All Nick Cave book recommendations.

Non-Fiction

The Anatomy of Melancholy

by Robert Burton 1624

“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.” source

Literary Fiction

Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov 1945

“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.” source

Literary Fiction

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe 2017

“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.” source

Crime

The Killer Inside Me

by Jim Thompson 1952

“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.” source

Historical Fiction

The Good Lord Bird

by James McBride 2013

“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.” source

Non-Fiction

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Frankl 1946

“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.” source

Non-Fiction

Consolations

by David Whyte 2015

“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.” source

Literary Fiction

The Informers

by Bret Easton Ellis 1994

“The best I can do is throw together a rather formless and incoherent grab bag of titles that come to mind at this moment that, for one reason or another, I have loved over the years.” source

Literary Fiction

Moby Dick

by 1851

“Most of them I read when I was quite young, and each of them introduced me to worlds that were strange and fascinating and new.” source

Literary Fiction

Blood Meridian

by Cormac McCarthy 1985

“Most of them I read when I was quite young, and each of them introduced me to worlds that were strange and fascinating and new.” source

Literary Fiction

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866

“This is in no way definitive and by no means reflects the best books I have read, nor are these necessarily the greatest books by the particular author I have chosen, but here are a dozen books of fiction that I love.” source

Literary Fiction

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov 1777

“Between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four our brains are super-receptive, and that it is the period when we form acutely close attachments to things, songs, books, films, paintings etc.” source

Literary Fiction

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy 1971

“Here are a dozen books of fiction that I love. Most of them I read when I was quite young, and each of them introduced me to worlds that were strange and fascinating and new.” source

Literary Fiction

The Adventures of Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi 1921

“Here are a dozen books of fiction that I love. Most of them I read when I was quite young, and each of them introduced me to worlds that were strange and fascinating and new.” source

Historical Fiction

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas 1844

“Here are a dozen books of fiction that I love. Most of them I read when I was quite young, and each of them introduced me to worlds that were strange and fascinating and new.” source

Literary Fiction

Ariel

by Sylvia Plath 1965

“I have a few poets that, purely on a personal level, always delight and are a simple pleasure to read. There are enough surprises within their writing to keep the mind light and alive.” source

Literary Fiction

High Windows

by Philip Larkin 1974

“I try to read, at the very least, a half-hour of poetry a day, before I begin to do my own writing. It jimmies open the imagination, making the mind more receptive to metaphor and abstraction.” source

Literary Fiction

Here I Am

by Jonathan Safran Foer 2016

“It is a dangerous business recommending a book, especially to a book club, especially a long book, but I flew through Here I Am and halfway through I was in tears and again a bit further on, more tears.” source