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Cult reading
Do you like literature that is different from the mainstream?
Non-fiction
Cult non-fiction books that all read like a good novel.
Women
If you like fiction that is different from the mainstream and you are interested in the work of women authors there should be something here of interest.
See The Telegraph's list of 50 best cult books.
Cult reading authors
- Kathy Acker
- Nelson Algren
- J. G. Ballard
- Iain Banks
- John Barth
- Poppy Z. Brite
- Charles Bukowski
- Anthony Burgess
- William S Burroughs
- Albert Camus
- Dennis Cooper
- Douglas Coupland
- Don DeLillo
- Philip K. Dick
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Harlan Ellison
- James Ellroy
- William Faulkner
- John Fowles
- William Gibson
- Andre Gide
- William Golding
- Alasdair Gray
- Knut Hamsun
- Jim Harrison
- Joseph Heller
- Hermann Hesse
- Carl Hiaasen
- S. E. Hinton
- John Irving
- James Joyce
- Franz Kafka
- Jack Kerouac
- Ken Kesey
- John King
- Stephen King
- Milan Kundera
- Hanif Kureishi
- Harper Lee
- Elmore Leonard
- Mark Leyner
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Ian McEwan
- Patrick McGrath
- Jay McInerney
- Norman Mailer
- Henry Miller
- Yukio Mishima
- Michael Moorcock
- Walter Mosley
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Jeff Noon
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Mervyn Peake
- Richard Price
- Thomas Pynchon
- John Rechy
- Luke Rhinehart
- Tom Robbins
- Marquis de Sade
- J. D. Salinger
- Jean Paul Sartre
- Hubert Selby
- Will Self
- Iain Sinclair
- Terry Southern
- Bruce Sterling
- Robert Stone
- D. M. Thomas
- Jim Thompson
- Gore Vidal
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- Irvine Welsh
