sábado, 27 de junio de 2020

Over 300 "singular" books as suggested by the members of a Facebook group


List of over300 so-called "singular" books as suggested by the members of a Facebook group:

Adolfo Bioy Casares: La invención de Morel (The Invention of Morel)

Aimé Cesaire: Discourse on Colonialism
Alain Robbe-Grillet: Jealousy
Alan Moore: Promethea
Aleister Crowley: Moon Child
Aleister Crowley: The Book of the Law
Aleister Crowley: The Drug and Other Stories
Alejandra Pizarnik: The Bloody Countess (La condesa sangrienta)
Alfred Jarry: Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
Alfred Jarry: Ubu roi; Ubu cocu; Ubu enchaîné; Ubu sur la Butte
Alfred Korzybski: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Amos Tutuola: The Palm-Wine Drinkard
André Breton: Nadja
Angela Carter: Passion of New Eve
Angela Carter: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (The War of Dreams)
Anne Carson: Autobiography of Red
Anne Lamott: Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
António Lobo Antunes: The Natural Order of Things
B. Traven: Death Ship
Ben Marcus: New American Stories
Ben Marcus: The Flame Alphabet
Bible, The
Bob Dylan: Tarantula
Bob Frissell: Nothing in This Book Is True, but It's Exactly How Things Are: The Esoteric Meaning of the Monuments on Mars
Boris Vian: L’Écume des jours
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho
Brian Aldiss: Barefoot in the Head
Brian Catling: The Vorrh
Bronze Age Pervert: Bronze Age Mindset
Bruce Robinson: The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman
Bruno Schultz: Street of Crocodiles
Cameron Pierce: Ass Goblins of Auschwitz

Can Xue: Frontier 
Carlos Castaneda: The Teachings of Don Juan
Carlton Mellick III: Satan Burger
Christian Bök: Eunoia
Christophe Petchanatz: Vanille
Christopher Buehlman: The Lesser Dead
Chuck Palahniuk: Haunted
Chuck Palahniuk: Invisible Monsters
Chuck Tingle: The Tingleverse: The Official Chuck Tingle Role-Playing Game
Clarice Lispector: The Passion according to G. H.
Claudia Rankine: Citizen
Clive Barker: Cabal
Clive Barker: Coldheart Canyon
Comte de Lautréamont: Les Chants de Maldoror
Cordwainer Smith: Nostrilia
Cordwainer Smith: The Rediscovery of Man
Cormack McCarthy: Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West
Cormack McCarthy: The Border trilogy
Crispin Glover: Concrete Inspection
Dan Simmons: Hyperion
Daniel Evan Weiss: The Roaches Have No King
David Berman: Actual Air
David Cronenberg: Consumed
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
David Lindsay: Voyage to Arcturus
David Markson: Wittgenstein's Mistress
David Toop: Ocean of Sound
David Toop: Sinister Resonance
David Wallechinsky, Amy D. Wallace, Ira Basen, Jane Farrow: The Book of Lists: The Original Compendium of Curious Information
David Wong: John Dies at the End
Dennis Cooper: Frisk
Dennis Cooper: Period
Don Winslow: The Power of the Dog
Donald Barthelme: City Life
Donald Barthelme: Paradise

Doris Lessing: Briefing for a Descent into Hell
Douglas Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
E. E. Cummings: The Enormous Room
Ed Sanders: Tales of Beatnik Glory
Edward Lee: The Bighead
Elias Canetti: Auto-da-Fé
Emma Donaghue: Room
Enrique Vila-Matas: Bartleby and Company
Eric Basso: The Beak Doctor: Short Fiction, 1972-1976
Eric Carle: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Erik Davis: TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
Esther Forbes: A Mirror For Witches
Eugène Ionesco: The Bald Singer
Fernando Pessoa: The Book of Disquiet
Fitz Hugh Ludlow: The Hasheesh Eater
Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman
Flannery O’Connor: The Complete Stories
Frank Herbert: Dune, all 9 vols.
Frank Norris: McTeague
Franz Kafka, The Castle
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gail Duff: A Loaf of Bread: Bread in History, in the Kitchen and on the Table: Recipes and Traditions
George Alec Effinger, When Gravity Fails
George Cockcroft: The Dice Man
George Herriman: Krazy Kat (all the comic strips)
George Orwell: Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a good study of moth-eaten middle-aged angst, with a fabulous scene of drunkenness...
Georges Bataille: Story of the Eye
Gershon Legman: The Rationale of the Dirty Joke
Gertrude Stein: How To Write
Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari: Mille plateaus
Giorgio de Chirico: Hebdomeros
Giovanni Papini: The Black Book
Grant Morrison: The Doom Patrol (comic book)
Grant Morrison: The Invisibles (comic book)
Greg Bardsley: Cash Out
Greg Bear: Blood Music
Greg Egan: Diaspora
Gregory David Roberts: Shantaram
Gregory Lewis: The Monk
Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle
H. Rider Haggard: She: A History of Adventure
Han Kang: The Vegetarian
Harry Crews: Feast of Snakes
Haruki Murakami: A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer
Hermann Hesse: Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game
Hideshi Hino: Panorama of Hell
Hubert Selby Jr: The Room
Hubert Selby Jr.: Last Exit to Brooklyn
Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory

