 | Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants
Buy used from: $8.77 nothing like it except some pale imitations, transcendent
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 | Odyshape by The Raincoats
Buy used from: $18.96 out there
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 | You Think You Really Know Me by Gary Wilson
Buy used from: $7.99 6.4 = make out, utter genius
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 | Neu! by Neu!
Buy used from: $5.92 |
 | Neu! 2 by Neu!
Buy used from: $4.97 these two albums create one of the truly amazing musical documents
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 | The Night of the Hunter
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $10.99 impossible to articulate the impact this movie has had on me
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 | Zeno's Conscience: A Novel by Italo Svevo
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.40 some sentences in here make me weep, great writing, really nothing else like it
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 | Hunger: A Novel by Knut Hamsun
Buy used from: $4.25 one of my favorite writers, a total original
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 | Quincas Borba (Library of Latin America) by Joaquim Machado de Assis
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $0.69 another of my absolute favorites, no one writes like this guy
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 | Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series) by Julio Cortazar
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.25 a must-read, read it according to the suggestions at the front
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 | Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Georges Perec
Buy used from: $11.50 perec himself is a total anomaly, one of my heroes
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 | Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.90 so beautiful, calvino really is incredible
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 | Writings of the Vienna Actionists by Brus
Buy used from: $32.70 these guys were and are so necessary for "society", true originals
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 | Cosmos and Pornografia: Two Novels by Witold Gombrowicz
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $5.95 cosmos literally changed my life
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 | Playtime - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $17.76 playtime is still changing my life
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 | Tago Mago by Can
Buy used from: $5.30 wow, an apex of music
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 | The Stranger by Albert Camus
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $2.44 this is on almost every list for a reason, nothing like it
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 | Raymond Roussel by Franois Caradec
Buy used from: $13.98 this guy is the ultimate anomaly, an imagination like no other
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 | Exploits and Opinions of Dr Faustroll Pataphysician by Alfred Jarry
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $11.04 one of the most bracingly original and exciting works i've ever come across
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 | Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont by Comte de Lautréamont
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $10.77 where the hell did this come from? lautreamont is another hero
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 | A Kierkegaard Anthology by Soren Kierkegaard
Buy new: $26.01 / Used from: $9.08 here's another hero and another complete original, inspiring
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 | Ethics Spinoza (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by Benedictus Spinoza
Buy used from: $4.38 ditto
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 | The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel by Rainer Maria Rilke
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $0.96 ditto, what an utterly beautiful person
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 | Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski by Klaus Kinski
Buy used from: $34.99 serious energy, he really lived
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 | William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books by William Blake
Buy new: $29.67 / Used from: $28.11 of course he must be included on this list
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