What can I say? I love Patti Smith.
A list of Patti’s 40 Favorite Books by Mike Springer for Open Culture:
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
- The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Billy Budd by Herman Melville
- Songs of Innocence by William Blake
- The Wild Boys by William Burroughs
- Howl by Allen Ginsberg
- A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
- Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
- Wittgenstein’s Poker by David Edmonds and John Eidinow
- Villette by Charlotte Bronte
- The Process by Brion Gysin
- Cain’s Book by Alexander Trocchi
- Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
- The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
- The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
- Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
- The Oblivion Seekers by Isabelle Everhardt
- The Women of Cairo by Gérard de Nerval
- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
- The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A Night of Serious Drinking by René Daumal
- Swann in Love by Marcel Proust
- A Happy Death by Albert Camus
- The First Man by Albert Camus
- The Waves by Virginia Woolf
- Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
- Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
- Anything by W.G. Sebald
- The Thief’s Journal or anything by Jean Genet
- The Arcades Project or anything by Walter Benjamin
- Poet in New York by Federico García Lorca
- The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
- Ice or anything by Anna Kavan
- The Divine Proportion by H.E. Huntley
- Nadja by André Breton
she is ‘blessed, amount women’ – she’s my heroine. seen her live many times. an incredible woman, poet, performer – love that she hasn’t lost her ‘punk’ attitude. i’m away to listen to ‘Horses’ again…. thank you xx
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So glad you are inspired to listen to more Patti! I love her, too. Hurray!
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