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Henry Rollins's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 32 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

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Favorite books (2021)

Favorite books recommended by Henry Rollins, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/henry-rollins-favorite-books/.

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The Great War for Civilization
Robert Fisk · Buy on Amazon
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck (also rec’d by Bob Dylan , Bruce Springsteen , Nelson Mandela , Ray Bradbury & Tom Wolfe ) · Buy on Amazon
"One day, I just picked it up and started reading it. Guys at school didn’t believe I was really reading it but I was. I found it hard to put down."
Black Spring
Henry Miller · Buy on Amazon
"There is a lot of life in that book. He allowed me to think that writing was possible for me. I wish I read him a few years earlier than I did."
Imperium
Ryszard Kapuscinski · Buy on Amazon
"One of the best books ever written…One line of Kapuscinski is worth ten of anyone else’s."
Shot In The Heart
Mikal Gilmore · Buy on Amazon
"I don’t really have friends or family but there are some people I keep in touch with and have recommended it to them as well as people if they ask me to recommend a great book. Mikal is an amazing writer."
Ask the Dust
John Fante · Buy on Amazon
"I recommend Ask the Dust by John Fante to young people. That’s a perfect piece of work."
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust (also rec’d by Marina Abramovic ) · Buy on Amazon
"Before I die, I am hell bent on getting all the way through In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust . That’s literature I will make time for."
Swann’s Way
Marcel Proust (also rec’d by Carrie Fisher ) · Buy on Amazon
"I have been dragging the Lydia Davis translation of Swann’s Way around with me for a long time, reading it now and then. Incredible."
The Speed Of Sound
Thomas Dolby · Buy on Amazon
"I thought it was a great read. Smart guy and a good writer with a great story."
Selected Speeches and Writings
Abraham Lincoln · Buy on Amazon
Letters From the Earth
Mark Twain · Buy on Amazon
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald (also rec’d by Cate Blanchett ) · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Mysteries
Mysteries
Knut Hamsun · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Steve Coll · 2004 · Buy on Amazon
The Sorrows of Empire
Chalmers Johnson · Buy on Amazon
United States: Essays 1952-1992
Gore Vidal · Buy on Amazon
The Castle
Franz Kafka · Buy on Amazon
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche · Buy on Amazon
"The Kauffmann translation wowed me in my early 20’s."
Maldoror and Poems
Comte Lautreamont · Buy on Amazon
Howl
Allen Ginsberg (also rec’d by Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison , John Lennon & Patti Smith ) · Buy on Amazon
Of Time and the Rive r
Thomas Wolfe · Buy on Amazon
Paris Spleen
Charles Baudelaire · Buy on Amazon
The Fiery Trial
Eric Foner · Buy on Amazon
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote (also rec’d by David Bowie , Henry Rollins & Philip Seymour Hoffman ) · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Platform
Platform
Michel Houellebecq · Buy on Amazon
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
A Scott Berg · Buy on Amazon
Somebody In Boots
Nelson Algren · Buy on Amazon
The Fall
Albert Camus · Buy on Amazon
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander (also rec’d by J. Cole ) · Buy on Amazon

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