50 Favorite Cult Books

From Hunter to Ayn, the Telegraph lists books you can 'wear like a leather jacket'
By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff
Posted Apr 27, 2008 10:53 AM CDT
50 Favorite Cult Books
Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" made the Telegraph's list of 50 best cult books.   (AP Photo)

It’s hard to define the "cult" book, but the Telegraph compiled 50 of the top contenders that “rewire your head.”

  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (1968)
  • Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock (1946)
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922)
  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (1971)
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig (1974)
  • The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1951)
  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
  • On The Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
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