01 Book List
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This is not so much a comprehensive list of books I like or love as it is a collection of titles and authors that have had direct influence on my thinking and work.
FICTION:
The Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille
Complete Works
Ambrose Bierce
Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter
The Passion of New Eve
Angela Carter
Wise Children
Angela Carter
Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delaney
The Valis Trilogy
Philip K. Dick
A Time for Everything
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem
Água Viva
Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector
The City & The City
China Miéville
Embassytown
China Miéville
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
Voice of the fire
Alan Moore
The Violent Bear it Away
Flannery O'Connor
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
The Town of Cats
Hagiwara Sakutaro
Ambergris
Jeff Vandermeer
Borne
Jeff Vandermeer
The Strange Bird
Jeff Vandermeer
The Southern Reach Trilogy
Jeff Vandermeer
Three Astronauts
Jeff Vandermeer
Illuminatus
Robert Anton Wilson
The Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille
Complete Works
Ambrose Bierce
Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter
The Passion of New Eve
Angela Carter
Wise Children
Angela Carter
Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delaney
The Valis Trilogy
Philip K. Dick
A Time for Everything
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem
Água Viva
Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector
The City & The City
China Miéville
Embassytown
China Miéville
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
Voice of the fire
Alan Moore
The Violent Bear it Away
Flannery O'Connor
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
The Town of Cats
Hagiwara Sakutaro
Ambergris
Jeff Vandermeer
Borne
Jeff Vandermeer
The Strange Bird
Jeff Vandermeer
The Southern Reach Trilogy
Jeff Vandermeer
Three Astronauts
Jeff Vandermeer
Illuminatus
Robert Anton Wilson
NON-FICTION:
The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
And Then You Act
Anne Bogart
Vehicles
Valentino Braitenberg
The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson
The Strange Order of Things
Antonio Damasio
Thoth Tarot
Lon Milo DuQuette
Blood Rites
Barbara Ehrenreich
The Immense Journey
Loren Eiseley
The Unexpected Universe
Loren Eiseley
The Book of the Damned
Charles Fort
Lo!
Charles Fort
New Lands
Charles Fort
The Figure of Echo
John Hollander
The Substance of Shadow
John Hollander
The Saviors of God
Nikos Kazantzakis
The Flip
Jeffrey Kripal
Symbiotic Planet
Lynn Margulis
True Hallucinations
Terence Mckenna
Evolutionary Metaphors
David J. Moore
Humankind
Timothy Morton
The Cosmic Serpent
Jeremy Narby
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
The Interior Castle
St. Teresa of Avila
Cosmic Trigger I
Robert Anton Wilson
The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
And Then You Act
Anne Bogart
Vehicles
Valentino Braitenberg
The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson
The Strange Order of Things
Antonio Damasio
Thoth Tarot
Lon Milo DuQuette
Blood Rites
Barbara Ehrenreich
The Immense Journey
Loren Eiseley
The Unexpected Universe
Loren Eiseley
The Book of the Damned
Charles Fort
Lo!
Charles Fort
New Lands
Charles Fort
The Figure of Echo
John Hollander
The Substance of Shadow
John Hollander
The Saviors of God
Nikos Kazantzakis
The Flip
Jeffrey Kripal
Symbiotic Planet
Lynn Margulis
True Hallucinations
Terence Mckenna
Evolutionary Metaphors
David J. Moore
Humankind
Timothy Morton
The Cosmic Serpent
Jeremy Narby
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
The Interior Castle
St. Teresa of Avila
Cosmic Trigger I
Robert Anton Wilson
POETRY (AND ON POETRY):
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
The Four Zoas
William Blake
Bliss
Olivier Choinière
What is Amazing
Heather Christle
Complete Works
John Clare
A Responsibility to Awe
Rebecca Elson
Fearful Symmetry
Northrop Frye
Erosion
Jorie Graham
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts
Jorie Graham
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
Marie Howe
What the Living Do
Marie Howe
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
Nikos Kazantzakis
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Collected Poems
Kathleen Raine
Golgonooza
Kathleen Raine
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
The Four Zoas
William Blake
Bliss
Olivier Choinière
What is Amazing
Heather Christle
Complete Works
John Clare
A Responsibility to Awe
Rebecca Elson
Fearful Symmetry
Northrop Frye
Erosion
Jorie Graham
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts
Jorie Graham
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
Marie Howe
What the Living Do
Marie Howe
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
Nikos Kazantzakis
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Collected Poems
Kathleen Raine
Golgonooza
Kathleen Raine