One Like - One Book

Over the Bank Holiday weekend, I took part in a Twitter game, where for each person who liked a tweet, I would recommend a favourite book. I thought it would be worth collecting the books together here.

Zone - Mathian Enard: A perfect mix of subject and style; totally immersive, and not a word wasted.
The Quiddity of Will Self - Sam Mills: I'm biased, but - absinthe, orgies, and really long words.
England's Dreaming - Jon Savage: My copy's battered cover shows how many times I re-read it as a teenager.
The Golem - Gustav Meyrink: Fin de siecle decadence from Dedalus, consciousness-altering prose.
The Cosmic Trigger Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson: My introduction to post-modernism and the strangeness of the Twentieth century. I re-read this every two years.
Mrs Caliban - Rachel Ingalls: A bored housewife falls in love with an 8 foot sea monster who walks into her kitchen.
On Strike Against God - Joanna Russ: Prescient, furious and brilliant novel from The Women's Press.
Resident Alien - Quentin Crisp: A constant source of quotes and inspiration.
Alice the Sausage - Sophie Jabes: Brilliantly surreal erotic novella, part of the Dedalus Euro Shorts series.
Dorian - Will Self: For inspiring a thesis full of St Sebastian dick jokes and 'conga lines of fucking buggery'.
The Meaning of Treason: Rebecca West: Psychological insight, wonderful writing - the definitive analysis of the
The first chapter of Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis: for the best reading I've ever been to, and BEE checking me out afterwards.
The Torture Garden - Octave Mirbeau: Nihilism, sex and obscure Nineteenth Century French politics.
The Arcades Project - Walter Benjamin: I read the whole book in about three days for a course - found out later it was only supposed to be one section, but it was worth it.
Dodge & Burn - Seraphina Madsen: Out this July, it's mindblowing, and life-changing, for me anyway,
The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord: read in between customers while working in a call-centre, which is how Debord would have wanted it I think.
The Ghost of Chance - William Burroughs: anarchist pirates, ecological disasters, a park for animals which were too strange to exist. His best work.
Here Are The Young Men - Rob Doyle: For inspiring a mixture of nostalgia and horror.
Capital - Rana Dasgupta: An insightful and biting portrayal of modern India, through the lives of Delhi's residents.
Tits Out Teenage Terror Totty - Steven Wells: Splenetic. Includes a robotic Princess Diana being resurrected and ritually slaughtered to satisfy the public's angst-lust.
A Life Full of Holes - Driss ben Hamed: Beat fiction through the eyes of an Arab shepherd, published by Rebel Inc.
Elect Mr Robinson for a Better World - Donald Antrim: Garrison Keiller meets the Spanish Inquisition. The best and weirdest of modern American writers,
Venus as a Boy - Luke Sutherland: In a room in Soho, a man is turning gold...
Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall - Neil Bartlett: Erotic, elusive, a love-letter to a disappearing culture.
A Void - George Perec: Proving that experimentation should broaden the possibilities of literature - a love letter to language,
Christy Malry's Own Double Entry - BS Johnson: lays bare the artificiality of the novel.
Will There Ever Be A Morning? - Frances Farmer: Like The Bell Jar set in golden age Hollywood, a tragic and beautiful memoir.
Lightning Rods - Helen DeWitt: Outrageous satire on self-help and the American Dream, will leave you with uncomfortable mental images every time you hear the title mentioned on the news.
Astragal - Albertine Sarrazin: Like early Godard in novel form.
Into That Darkness - Gitta Sereny: Picks up from Arendt in its unflinching examination of evil.
Fake! - Elmyr de Hory: The fake memoir of an art forger, ghosted by a literary forger. Inspired Orson Welles' film F for Fake.
Man Into Wolf - Robert Eisler: A Jungian essay on lycanthropy and sado-masochism.
Strange News From Another Star - Herman Hesse: Magical and charming short story collection.
La Bas - JK Huysmans: Decadent esoterica, which breaks all the rules of novel-writing. My favourite of Huysmans' books.
Novel With Cocaine - 'M Ageyev': Like Less Than Zero written in pre-Revolutionary Russia; the author's identity has never been proved.
The Vegetarian - Han Kang: Incandescent and extraordinary.
The Woman Destroyed - Simone de Beauvoir: I had a big French phase in 2011, and de Beauvoir's trilogy about ageing women was the highlight.
Chinaman - Shehan Karunatilaka: The best gonzo novel about cricket ever written.
The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro: Elegant and alluring, with a harsh message about colonialism, reconciliation and memory.
The London Nobody Knows - Geoffrey Fletcher: Documents seedy, rococo and gruesome London.
Dream Story - Arthur Schnitzler: Woozy, narcotic mix of Freudian imagery and fin de siecle eroticism.