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| *''[[White Noise]]'' ([[Don DeLillo]]) | *''[[White Noise]]'' ([[Don DeLillo]]) | ||
| *''[[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]'' ([[Robert Pirsig]]) | *''[[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]'' ([[Robert Pirsig]]) | ||
| - | === Books === | + | ==Cult authors== |
| - | ==== # ==== | + | |
| - | *[[1984 (novel)|1984]] ([[George Orwell]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== A ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[American Psycho]]'' ([[Bret Easton Ellis]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Anti-Œdipus]]'' ([[Gilles Deleuze]] and [[Félix Guattari]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Animorphs]]'' ([[K.A. Applegate]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[A Scanner Darkly]]'' ([[Philip K. Dick]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Atomised]]'' ([[Michel Houellebecq]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Atrocity Exhibition]]'' ([[J. G. Ballard]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== B ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[Battle Royale]]'' ([[Koushun Takami]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Bell Jar]]'' ([[Sylvia Plath]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West]]'' ([[Cormac McCarthy]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Bonjour, Tristesse]]'' ([[Francoise Sagan]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Brave New World]]'' ([[Aldous Huxley]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Breakfast of Champions]]'' ([[Kurt Vonnegut]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== C ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[Catch-22]]'' ([[Joseph Heller]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'' ([[J. D. Salinger]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[A Clockwork Orange]]'' ([[Anthony Burgess]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Collector]]'' ([[John Fowles]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Confessions of a Dangerous Mind]]'' ([[Chuck Barris]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Cut]]'' ([[Patrica McCormick]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== D ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[The Dark Tower (series)|The Dark Tower]] ([[Stephen King]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Dice Man]]'' ([[Luke Rhinehart]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Dispatches (book)|Dispatches]]'' ([[Michael Herr]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Doors of Perception]]'' ([[Aldous Huxley]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'' ([[Frank Herbert]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== E ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]'' ([[Tom Wolfe]]) | + | |
| - | ==== F ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'' ([[Hunter S. Thompson]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Female Eunuch]]'' ([[Germaine Greer]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Fight Club (book)|Fight Club]]'' ([[Chuck Palahniuk]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Film as a Subversive Art]]'' ([[Amos Vogel]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Food of the Gods]]'' ([[Terence McKenna]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Function of the Orgasm]]'' ([[Wilhelm Reich]]) | + | |
| - | ==== G ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[Gaia Movement|Gaia]]'' ([[James Lovelock]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Geek Love]]'' ([[Katherine Dunn]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Gödel, Escher, Bach]]'' ([[Douglas Hofstadter]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Good Omens]]'' ([[Neil Gaiman]]) and ([[Terry Pratchett]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Gormenghast (novel)|The Gormenghast Trilogy]]'' ([[Mervyn Peake]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Le Grand Meaulnes]]'' ([[Alain-Fournier]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]'' ([[Thomas Pynchon]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== H ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' ([[Margaret Atwood]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' ([[Douglas Adams]]) | + | |
| - | ==== I ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'' ([[Robert Anton Wilson]] and [[Robert Shea]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[I am Legend]]'' ([[Richard Matheson]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'' ([[Anne Rice]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== J ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[Jenny and the Jaws of Life]]'' ([[Jincy Willett]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Journey to the End of the Night]]'' ([[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]]) | + | |
| - | ==== K ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[Killing Molly]]'' (Eric C. Novack) | + | |
| - | ==== L ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[Laws of Form]]'' ([[G. Spencer-Brown]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Less Than Zero]]'' ([[Bret Easton Ellis]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Little, Big]]'' ([[John Crowley]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Lord of the Flies]] ([[William Golding]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== M ==== | + | |
