Patti Smith’s Recommended Reading List

The punk poet and author of Just Kids, Patti Smith – Service95 Book Club’s Monthly Read for September – shares her favourite books, by Albertine Sarrazin, Oscar Wilde and more

Ariel – Sylvia Plath

Journey To The East – Hermann Hesse

Moments Of Being – Virginia Woolf

The Children’s Crusade – Marcel Schwob

The Wall – Marlen Haushofer

The Adventures Of Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi

An Episode In The Life Of A Landscape Painter – César Aira

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Kafka On The Shore – Haruki Murakami

The Death Of Ivan Ilyich And Other Stories – Leo Tolstoy

The Master And Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

Villette – Charlotte Brontë

Illuminations – Arthur Rimbaud

Rashomon And Seventeen Other Stories – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

A Happy Death – Albert Camus

The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll

In The Café Of Lost Youth – Patrick Modiano

Astragal – Albertine Sarrazin

The Oblivion Seekers – Isabelle Eberhardt

­The Thief’s Journal – Jean Genet

The Happy Prince & Other Stories – Oscar Wilde

Writing – Marguerite Duras