Cult Books

The Telegraph has a list of the fifty best cult books. Here's their description of how they determined the cult status of a book:

In compiling our list, we were looking for the sort of book that people wear like a leather jacket or carry around like a totem. The book that rewires your head: that turns you on to psychedelics; makes you want to move to Greece; makes you a pacifist; gives you a way of thinking about yourself as a woman, or a voice in your head that makes it feel okay to be a teenager; conjures into being a character who becomes a permanent inhabitant of your mental flophouse.

Of the books on their list that I've read, only one (Chariots of the Gods) reached cult status for me, although I enjoyed a lot of the other titles.