 | Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics) by Francois Rabelais
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $5.50 The granddaddy of all literary big drinkers. Even today the best beer in the world is brewed by northern European monks (rhymes with 'drunks'!) like Rabelais.
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![The Poems of Dylan Thomas, New Revised Edition [with CD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AMEM94MZL._SL75_.jpg) | The Poems of Dylan Thomas, New Revised Edition [with CD] by Dylan Thomas
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $18.95 The twentieth century's world champion poetic boozer--and one of its best poets, too.
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 | Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.11 Marlowe was once quoted as saying he wouldn't trust any man who didn't love "sack and boys". ('Sack' was an Elizabethan word for white wine imported from Spain.) Marlowe also loved boys in the sack, but that's another story...
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 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.97 According to Hem, Scott couldn't hold his liquor, but he held his pen beautifully.
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 | The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.45 The signature Hemingway novel, full of booze, bullfighting and bulls**t.
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 | Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.69 After winning the Nobel, Faulkner became more of a drinker than a writer. This may be his last truly great book.
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 | Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.20 Carver was one of American literature's sadder alcoholics, but at least he got some good stories out of his addicted years.
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 | Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by James Joyce
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $5.38 Joyce was drunk on language, the loveliest intoxication of all.
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 | Above the River: The Complete Poems by James Wright
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $5.75 A twentieth-century American poet who deserves to be much better known. He also occasionally overindulged in the great Arabian elixir, al-Cohol.
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 | The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History by Norman Mailer
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.60 Norman takes a sharp, ironic look at his own bad self in this highly personal account of the 1967 March on the Pentagon.
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 | The Last Night of the Earth Poems by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $8.00 Bukowski is okay, but too many people confuse his bulls**t with authenticity, something the man himself probably never did.
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (Modern Library) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $3.12 For god's sake, stay away from the ether!
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 | Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.) by Malcolm Lowry
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $6.50 Many readers consider this book one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. I think it's the overwritten ruin of a great novel, but it is undeniably beautiful.
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