Generation X


Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
High Fidelity
Generation X Epic Collection, Vol. 1: Back to School
The Nineties
The Beach
13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
The Secret History
Less Than Zero
JPod
Generation X Epic Collection, Vol. 4: Pride and Penance
Generation X Epic Collection, Vol. 3: The Secret of M
Generation X Epic Collection, Vol. 2: Emplate's Revenge
Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America
Trainspotting by Irvine WelshGeneration X by Douglas CouplandPraise by Andrew McGahanYou Belong Here by Laurie SteedRoute 666 by Gina Arnold
Generation X books: 90's memories
23 books — 5 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFight Club by Chuck PalahniukSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Postmodern cult classics
87 books — 99 voters

Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukTrainspotting by Irvine WelshHigh Fidelity by Nick HornbyAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Talking 'Bout My Generation...
581 books — 444 voters

Kiss the Sky by Farai ChideyaAmericana by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Black Gen X Chick Lit
2 books — 1 voter

Douglas Coupland
Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days. ...more
Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Tori Amos
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won’t have anything to complain about. I think our generation loves our pain, and if you dare take it away from us, we’re going to kill you. We like our pain. And we’re packaging it, and we’re selling it.
Tori Amos

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