Great Mind Altering Books

These Books will alter your perception and views about the world.

• Adams, Douglas - Must Read [Reemus]
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    Life, the Universe, and Everything
    So Long, and thanks for all the fish
    Mostly Harmless
  • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
• Richard Adams
  • Watership Down
• Allende, Isobel
  • The House of the Spirits
• Asimov, Isaac - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Foundation
  • The Bicentennial Man
• Banks, Iain 
  • The Bridge
  • Use of Weapons
• Bantok, Nick
  • Griffin and Sabine
• Barth, John
  • Chimera
• Bear, Greg
  • Blood Music
• Bester, Alfred
  • Tiger! Tiger!
• Bey, Hakim
  • Temporary Autonomous Zone
• Block, Francesca Lia
  • Dangerous Angels - the Weetzie Bat books
• Boethius
  • Consolation of Philosophy
• Borges, Jorge Luis
  • Ficciones (Fictions)
  • The Cirular Ruins
• Bradbury, Ray - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Dandelion Wine
• Bryant, Dorothy
  • The Kin Of Ata Are Waiting For You
• Bulgakov, Mikhail
  • The Master and Margarita
  • The Heart of a Dog
• Burroughs, William S.
  • Junkie
  • Naked Lunch
  • The Ticket That Exploded
  • Junky's Christmas
• Camus, Albert
  • The Outsider
  • The Myth of Sisyphus
  • The Stranger
  • The Plague
• Capote, Truman
  • In Cold Blood
• Card, Orson Scott - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Ender's Game
    Speaker for the Dead
    Xenocide
  • Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
  • Songmaster
• Carpenter, Edmund Snow
  • They Became what They Beheld
• Carroll, Lewis - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Alice In Wonderland
  • Through the Looking-glass
• Carroll, Peter
  • Liber Null
  • Psychonaut
  • Liber Kaos
• Casares, Adolfo Bioy
• Castaneda, Carlos
  • The teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge
    A Separate Reality
    Journey to Ixtlan
• Cervantes, Miguel de
  • Don Quixote
• Chase, Truddi
  • When Rabbit Howls
• Chayefsky, Paddy
  • Altered States
• Chuang Chou
  • The Chuang-Tzu
• Clark, Arthur C. - Must Read [Reemus]
  • 2001: A Space Oddysey
  • Childhood's End
• Cortázar, Julio
  • End of the Game and Other Stories
  • Rayuela (Hopscotch)
• Coupland, Douglas
  • Microserfs
• Danielewski, Mark
  • House of Leaves
• Dawkins, Richard - Must Read [Reemus]
  • The Selfish Gene
• DeLillo, Don
• Dick, Philip K. - Must Read [Reemus]
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • The Divine Invasion
  • VALIS
• Dickens, Charles
  • A Tale of Two Cities
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Notes from the Underground
  • The Brothers Karamazov
• Eco, Umberto - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Foucalt's Pendulum
  • The Name of the Rose
• Efsandiary, F.M.
  • Upwingers
• Egan, Greg
  • Diaspora
  • Distress
  • Permutation City
• Eliot, T.S.
  • The Wasteland
• Ellis, Bret Easton
  • American Psycho
• Ellis, Edward Robb
  • A Nation in Torment
• Ende, Michael
  • The Neverending Story
• Euclid
  • The Elements
• Farmer, Philip Jose
  • To Your Scattered Bodies Go
• Faulkner, William
  • As I Lay Dying
• Feinberg, Leslie
  • Stone Butch Blues
• Foucault, Michel
  • Discipline and Punish
• Fowles, John
  • The Magus
• Freud, Sigmund
  • Civilization and Its Discontents
• Gaarder, Jostein - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Sophie's World
• Gardner, Laurence
  • The Bloodline of the Holy Grail
• Gaiman, Neil
  • Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett)
  • Neverwhere
  • American Gods
• Genet, Jean
• Miracle of The Rose
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
  • Herland
• Gibson, William
  • Burning Chrome
  • Neuromancer
    Count Zero
    Mona Lisa Overdrive
  • Virtual Light
    Idoru
    All Tomorrow's Parties
• Gleick, James
  • Chaos : Making a New Science
• Gray, Alasdair
  • Lanark
• Gogol, Nikolai
  • The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
• Grimwood, Ken
  • Replay
• Gurdjieff, G. I.
  • Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson
• Halperin, James L.
  • The Truth Machine
• Hand, Elizabeth
  • Waking the Moon
  • Glimmering
  • Winterlong
    Aestival Tide Icarus Descending
• Heinlein, Robert A. - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • Time Enough For Love
• Heller, Joseph - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Catch 22
• Herbert, Frank - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Dune
• Hermans, W.F.
  • Het behouden huis
  • Nooit meer slapen
• Herr, Michael
  • Dispatches
• Hesse, Herman
  • Steppenwolf
  • Siddhartha
• Hofstadter, Douglas - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Godel, Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
  • Metamagical Themas
• Hugo, Victor
  • Les Miserables
• Huxley, Aldous - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Brave new World
  • The Doors of Perception
• Ibsen, Henrik
  • A Doll's House
• Irving, John
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany
• Jotce, Graham
  • The Tooth Fairy
• Joyce, James
  • Ulysses
  • Finnegan's Wake
• Kafka, Franz
  • The Penal Colony
  • The Trial
  • America
  • The Castle
  • Metamorphosis
• Kaku, Michio - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Hyperspace
• Kerouac, Jack
  • On the Road
  • Visions of Cody
  • the Dharma Bums
• Kesey, Ken
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Keyes, J. Gregory - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Newton's Cannon
    A Calculus of Angels
    Empire of Unreason
  • The Waterborn
    The Blackgod
• Kidder, Tracy
  • The Soul of a New Machine
• King, Stephen
  • The Dark Tower series
  • The Tommyknockers
  • The Stand
• Kingston, Maxine Hong
  • The Woman Warrior
• Knowles, John
  • A Seperate Peace
• Land, Jon
  • The Jared Kimberlain series
• Kosinski, Jerry
  • The Painted Bird
• Lawrence, D. H.
  • Lady Chatterly's Lover
• Leary, Timothy
  • Politics of Ecstasy and Info-Psychology (aka Exo-Psychology)
• Lee, Tanith
  • The Silver Metal Lover
• Lem, Stanislaw
  • The Cyberiad
  • Solaris
  • The Futurological Congress
  • Eden
• Lewis, C.S.
  • Out of the Silent Planet
    Perelandra
    That Hideous Strength
• Leyner, Mark
  • Et Tu, Babe
  • The Tetherballs of Bouganville
• Lilly, John C.
  • Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer
• Llewellyn, Grace
  • The Teenage Liberation Handbook
• Longyear, Barry B.
  • Sea of Glass
• Mailer, Norman
  • Why Are We In Vietnam?
• Mandela, Nelson
  • Long Walk to Freedom
• Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Mayle, Peter
  • Where Did I Come From?
