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Patti Smith's Favourite Books

Everyone knows she loves Rimbaud, but here's a list of her favourite books - most of these she collected for a Q&A session at Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2008, a few are collected from other interviews and statements.
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How many of the favourite books of the queen of punk poetry have you read?

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The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
1
Mikhail Bulgakov
Journey to the East
Journey to the East
2
The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse)
The Glass Bead Game
3
Hermann Hesse
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
4
Joseph Conrad
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
5
Herman Melville
Billy Budd (Herman Melville)
Billy Budd
6
Herman Melville
Songs of Innocence
Songs of Innocence
7
The Wild Boys
The Wild Boys
8
Howl (Allen Ginsberg)
Howl
9
Allen Ginsberg
A Season in Hell
A Season in Hell
10
Illuminations
Illuminations
11
Wittgenstein's Poker
Wittgenstein's Poker
12
Villette (Charlotte Brontë)
Villette
13
Charlotte Brontë
The Process
The Process
14
Cain's Book
Cain's Book
15
Coriolanus
Coriolanus
16
The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince
17
The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles)
The Sheltering Sky
18
Paul Bowles
Against Interpretation
Against Interpretation
19
The Oblivion Seekers
The Oblivion Seekers
20
Voyage to the Orient
Voyage to the Orient
21
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano
22
Malcolm Lowry
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
23
Nikolai Gogol
The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
The Book of Disquiet
24
Fernando Pessoa
The Death of Virgil (Hermann Broch)
The Death of Virgil
25
Hermann Broch
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
26
Franny and Zooey (J.D. Salinger)
Franny and Zooey
27
J.D. Salinger
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
28
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Night of Serious Drinking
A Night of Serious Drinking
29
Swann in Love
Swann in Love
30
A Happy Death
A Happy Death
31
The First Man
The First Man
32
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves
33
Virginia Woolf
Big Sur
Big Sur
34
Anything by H. P. Lovecraft
Anything by H. P. Lovecraft
35
Anything by W. G. Sebald
Anything by W. G. Sebald
36
The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal
37
The Arcades Project
The Arcades Project
38
A Poet in New York
A Poet in New York
39
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Heinrich Böll)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
40
Heinrich Böll
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