| - | ==== N ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[The Naked Lunch]]'' ([[William S. Burroughs]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Nausea (book)|Nausea]]'' ([[Jean-Paul Sartre]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Neuromancer]]'' ([[William Gibson (novelist)|William Gibson]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Nuklear Age]]'' ([[Brian Clevinger]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== O ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)|One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' ([[Ken Kesey]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[On the Road]]'' ([[Jack Kerouac]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Outsiders (novel)|The Outsiders]]'' ([[Susan Eloise Hinton]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== P ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[The Perks of Being a Wallflower]]'' ([[Stephen Chbosky]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]'' ([[Norton Juster]] and [[Jules Feiffer]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== S ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[The Satanic Bible]]'' ([[Anton LaVey]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Second Sex]]'' ([[Simone de Beauvoir]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Siddhartha (book)|Siddhartha]]'' ([[Hermann Hesse]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]'' ([[Kurt Vonnegut]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Storm of Steel]]'' ([[Ernst Jünger]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Story of the Eye]]'' ([[Georges Bataille]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Stranger (novel)|The Stranger]]'' ([[Albert Camus]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' ([[Robert A. Heinlein]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== T ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge]]'' ([[Carlos Castaneda]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Total Recall]]'' ([[1990]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Tropic of Cancer (novel)|Tropic of Cancer]]'' ([[Henry Miller]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Trout Fishing in America]]'' ([[Richard Brautigan]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== U ==== | + | |
| - | ==== V ==== | + | |
| - | ==== W ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[Warriors (book series)|Warriors]]'' ([[Erin Hunter]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Wasp Factory]]'' ([[Iain Banks]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[Watchmen]]'' ([[Alan Moore]] and [[Dave Gibbons]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' ([[Robert Jordan]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[White Noise]]'' ([[Don DeLillo]]) | + | |
| - | *''[[The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle]]'' ([[Haruki Murakami]]) | + | |
| - | ==== X ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[Xanth series]]'' ([[Piers Anthony]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==== Y ==== | + | |
| - | ==== Z ==== | + | |
| - | *''[[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]'' ([[Robert Pirsig]]) | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ==Cult fiction== | + | |
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| [[Kathy Acker]], [[J. G. Ballard]] , [[Iain Banks]] , [[John Barth]] , [[Poppy Z. Brite]], [[Charles Bukowski]], [[Anthony Burgess]] , [[William S Burroughs]] , [[Albert Camus]] , [[Angela Carter]] ,[[ Nik Cohn]] , [[Colette]] , [[Dennis Cooper]] , [[Douglas Coupland]] , [[Don DeLillo]] , [[Philip K Dick]] , [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] ,[[ Nick Earls]] , [[Bret Easton Ellis]] , [[James Ellroy]] , [[William Faulkner]] , [[John Fowles]] , [[William Gibson]] , [[André Gide]] , [[William Golding]] , [[Alasdair Gray]] , [[Radclyffe Hall]] , [[Knut Hamsun]] , [[Joseph Heller]] , [[Hermann Hesse]] , [[Carl Hiaasen]] , [[S.E. Hinton]] , [[Nick Hornby]] , [[Aldous Huxley]] , [[John Irving]] , [[Erica Jong]] , [[James Joyce]] , [[Franz Kafka]] , [[Jack Kerouac]] , [[Ken Kesey]] , [[Stephen King]] , [[Milan Kundera]] , [[Hanif Kureishi]] , [[Harper Lee]] , [[Elmore Leonard]] , [[Doris Lessing]] , [[Mark Leyner]] , [[H P Lovecraft]] , [[Carson McCullers]] , [[Ian McEwan]] , [[Patrick McGrath]] , [[Jay McInerney]] , [[Colin MacInnes]] , [[Norman Mailer]] , [[Henry Miller]] , [[Yukio Mishima]] , [[Michael Moorcock]], [[Walter Mosley]] , [[Vladimir Nabokov]] , [[Anais Nin]] , [[Jeff Noon]] , [[Joyce Carol Oates]] , [[Chuck Palahniuk]] , [[Mervyn Peake]] , [[Sylvia Plath]] , [[Richard Price]] , [[Thomas Pynchon]] , [[Ayn Rand]] , [[Luke Rhinehart]] , [[Anne Rice]] , [[Tom Robbins]] , [[Marquis de Sade]] , [[J. D. Salinger]] , [[Jean Paul Sartre]] , [[Hubert Selby]] , [[Will Self]] , [[Bruce Sterling]] , [[Robert Stone]] , [[D. M. Thomas]] , [[Hunter S Thompson]] , [[Jim Thompson]] , [[Gore Vidal]] , [[Kurt Vonnegut|Kurt Vonnegut Jr]] , [[Irvine Welsh]] , [[Jeanette Winterson]] , [[Tom Wolfe]] --accessed on http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/IfYouLike/cultfiction.asp, [Jan 2004] | [[Kathy Acker]], [[J. G. Ballard]] , [[Iain Banks]] , [[John Barth]] , [[Poppy Z. Brite]], [[Charles Bukowski]], [[Anthony Burgess]] , [[William S Burroughs]] , [[Albert Camus]] , [[Angela Carter]] ,[[ Nik Cohn]] , [[Colette]] , [[Dennis Cooper]] , [[Douglas Coupland]] , [[Don DeLillo]] , [[Philip K Dick]] , [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] ,[[ Nick Earls]] , [[Bret Easton Ellis]] , [[James Ellroy]] , [[William Faulkner]] , [[John Fowles]] , [[William Gibson]] , [[André Gide]] , [[William Golding]] , [[Alasdair Gray]] , [[Radclyffe Hall]] , [[Knut