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The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction

10 best books like The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction (Paul Simpson): Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read, The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read, The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World, Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life, A Window on the Universe, Grammars of Creation, The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Why Not Catch-21?: The Stories Behind the Titles, Principles of Literary Criticism

Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read
AuthorHoward Mittelmark
ISBN0061856037
Read This Next is a guide to more than 500 great books, many of which you have not yet read. (On average, 481.) After you have read even one of these books, you will be amazed you survived without it this long. Multiply that by 481, and you get a lifetime of value for just $14.99 or even more value if you don’t...
The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
AuthorStuart Kelly
ISBN1400062977
In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books...
The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
AuthorThomas M. Disch
ISBN0684859785
From one of science fiction's most acclaimed novelists comes this engrossing journey through the books, movies, and television programs that have shaped our perspective of both the present and the future. In an uncompromising, often irreverent survey of the genre from Edgar Allan Poe to Philip K....
Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
AuthorMichael Dirda
ISBN0805083383
"As warm and stimulating as a library to which one returns again and again."
—Chicago Tribune (Editor's Choice)

While books contain insights into our selves and the world, it takes a conversation—between the author and the reader, or between two readers—to bring them fully to...
A Window on the Universe
AuthorJennifer Bassett
ISBN0194226948
What does the future hold in store for the human race? Aliens from distant galaxies, telepathic horror, interstellar war, time-warps, the shriek of a rose, collision with an asteroid - the unknown lies around every corner, and the universe is a big place. These nine science-fiction stories offer possibilities...
Grammars of Creation
AuthorGeorge Steiner
ISBN0300088639
"We have no more beginnings", George Steiner begins in this, his most radical book to date. A far-reaching exploration of the idea of creation in Western thought, literature, religion, and history, this volume can fairly be called a magnum opus. He reflects on the different ways we have of talking about...
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
AuthorMargaret Drabble
ISBN0198614535
The first edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, edited by Sir Paul Harvey, was published in 1932, and quickly established itself as the standard source of reference for scholars, students, and general readers alike. In 1985, under the editorship of Margaret Drabble, the text was...
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
AuthorKathleen Kuiper
ISBN0877790426
To say that I've "read" it is a bit misleading since it's an encyclopedia, but I've had this reference book for many years and it's well-worn with affection. I love literature, but I also have a goofy passion for encyclopedic books.

This literary encyclopedia is kind of old, published in 1995,...
Why Not Catch-21?: The Stories Behind the Titles
AuthorGary Dexter
ISBN0711227969
Each of its 50 chapters focuses on the origins of one of the great titles of world literature, presenting a bite-sized piece of literary history, with fascinating details of the work's genesis and composition. The emphasis is on titles that are literally inexplicable without this background knowledge....
Principles of Literary Criticism
AuthorIvor A. Richards
ISBN0415254027
To us, Richards was infinitely more than a brilliantly new literary critic: he was our guide, our evangelist who revealed to us, in a succession of astounding lightning flashes, the entire expanse of the Modern World: Christopher Isherwood Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern...
Great Books for Every Book Lover: 2002 Great Reading Suggestions for the Discriminating Bibliophile
AuthorThomas J. Craughwell
Can't decide what to read? Imagine a list of the greatest books described in concise, insightful and witty profiles to browse in search of the next perfect read. 2002 Great Books for Every Book Lover offers all this and more, reviewing each book with the wit and wisdom of a seasoned book critic in this unique...
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
AuthorA.S. Byatt
From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, and many others, The Oxford Book of English Short Stories exhibits the capacious and often capricious...
Defining Moments in Books: The Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events That Shook the Literary World
AuthorLucy Daniel
ISBN1844036057
Written and selected by a range of international writers, academics, and critics, here’s an instantly accessible and intelligent look at literary history and criticism over the past century. From key novels to memorable protagonists, admired authors to pivotal books both banned and beloved,...
The Oxford Companion to the Bible
AuthorBruce M. Metzger
ISBN0195046455
The Bible has had an immeasurable influence on Western culture, touching on virtually every aspect of our lives. It is one of the great wellsprings of Western religious, ethical, and philosophical traditions. It has been an endless source of inspiration to artists, from classic works such as Michaelangelo's...
The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986
AuthorJorge Luis Borges
ISBN0141183020
Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In The Total Library, more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time...
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
AuthorWilliam Goldbloom Bloch
ISBN0195334574
"The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within...
Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
AuthorAnn Charters
Literature is a conversation — between writers and other writers, and between writers and readers. In Literature and Its Writers, Ann and Samuel Charters complement a rich and varied selection of stories, poems, and plays with an unparalleled array of commentaries about that literature by the...
The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage
AuthorKingsley Amis
ISBN0312206577
A Parthian shot from one of the most important figures in post-war British fiction, The King's English is the late Kingsley Amis's last word on the state of the language. More frolicsome than Fowler's Modern Usage, lighter than the Oxford English Dictionary, and brimming with the strong opinions and...
The Modern Library : The Two Hundred Best Novels in English Since 1950
AuthorColm Tóibín
ISBN0330341820
This came out in 1999 and so is a neat list of 200 novels from 50 years which is…er, ummm, one moment …. About four per year, roughly. I think.

Of these 200 I have read a mere 58 and of those 58 only 17 were out-and-out ghastly (Earthly Powers, Housekeeping, Last Orders etc) so that’s a reasonable...
The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors
AuthorLaura Miller
Since it began in 1995, Salon.com has been showered with awards and praise. Now, its 150,000 devoted readers can devour The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors -- an all-original, A-to-Z guide to 225 of the most fascinating writers of our time, penned by an international cast of talented...
The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
AuthorJames Wood
ISBN0312424604
"James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick

Following the collection The Broken Estate--which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation--The Irresponsible Self confirms...
Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds
AuthorMelissa Katsoulis
ISBN1602397945
The ultimate reader’s-guide to the works that fooled publishers, readers, and critics the world over. When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400 BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic “Heraclides is ignorant of letters”) to humiliate an academic rival, he paved the way for two...
Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005
AuthorPhil Baines
ISBN0141024232
"Ever-since the creation of the first Penguin paperbacks in 1935, their jackets have become a constantly evolving part of Britain's culture and design history." By looking back at seventy years of Penguin paperbacks, Phil Baines charts the development of British publishing, book-cover design...
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
AuthorNicholson Baker
ISBN0375726217
The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country's libraries—including the Library of Congress—have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult...
Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
AuthorJohn Sutherland
ISBN0300179472
No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers...
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