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Any Manics fan would know that the band are very interested and influenced by literature. Since the early days, they have quoted authors such as Guy Debord, Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Under is a list of books which in some way have influenced the Manics, especially Richey.

If you have anything to add, please let me know.
















Ageyev, M.: Novel With Cocaine

Arden, John: Workhouse Donkey

Bach, Richard: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Baldwin, James: The Fire Nextime, Another Country

Ballard, J.G.: The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash

Behan, Brendan: Borstal Boy

Brodkey, Harold: The Runaway Soul

Burchill, Julie & Parsons, T: The Boy Looked At Johnny

Camus, Albert: The Myth of Sysiphus, The Fall, The Plague, The Outsider

Chomsky, Noam: What Uncle Sam Really Wants, Deterring Democracy

Cohn, Nik: Awopbopaloobop Alopbaboom, Balls To The Wall

Coleman, Ray: Lennon

Cooper, Dennis: Frisk

Dante: The Divine Comedy

Dazai, Osamu: No Longer Human

Dostoyevsky, Fjodor: Notes From The Underground

Dworkin, Andrea: Mercy

Elliot, T.S.: Wasteland

Ellis, Brett Easton: Less Than Zero, American Psycho

Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man

Eugenides, Jeff: The Virgin Suicides

Felsted, Richard: No Other Way; Jack Russia & The Spanish Civil War

Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Foucalt, Michael: Discipline & Punish

Genet, Jean: Miracle of The Rose

Golding, William: The Lord Of The Flies, The Inheritors, Elvis Last Hours

Harrison, T.: V

Hinton, S.E.: Rumble Fish, The Outsiders

Hotchner, A.E.: Blown Away

Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World

Ibuse, Masuli: Black Rain

Jackson, Alan: The Lost Soul

Kafka, Franz: The Trial, Metamorphis

Kerouac, Jack: Big Sur, Desolation Angels

Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

Kropotkin, Alexander: The Life & Times of an Antichrist

Lahr, John: Prick Up Your Ears

Laing, R.D.: Knots

Larkin, Phillip: High Windows

Lowry, Malcolm: Under The Volcano

Marcus, Greil: Mystery Train, Lipstick Traces

Milton, John: Paradise Lost

Mirbeau, Octave: The Torture Garden

Mishima, Yukio: Thirst For Love

Murray, C.S.: Crosstown Traffic

Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita

Orwell, George: Animal Farm, 1984, Homage to Catalonia
 
Outwaite, Paul: Automatic Living

Palth, Sylvia: Winter Trees, The Bell Jar

Rhinehart, Luke: Diceman

Rimbaud, Arthur: A Season In Hell

Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye

Schneider, Peter: Couplings

Selby Jnr, Hubert: Last Exit To Brooklyn

Sillitoe, Alan: The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner, Saturday Night Sunday Morning

Slater, Philip: The Pursuit of Loneliness

Tanazaki, Junichiro: Naomi

Thomas, Clem: History of The British Lions

Thomas, R.S.: Collected Poems

Tressel, R: The Ragged Trousered Philantropist

Warner, Alan: The Sopranos

Welsh, Irvine: Trainspotting

Wharton, William: Birdy, Pride

Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Williams, G: Merthyr Rising

Williams, Tennessee: Baby Doll, Small Craft Warnings, Suddenly Last Summer, A Streetcare Named Desire

Although I do not have any titles, the band also read books of the following authors:

William Blake

Confucius

Hart Crane

Aleister Crowley

E E Cummings

Guy Debord

Derrida

Allen Ginsberg

Homer

Henrik Ibsen

Primo Levi

Norman Mailer

Henry Miller

Harold Pinter

Kenneth Rexroth

Sassoon

Socrates

Valerie Solanos

Dylan Thomas

Hunter St. Thompson

Emile Zola

If you know any titles of the above authors that are Manics related, please let me know and Ill add them here.