From an article in Far Out Magazine -out of the UK–

Bob Dylan’s 40 FAVORITE BOOKS

1. ‘The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club’ by Sonny Barger
2. ‘War and Peace’ by Leo Tolstoy
3. ‘Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63’ by Taylor Branch
4. ‘Tropic of Cancer’ by Henry Miller
5. ‘Stories’ by Anton Chekhov
6. ‘On War’ by Carl von Clausewitz
7. ‘Victory’ by Joseph Conrad
8. ‘The Complete Poetry and Prose’ by John Donne
9. ‘The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry’ by Angel Flores
10. ‘Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork’ by Jerry Garcia
11. ‘One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding’ by Robert Gover
12. ‘The White Goddess’ by Robert Graves
13. ‘Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps’ by Emmett Grogan
14. ‘Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley’ by Peter Guralnick
15. ‘Bound for Glory’ by Woody Guthrie
16. ‘The Odyssey’ by Homer
17. ‘Mexico City Blues’ by Jack Kerouac
18. ‘On The Road’ by Jack Kerouac
19. ‘Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards’ by Al Kooper
20. ‘The Land Where the Blues Began’ by Alan Lomax
21. ‘Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and “Inventor of Jazz”’ by Alan Lomax
22. ‘Girl from the North Country’ by Conor McPherson
23. ‘Moby Dick’ by Herman Melville
24. ‘The Blues Line: A Collection of Blues Lyrics’ by Eric Sackheim
25. ‘Naked Lunch’ by William S. Burroughs
26. ‘Woody Guthrie: Radical American Patriot’ by Bill Nowlin
27. ‘Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta’ by Robert Palmer
28. ‘All Access: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Photography of Ken Regan’ by Ken Regan
29. ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ by Erich Maria Remarque
30. ‘The Oxford Book of English Verse’ by Christopher Ricks
31. ‘A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat’ by Arthur Rimbaud
32. ‘Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems’ by Allen Ginsberg
33. ‘Confessions of a Yakuza’ by Junichi Saga
34. ‘The American Songbag & Selected Poems’ by Carl Sandburg
35. ‘Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues’ by Arnold Shaw
36. ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck
37. ‘The Dave Stewart Songbook: The Stories Behind The Songs’ by Dave Stewart
38. ‘Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians’ by Thucydides
39. ‘Poems’ by Henry Timrod
40. ‘The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel “Izzy” Young’ by Scott Barrett