In honor of the last season of Lost starting this month, the Flavorwire blog has a list of books mentioned on Lost. I used to listen to a Lost podcast, and the podcasters would freeze-frame the episode whenever there was a book on screen, and then read it and give commentary on how it related to the show (purgatory, subterranean worlds, mysterious islands, biblical themes). Always interesting, but I left the research task to the super-fans. But a lot of the books on this list sound really good, and it makes me wish I could read really fast and also had an English library at my disposal.
The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares (1940)
The Moon Pool
by Abraham Merritt (1919)
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce (1890)
Lancelot: A Novel
by Walker Percy (1977)
The Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne (1874)
Island
by Aldous Huxley (1962)
Valis
by Philip K. Dick (1981)
The Shape of Things to Come
by H.G. Wells (1933)
