The Lost Book Club | Coyote Mercury

In my effort to read new books while hopefully gaining insight into the various mysteries on ABC’s Lost, I am reading the books that are seen or referenced on the show.

I’ve proceeded on the assumption that the books referenced and shown are included because of the clues they may provide as well as the way they interact with the show’s themes and not just because any given book was what the propmaster had on the truck when an actor needed something to do with his hands.

Here’s a list of what I’ve read with links to the posts about the books. Some books appear in more than one season. I’ve organized them by first appearance. Some books are referenced and some books are actually shown and/or discussed. I believe the latter are the more important ones and so I’ve marked them with a *.

Season 1:

Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll *
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Watership Down – Richard Adams *
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle *

Season 2:

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. – Judy Blume *
Bad Twin – Gary Troup *
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky *
The Epic of Gilgamesh – Herbert Mason (tr.)
Island – Aldous Huxley
Lancelot – Percy Walker *
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” – Ambrose Bierce *
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens *
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien *
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James *
The Wizard of Oz – L Frank Baum *

Season 3:

A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking *
Carrie – Stephen King *
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller *
Evil Under the Sun – Agatha Christie *
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand *
Laughter in the Dark – Vladimir Nabokov *
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck *
On Writing – Stephen King
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Season 4:

VALIS – Philip K Dick *
The Invention of Morel – Adolfo Bioy Casares *
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
Survivors of the Chancellor – Jules Verne *

Season 5:

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Ulysses – James Joyce *
A Separate Reality – Carlos Castaneda *
Everything that Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor *

Season 6:

Here’s what I still need to read (or skim over again before writing about):

Miscellaneous Lost and Lost Book Club posts:

I will update this page as I read and review the Lost books, and as other books appear.