The Real Lost Book Club!

As of two days ago, Lost started its very own official book club. It's well known that Lost has an obsession with referencing literature in almost every frakkin' episode -- and in fact there was even a special feature called "The Lost Book Club" on one of the DVDs which discussed it -- but this is, like, real. Well, kind of - it's "official" in that it's on the ABC website, but it's "informal," with no order or schedules. This isn't Oprah.

From Damon & Carlton (or at least their publicists or unpaid interns):

Over the first four seasons of LOST we've managed to incorporate more than 40 books into the show. For the first time, we've catalogued a list of books available in audio form that relate in some way to LOST. [...]

To paraphrase one of our heroes, Stephen King, to be a writer one must first be a reader. We find ourselves constantly striving for even a small measure of the accomplishment of what all these authors have achieved in their books. Pick up any of them and experience the richness of storytelling, character, and theme, and then allow your imagination to connect all that back into our show.

We can't promise you any of these books will lead you to answers about LOST, but we can promise you'll be enriched for having read them.

Go here to check it out. It's pretty awesome -- you can see the full list, sort them by when they appeared on the show, or sort them by how they relate to the show.

Looking over the forty-book list, I've actually read way more than I thought I did, although some were educationally required reading at some point:

On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (okay, I didn't read it, I saw the movie)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce (short story)
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle

I guess once I finish my current book (another Vonnegut, incidentally), I have to choose from the Lost list. I'm thinking I'll start with Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

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