From Pink Floyd to Iron Maiden to Metallica to... you name it, these books inspired musicians into making some really cool music.
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last updated March, 2026
The Oval Portrait
Edgar Allan Poe
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Raven
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Man Who Sold the Moon
Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Premature Burial
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Herman Melville
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
H.P. Lovecraft
The Shadow over Innsmouth
One Flew Over the Cuckooâs Nest
Ken Kesey
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker, #1)
Orson Scott Card
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
Childhoodâs End
Arthur C. Clarke
Anthem
Ayn Rand
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
Animal Farm
George Orwell
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