RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

HISTORY:

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, by Erik Larson





Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, by Greil Marcus





Straight To Hell: 20th Century Suicides, by Namida King





Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets, by Kenneth Anger





The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History, by Howard Bloom





Guns, Death, Terror: An Illustrated History of International Terrorism, by Jack Sargeant

BIOGRAPHY:

With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look At Misanthropy, by Florence King





Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby, by Geoffrey Wolff





Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company, by Roy Morris





Memoirs of a Dada Drummer, by Richard Huelsenbeck





Duchamp: A Biography, by Calvin Tomkins





Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt, by Jim Goad





Isis & Beyond: The Biography of Cecil E. Nixon, by Doran Wittelsbach





The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Jung, by Richard Noll





Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell





Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell





Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story Of Coum Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle, by Simon Ford

CULTURE & POLITICS:

Choice: The Best of Reason, edited by Nick Gillespie





God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens





Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know is Wrong, by John Stossel





Give Me a Break, by John Stossel





The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds, by Tammy Bruce





Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This", by P.J. O'Rourke





Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer, by P.J. O'Rourke





The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats, by Jim Goad

SOCIOLOGY:

The Crowd, by Gustave Le Bon





The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell





Evil: The Shadow Side of Reality, by John A. Sanford





The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis, by Ian Brady





Pranks!, edited by V. Vale





Jim Goad's Gigantic Book of Sex, by Jim Goad

ETTIQUITE & MANNERS:

CAD: A Handbook for Heels, edited by Charles Schneider





The Chap Manifesto: Revolutionary Etiquette for the Modern Gentleman, by Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood





The Modern Drunkard, by Frank Kelly Rich

FICTION:

Notes from Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky





The Dice Man, by Luke Rhinehart





Lord Jim: A Tale, by Joseph Conrad





Candide, by Voltaire





Justine, by The Marquis de Sade





1984, by George Orwell





Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS:

Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena, by Brian Dunning





What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable, by John Brockman





Them: Adventures with Extremists, by Jon Ronson





ANSWER Me!: The First Three, by Jim Goad





Apocalypse Culture, by Adam Parfrey





Apocalypse Culture II, by Adam Parfrey





The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions, by Robert Todd Carroll





Incredibly Strange Films, edited by V. Vale and Andrea Juno





Tape Delay: Confessions from the Eighties Underground, by Charles Neal





Industrial Culture Handbook, by V. Vale