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'''Cult fiction''' is a term used to denote [[literature]] that has attracted a [[cult following]]. '''Cult fiction''' is a term used to denote [[literature]] that has attracted a [[cult following]].
-Books that tend to attract a cult following include [[List of banned books|banned books]], [[Transgressional fiction|transgressive fiction]], [[List of controversial books|controversial books]], [[erotic literature]], [[Drugs in literature|drug literature]], [[Rants and Incendiary Tracts|rants and incendiary tracts]] and some [[genre fiction]]. +Books that tend to attract a cult following include [[banned books]], [[Transgressional fiction|transgressive fiction]], [[List of controversial books|controversial books]], [[erotic literature]], [[Drugs in literature|drug literature]], [[Rants and Incendiary Tracts|rants and incendiary tracts]] and some [[genre fiction]].
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Cult fiction is a term used to denote literature that has attracted a cult following.

Books that tend to attract a cult following include banned books, transgressive fiction, controversial books, erotic literature, drug literature, rants and incendiary tracts and some genre fiction.

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Cult fiction

cult fiction is fiction that has attracted a cult following.

Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard , Iain Banks , John Barth , Poppy Z. Brite, Charles Bukowski, Anthony Burgess , William S Burroughs , Albert Camus , Angela Carter , Nik Cohn , Colette , Dennis Cooper , Douglas Coupland , Don DeLillo , Philip K Dick , Fyodor Dostoevsky , Nick Earls , Bret Easton Ellis , James Ellroy , William Faulkner , John Fowles , William Gibson , André Gide , William Golding , Alasdair Gray , Radclyffe Hall , Knut Hamsun , Joseph Heller , Hermann Hesse , Carl Hiaasen , S.E. Hinton , Nick Hornby , Aldous Huxley , John Irving , Erica Jong , James Joyce , Franz Kafka , Jack Kerouac , Ken Kesey , Stephen King , Milan Kundera , Hanif Kureishi , Harper Lee , Elmore Leonard , Doris Lessing , Mark Leyner , H P Lovecraft , Carson McCullers , Ian McEwan , Patrick McGrath , Jay McInerney , Colin MacInnes , Norman Mailer , Henry Miller , Yukio Mishima , Michael Moorcock, Walter Mosley , Vladimir Nabokov , Anais Nin , Jeff Noon , Joyce Carol Oates , Chuck Palahniuk , Mervyn Peake , Sylvia Plath , Richard Price , Thomas Pynchon , Ayn Rand , Luke Rhinehart , Anne Rice , Tom Robbins , Marquis de Sade , J D Salinger , Jean Paul Sartre , Hubert Selby , Will Self , Bruce Sterling , Robert Stone , D. M. Thomas , Hunter S Thompson , Jim Thompson , Gore Vidal , Kurt Vonnegut Jr , Irvine Welsh , Jeanette Winterson , Tom Wolfe --accessed on http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/IfYouLike/cultfiction.asp, [Jan 2004]

From the The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction (2005)

See The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction



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