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Patti Smith's Fifty Favorite Books

By Maria Popova at the Marginalian
"After finding herself under a monthlong spell of obsessively reading nothing but Haruki Murakami, Smith considers how great books bewitch the human spirit:
'There are two kinds of masterpieces. There are the classic works monstrous and divine like Moby-Dick or Wuthering Heights or Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus. And then there is the type wherein the writer seems to infuse living energy into words as the reader is spun, wrung, and hung out to dry. Devastating books. Like 2666 or The Master and Margarita. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is such a book. I finished it and was immediately obliged to reread it. For one thing I did not wish to exit its atmosphere. But also, the ghost of a phrase was eating at me. Something that untied a neat knot and let the frayed edges brush against my cheek as I slept.' "
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After Nature (W.G. Sebald)
After Nature (W.G. Sebald)
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The Thief's Journal (Jean Genet)
The Thief's Journal (Jean Genet)
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
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A Wild Sheep Chase (Haruki Murakami)
A Wild Sheep Chase (Haruki Murakami)
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Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
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Dance Dance Dance (Haruki Murakami)
Dance Dance Dance (Haruki Murakami)
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2666 (Roberto Bolano)
2666 (Roberto Bolano)
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Amulet (Roberto Bolaño)
Amulet (Roberto Bolaño)
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The First Man (Albert Camus)
The First Man (Albert Camus)
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The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
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The Story of Davy Crockett (Enid Meadowcroft)
The Story of Davy Crockett (Enid Meadowcroft)
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The Little Lame Prince (Rosemary Wells)
The Little Lame Prince (Rosemary Wells)
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Ariel (Sylvia Plath)
Ariel (Sylvia Plath)
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The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
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Winter Trees (Sylvia Plath)
Winter Trees (Sylvia Plath)
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Four Major Plays (Henrik Ibsen)
Four Major Plays (Henrik Ibsen)
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After-Dinner Declarations (Nicanor Parra)
After-Dinner Declarations (Nicanor Parra)
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Letters From Iceland (W.H. Auden, Louis Macneice)
Letters From Iceland (W.H. Auden, Louis Macneice)
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The Petting Zoo (Jim Carroll)
The Petting Zoo (Jim Carroll)
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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A Dog of Flanders (Ouida (Aka Marie Louise De La Ramée))
A Dog of Flanders (Ouida (Aka Marie Louise De La Ramée))
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The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain)
The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain)
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The Blue Bird (Maurice Maeterlinck)
The Blue Bird (Maurice Maeterlinck)
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Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Margaret Sidney)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Margaret Sidney)
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Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
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Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
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The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse)
The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse)
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The Journey to the East (Hermann Hesse)
The Journey to the East (Hermann Hesse)
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Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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A Night of Serious Drinking (René Daumal)
A Night of Serious Drinking (René Daumal)
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Wittgenstein's Poker (Edmunds & Eidinow)
Wittgenstein's Poker (Edmunds & Eidinow)
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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Orphée (Jean Cocteau)
Orphée (Jean Cocteau)
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The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera (Bertram David Wolfe)
The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera (Bertram David Wolfe)
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Anthology (Artaud)
Anthology (Artaud)
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The Confusions of Young Törless (Robert Musil)
The Confusions of Young Törless (Robert Musil)
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Women of Cairo (Gerard De Nerval)
Women of Cairo (Gerard De Nerval)
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Black Spring (Henry Miller)
Black Spring (Henry Miller)
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