Instant canon gonna get you

Chris Nakashima-Brown posted a list of books that changed his life and tagged me to do the same. I tried to stick mostly with books I read prior to meeting Kessel and falling into the deep end of the sf pool. (Thus there are no women writers in this list, and there are problematic individuals such as Hunter Thompson, which sucks but so it goes.) So, submitted without much comment:

1. Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones.
2. Donald Barthelme, City Life.
3. Alain Robbe-Grillet, The Voyeur.
4. A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner.
5. Franz Kafka, The Penal Colony.
6. Damon Knight, editor, the Orbit anthologies.
7. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
8. Frank Miller and Bill Sienciewicz, Elektra: Assassin.
9. Barney Rosset, editor, The Evergreen Review Reader.