Huh, and I've only read 11 of these books. Time to get to work.
50 best cult books - Telegraph
Cult books are somehow, intangibly, different from simple bestsellers â.. though many of them are that. The Carpetbaggers was a bestseller; Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was a cult.They are different from books that have big new ideas â.. though many of them are that. On The Origin of Species changed history; but Thus Spoke Zarathustra was a cult.
They are different from How-To books â.. though many of them are that. The Highway Code is a How-To book; Baby and Child Care was a cult. These are books that became personally important to their readers: that changed the way they lived, or the way they thought about how they lived.
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I'll admit to 23, but I was just looking for the naughty bits for some.
Two or three of some others I sort of flipped through to look at the pictures (a surprising number of these titles were famous for the B&W and colour plates inserted in the middle of them).
The reviewers are totally off the mark for some of the reviews. I suspect they aren't old enough to understand (for example) "Fear of Flying."