Recommended reading, in progress!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A favorite poet. Some specific favorites include "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Christabel"

Aleister Crowley

Check out The Book of Lies

Sam Delaney

Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand

Jacques Derrida

Margins of Philosophy, Writing and Difference, and Of Grammatology

John Dewey

Public and its Problems, and Experience and Education

Philip K. Dick

Ubik

T.S. Eliot

The Hollow Men is my favorite poem of all time (other than Ginsberg's Howl)

Michael Foucault

The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981--1982, and Fearless Speech

Robert Frost

In my opinion, his best poem is Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter. I'm currently reading The Blithedale Romance

Martin Heidegger

Being and Time

Aldous Huxley

The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell

Allen Ginsberg

Howl, America, and Supermarket in California

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis, The Trial, and Amerika

Jack Kerouac

On the Road, Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Maggie Cassidy

Galway Kinnell

The Book of Nightmares

Jon Krakauer

Under the Banner of Heaven, Into Thin Air, and Into the Wild

Julia Kristeva

Desire in Language

H.P. Lovecraft

The Road to Madness, and The Doom That Came to Sarnath

Toni Morrison

Paradise

Sharon Olds

Strike Sparks

Chuck Palahniuk

Anything he wrote, including nonfiction. The man is my hero!

Bertrand Russell

Why I Am Not a Christian

Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, and The Moor's Last Sigh

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace, and Anna Karenina

Kurt Vonnegut

Cats Cradle, and Slaughterhouse Five

Irvine Welsh

Glue and Marabou Stork Nightmares

Robert Anton Wilson

The Illuminatus! Trilogy, and Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati

Tom Wolfe

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test