Gain of Fiction Reading List (Season 2)

by Glen Rockney

As I wrap up Season One of Gain of Fiction, I figure I may as well give the bros some time to get a head start on the Season Two GoF subjects. I’m going with a smaller list since I ended up changing the last one once a month, it seems. The order of the books we cover may change due to scheduling and other factors, but anyways, here’s the list.

Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
Sharp Objects (Gillian Flynn)
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
Eaters Of The Dead (Michael Crichton)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
Wise Blood (Flannery O’Connor)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy O’ Toole)
Vineland (Thomas Pynchon)
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (Richard Fariña)
Oil! (Upton Sinclair)
Ask The Dust (John Fante)
Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Shadow Ticket (Thomas Pynchon)
Hellraiser (Clive Barker)
Song of Kali (Dan Simmons)
The Moon is A Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein)
The 3 Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich (Philip K Dick)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Hubert Selby)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
Crash (JG Ballard)
Stoner (John Williams)
The Black Dahlia (James Ellroy)
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (William Makepeace Thackery)
Platform (Michel Houellebecq)
The Catcher In The Rye (JD Salinger)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
2666 (Roberto Bolano)
Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

Special Projects:
Gravity’s Rainbow Series
Ulysses Series
John Cheever Short Stories
We are so Houelleback

Also, Psi made an archive of Season 1 episodes that can be found here