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102. “Before Night Falls” by Renaldo Arenas
103. “The Handmaiden’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
104. “Naked” by Dave Sedaris

86. The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
87. Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno
88. Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
89. Sula by Toni Morrison
90. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
91. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenburg
92. On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
93. The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
94. Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins
95. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
96. What is Tao? by Alan Watts
97. Become What you Are by Alan Watts
98. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
99. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
100. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
101. Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg

73. Sex, Drugs, Einstein, & Elves by Clifford Pickover
74. The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby
75. The Yage Letters by William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
76. The True History of Chocolate by Sophie and Michael Coe
77. The Ibogaine Story by Paul de Rienzo and Dana Beal
78. Ecstasy Club by Douglas Rushkoff
79. Verses That Hurt : Pleasure and Pain from the POEMFONE Poets
80. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
81. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
82. Love by Toni Morrison
83. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
84. Best Sex Writing 2005
85. Burning Chrome by William Gibson

61. Synchronicity by C.G. Jung
62. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
63. The Function of the Orgasm by Wilhelm Reich
64. Become What You Are by Alan Watts
65. The Holotropic Mind by Stanislov Grof
66. The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
67. Sex in History by Reay Tannahill
68. No Logo by Naomi Klein
69. Magick: Book 4 Parts I-IV by Aleister Crowley
70. The Tibetan Book of the Dead
71. Al-Qur’an
72. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
73. I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury
74. The Universe in a Nutshell

49. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
50. Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
51. The Quantum and the Lotus by Ricard & Thuan
52. The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
53. The Invisible Landscape by Dennis McKenna and Terence McKenna
54. Beezlebub’s Tales to His Grandson by G.I. Gurdjieff
55. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
56. The Temptation to Exist by E.M. Cioran
57. Do Androids Dreams of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
58. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (note: i didn’t actually read this…but i watched the entire Nova special on it over the span of 2 days and feel like i know as much as i can on string theory and mulitple dimensions and quantum mechanics)
59. The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner
60. A Brief History of Time

41. The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry by Alan Kauffman (editor)
42. The Outlaw Bible of American Literature by Alan Kauffman et al (editors)
43. The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
44. The Universe in a Single Atom by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
45. Eleven Minutes by Paulo Cohello
46. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Cohello
47. Me Talk Pretty One Day by Dave Sedaris
48. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcom Gladwell

26. Confessions by St. Augustine
27. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
28. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
29. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
30. Mushrooms Demystified by David Arora
31. Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
32. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
34. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
35. The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
36. The Satanic Verses by Salmon Rushdie
37. The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
38. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
39. Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
40. Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution by Kevin Booth

15. The Metaphysics of Death by John Martin Fischer
16. Be Here Now by Ram Dass
17. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
18. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
19. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
20. Ulysses by James Joyce
21. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
22. Beloved by Toni Morrison
23. DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor’s Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences by Rick Strassman
24. Sex and Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits by Robert Anton Wilson
25. Moonchild by Aleister Crowley

1. Pale Fire by Nabokov
2. Zen and the Art of Motrocycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
3. Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
4. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
5. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
6. Rosencrantz and Guildensterin Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
7. Faust by Goethe
8. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
9. A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda
10. Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
11. House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
12. Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
13. Drawing Down the Moon : Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today by Margaret Alder
14. Santeria: The Religion by Migene Gonzales Wippler

i plan on starting a separate reality today…woo hoo!