The writers of Lost take their inspiration from many literary genres. The following books are a collection of texts, CDs, and film adaptations referenced in various episodes of the Lost TV series.

Also included in this list are some excellent books on screenwriting and story structure, and a few other books that’ll help you on your search for answers.

Books:

• Lord of the Flies, William Golding
• The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
• Bad Twin (Lost (Hyperion)), Gary Troup
• The Stand (The Complete and Uncut Edition), Stephen King
• The Writer’s Journey, Second Edition : Mythic Structure for Writers, Christopher Vogler
• Story Sense: A Screenwriter’s Guide for Film and Television, Paul Lucey
• The Screenwriter’s Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script, David Trottier
• The Survivor Personality: Why Some People Are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life’s Difficulties…and How You Can Be, Too, Al Siebert
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
• A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
• How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make, Denny Martin Flinn
• Utopia (Penguin Classics), Thomas More
• I Ching Workbook, R.L. Wing
• The Beasts That Hide from Man: Seeking the World’s Last Undiscovered Animals, Karl P.N. Shuker
• Art Of Dramatic Writing : Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives, Lajos Egri
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce
• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
• The Brothers Karamazov : A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue (Penguin Classics), Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• On Heroes And Hero Worship and The Heroic in History, Thomas Carlyle
• The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions), Henry James
• The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, Neil Asher Silberman
• Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
• Unlocking the Meaning of Lost: An Unauthorized Guide, David Lavery
• The Black Box : All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts Of In-flight Accidents, Malcolm Macpherson
• Lancelot : A Novel, Walker Percy
• Mongolian Cloud Houses : How to Make a Yurt and Live Comfortably, Dan Frank Kuehn
• Jay’s Journal of Anomalies : Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Imposters, Pretenders, Side-Show Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvels, Popular Entertainments, Ricky Jay
• MAYDAY: Accident Reports and Voice Transcripts from Airline Crash Investigations, Marion F. Sturkey
• Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting, Robert McKee
• The Quickening: Today’s Trends, Tomorrow’s World, Jennifer L. Osborne
• Beyond the Indigo Children : The New Children and the Coming of the Fifth World, P. M. H. Atwater
• Island (Perennial Classics), Aldous Huxley
• Indigo Children, Lee Carroll
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Great Books in Philosophy), John Locke
• Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama, David Mamet
• The Social Contract (Penguin Classics), Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics), Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Getting Lost : Survival, Baggage, and Starting Over in J. J. Abrams’ Lost (Smart Pop series),
• On a Wing and a Prayer : Interviews with Airline Disaster Survivors, Malcolm Macpherson
• Teach Yourself Korean: Complete Audio Cd Program (Teach Yourself Language Complete Courses (Audio)), Jaehoon Yeon

DVDs:

• Watership Down, Martin Rosen
• Apocalypse Now Redux, Paramount
• Alice in Wonderland (Masterpiece Edition), Hamilton Luske
• Animal Farm, John Halas
• Lord of the Flies - Criterion Collection, Peter Brook
• The Wizard of Oz (Three-Disc Collector’s Edition), Warner Home Video
• The Day After Tomorrow (Widescreen Edition), Roland Emmerich
• Stand (2pc) (Spec), Live / Artisan
• Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, Ben Bolt (II)
• A Wrinkle in Time, John Kent Harrison

CDs:

• The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations, Various Artists
• Lost (Music from the ABC Television Series), Michael Giacchino