Robert Anton Wilson Books
in order of publication
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1972: Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words (1972)
1973: The Sex Magicians
1973: Sex and Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits (Sex, Drugs and Magick: A Journey Beyond Limits 1988)
1974: The Book of the Breast
1975: The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Shea)
1977: Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati
1978: Neuropolitics (with Timothy Leary and George Koopman)
1979: The Game of Life (with Timothy Leary)
1979: Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy
1980: The Illuminati Papers
1981: Masks of the Illuminati
1982: The Earth Will Shake (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles)
1983: Prometheus Rising
1983: Right Where You Are Sitting Now
1985: The Widow’s Son (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles)
1986: The New Inquisition
1987: Wilhelm Reich in Hell
1987: Natural Law, or Don’t Put a Rubber on Your Willy
1988: Coincidance: A Head Test
1988: Nature’s God (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles)
1989: Ishtar Rising, Why the Goddess Went to Hell and What to Expect Now That She’s Returning (revision of The Book of the Breast)
1990: Quantum Psychology
1992: Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth
1992: Reality Is What You Can Get Away With (revised edition with new introduction–1996)
1994: Chaos and Beyond (editor and primary author)
1995: Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death
1997: The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1998: Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups (with Miriam Hill)
2002: TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution
2005: Email to the universe and other alterations of consciousness
2020: The Starseed Signals (originally written in 1974)
2023: Lion of Light: Robert Anton Wilson on Aleister Crowley
R.A.W.’s Recommended Book List
Not the “best” or even my favorites exactly: just the bare minimum of what everybody really needs to chew and digest before they can converse intelligently about the 21st Century – RAW
• The Mass Psychology of Fascism, by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.
• Ulysses, by James Joyce
• Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
• The Cantos of Ezra Pound
• Machine Art, by Ezra Pound
• Selected Prose, by Ezra Pound
• Harlot’s Ghost, by Norman Mailer
• Go Down, Moses, by William Faukner
• The Alphabet vs the Goddess, by Leonard Shlain
• The Open Society and its Enemies [2 volumes], by Karl Popper
• Confucius:The Great Digest, The Unwobbling Pivot, The Analects trans. by Ezra Pound
• The Anti-Christ, by Friedrich Nietzche
• Chaos and Cyberculture, by Timothy Leary, Ph.D.
• Critical Path, by R Buckminster Fuller
• Instead of a Book, by Benjamin Tucker
• Digital McLuhan, by Paul Levinson
• Saharasia, by James DeMeo, Ph.D. – For more info or to order, visit: www.orgonelab.org
• Science and Sanity, by Alfred Korzybski – For more info or to order, visit: www.general-semantics.org
• Progress and Poverty, by Henry George [see a rare book dealer]
• The Natural Economic Order, by Silvio Gesell [see a rare book dealer]
R.A.W.’s Recommended Viewing List
- Intolerance [D.W.Griffith]
- 2001 [Stanley Kubrick]
- Chimes at Midnight [Orson Welles]
- Honkytonk Man [Clint Easwood]
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil [Clint Eastwood]
- Bringing Up Baby [Howard Hawks]
- The Silence of the Lambs [Jonathan Demme]
- Crimes and Misdemeanors [Woody Allen]
- The Trial [Orson Welles]
- Short Cuts [Robert Altman]
- F For Fake [Orson Welles]
- Broken Blossoms [D.W. Griffith]
- King Kong [Merrian Cooper]
- Frankenstein [James Whale]
- Bird [Clint Eastwood]
- Othello [Orson Welles]
- Macbeth [Orson Welles]
- The Picture of Dorian Grey [Albert Lewin]
- The Devil and Daniel Webster [William Dieterle]
- White Hunter, Black Heart [Clint Eastwood]