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This is a small selection of some of my favourite reading matter. Mainly fiction, and inevitably lots of William Burroughs is featured, but do check out some of the more obscure stuff as well.

Over time I'll be adding pop-up links to short descriptions and small cover images. Star ratings reflect a personal view and reflect both a qualitative judgment and how significant the book was for me when I first encountered it.

Publisher details relate to the edition on my shelves. Where known, original publication date is in [square brackets].

Philosophy texts can be found here.

Feel free to leave comments and recommendations on the Reading Matters Feedback page.

Most recent read: Kill Your Darlings by Terence Blacker. An ok read which will amuse and infuriate any fans of Amis fils. The ending is great by the way...

Previous read: Baudolino by Umberto Eco. As ever, Eco takes an age to get going, and to be honest I found this somewhat repetitive after a while. Not a patch on Foucault's Pendulum.

Previous read: Yellow Dog by Martin Amis. Well worth reading, and with a strong structural nod towards both Burroughs and Ballard. Recommended.

Previous read: Dorian by Will Self. Stunningly good. More restrained than usual for WS, but a very fine work.

Updated: 17 January 2004

Author	Title	Rating	Publisher	Year
Amis, Martin	Dark Secrets (also published as 'Dead Babies')	****	Panther	1975
Amis, Martin	Money	****	Jonathan Cape	1984
Amis, Martin	London Fields	****	Jonathan Cape	1989
Amis, Martin	The Information	*****	Flamingo	1995
Bowles, Paul	The Sheltering Sky	***	Granada	1984 [1949]
Bowles, Paul	Let It Come Down	****	Arena	1952
Bowles, Paul	Up Above the World	****	Arena	1984 [1966]
Burgess, Anthony	A Clockwork Orange	****	Penguin	1972 [1962]
Burroughs, Willliam S	Naked Lunch	****	Grove Press	1959
Burroughs, William S	Dead Fingers Talk	*****	John Calder	1963
Burroughs, William S	Port of Saints (illustrated edition)	*****	Covent Garden Press	1973
Burroughs, William S and Gysin, Brion	The Third Mind	*****	John Calder	1979
Burroughs, William S	Ah Pook is Here & Other Texts	****	John Calder	1979
Burroughs, William S	Cities of the Red Night - (my all time No. 1)	******	John Calder	1981
Burroughs, William S	The Place of Dead Roads	*****	John Calder	1984
Burroughs, William S	Queer	***	Picador	1985
Burroughs, William S	The Western Lands	**	Picador	1987
Burroughs, WIlliam S	The Seven Deadly Sins	***	Lococo - Mulder	1991
Carroll, Jim	The Basketball Diaries	***	Bantam	1980
Cohen, Ira; Malanga, Gerard; MacLise, Angus	Ratio:3 v.1 - Media Shamans	****	Temple Press	1991
Crowley, Aleister	Moonchild	***	Samuel Weiser	1985 [1917/1929]
Dali, Salvador	50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship	*****	Dial	1948
Dwyer, Simon	Rapid Eye 1	*****	R.E. Publishing	1989
Eco, Umberto	The Name of the Rose	***	Picador	1983
Eco, Umberto	Foucault's Pendulum	****	Secker & Warburg	1989
Faulkner, William	Sanctuary	****	Penguin	1984 [1931]
Gallico, Paul	The Man Who Was Magic	****	Pan	1968
Geiger, John	Chapel of Extreme Experience	****	Gutter Press	2002
Genet, Jean	Miracle of the Rose	****	Anthony Blond	1965
Ginsberg, Allen	Kaddish	*****	City Lights Books	1961
Ginsberg, Allen	Reality Sandwiches	*****	City Lights Books	1966
Gysin, Brion	The Process	*****	Quartet	1985 [1969]
Gysin, Brion (ed. Weiss, Jason)	Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader	****	Wesleyan University Press	2001
Home, Stewart	Red London	***	AK Press	1994
Huxley, Aldous	Island	***	Flamingo	1994 [1962]
MacLise, Angus	The Map of Dusk	****	SZ Press	1984
Malanga, Gerard	Incarnations	*****	Black Sparrow Press	1974
Meyrick, Gustav	The Golem	***	Dedalus	1985 [1915/1928]
Pullman, Philip	His Dark Materials	*****	Point	1995
Roszak, Theodore	Flicker	*****	Bantam	1992
Self, Will	The Quantity Theory of Insanity	****	Bloomsbury	1991
Smith, Patti	Babel	***	Putnam	1978
Warhol, Andy	A	**	Grove Press	1968
Warhol, Andy	From A to B & Back Again	*****	Cassell/Dempsey	1975
Warhol, Andy & Hackett, Pat	Popism - The Warhol '60s	***	Hutchinson	1981
Welch, Denton	A Voice Through A Cloud	***	Penguin	1983 [1950]

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