Patti Smith’s favourite books

“The Master & Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov “ and “Journey To The East” by Hermann Hesse  and “The Glass Bead Game” by Hermann Hesse and  “Heart Of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad and  “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville and  “Billy Budd” by Herman Melville and  “Songs Of Innocence” by William Blake and  “The Wild Boys” by William Burroughs and  “Howl” by Allen Ginsburg “ and “A Season In Hell” by Arthur Rimbaud  and “Illuminations” by Arthur Rimbaud and  “Wittgenstein’s Poker” by David Edmonds & John Eidinow and  “Villette” by Charlotte Bronte and  “The Process” by Brion Gysin and  “Cain’s Book” by Alexander Trocchi and  “Coriolanus” by William Shakespeare and  “The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde and  “The Sheltering Sky” by Paul Bowles and  “Against Interpretation” by Susan Sontag and  “The Oblivion Seekers” by Isabelle Eberhardt and  “Women Of Cairo” by Gerard de Nerval and “Under The Volcano” by Malcom Lowery and  “Dead Souls” by Nikolai Gogol  and “The Book Of Disquiet” by Fernando Pessoa and  “Death Of Virgil” by Herman Broch and  “Raise High The Roof Beams Carpenter/ Franny & Zooey” by J.D. Salinger and  “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and  “A Night Of Serious Drinking” by Rene Daumal  and “Swann In Love” by Marcel Proust  and “A Happy Death” by Albert Camus and  “The First Man” by Albert Camus and  “The Waves” by Virginia Woolf and  “Big Sur” by Jack Kerouac and  anything by H.P. Lovecraft  and anything by W.G. Sebald and  “The Thief’s Journal” or anything by Jean Genet and  “The Arcades Project” or anything by Walter Benjamin  and “A Poet In New York” by Garcia Lorca and  “The Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum” by Heinrich Boll and  “The Palm Wine Drinkard” by Amos Tutuola and  “Ice” by Anna Kavan (or anything by her)  and “The Divine Proportion” by H.E. Huntley and  “Nadja” by Andre Breton.