Ian McEwan: The Cement Garden
Iceberg Slim: Pimp: The Story of My Life
Irvine Welsh: Acid House
Irvine Welsh: Filth
Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting
Italo Calvino: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities
J. G. Ballard: Concrete Island
J. G. Ballard: Crash
J. G. Ballard: High Rise
J. G. Ballard: The Atrocity Exibithion
Jack Ketchum: The Girl Next Door
Jacques Derrida: Glas
James Ellroy: The Black Dahlia
James Joyce: Dubliners
James Joyce: Finnegans Wake
James Thomson: City of Dreadful Night
Jamie Gillis, Peter Sotos: Pure Filth
Jan Potocki: Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Janet Frame: The Carpathians
Janina Matthewson: Of Things Gone Astray
Jasper Fforde: The Fourth Bear (super fun)
Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants terribles
Jean Ray: Malpertius
Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea
Jeff Noon: Vurt
Jeff Vandermeer: City of Saints and Madmen
Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
Jim Crace: Being Dead
Jim Thompson: Child of Rage (“first time I read it, I hated it with a passion”)
Jim Woodring: The Frank Book
JMR Higgs: The First Church on the Moon
Johanna Sinisalo: Troll: a love story
John Ajvide Lindqvist: Let the Right One In
John Barth: Giles Goat-Boy
John Barth: Letters
John Cage: Silence
John Cage: X: Writings
John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
John Zorn: The Book of Heads
Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Jorge Luis Borges: Fictions
Joris-Karl Huysmans: À rebours
José Donoso: El obsceno pájaro de la noche (The Obscene Bird of the Night)
José Saramago: Essay on Blindness
Joy Williams: The Changeling
Jozef Rulof: The Cosmology of Jozef Rulof
Julian Jaynes: Consciousness and the Origin of the Bicameral Mind
Julio Cortázar: Blow-up and Other Stories
Julio Cortázar: Rayuela (Hopscotch)
Kalevala
Katherine Dunn: Geek Love
Kathryn Davis: Hell
Kathy Acker: Blood and Guts in High School
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Buried Giant
Kobo Abe: Kangaroo Notebook (“about a guy who wakes up with radish sprouts growing out of his legs”)
Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5
Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Leon Tolstoi: War and Peace
Leonora Carrington: The Hearing Trumpet
Lester Bangs: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic
Lewis Carroll: Sylvie and Bruno
Louis Aragon: Le Paysan de Paris
Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Death on Credit
Mark Haddon: The Red House
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
Marquis de Sade: 120 Days Of Sodom
Matthew Stokoe: Cows
Maurice Blanchot: Death Sentence
Maurice Blanchot: Thomas the Obscure
Mercè Rodoreda: Death in Spring
Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan (from the "Gormenghast" series)
Michael Chabon: Yiddish Policeman’s Union
Michael D. Rich: A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates
Michael Gira: The Consumer
Michael Sikkema: You've Got A Pretty Hellmouth
Michel Houellebecq: Platform
Michel Houellebecq: Submission
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quijote
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
Nathan Singer: Chasing the Wolf
Nicholson Baker: The Fermata (“erotic; really sticks; still think of that book years later”)
Nicholson Baker: The Mezzanine
Nick Blinko: The Primal Screamer
Nick Cave: And the Ass Saw the Angel
Nikanor Teratologen: Assisted Living
Octavio Paz: Labyrinth of Solitude (essay)
Octavio Paz: Monkey Grammarian (essay)
Pär Lagerkvist: The Imp
Patrick Dewitt: Under Majordomo Minor
Patrick Süskind: Perfume
Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky
