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This listmaking is too compulsive. So let's get it all out at once.

If I were to write an essay on the prose books published by North American
writers of English in the past 50 years that have influenced me the most,
these are probably the volumes I'd talk about:

The Secret War Against the Jews--David Aaron and John Loftus

Down the River--Ed Abbey
The Monkey Wrench Gang--Abbey
Fool's Progress--Abbey

Inside the Company--Phillip Agee

Eichmann In Jerusalem--Hannah Arendt

Cat's Eye--Margaret Atwood
Wilderness Days--Atwood

The Sot-Weed Factor--John Barth
Lost in the Funhouse--Barth

Life Against Death--Norman O. Brown

Naked Lunch--William Burroughs

Silent Spring--Rachel Carson

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love--Raymond Carver
Cathedral--Carver

Deterring Democracy--Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing Consent--Chomsky

The Golden Age Is In Us--Alexander Cockburn
Corruptions of Empire--Cockburn

A Public Burning--Robert Coover
Spanking the Maid--Coover

A Feast of Snakes--Harry Crews
Karate is A Thing of the Spirit--Crews
The Gospel Singer--Crews

Dancing Bear--James Crumley
The Last Good Kiss--Crumley

City of Quartz--Mike Davis

Miles: an autobiography--Miles Davis

Great Jones Street--Don Delillo
Running Dog--Delillo
The Names--Delillo

Welcome To Hard Times--EL Doctorow
Ragtime--Doctorow

Invisible Man--Ralph Ellison

Been Down So Long It Looked Like Up to Me--Richard Farina

A Fire on the Lake--Francis Fitzgerald

JR--William Gaddis
The Recognitions--Gaddis

Neuromancer--William Gibson

Ray--Barry Hannah
Airships--B. Hannah

Catch 22--Joseph Heller
Something Happened--Joseph Heller

Henry Kissinger: The Price of Power--Seymore Hersh
The My Lai Massacre--Hersh

Dispatches--Michael Herr

Tourist Season--Carl Hiaason

Steal This Book--Abbie Hoffman

The Middle Passage--Charles Johnson

I Lost It At the Movies--Pauline Kael

On the Road--Jack Kerouac
Dharma Bums--Kerouac

Sometimes A Great Notion--Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest--Kesey
Demon Box--Kesey

Hole in the Sky--William Kittredge
Owning It All--Kittredge

The Thirty Years War--Andrew Kopkind

The Nazi Doctors--Robert J. Lifton

A Legacy of Conquest--Patricia Nelson Limmerick

Eros and Civilization--Herbert Marcuse
One Dimensional Man--Marcuse

Almanac of the Dead--Leslie Marmon Silko

Blood Meridian--Cormac McCarthy
Outer Dark--McCarthy
Suttree--McCarthy

The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence--Victor Marchetti and John Marks

The Snow Leopard--Peter Matthiessen
Far Tortuga--Matthiessen
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse--Matthiessen
Killing Mr. Watson--Matthiessen
Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the CA. Farmworkers--Matthiessen

Jazz--Toni Morrison
Beloved--Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon--Morrison

Halo--Tom Maddox

Armies of the Night--Mailer
Advertisements for Myself--Mailer
American Dream--Mailer
The Deer Park--Mailer
Why Are We In Vietnam?--Mailer
The Executioner's Song--Mailer

The Autobiography of Malcom X--Malcom X

The New Mexico Trilogy--John Nichols

Machine Dreams--Jayne Anne Phillips

The Bell Jar--Sylvia Plath

V.--Pynch
GR--Pynch
CoL49--Pynch

Them--Joyce Carol Oates
The Rise of Life on Earth--JC Oates

Going After Caccioto--Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried--O'Brien

Everything That Rises Must Converge--Flannery O'Connor

Reaonable Creatures--Katha Pollit

Yellowback Radio Broke Down--Ishmael Reed
Last Days of Louisiana Red--Reed
Mumbo Jumbo--Reed

Cadillac Desert--Marc Reisner

Solo Faces--James Salter
A Sport and A Pastime--Salter
Light Years--Salter

The American Cinema--Andrew Sarris

Gothic Politics in the Deep South--Robert Sherril
Oil Follies--Sherril

A Bright Shinning Lie--Neil Sheehan

Blowback--Christopher Simpson
The Splendid Blond Beast--Simpson

A Practice of the Wild--Gary Snyder

Beyond the Hundreth Meridian--Wallace Stegner

Islands in the Net--Bruce Sterling

The Secret History of the Korean War--IF Stone
The Death of Socrates--Stone
Prophecies and Polemics--Stone

Dog Soldiers--Robert Stone
A Flag for Sunrise--Stone

Hell's Angels--Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail--Thompson
F&L in Vegas--Thompson

Mississippi Notebook--Nicholas Von Hoffman
Left at the Post--Nicholas Von Hoffman

Cat's Cradle--Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse 5-Vonnegut

Refuge--Terry Tempest Williams

Black Sun--Geoffrey Wolfe
Duke of Dececption--Geoffrey Wolfe

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs--Tobias Wolfe

All the President's Men--Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

River's of Empire--Donald Worster
Under Western Skies--Worster

Native Son--Richard Wright

A People's History of the United States--Howard Zinn
You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train--Zinn

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