Reading Lists

Beats, Pranksters, Gonzo

• On the Road - Jack Kerouac
• Visions of Cody - Jack Kerouac
• Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
• Planet News - Allen Ginsberg
• Howl - Allen Ginsberg
• In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
• Hell's Angels - H. S. Thompson
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - H. S. Thompson
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - H. S. Thompson
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Transecendental and Visionary Literature

• Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
• Walden - Henry David Thoreau
• Jerusalem - William Blake
• America: A Prophecy - William Blake

Literary Theory

• Rabelais and his World - M.M. Bakhtin
• Dialogic Imagination - M.M. Bakhtin
• Worldbuilding - ed. Maria Boni

Religion and Philosophy

• The Bhagavad Gita
• The Nag Hammadi Library
• Perennial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley
• Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
• Technic and Magic - Federico Campagna

Folklore

• Jack Tales - Richard Chase
• Grandfather Tales - Richard Chase