Hamsun]] , [[Joseph Heller]] , [[Hermann Hesse]] , [[Carl Hiaasen]] , [[S.E. Hinton]] , [[Nick Hornby]] , [[Aldous Huxley]] , [[John Irving]] , [[Erica Jong]] , [[James Joyce]] , [[Franz Kafka]] , [[Jack Kerouac]] , [[Ken Kesey]] , [[Stephen King]] , [[Milan Kundera]] , [[Hanif Kureishi]] , [[Harper Lee]] , [[Elmore Leonard]] , [[Doris Lessing]] , [[Mark Leyner]] , [[H P Lovecraft]] , [[Carson McCullers]] , [[Ian McEwan]] , [[Patrick McGrath]] , [[Jay McInerney]] , [[Colin MacInnes]] , [[Norman Mailer]] , [[Henry Miller]] , [[Yukio Mishima]] , [[Michael Moorcock]], [[Walter Mosley]] , [[Vladimir Nabokov]] , [[Anais Nin]] , [[Jeff Noon]] , [[Joyce Carol Oates]] , [[Chuck Palahniuk]] , [[Mervyn Peake]] , [[Sylvia Plath]] , [[Richard Price]] , [[Thomas Pynchon]] , [[Ayn Rand]] , [[Luke Rhinehart]] , [[Anne Rice]] , [[Tom Robbins]] , [[Marquis de Sade]] , [[J. D. Salinger]] , [[Jean Paul Sartre]] , [[Hubert Selby]] , [[Will Self]] , [[Bruce Sterling]] , [[Robert Stone]] , [[D. M. Thomas]] , [[Hunter S Thompson]] , [[Jim Thompson]] , [[Gore Vidal]] , [[Kurt Vonnegut|Kurt Vonnegut Jr]] , [[Irvine Welsh]] , [[Jeanette Winterson]] , [[Tom Wolfe]] --accessed on http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/IfYouLike/cultfiction.asp, [Jan 2004] | ||
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Cult fiction is a term used to denote literature that has attracted a cult following.
Books that tend to attract a cult following include banned books, transgressive fiction, controversial books, erotic literature, drug literature, rants and incendiary tracts and some genre fiction.
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Bibliography
- Cult Fiction: A Reader's Guide (1998) - Andrew Calcutt
- Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory (1998) - Clive Bloom
- Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature (1992) - Thomas Reed Whissen
- The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction (2005) - Michaela Bushell, Helen Rodiss, Paul Simpson
Examples of cult books
- Anti-Œdipus (Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari)
- Atomised (Michel Houellebecq)
- The Atrocity Exhibition (J. G. Ballard)
- The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
- Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
- The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
- A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
- The Dice Man (Luke Rhinehart)
- Dispatches (Michael Herr)
- The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley)
- Dune (Frank Herbert)
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe)
- Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
- The Female Eunuch (Germaine Greer)
- Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
- Food of the Gods (Terence McKenna)
- The Function of the Orgasm (Wilhelm Reich)
- Gaia (James Lovelock)
- Gödel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)
- The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea)
- Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
- Laws of Form (G. Spencer-Brown)
- Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain-Fournier)
- Less Than Zero (Brett Easton Ellis)
- The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
- Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
- Neuromancer (William Gibson)
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
- On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
- The Outsider (Albert Camus)
- Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
- Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
- The Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger)
- The Story of the Eye (Georges Bataille)
- Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
- The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (Carlos Castaneda)
- Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
- Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan)
- The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks)
- White Noise (Don DeLillo)
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
Cult authors
Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard , Iain Banks , John Barth , Poppy Z. Brite, Charles Bukowski, Anthony Burgess , William S Burroughs , Albert Camus , Angela Carter , Nik Cohn , Colette , Dennis Cooper , Douglas Coupland , Don DeLillo , Philip K Dick , Fyodor Dostoevsky , Nick Earls , Bret Easton Ellis , James Ellroy , William Faulkner , John Fowles , William Gibson , André Gide , William Golding , Alasdair Gray , Radclyffe Hall , Knut Hamsun , Joseph Heller , Hermann Hesse , Carl Hiaasen , S.E. Hinton , Nick Hornby , Aldous Huxley , John Irving , Erica Jong , James Joyce , Franz Kafka , Jack Kerouac , Ken Kesey , Stephen King , Milan Kundera , Hanif Kureishi , Harper Lee , Elmore Leonard , Doris Lessing , Mark Leyner , H P Lovecraft , Carson McCullers , Ian McEwan , Patrick McGrath , Jay McInerney , Colin MacInnes , Norman Mailer , Henry Miller , Yukio Mishima , Michael Moorcock, Walter Mosley , Vladimir Nabokov , Anais Nin , Jeff Noon , Joyce Carol Oates , Chuck Palahniuk , Mervyn Peake , Sylvia Plath , Richard Price , Thomas Pynchon , Ayn Rand , Luke Rhinehart , Anne Rice , Tom Robbins , Marquis de Sade , J. D. Salinger , Jean Paul Sartre , Hubert Selby , Will Self , Bruce Sterling , Robert Stone , D. M. Thomas , Hunter S Thompson , Jim Thompson , Gore Vidal , Kurt Vonnegut Jr , Irvine Welsh , Jeanette Winterson , Tom Wolfe --accessed on http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/IfYouLike/cultfiction.asp, [Jan 2004]
See also
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