Reading List | Jack Kerouac, 18 y. o. (1940)

1. Indian scriptures

2. Chinese scriptures

3. Old and New Testament

4. Gibbon and Plutarch

5. Homer (again)

6. Shakespeare (again)

7. Wolfe (always)

ETC. ETC.

" Finnegan's Wake"

"Outline of history" (again)

Thoreau and Emerson

Joseph Conrad

Proust's "Remembrance"

Dante (again)

* Jack Kerouac’s 

reading list 

when he was 18. 

(1940)

 Jack Kerouac with some of his book collection                                            Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg read a book together, 1959

Also:

> On the road. Kerouac’s original idea

 > Jack Kerouac / Roy Eldridge