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A lot of classic books and themes have
been showing up on Lost. Here are a list of books and how their
themes are incorporated into the show or what Lost character is reading
them.
Some of these books are shown in more
than one episode or season. Listed are the first appearances with some
additional listings.
Season One
Island
by Aldous Huxley
Use: A sign on the dock reads "Pala Ferry. Pala is the name of the
island in Huxley's novel.
Episodes: Pilot and Season Two's "?"
Walden Two
by B. F. Skinner
Similarities to multiple episodes
Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Use: Locke mentions the white rabbit and suggests that
impossible things might be possible on the island.
Episode: Pilot
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad - Jack refers to the book while talking to Kate.
Pilot Episode
Watership Down
by Richard Adams (Author)
The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction
of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven,
skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and
its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching,
involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside.
On Lost: It originally belonged to Boone and was
later found in Sawyer's luggage.
Pilot Episode and "House of the Rising
Sun"
William Golding's Lord of the Flies
Episode, "Homecoming" First mentioned by Sawyer when he thinks Jin
burned a raft.
A Wrinkle in Time
Episode: Homecoming
Memoirs of a Geisha
Episode: "The Greater Good" Book by by Arthur Golden
Sun and Jin's relationship is compared to the book by another couple.
Season Two
Bluebeard
Episode: Adrift
An Egg Workout: Exercises in Arrythmia Interpretation
Episode: "Orientation"
Dirty Work
Episode: "Orientation"
High Hand
Episode: "Orientation"
Rainbow Six
Episode: "Orientation"
The Third Policeman
Episode: "Orientation"
After All These Years
Episode" What Kate Did"
Hindsights: The Wisdom And Breakthroughs of Remarkable People
Episode: " What Kate Did"
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
Episode: "The Long Con"
Bad Twin
Episode: "The Long Con", "Two For the Road"
Bad Twin is the highly-anticipated new novel by acclaimed mystery
writer Gary Troup. Bad Twin was delivered to Hyperion just days before
Troup boarded Oceanic Flight 815, which was lost in flight from Sydney,
Australia to Los Angeles in September 2004. He remains missing and is
presumed dead.
On Lost Hurley was reading the manuscript.
Bonjour Babar
Episode: "One of Them"
Lancelot
Episode: "Maternity Leave"
The Brothers Karamazov
Episode: "Maternity Leave"
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
Episode: "The Whole Truth"
Musset: Poesies Complete, Tome 1
Episode: SOS
Little Red Riding Hood
Episode: Two For the Road"
Season Three
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Episode: "A Tale of Two Cities"
Carrie
Episode: "A Tale of Two Cities"
Of Mice And Men
Episode: "Every Man for Himself"
A Brief History of Time
Episode: Not in Portland"
Laughter In The Dark
Episode: "Flashes Before Your Eyes"
Stranger In A Strange Land
Episode: "Stranger In A Strange Land"
The Fountainhead
Episode: "Par Avion"
Evil Under The Sun
Episode: "Expose"
Jurassic Park
Episode: "Expose"
Catch-22
Episode "Catch-22"
The Oath
Episode: "The Brig"
The Coalwood Way
Episode: "The Man Behind the Curtain"
The Stone Leopard
Episode: " The Man Behind the Curtain"
Through the Looking Glass
Episode: " Through the Looking Glass"
Season 4 and Five
On the Road by Jack
Kerouac
Jack
Episode:
The Economist
Use: The alias Ben uses
in the episode, Dean Moriarty, is a character from "On the Road".
Book synopsis: On the Road chronicles
Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent-from East Coast
to West Coast to Mexico-with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned
hero of the snowy West."
Buy On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
The Invention of Morel
Episode: "Eggtown"
Valis
Episode: "Eggtown"
Survivors of the Chancellor
Episode "Ji Yeon"
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