Ultimate Hipster
Discover the Ultimate Hipster reading list, featuring iconic books like Journey to the End of the Night, Paris Spleen, and The Berlin Stories. Explore curated fiction and literary collections that define counterculture, existential angst, and bohemian style. Perfect for book lovers seeking offbeat, influential classics.
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Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
A nihilistic petit-bougeois named Bardamu opens his medical practice in the slums of suburban Paris.
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The Berlin Stories
by Christopher Isherwood
The Sally Bowles character was the subject of a play, I am a camera; and a musical, Cabaret.
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Paris Spleen, 1869
by Charles Baudelaire
Baudelaire composed the series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen between 1855 and his death in 1867. He attached great importance to his work in this then unusual form, asking, "Which one of us, in his moments of ambition, has not dreamed of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical, without rhythm and without rhyme, supple enough and rugged enough to adapt itself to the lyrical impulses of the soul, the undulations of reverie, the jibes of conscience?"
