Writer's write

 THE CULT-BOOK SUGGESTIONS-HIGHLY RATED 

American Gods Notebook-pages from Gaiman's notebook-research used for his book American Gods

Neil Gaiman's short stories-not all, just a good sampling of a good many


SOME OF THE GREATEST OF TRANSGRESSIVE FICTION AND MORE
Cannibal-a short story by Chuck Palahniuk
Guts by Chuck Palahniuk (gotta really be ready for this one)
for more by Palahniuk buy his books
Diary, Lullaby, Choked, Rant, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Damned, Fight Club

Fight Club 2 will be out in May
It's a comic book series


More book recommendations by me:
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor a short story you'll never forget

A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

The Alter of the Dead by Henry James

Dora: A Headache by Lidia Vakanavitch (this was so great I read it twice)

The Wasp Factory: A Novel by Iaian Banks

Generation X: Tale for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland

Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut 

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Shrodinger's Caterpillar by Zane Stumpo

Torture the Artist by Joey Goebel

The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

Clown Girl by Monica Drake

Shedding Morals by J.C. Wickhart

Fuckless by Andersen Prunty and anything by him

anything by P.A. Fenton  recommend starting with Punchline (It'll make you laugh out loud)