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A Season in Hell & Illuminations

Arthur Rimbaud

Poetry

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Max Levchin

Patrick Collison

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

Fiction

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire

Poetry

The Wilderness Warrior

Douglas Brinkley

History

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction

Johnny Depp starred in the film adaptation of Fear and Loathing, and was reportedly a close friend of the author. In fact, Depp paid for his elaborate funeral in 2005.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Tom Robbins

Fiction

"There's certain books that I've been in love with for years that I'd love to bring to life — things like Tom Robbins 'Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates,' that's a great, great book"

Big Sur

Jack Kerouac

Fiction

The Rum Diary

Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction

In Our Time

Ernest Hemingway

Classics

Johnny Depp enjoys Hemingway’s work so much that in 2014, he bought a rare copy of the book for girlfriend Amber Heard that was reportedly worth £125,000.

The People's Act of Love

James Meek

Fiction

The Ginger Man

J.P. Donleavy

Fiction

Johnny Depp wrote the forward for the book’s 60th edition, calling it “an uproarious, pioneering masterpiece.”

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

Classics

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

Fiction

Depp describes On the Road as his bible. He’s a huge fan of Kerouac’s work and owns a number of Kerouac’s letters and manuscripts, as well as his last typewriter.

In the Hand of Dante

Nick Tosches

Fiction

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