20 Overlooked Cult Beauties

A Listmania! list by "cuttlefishbones"
 
The Blind Owl
1.  The Blind Owl by Sadiq Hidayat
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  "Seductive Persian opium-fuelled surrealism"
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How German Is It?
2.  How German Is It? by Walter Abish
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  "Amazingly well written...unsettling and perceptive"
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The Golem (European Classics)
3.  The Golem (European Classics) by Gustav Meyrink
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  "Fantastic! Prague as a skewiff Fritz Lang film set."
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Kaputt
4.  Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte
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  "The greatest book to emerge out of the Second World War."
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Magic Prague
5.  Magic Prague by Angelo Maria Ripellino
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  "Uncategorisable ! Even better than the real thing."
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Revolutionary Road (Modern American Fiction)
6.  Revolutionary Road (Modern American Fiction) by Richard Yates
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  "The daddy of Frantzen, Auster, Eugenides etc."
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Death And The Penguin (Panther)
7.  Death And The Penguin (Panther) by Andrey Kurkov
The list author says:
  "Probably the best penguin in fiction."
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Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court (Penguin Modern Classics)
8.  Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court (Penguin Modern Classics) by Patrick Hamilton
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  "Sublime. This book even smells like a pub."
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The Deadly Percheron (Canongate Crime Classics)
9.  The Deadly Percheron (Canongate Crime Classics) by John Franklin Bardin
The list author says:
  "Dwarves, nighmares, femme fatales and erm..Racehorses. Superb, unreconstructed, bonkers noir."
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The Fictions (Picador Books)
10.  The Fictions (Picador Books) by Bruno Schulz
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  "A true visionary who was sadly murdered by The Gestapo"
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Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Ge
11.  Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Ge by Sven Lindqvist
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  "Taking up Conrad's reins, the author journeys into the 'Heart of Darkness'."
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Trotter-nama
12.  Trotter-nama by I.Allan Sealy
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  "Hard to find...but YOU MUST ! NOW !!!"
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The Loser (King Penguin)
13.  The Loser (King Penguin) by George Konrad
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  "Mental breakdown behind the Iron Curtain. Moving and laced with black humour"
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Stone Junction: An Alchemical Potboiler
14.  Stone Junction: An Alchemical Potboiler by Jim Dodge
The list author says:
  "A trawl through America's underbelly - this book is The Truth. I swear !"
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Morvern Callar
15.  Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
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  "Perhaps neither overlooked nor a cult; but the best British fiction in years."
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I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks)
16.  I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson
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  "Imagine a world populated by vampires...reads like Hatfield on a Sunday night."
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The Serial (Prion Humour Classics)
17.  The Serial (Prion Humour Classics) by Cyra McFadden
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  "Hilarious dissection of 1970's LA"
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Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
18.  Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
The list author says:
  "The greatest stylist in English at his mischievous best"
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Ferdydurke
19.  Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
The list author says:
  "Described as 'Lunacy' and 'Anal Tyranny' upon publication in 1939. Great!!!"
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Random Acts of Senseless Violence
20.  Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack
The list author says:
  "Less SF...more like the hyper-reality of Manhattan's seamier side."
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