Patti Smith
Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author and photographer whose 1975 debut album Horses made her an influential member of the New York City-based punk rock movement.[1] Smith has fused rock and poetry in her work. In 1978, her most widely known song, "Because the Night", co-written with Bruce Springsteen, reached 13th on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and fifth on the UK Singles Chart. In 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In November 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids, written to fulfill a promise she made to Robert Mapplethorpe, her longtime partner. She is ranked 47th on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, published in 2010, and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2011. https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/11/02/patti-smith-favorite-books-m-train/ https://www.openculture.com/2018/04/patti-smiths-40-favorite-books.html
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · 38 lists
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · 34 lists
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 1899 · 29 lists
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847 · 29 lists
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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1321 · 25 lists
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818 · 20 lists
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 · 18 lists
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Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry · 1947 · 15 lists
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1848 · 13 lists
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850 · 13 lists
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2666
Roberto Bolaño · 2004 · 12 lists
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Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 1842 · 12 lists
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1900 · 10 lists
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The Waves
Virginia Woolf · 1931 · 9 lists
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith · 1943 · 8 lists
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami · 1997 · 8 lists
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The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa · 1982 · 6 lists
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The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles · 1948 · 6 lists
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Death of Virgil
Hermann Broch · 2012 · 5 lists
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Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami · 2005 · 5 lists
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A Season in Hell
Arthur Rimbaud · 1989 · 4 lists
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Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg · 1956 · 4 lists
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Nadja
André Breton · 1928 · 4 lists
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No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai · 1948 · 4 lists
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The Confusions of Young Törless
Robert Musil · 1906 · 4 lists
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Heinrich Böll · 1974 · 4 lists
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Villette
Charlotte Brontë · 1853 · 4 lists
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Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag · 1966 · 3 lists
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Billy Budd, Foretopman
Herman Melville · 1924 · 3 lists
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Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger · 1961 · 3 lists
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Poet in New York
Federico García Lorca · 1936 · 3 lists
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The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse · 2001 · 3 lists
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A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami · 1982 · 2 lists
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Ariel
Sylvia Plath · 1965 · 2 lists
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Big Sur
Jack Kerouac · 1962 · 2 lists
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Illuminations
Arthur Rimbaud · 2002 · 2 lists
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The First Man
Albert Camus · 1994 · 2 lists
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The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain · 1881 · 2 lists
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The Wild Boys
William Burroughs · 1971 · 2 lists
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A Dog of Flanders
Ouida · 1872 · 1 list
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A Happy Death
Albert Camus · 1971 · 1 list
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A Night of Serious Drinking
René Daumal · 1938 · 1 list
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A Scarcity of Love
Anna Kavan · 1956 · 1 list
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After Nature
W.G. Sebald · 1988 · 1 list
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After-Dinner Declarations
Nicanor Parra · 2008 · 1 list
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Amulet
Roberto Bolaño · 1906 · 1 list
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
César Aira · 2000 · 1 list
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Black Sprin
Henry Miller · 1936 · 1 list
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Cain’s Book
Alexander Trocchi · 1960 · 1 list
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Coriolanus
William Shakespeare · 1623 · 1 list
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Dance Dance Dance
Haruki Murakami · 1988 · 1 list
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Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Margaret Sidney · 1909 · 1 list
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Four Major Plays
Henrik Ibsen · 1965 · 1 list
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Hawk Moon
Sam Shepard · 1973 · 1 list
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Ice
Anna Kavan · 2003 · 1 list
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Journey to the East
Hermann Hesse · 1932 · 1 list
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Letters from Iceland
W. H. Auden · 1937 · 1 list
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Orphée
Jean Cocteau · 1950 · 1 list
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Songs of Innocence
William Blake · 1794 · 1 list
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Swann in Love
Marcel Proust · 2017 · 1 list
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The Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin · 1939 · 1 list
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The Beach Café
Mohammed Mrabet · 2011 · 1 list
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The Blue Bird
Maurice Maeterlinck · 1908 · 1 list
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The Complete Fiction
H.P. Lovecraft · 2011 · 1 list
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The Divine Proportion
H.E. Huntley · 1970 · 1 list
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The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde · 1888 · 1 list
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The Little Lame Prince
Rosemary Wells · 1800 · 1 list
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The Oblivion Seekers
Isabelle Eberhardt · 1975 · 1 list
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The Petting Zoo
Jim Carroll · 1979 · 1 list
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The Process
Brion Gysin · 1990 · 1 list
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The Setting Sun
Osamu Dazai · 1947 · 1 list
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The Story of Davy Crockett
Enid Meadowcroft · 1952 · 1 list
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The Thief’s Journal
Jean Genet · 1949 · 1 list
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The Women of Cairo
Gerard de Nerval · 2018 · 1 list
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Winter Trees
Sylvia Plath · 1971 · 1 list
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Wittgenstein’s Poker
David Edmonds & John Eidinow · 2001 · 1 list
