Cult fiction

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Cult fiction is a term used to denote literature that has attracted a cult following.

Books that tend to attract a cult following include banned books, transgressive fiction, controversial books, erotic literature and genre fiction.

[edit] Bibliography

• Cult Fiction: A Reader's Guide (1998) - Andrew Calcutt
• Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory (1998) - Clive Bloom
• Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature (1992) - Thomas Reed Whissen
• The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction (2005) - Michaela Bushell, Helen Rodiss, Paul Simpson

[edit] Examples of cult books

• Anti-Œdipus (Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari)
• Atomised (Michel Houellebecq)
• The Atrocity Exhibition (J. G. Ballard)
• The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
• Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
• The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
• A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
• The Dice Man (Luke Rhinehart)
• Dispatches (Michael Herr)
• The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley)
• Dune (Frank Herbert)
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe)
• Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
• The Female Eunuch (Germaine Greer)
• Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
• Food of the Gods (Terence McKenna)
• The Function of the Orgasm (Wilhelm Reich)
• Gaia (James Lovelock)
• Gödel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)
• The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea)
• Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
• Laws of Form (G. Spencer-Brown)
• Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain-Fournier)
• Less Than Zero (Brett Easton Ellis)
• The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
• Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
• Neuromancer (William Gibson)
• One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
• On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
• The Outsider (Albert Camus)
• Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
• Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
• The Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger)
• The Story of the Eye (Georges Bataille)
• Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
• The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (Carlos Castaneda)
• Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
• Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan)
• The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks)
• White Noise (Don DeLillo)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)