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The Rebel's Bookshelf

Writing that set fire to the existing order. Manifestos, provocations, satirical grenades, and literature that refused to behave. Every work on this path was dangerous when it was published, and most of them still are. Some attacked governments. Some attacked language itself. Some attacked the reader's comfortable assumptions about how the world works. What unites them is a refusal to accept things as they are and the conviction that words can be weapons, tools of liberation, and instruments of change.

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The route

  • 1. Gargantua and PantagruelFrançois Rabelais, 1534
  • 2. A Modest ProposalJonathan Swift, 1729
  • 3. Common SenseThomas Paine, 1776
  • 4. A Vindication of the Rights of WomanMary Wollstonecraft, 1792
  • 5. Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau, 1849
  • 6. The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx & Friedrich Engels, 1848
  • 7. A Madman's DiaryLu Xun, 1918
  • 8. The Master & MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov, 1967
  • 9. Politics and the English LanguageGeorge Orwell, 1946
  • 10. HowlAllen Ginsberg, 1956
  • 11. On The RoadJack Kerouac, 1957
  • 12. The Dharma BumsJack Kerouac, 1958
  • 13. FerdydurkeWitold Gombrowicz, 1937
  • 14. Tropic of CancerHenry Miller, 1934
  • 15. Fear and Loathing in Las VegasHunter S. Thompson, 1971
  • 16. Naked LunchWilliam S. Burroughs, 1959
  • 17. Martín FierroJosé Hernández, 1872
  • 18. The Seven MadmenRoberto Arlt, 1929
  • 19. Hombres necios que acusáis (Redondillas / "You Foolish Men")Juana Inés de la Cruz, 1689
  • 20. Max HavelaarMultatuli, 1860
  • 21. The Praise of FollyErasmus, 1511
  • 22. Hard TimesCharles Dickens, 1854
  • 23. Nicholas NicklebyCharles Dickens, 1839
  • 24. The Tenant of Wildfell HallAnne Brontë, 1848
  • 25. ResurrectionLeo Tolstoy, 1899
  • 26. The Iron HeelJack London, 1908
  • 27. The Revolt of IslamPercy Bysshe Shelley, 1818
  • 28. Queen MabPercy Bysshe Shelley, 1813
  • 29. The Mask of AnarchyPercy Bysshe Shelley, 1832
  • 30. The Red RoomAugust Strindberg, 1879
  • 31. The Lion of FlandersHendrik Conscience, 1838
  • 32. The Legend Of Thyl Ulenspiegel And Lamme GoedzakCharles de Coster, 1867
  • 33. The Atom StationHalldór Laxness, 1948