Paul Gambino: Morbid Curiosities: Collections of the Uncommon and the Bizarre (Skulls, Mummified Body Parts, Taxidermy and more, remarkable, curious, macabre collections)
Paul Spinrad: The Re/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids
Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth
Pete Frame: Rock Family Trees
Peter Sotos: Selfish, Little: The Annotated Lesley Ann Downey
Philip K Dick: Time out of Joints
Philip K. Dick: A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip Roth: Sabbath's Theater
Philip Terry (ed.): The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form
Pierre Albert-Birot: First Book of Grabinoulor
Pierre Klossowski: Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (essays)
Pierre Klossowski: Roberte ce soir
Poppy Z. Brite: Drawing Blood
Poppy Z. Brite: Exquisite Corpse
Poppy Z. Brite: Lost Souls
R. A. Wilson: The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Raymond Queneau: Zazie dans le metro
Raymond Roussell: Impressions d'Afrique
Rhys Hughes: Engelbrecht Again!
Richard Brautigan: A Confederate General from Big Sur
Richard Brautigan: Dreaming of Babylon
Richard Brautigan: In Watermelon Sugar
Richard Brautigan: The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
Richard Brautigan: Trout Fishing in America
Richard J. Chacon, David H. Dye (eds.): The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians
Richard Meltzer: Gulcher: Post-Rock Cultural Pluralism in America (1649-1993)
Richard Meltzer's reviews in Forced Exposure. (“I especially enjoyed the guy reviewing porn movies he watched with his baby awarding them point on a scale of how many nappies the infant wet while viewing”)
Rikki Ducornet: Netsuke
Rikki Ducornet: The Fan-Maker's Inquisition
Robert Dellar, Ted Curtis et al.: Seaton Point (collaborative novel)
Robert Rankin: Sprout Mask Replica
Robert W. Chambers: The King in Yellow
Roberto Bolaño: 2666
Roberto Bolaño: The Savage Detectives
Ross Raisin: God's Own Country
Russell Edson: The Tunnel
Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker
Salvador Elizondo: Farabeuf
Sam Kieth: The Maxx (comic book series)
Samuel Beckett: Molloy
Samuel Beckett: Malone Dies
Samuel Beckett: The Unnamable
Samuel R. Delaney: Babel-17
Samuel R. Delaney: Nova
Samuel R. Delany: Hogg
Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky: Autobiography of a Corpse
Simon Bond: 101 Uses for a Dead Cat
Sophie Campbell: Wet Moon (graphic-novel series)
Stephane Mallarme: Igitur
Steve Aylett: Lint
Steven Hall: The Raw Shark Texts
Strange Attractor Journal (MIT magazine)
Svetislav Basara: The Cyclist Conspiracy
T. C. Boyle: Water music
The Coming Boogie-Woogie: an ever-expanding choreographic encyclopedia of strategies, ideas, movements and concepts. Online: thecomingboogiewoogie.wordpress.com
Theodore Sturgeon: More than Human
Thomas Bernhardt: Extinction
Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow
Tom Baker: Buried
Tom Baker: Curtains: Readings from "Molotov"
Tom Baker: Kluge
Tom Baker: Nazi, Monkey, Seance: A Broken Book
Tom Carson: Gilligan's Wake
Tom Robbins: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Tom Robbins: Skinny Legs and All
Urs Allemann: Babyfucker
voter pamphlets
William Burroughs: Junkie
William Burroughs: Naked Lunch
William Burroughs: Nova Express
William Burroughs: The Wild Boys
William Cobbing, Rosie Cooper (eds.): Boooook: The Life and work of Bob Cobbing
William Gibson: Neuromancer
William Kotzwinkle: The Fan Man
Wilson Harris: Resurrection at Sorrow Hill
Witold Gombrowicz: Cosmos
Yamamoto Tsunetomo: Hagakure
Yasunari Kawabata: Thousand Cranes
Yukio Mishima: The Decay of the Angel
Zohar, The
Zoje Stage: Baby Teeth