Despite her fame as a rock ’n‘ roll musician, Patti Smith has always described herself as essentially a bookish person. Not surprisingly, it’s an eclectic and fascinating group of books:
- The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Journey to the East
by Hermann Hesse
- The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann Hesse
- Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
- Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
- Billy Budd
by Herman Melville
- Songs of Innocence
by William Blake
- The Wild Boys
by William Burroughs
- Howl
by Allen Ginsberg
- A Season in Hell
by Arthur Rimbaud
- Illuminations
by Arthur Rimbaud
- Wittgenstein’s Poker
by David Edmonds and John Eidinow
- Villette
by Charlotte Bronte
- The Process
by Brion Gysin
- Cain’s Book
by Alexander Trocchi
- Coriolanus
by William Shakespeare
- The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
- The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles
- Against Interpretation
by Susan Sontag
- The Oblivion Seekers by Isabelle Everhardt
- The Women of Cairo
by Gérard de Nerval
- Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- The Book of Disquiet
by Fernando Pessoa
- The Death of Virgil
by Hermann Broch
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
by J.D. Salinger
- Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A Night of Serious Drinking
by René Daumal
- Swann in Love by Marcel Proust
- A Happy Death
by Albert Camus
- The First Man
by Albert Camus
- The Waves
by Virginia Woolf
- Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
- Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
- Anything by W.G. Sebald
- The Thief’s Journal
or anything by Jean Genet
- The Arcades Project
or anything by Walter Benjamin
- Poet in New York by Federico García Lorca
- The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Böll
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard
by Amos Tutuola
- Ice
or anything by Anna Kavan
- The Divine Proportion
by H.E. Huntley
- Nadja
by André Breton
