Recommended Reading:  

Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha

Kurt Vonnegut - Galápagos

Silvia Plath - The Bell Jar
 
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums 
 
Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven  
 D.T. Suzuki - The Field of Zen 
 Shel Silverstein - Where the Sidewalk Ends 

Emily Dickinson - The Complete Poems  Booker T Washington - Up From Slavery   Richard P. Feynman - What Do You Care What Other People Think  Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens  Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs   Kristine McKenna and David Lynch - Room to Dream  Arthur Schopenhauer - The Philosophy of Schopenhauer Aldous Huxley - A Brave New World Revisited 
Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb 
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian 

Thomas Merton - Seven Storey Mountain  

Langston Hughes - The Weary Blues 

H.G. Wells - The Time Machine 

Richard Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America

Dr. Suess - The Lorax 

William Upski Wimsatt - Bomb The Suburbs  
Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience   Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto
e. e. cummings - Complete Poems, 1904-1962
  Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 

Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels

Alan Watts - Become What You Are