The results from Disinfo’s reader survey:
1. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
4. The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy), J. R. R. Tolkien
5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
6. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
7. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
8. Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
9. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
10. Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
Non-fiction:
1. Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
2. A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
3. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
4. Cosmic Trigger (Series), Robert Anton Wilson
5. Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
6. Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson
7. The Bible, Various Authors
8. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
9. God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens
10. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
July 23, 2008 at 2:53 pm
1984? lol
July 23, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I have to say that I was kind of depressed by the list I just read.
July 23, 2008 at 6:07 pm
The Lord of the Rings??? lol
July 23, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Agreed, a very depressing list. No Philip K. Dick, William Burroughs or J.G. Ballard???
July 24, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Where is the Technoccult’s readers top 10?
Haha.
July 24, 2008 at 4:22 pm
That IS a good question.
July 26, 2008 at 10:07 am
Make up your minds jack-offs… is the Tao Te Ching fiction or non-fiction? I don’t know if i could be less surprised by this list, except maybe by Walden. It’s good to see people still like to read 200 pages of “man grows lame-ass potatoes”. I guess.