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Melissa MacAulay at The Editing Company blog writes that during a part-time gig at Canadian giant Indigo books, Palahniuk’s Fight Club ended up behind the counter. And another major bookstore confirms much of the anonymous shelf above. We might assume whichever store it is has all the evidence it needs from a consistently shrinking inventory of these titles. How do we know this? One source is simply an image, above, tweeted out by Vintage/Anchor Books-a photo of a “Most Stolen Books” shelf at an unnamed bookstore. Other favorite authors include hyper-masculine seers of societal decadence, Chuck Palahniuk and Brett Easton Ellis. Kurt Vonnegut ranks highly, including his very popular Cat’s Cradle and Breakfast of Champions.

The books most stolen from bookstores happen to also be those that might best appeal to the kind of radical anarcho-hippies Hoffman addressed, including Jack Kerouac’s On the Roadand anything by Bukowski and Burroughs.Īlso high on the list is Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, not a novel we necessarily associate with dumpster-divers and boxcar-hoppers, but one of many Murakamis book thieves have taken to lifting nonetheless. Nevertheless, millions of people have needed no unambiguous prodding from the Andy Kaufman of political theater to steal millions of other books from shops worldwide, to the detriment of publishers and booksellers and the edification of penurious readers.

Did they misread the very clear instruction in the title? Or did most of Hoffman’s readers think of it as another Yippie hoax, not to be taken any more seriously than Pigasus, the 145-pound pig Hoffman and his merry band of pranksters nominated for president in 1968? Seems to me Hoffman was dead serious about the pig, and about his call for shoplifting, or “inventory shrink.” Since then, millions of people have queued up to pay for it. In 1971, Abbie Hoffman published his countercultural how-to/” hip Boy Scout handbook,” Steal This Book.

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