Summary:
1993 was an incredible year for finally having the chance to read so many authors that I’ve only heard about. I remember spending my typical Friday evenings at college at the Library until it closed at 7:00 pm, and then heading home with a pile of books by Hunter Thompson, Hubert Selby, or Charles Bukowski. I would hole up in my dorm room with a fresh pot of coffee and read for four to five hours before heading out for more typical college fun. During the summer of ‘93 I worked at a golf course, where I would spend my lunch break reading ‘Tropic of Cancer’ and ‘McTeague’ while listening to AM radio in a gigantic, 1976 Black Cutlass Supreme.
Reading List 1993
- Hells Angels - Hunter S. Thompson
- Drinking in America - Eric Bogosian
- Budding Prospects - T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
- Junky - William S. Burroughs
- Bang - Henry Rollins
- Yage Letters - William S. Burroughs
- At Terror Street and Agony Way - Charles Bukowski
- Hank: Life of Charles Bukowski - Neeli Cherkovski
- Black Coffee Blues - Henry Rollins
- Song of the Silent Snow - Hubert Selby Jr.
- Jernigan - David Gates
- The Room - Hubert Selby Jr.
- Neurologic - Timothy Leary
- Cosmic Trigger - Robert Anton Wilson
- Water Music - T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Barfly - Charles Bukowski
- Henry Miller’s Book of Friends - Henry Miller
- Mockingbird, Wish me Luck - Charles Bukowski
- Vox - Nicholson Baker
- Now Watch Him Die - Henry Rollins
- Friendship, Fame and Bestial Myth - Charles Bukowski
- Women - Charles Bukowski
- The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson
- And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave
- Shampoo Planet - Douglas Coupland
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- In the Belly of the Beast - Jack Henry Abbott
- The Road to Wellville - T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis
- Post Office - Charles Bukowski
- My Cousin, My Gasteroenterologist - Mark Leyner
- King Ink - Nick Cave
- McTeague - Frank Norris
- A Good Day to Die - Jim Harrison
- Queer - William Burroughs
- Generation X - Douglas Coupland
- June 30th, June 30th - Richard Brautigan
- Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork - Richard Brautigan
- Davis: An Autobiography - Miles Davis
- Notes of a Dirty Old Man - Charles Bukowski