Favorite Science Fiction
A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M Miller
The Sentimental Agents, Doris Lessing
Triton, Samuel Delany
Friday, Robert A Heinlein (my favorite of his, I think)
Fool Narratives
Simplicissimus, Johannes Grimmelshausen
Tristram Shandy, Lawrence Sterne
Proletarian Novels
This is the list as best I can remember it, drawn from volume 1 of Zines, by Vicki Vale, and published by RE/Search.
Hunger, Knut Hamsun
The Man With the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
Waiting for Nothing, Tom Kromer
Jews Without Money, Michael Gold
The Iron Heel, Jack London (Unread, as of yet)
The Middle of the Journey, Lionel Trilling (UR)
The Disinherited, Jack Conroy (UR)
Germinal, Emile Zola (UR)
Lonely Crusade, Chester Himes (UR)
Some Call it Sleep, Henry Roth (UR)
Politics and Satire
Guy Debord, Anselm Jappe
Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault
The Terrible Twos, Ishmael Reed
Gangland; cultural elites and the new generationalism, Mark Davis
The Morning After, Katie Roiphe
More Good Ones
The Sorrow of War, Bao Ninh
A Personal Matter, Kenzaburo Oe (pronounced "oh-way")
Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham (read & compare to Hunger)
The Thief and the Dogs, Naguib Mahfouz
Enemies, Isaac Bashevis Singer
Books I've read by Djuna Barnes:
Nightwood
Spillway, a collection of short stories.
Ryder
The Ladies' Almanack
Books I've read by VS Naipaul:
A Bend in the River (read & compare to Heart of Darkness)
Mimic Men
A Place of Darkness
Among the Believers
Guerillas (not for weak stomachs)
Novels of Singapore
(This list is in progress)
The Bondmaid, Catherine Lim
Foreign Bodies, Hwee Hwee Tan