somewhat consistent focus, this is a list of books I bought recently and plan to read this year. (not in the order listed below, red text = read. )

• Deliberate prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995 - Allen Ginsberg
• The possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq
• Fear and Loathing in America - Hunter S. Thompson
• The Beat Hotel - Barry Miles
• Pimp - Iceberg Slim
  
• The Burroughs File - William S. Burroughs
• Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel García Márquez
• The Hot Jazz Trio - William Kotzwinkle
• Tourism - Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal
  
• One Hundred Strokes of the Brush before Bed - Melissa P.
• Helen and Desire - Alexander Trocchi
  
• Girls - Nic Helman
• Without Blood - Alessandro Baricco
• Gabriela, clove and cinnamon - Jorge Amado
• The Magus - John Fowles
• Yellow Dog - Martin Amis
• Tarantula - Thierry Jonquet
• Stone Junction - Jim Dodge
• Bad Chili - Joe R.Lansdale
• The Colossus of Maroussi - Henry Miller
• An American Dream - Norman Mailer
• The Man with the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren
• Not Fade Away - Jim Dodge
• The Ebony Tower - John Fowles
• Ghosts of Spain - Giles Tremlett
• The Dedalus Book of Absinthe - Phil Baker
• Theft - Peter Carey
• Dopefiend - Donald Goines
  

Tags : Allen Ginsberg + Michel Houellebecq + Hunter S.Thompson
Alessandro Baricco + William S. Burroughs + Gabriel García Márquez
William Kotzwinkle + John Fowles + Henry Miller + Martin Amis + Thierry Jonquet