The Bridge Across Forever........a personal favorite because of uncanny connections with the characters. Great motivation for potential literary giants. A beautiful love story. And, all probably true......by Richard Bach
The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings........when I very first went detouring, I added the weight of these to my bursting pack. Slowly read them over 6 months. The combination of the read and hitch-hiking, is very special, spiritual. It's the only fictional world that I really believe exists - and now being made into a film by Kiwi director Peter Jackson, which guarantees it will be good.........by J.R.R Tolkien
No-One Gets Out Of Here Alive.......Jim! Jim! Jim Morrison! If you can hum a tune of his or two, have seen the movie, get this book. Go hang out on a sea cliff, get drunk with fisherman at night, read this by day (when I read it I was locked in a caravan, on my honeymoon, I was loving Jim more than my bride). The Human Condition personified......by ...........( can't remember)
Franky Furbo.......from the same genius of Birdy. Could be a kiddies book about magic foxes, and fox-love and fox-cuddles. Could be about the horrors of war. Could be about an old man re-assessing his life. Is a book that gives dimensional paranoia a beautiful twist.......by William Wharton
Weaveworld........fantastical. Starts mundane and slowly shows what is behind our facade of reality. Like the Wizard of Oz, but with pus and debauchery. Dares you to walk down yr street and not see things differently. Not as overblown as his later works........by Clive Barker (who told me once he's never touched drugs or alc)
The Monkey Wrench Gang.......totally original. Probably not true, but inspired real action, gave us Earth First!. It's all about the power of the individual to throw a spanner in the works of corporate bullshit. Exciting, sexy, rebellious, smart. An action novel from the voice of trees and deserts.......by Edward Abbey
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test........true story showing one extreme of what happened in the sixties. It's about Ken Kesey, Mountain Girl and Neal Cassidy, it is written by.............by Tom Wolfe
The Road Less Travelled....is one of those millions of self-therapy American number one best-seller books that you rightly shy away from, except for the fact that it's full of absolutely brilliant insights, best read in troubled emotional times, it actually helped me leave my wife.......by M. Scott Peck
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus....the other of this ilk worth reading, it's constantly in my head that men retreat to their caves whereas chicks just want to talk it over........by John Gray