Super-Cannes
by J. G. Ballard | 
The Memoirs of a Survivor
by Doris Lessing | 
A Severed Head
by Iris Murdoch | 
Waterland
by Graham Swift | 
Tours of the Black Clock
by Steve Erickson | 
Under the Net
by Iris Murdoch | 
A Maggot
by John Fowles | 
The Bell
by Iris Murdoch | 
Rubicon Beach
by Steve Erickson | 
The Virgin in the Garden
by A. S. Byatt | 
Millennium People
by J. G. Ballard | 
The Information
by Martin Amis | 
A Dance to the Music of Time
by Anthony Powell | 
The Child in Time
by Ian McEwan | 
Cakes and Ale
by W. Somerset Maugham | 
Sick
by Brett Battles | 
Alien
by Alan Dean Foster | 
Purified
by Brian Robert Smith | 
The Grays
by Whitley Strieber | 
High-Rise
by J. G. Ballard |
In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.