Here's The Savage Kick's recommended reading list. You enjoy MSP? Then you'll enjoy these.
This list will regularly update with new titles... and links to MSP's reviews of the books or their film adaptations.

--- Ryunosuke Akutagawa Rashomon --- Amy Bingaman Let Me Out --- Charles Bukowski Post Office Factotum Women Ham On Rye Hollywood Mockingbird Wish Me Luck Love Is A Dog From Hell Last Night of the Earth Poems The Captain Is Out To Lunch... South of No North Septuagenarian Stew Shakespeare Never Did This Hot Water Music The Most Beautiful Woman In Town Tales of Ordinary Madness Notes of A Dirty Old Man --- Eddie Bunker Dog Eat Dog Animal Factory No Beast So Fierce --- William S. Burroughs Junky --- Albert Camus The Outsider ---Louis-Ferdinard Celine Journey To The End of the Night Death On The Installment Plan Castle To Castle --- Harry Crews The Gospel Singer Feast Of Snakes A Childhood Classic Crews Car

--- Fyodor Dostoevsky House Of The Dead Crime and Punishment Notes From Underground The Gambler Brothers Karamazov --- Dan Fante Mooch Chump Change Corksucker / Short Dog A Gin Pissing Raw Meat... "Renewal" in SK#1 Fante --- John Fante Ask The Dust 1933 Was A Bad Year The Road To Los Angeles Wait Until Spring, Bandini Dreams From Bunker Hill West Of Rome The Brotherhood of the Grape The Big Hunger The Wine Of Youth --- Jeffrey P. Frye Bank Blogger One Crazy Day --- Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years Of Solitude --- Barry Gifford The Wild Life of Sailor & Lula --- Jim Goad Shit Magnet The Redneck Manifesto Answer Me #1-4 --- William Lindsay Gresham Nightmare Alley

--- Pedro Juan Gutierrez Dirty Havana Trilogy --- Patrick Hamilton Hangover Square --- Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon The Thin Man Red Harvest --- Knut Hamsun Hunger --- J.R. Helton Below The Line Drugs --- Chester Himes If He Hollers Let Him Go Blindman With A Pistol A Rage In Harlem The Real Cool Killers Big Gold Dream All Shot Up Heats On Cotton Comes To Harlem Plan B --- Anne Holm I Am David --- Herbert Huncke Herbert Huncke Reader --- Steve Hussy Steps Back --- Franz Kafka The Trial Amerika --- Jack Kerouac On The Road Big Sur