In 1974, Links Books published an interesting book entitledĀ The Hog Farm and Friends, by Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney) and with a foreword by Ken Kesey. The Hog Farm, as of 2018, is still operating and even Wikipedia calls it “America’s longest-running hippie commune.” Among many interesting stories and photographs is this gem of a reading list. (Details abridged for this blog post.)
Perhaps the most impressive thing about this list is how many of these books are still popular today. A few of the titles on the list are ones we even stock as new books because we can’t find enough used copies to meet the demand (Dune, Stranger in a Strange Land, Little Prince, and sometimes a few others.) Anyway, enjoy the trip to the past, and see how many of these you’ve read…and how many you want to read!
LITERARY PIT STOP
- I Ching, or Book of Changes
- Island. Aldous Huxley
- Light on the Path. Mabel C. Collins
- Cry from Afar. Mabel C. Collins
- Book of Hopi. Frank Waters
- Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation. Edited by Raymond B. Blakney
- Wind in the Willows. Kenneth Grahame
- Mount Analogue. Rene Daumal
- All & Everything: First Series, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson. George Gurdjieff
- The Way of the Sufi. Idries Shah
- Unknot. Paul Repps
- Tao Te Ching. Lao Tsu
- Ramakrishna and His Disciples. Christopher Isherwood
- The Last Temptation of Christ. Nikos Kazantzakis
- Saint Francis. Nikos Kazantzakis
- Tibet’s Great Yogi, Milarepa. Edited by W.Y. Evans-Wentz
- Stranger in a Strange Land. Robert Heinlein
- Black Elk Speaks. John C. Neihardt
- Journey to the East. Hermann Hesse
- Siddhartha. Hermann Hesse
- The Glass Bead Game. Hermann Hesse
- Dune. Frank Herbert
- The Little Prince. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life. Richard Wilhelm & C.G. Jung
- Autobiography of a World Savior. Mel Lyman
- Song Consummate. Christina
- Monday Night Class. Stephen
- The Urantia Book. Urantia Foundation
- Education and the Significance of Life. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- At the Feet of the Master. Alcyone
- Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. R. Buckminster Fuller
- EST: The Steersman Handbook. L. Clark Stevens
- Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism. L. Clark Stevens
- Be Here Now. Baba Ram Dass.
- Man and His Symbols. Carl Jung
- You Are Not the Target. Laura Huxley
- The Last Whole Earth Catalog. Edited by Stewart Brand
- The Realist (magazine.) Paul Krassner
- Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien
- Voice of the Silence. H.P. Blavatsky
- Back to Eden. Jethro Kloss
- Last Supplement–Whole Earth Catalog. Ken Kesey & Paul Krassner
- Merck Manual 1972, 12th edition. Edited by David N. Holvey
- Joy of Cooking. Erma S. Rombauer & Marion R. Becker
- The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran
- Sayings of Chuang Chou. Translated by J.W. Ware
- Warriors of the Rainbow: Strange and Prophetic Dreams of the Indian Peoples. W. Willoya & V. Brown
- Earth House Hold. Gary Snyder
- Krazy Kat. George Herriman
- Zap Comix. Print Mint