Books:
Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz
Amerika - Franz Kafka
Death on the Installment Plan - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The House of Hunger - Dambudzo Marechera
Carson McCullers, Jim Thompson, Richard Stark, Charles Bukowski, John Kennedy Toole, Albert Camus, Flannery O'Connor, Natsuo Kirino, Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler, Cormac McCarthy