• McKenna, Terence
  • The Archaic Revival
  • The Invisible Landscape (with Dennis McKenna)
  • True Hallucinations
• Miller, Arthur
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Miller, Henry
  • Plexus
• Milton, John
  • Paradise Lost
• More, Thomas
  • Utopia
• Morrison, Tony
  • The Bluest Eye
• Murakami, Haruki
  • A Wild Sheep Chase
  • The Wind-up Bird Chronicles
• Musashi, Miyamoto
  • The Book of Five Rings
• Musil, Robert
  • The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften)
• Neville, Katherine
  • The Eight
• Nietzsche, Friedrich
  • The Gay Science
• Noon, Jeff
  • Vurt
  • Nymphomation
• Nørretranders, Tor
  • The User Illusion
• Oates, Joyce Carol
  • Blonde
• O'Brien, Flann
  • The Third Policeman
• O'Brien, Timothy
  • The Things They Carried
• Orwell, George - Must Read [Reemus]
  • 1984
  • Animal Farm
• Palahniuk, Chuck
  • Fight Club
  • Survivor
  • Choke
  • Invisible Monsters
• Perec, Georges
  • A Void
• Plath, Sylvia
  • The Bell Jar
• Pirsig, Robert
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Poe, Edgar Allan
• Pynchon, Thomas
  • The Crying of Lot 49
  • Gravity's Rainbow
• Quinn, Daniel - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Ishmael and The Story of B
• Rand, Ayn
  • The Fountainhead
• Rhinehart, Luke
  • The Dice Man
  • Adventures of Wim
  • Search for the Dice Man
• Rooney, Andy
  • Not That You Asked
• Rosen, Robert
  • Life Itself
• Ross, John
  • Unintended Consequences
• Roy, Arundhati
  • The Cost of Living
  • The God of Small Things
• Rucker, Rudy
  • Software, Wetware, and Freeware
  • Infinity and Mind
• Rushkoff, David
  • The Ecstacy Club
• Sacks, Oliver
  • Seeing Voices
• Sagan, Carl
  • Pale Blue Dot
  • The Demon-haunted World
• Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de - Must Read [Reemus]
  • The Little Prince
• Saramago, Jose
  • Blindness
• Sartre, Jean-Paul
  • Nausea
• Shakespeare, William
  • Hamlet
• Shelley, Mary
  • Frankenstein
• Shem, Samuel
  • The House of God
  • Mount Misery
• Shepard, Lucius
  • Life During Wartime
• Simmons, Dan
  • Hyperion
    The Fall of Hyperion
• St. Augustine
  • Confessions
• Stapledon, Olaf
  • Starmaker
• Stein, Gertrude
  • How to Write
• Stephenson, Neal - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Snow Crash
  • Cryptonomicon
  • Zodiac
  • Diamond Age
• Süskind, Patrick
  • Das Parfum
• Tan, Amy
  • The Joy Luck Club
• Thich Nhat Hanh - Must Read [Reemus] - Anything by TNH is a Must Read
  • Old Path, White Clouds
• Thompson, Hunter S.
  • Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
• Thurber, James
  • The 13 Clocks
• Tolstoy, Leo - Must Read [Reemus]
  • The death of Ivan Ilyich
  • the Kreuzer sonata
• Twain, Mark - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Letters from the Earth
  • The Mysterious Stranger
• Ullman, Ellen
  • Close to the Machine
• Various
  • The Bible - Must Read [Reemus]
• Vian, Boris
  • I Shall Spit On Your Grave
• Vinge, Vernor
  • A Fire upon the Deep
• Vonnegut, Kurt - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Breakfast of Champions
  • Cat's Cradle
  • Player Piano
  • Sirens of Titan
  • Slaughter-house Five
• Wallace, David Foster
  • Infinite Jest
• Irvine Welsh
  • Filth
• Walsh, Lawrence E.
  • Firewall
• Watts, Alan
  • The Book
  • The Joyous Cosmology
  • The Wisdom of Insecurity
  • The Way Of Zen
• Wilbur, Ken
  • Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
• Wilde, Oscar
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Wilder, Thornton
  • The Bridge of San Lois Ray
• Wilson, Robert Anton - Must Read [Reemus]
  • The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Shea)
  • Prometheus Rising
  • Cosmic Trigger
  • Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy (note: originally published as three volumes: The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, and The Homing Pigeons. Thanks to Wobbly Tech)
• Wolfe, Gene
  • Peace
• Woolf, Virginia
  • To the Lighthouse
• Wright, Robert
• Yogananda, Paramahansa
  • Autobiography Of A Yogi
• Yourcenar, Marguerite
  • Anna... Soror
  • Alexis
  • Memoirs of Hadrian
• Yevgeny Zamyatin, Zamyatin, Yevgeny
  • We
• Zinn, Howard
  • A People's History of the United States
• Zukav, Gary
  • Seat Of The Soul

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