Reading List | Jack Kerouac, 18 y. o. (1940)
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)
Jack Kerouac with some of his book collection Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg read a book together, 1959
