The Hunter S. Thompson Reading List (1955-1967)

I recently reread Hunter S. Thompson's first collection of letters, THE PROUD HIGHWAY:  SAGA OF A DESPERATE SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN 1955-1967.  While doing so, I jotted down the title of every book the young HST mentions to his various correspondents.  Between the years 1955 and 1967, Thompson no doubt read many more books than the ones mentioned below; these are merely those titles he felt compelled to reference in letters written to his close circle of friends and colleagues.  Here, then, for your privileged illumination, is a partial Hunter S. Thompson Reading List (1955-1967):

THE OUTSIDER by Colin Wilson
THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
THE POWER ELITE by C. Wright Mills
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
ON THE ROAD and THE SUBTERRANEANS by Jack Kerouac
BEING AND NOTHINGNESS by Jean-Paul Sartre
EXISTENTIALISM:  FROM DOSTOEVSKY TO SARTRE edited by Walter A. Kaufmann
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
THE ORGANIZATION MAN by William H. Whyte
THE BEST OF EVERYTHING by Rona Jaffe
ESCAPE TO THE WEST INDIES by Bradley Smith
TIGRERO! by Sasha Siemel
LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS by William Styron
OUT OF AFRICA by Isak Dinesen
A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE by Reynolds Price
IT IS TIME, LORD by Fred Chappell 
RED LANCES by Arturo Uslar Pietri
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
A SINGULAR MAN by J.P. Donleavy
THE UNNATURAL ENEMY by Vance Bourjaily
THE WHITE NEGRO by Norman Mailer
THE DAMNED OF THE EARTH by Frantz Fanon
THE FUN HOUSE by William Brinkley
THE AMERICAN DREAM by Norman Mailer
THE KANDY-KOLORED TANGERINE-FLAKE STREAMLINE BABY by Tom Wolfe
DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON by George Orwell
THE WORLD OF SEX by Henry Miller
GOING AWAY by Clancy Sigal 
A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE by Nelson Algren
MAN INTO WOLF by Robert Eisler