The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (probably the same for architects but who would ever admit it?
Catch 22 by Kurt Vonnegut (which is why i understood that i could put the Fountainhead first) The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard (which took me to structuralism and politics before I knew it) • Franny & Zooey – Salinger Catch 22 – Joseph Heller Be Here Now – Ram Dasst • to kill a mockingbird the sun also rises a doll’s house (okay, it’s a play, but still…) • all of Plato Magic Mountain Birth of Tragedy • Rem Koolhaas’s DELIRIOUS NEW YORK Elaine Scarry’s THE BODY IN PAIN Joyce’s PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST… • Genet by Edmund White Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert The Persian Boy by Mary Renault • Against Nature – Huysmans Morris’s Disappearing Bag – Rosemary Wells Universe – Freedman & Kaufmann • Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler) The Long-Distance Runner (Michael Harrington) Don Quixote (Cervantes) • The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing WCWilliams’ Paterson Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning • Ulysses, James Joyce Behavior in Public Places, Erving Goffman The Communist Ma