"The teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda. Read it in highschool and it put me off psychedelics for more than two decades.
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Diaspora by Greg Egan, it's one of the best thought out take on what a post human society could look like. Lots of amazing ideas in the book.
Assisted Living (aka Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen) by Nikanor Teratologen. It's a very bleak and horrible story about a boy who is in an incestuous relationship with his nazi philosopher grandfather. Together the go around committing murder, rape, and other crimes, while relating everything to obscure authors and texts. The original is written entirely in a swedish dialect which is hard to understand, and it didn't translate that well into other languages I think. Despite all this, it is very well written and has won prizes and been made into a play and radio reading etc.
anarcho-syndicalism theory and practice by rudolf rocker, it was let's say enligthening, I was already an anarchist before reading it, but now I'm an anarcho-syndicalist
currently reading networking in the rust programming language btw
Fanged Noumena by Nick Land
Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani
Both are a naked lunch level mindfuck. Don't treat it as a book, but rather as a stream of consciousness on the acid trip. Don't try to make any sense, just ride the wave.
Kitchen Confidential.
Depends in what way you mean 'wild.' Crazy even psychedelic, but nonetheless benign? Or are we including disturbing?
Ya
Hogg by Samuel Delany
A long way gone by Ishmael Beah was pretty dark. Story of a boy soldier from Sierra Leone explaining how you get forced into it and the terrible things they did.
Der Prozess (1915) by Franz Kafka, it still is relevant today.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami just a magnificent read, you probably couldn’t go wrong with any of his works.
Sadly, Porn
I don't know how to describe it, expect to be confused and offended and gaslit.
Kafkas famous book, I think the title is the transformation.
Also Orson Wells about the civil war in Spain. This was not fiction, but it points out so much real life non sense and lies that had my head spinning for most of the book.
Which book is that about the Spanish Civil War?
On that topic, George Orwell's book, Homage to Catalonia, is also very much recommended.
That's the one, I think I got my authors mixed
Jitterbug perfume was out there.
The multiorgasmic man.