Reading List | Jack Kerouac, 18 y. o.,1940

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1. Indian scriptures
2. Chinese scriptures
3. Old and New Testament
4. Gibbon and Plutarch
5. Homer (again)
6. Shakespeare (again)
7. Wolfe (always)
ETC. ETC.
” Finnegan’s Wake”
“Outline of history” (again)
Thoreau and Emerson
Joseph Conrad
Proust’s “Remembrance”
Dante (again)

Jack Kerouac’s
reading list
when he was 18.
1940 

 

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 Jack Kerouac with some of his book collection                   Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg read a book together, 1959

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