Books that filled the hole for Gantos

•Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

•Peter Pan by James M. Barrie

•Artificial Paradises by Charles Baudelaire

•An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

•This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski

•The Delicate Prey by Paul Bowles

•On the Yard by Malcolm Braly

•Naked Lunch by William S.Burroughs

•Papillon by Henri Charrière

•Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

•The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

•Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

•The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

•The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

•The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet

•The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

•The Odyssey by Homer

•On the Road by Jack Kerouac

•One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

•Martin Eden by Jack London

•Billy Budd by Herman Melville

•Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James N. Hall

•The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

•Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

•Seven Long Times by Piri Thomas

•The Car Thief by Theodore Weesner

•The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

•A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

•Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

•Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates