Here is the list of books that will officially induce
mindfucks, sorted alphabetically by author. Those authors in
bold have been recommended by one or more people as being generally mindfucking - any books listed under their names are
particularly odd. You're welcome to /msg me to make an addition to this list.
And finally, although he's way down at the bottom, my personal recommendation is definitely Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as it turns the ultimate mindfuck: inverting the world-view of our entire culture, and it is non-fiction.
- Adams, Douglas
- Richard Adams
- Alighieri, Dante
- Allende, Isobel
- Asimov, Isaac
- Atwood, Margaret
- Ayliffe, John Stephen
- Banks, Iain or Banks, Iain M.
- Bantok, Nick
- Barth, John
- Bear, Greg
- Bester, Alfred
- Bey, Hakim
- Block, Francesca Lia
- Boethius
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Bradbury, Ray
- Bryant, Dorothy
- Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Burgess, Anthony
- Burroughs, William S.
- Camus, Albert
- Capote, Truman
- Card, Orson Scott
- Carpenter, Edmund Snow
- Carroll, Lewis
- Carroll, Peter
- Casares, Adolfo Bioy
- Castaneda, Carlos
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Chase, Truddi
- Chayefsky, Paddy
- Chuang Chou
- Clark, Arthur C.
- Cortázar, Julio
- Coupland, Douglas
- Danielewski, Mark
- Dawkins, Richard
- DeLillo, Don
- Dick, Philip K.
- Dickens, Charles
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Eco, Umberto
- Efsandiary, F.M.
- Egan, Greg
- Eliot, T.S.
- Ellis, Bret Easton
- Ellis, Edward Robb
- Ende, Michael
- Euclid
- Farmer, Philip Jose
- Faulkner, William
- Feinberg, Leslie
- Foucault, Michel
- Fowles, John
- Freud, Sigmund
- Gaarder, Jostein
- Gardner, Laurence
- Gaiman, Neil
- Genet, Jean
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Gibson, William
- Gleick, James
- Gray, Alasdair
- Gogol, Nikolai
- Golding, William
- Grimwood, Ken
- Gurdjieff, G. I.
- Halperin, James L.
- Hand, Elizabeth
- Heinlein, Robert A.
- Heller, Joseph
- Herbert, Frank
- Hermans, W.F.
- Herr, Michael
- Hesse, Herman
- Hofstadter, Douglas
- Hugo, Victor
- Huxley, Aldous
- Ibsen, Henrik
- Irving, John
- Jotce, Graham
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Kaku, Michio
- Kerouac, Jack
- Kesey, Ken}
- Keyes, J. Gregory
- Kidder, Tracy
- King, Stephen
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Knowles, John
- Land, Jon
- Kosinski, Jerry
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Leary, Timothy
- Lee, Tanith
- Lem, Stanislaw
- Lewis, C.S.
- Leyner, Mark
- Lilly, John C.
- Llewellyn, Grace
- Longyear, Barry B.
- Mailer, Norman
- Mandela, Nelson
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
- Mayle, Peter
- McKenna, Terence
- Miller, Arthur
- Miller, Henry
- Milton, John
- More, Thomas
- Morrison, Tony
- Murakami, Haruki
- Musashi, Miyamoto
- Musil, Robert
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Neville, Katherine
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Noon, Jeff
- Nørretranders, Tor
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- O'Brien, Flann
- O'Brien, Timothy
- Orwell, George
- Paglia, Camille
- Palahniuk, Chuck
- Perec, Georges
- Plath, Sylvia
- Pirsig, Robert
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Quinn, Daniel
- Rand, Ayn
- Rhinehart, Luke
- Rooney, Andy
- Rosen, Robert
- Ross, John
- Roy, Arundhati
- Rucker, Rudy
- Rushkoff, David
- Sacks, Oliver
- Sagan, Carl
- Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
- Salinger, J. D.
- Saramago, Jose
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Shakespeare, William
- Shelley, Mary
- Shem, Samuel
- Shepard, Lucius
- Simmons, Dan
- St. Augustine
- Stapledon, Olaf
- Stein, Gertrude
- Stephenson, Neal
- Süskind, Patrick
- Tan, Amy
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Thompson, Hunter S.
- Thurber, James
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Twain, Mark
- Ullman, Ellen
- Various
- Vian, Boris
- Vinge, Vernor
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Wallace, David Foster
- Irvine Welsh
- Walsh, Lawrence E.
- Watts, Alan
- Wilbur, Ken
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wilder, Thornton
- Wilson, Robert Anton
- Wolfe, Gene
- Woolf, Virginia
- Wright, Robert
- Yogananda, Paramahansa
- Yourcenar, Marguerite
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, Zamyatin, Yevgeny
- Zinn, Howard
- Zukav, Gary