Some Books
Favorite books of mine linked to Goodreads. February, 2026 additions indicated with *
ART
Vienna Actionism by Eva Badura-Triska (Editor), Kerstin Barnick-braun, Herbert Klocker (Editor)
Installation Art by Claire Bishop
Everything Seemed Possible: Art in the 1970s by Richard Cork
Poor Artists: A Quest Into the Art World by Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad
Ralph Eugene Meatyard by Guy Davenport
Bruce Nauman - Raw Materials by Emma Dexter
Marcel Duchamp by Anne d'Harnoncourt (Editor)
The Century of Artists' Books by Johanna Drucker
Frank Auerbach by William Feaver
Francis Bacon by Matthew Gale (Editor), Chris Stephens (Editor)
The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel
Six Drawing Lessons by William Kentridge*
A.Y.P.S. by Terence Hannum, Kevin Killian (Interviewer)
Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism by Mike Kelley, John C. Welchman (Editor)
Minor Histories: Statements, Conversations, Proposals by Mike Kelley
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists by Sharon Louden (Editor)
Art Work: On the Creative Life by Sally Mann*
A History of Video Art by Chris Meigh-Andrews
Conceptual Art by Ursula Meyer
The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson
John Zorn: Hermetic Cartography by Jay Sanders, Olivia Shao*
Destruction by Sven Spieker (Editor)
Antonin Artaud: Drawings and Portraits by Paule Thevenin, Jacques Derrida, etc.
Georg Baselitz by Diane Waldman
Kara Walker: Hyundai Commission
MISC NON-FICTION
Prisoner's Inventions by Angelo
Meditations: A New Translation by Marcus Aurelius
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
Extreme Metaphors by J.G. Ballard (Interviews Collection)
Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography by J.G. Ballard
The End of the Game by Peter H. Beard
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Haunted Air: Anonymous Halloween photographs from c. 1875–1955 by Ossian Brown
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats (33 1/3) by Drew Daniel
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti
Public Collectors by Marc Fischer
Tales of Times Square: Expanded Edition by Josh Alan Friedman
More Dirty Looks: Gender, Pornography and Power by Pamela Gibson
The Knot by Michael Gira (some of this book is his fiction work)
The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho-Punk, 1980-1984 by Ian Glasper
Unit 731 Testimony: Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program by Hal Gold
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
The Haunted World of Mario Bava by Troy Howarth
Chapel of Gore and Psychosis: The Grand Guignol Theatre by Jack Hunter
The Devils of Loudon by Aldous Huxley
This Way Madness Lies by Mike Jay
White Line Fever: The Autobiography by Lemmy Kilmister, Janiss Garza
Car Crashes & Other Sad Stories by Mell Kilpatrick, Jennifer Dumas
A State of Blood: The Inside Story of Idi Amin by Henry Kyemba
Violence In Our Time by Sandy Lesberg
Mary Ellen Mark: Tiny, Streetwise Revisited by Mary Ellen Mark (Photographer), John Irving
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
The Only Living Witness by Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories by Cookie Mueller
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk
Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957 by Gordon Parks
Brave Men by Ernie Pyle
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach*
An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity (essay) by Bertrand Russell (Read online / download PDF here)
Amok Journal Sensurround Edition by Stewart Swezey
Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson
Beyond Terror: The Flims of Lucio Fulci by Stephen Thrower
Eyeball Compendium: Sex & Horror. Art & Exploitation by Stephen Thrower (Editor)
Nightmare, USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents by Stephen Thrower
US Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76 by U.S. Department of Defense
Industrial Culture Handbook (RE/Search #6/7) by V. Vale, Andrea Juno
Pranks (RE/Search #11) by V. Vale, Andrea Juno
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film by Michael J. Weldon, Gordon Van Gelder (Editor)
FICTION
Les Onze Mille Verges : The Amorous Adventures of Prince Mony Vibescu by Guillaume Apollinaire
The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
Crash by J.G. Ballard (updated to the Chris Beckett edition)
The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard
The Day of Creation by J.G. Ballard
The Kindness of Women by J.G. Ballard
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks*
The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
The Flowers of Evil & Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire
I Am Secretly an Important Man by Steven "Jesse" Bernstein
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
The Primal Screamer by Nick Blinko
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles*
The Bell Tolls for No One by Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne (Editor)
Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Adding Machine by William S. Burroughs
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy #1) by William S. Burroughs
The Place of Dead Roads (The Red Night Trilogy #2) by William S. Burroughs
The Western Lands (The Red Night Trilogy #3) by William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
Last Words: The Final Journals by William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (Editor)
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Beneath the Remains by Terence Hannum
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut*
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
John Barleycorn by Jack London*
Maldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de Lautréamont, Alexis Lykiard (Translator)
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
The Corporation Wars Trilogy by Ken MacLeod
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
The Necklace and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haurki Murakami
A Violent Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition by Stephen Sartarelli (Editor)
Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters by Kit Pedler, Gerry Davis
The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda
Philosophy in the Bedroom by Marquis de Sade
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Selfish, Little: The Annotated Lesley Ann Downey by Peter Sotos
The Magic Christian by Terry Southern
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Battle Royale - Remastered by Koushun Takami
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Young Adam by Alexander Trocchi*
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
