Dean Winchester: Reading Recommendations
Because I headcannon Dean as a reader, here is a list of books that I think he would like. Some are directly referenced in the show, others are odes to America and a life on the road complete with horror, satire or complicated family issues. And, of course, some books manage to meet at the twist of the mobius strip where toxic masculinity and homoeroticism collide.
Books of Blood - Clive BarkerÂ
Imajica - Clive BarkerÂ
The Complete Poems - Hart CraneÂ
Hard Rain Falling - Don CarpenterÂ
Our Share of Night - Mariana EnriquezÂ
Catch-22 - Joseph HellerÂ
Iliad - HomerÂ
Jesus’ Son - Denis JohnsonÂ
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
My Heart Is a Chainsaw - Stephen Graham JonesÂ
On the Road - Jack KerouacÂ
Christine - Stephen KingÂ
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Survivor - Chuck PalahniukÂ
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock
A Season in Hell - Arthur Rimbaud
Crush - Richard Siken
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Cat’s Cradle - Kurt VonnegutÂ
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong
Leaves of Grass - Walt WhitmanÂ
Butcher’s Crossing - John WilliamsÂ



















