Modern Bohemian, Hippie, and Free-Spirit Books to Read

* The Bohemian Manifesto - Lauren Stover
The Hippie Handbook - Chelsea Cain
RENT - Jonathan Larson
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
The Egyptian Book of the Dead - E.A. Wallis Budge
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Scenes de la Boheme - Henry Murger
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
Girl Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
The Way to God - A collection of Gandhi's words
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Summer Sisters - Judy Blume
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
Hippie - Barry Miles

Plus: Poetry (especially that by Christina Rossetti, Edgar Allen Poe, Keats, Shelley, Byron, and Yeats), Plays (such as those by Oscar Wilde), Religious and Spiritual Texts, Children's Books (Like... Where the Wild Things Are), and other books that talk about hippies, Bohemianism, counterculture, drug use, etc.






hapiness is a warm..... lennon


She's not a girl who misses much
Do do do do do do, oh yeah
She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand
Like a lizard on a window pane

The man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors
On his hobnail boots
Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy
Working overtime
A soap impression of his wife which he ate
And donated to the National Trust

I need a fix 'cause I'm going down
Down to the bits that I left uptown
I need a fix cause I'm going down
Mother Superior jumped the gun
Mother Superior jumped the gun
Mother Superior jumped the gun
Mother Superior jumped the gun
Mother Superior jumped the gun
Mother Superior jumped the gun

Happiness (is a warm gun)
Bang Bang Shoot Shoot
Happiness (is a warm gun, momma)
Bang Bang Shoot Shoot

(When I hold you in my arms)
Oooooooooh, oh yeah!

And when I feel my finger on your trigger
Oooooooooh, oh yeah!

I know nobody can do me no harm
Oooooooooh, oh yeah!

Happiness (is a warm gun, momma)
Bang Bang Shoot Shoot

Happiness (is a warm gun)
Bang Bang Shoot Shoot

Yes it is, gun!
Happiness (is a warm gun)
Bang Bang Shoot Shoot

Happiness (is a warm gun)
is a warm gun, yeeeaahhh!



Music
Music is a big deal to hippies, bohemians, and free-spirits. Whether it is made on street corners, basements, recording studios, or onstage, members of the counterculture like music because it expresses what cannot be said in words. Music can take you to a higher level, on drugs or straight-up sober. Music fits and changes moods, inspires revolutions, and defines periods in history.
The most popular music includes:
Rock (especially protest rock)
Psychedelic
Folk
Indie
Jazz
Jam Bands
and for Modern Bohemians, electronic music.

Here is a list of music that wouldn't be surprising to find in a music collection of a Modern Hippie, Bohemian, Free-Spirit.

* The Beatles
* The Rolling Stones
* The Who
* Janis Joplin
* Joni Mitchell
* The Doors
* The Moody Blues
* Jimi Hendrix
* Bob Marley
* Led Zeppelin
* Pink Floyd
* Queen
* The Grateful Dead
* Phish
* Creedence Clearwater Revival
* Joss Stone
* Bob Dylan
* Jefferson Airplane
* Ravi Shankar
* Frank Zappa
* Richie Havens
* Joe Cocker
* Blood, Sweat, and Tears
* Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
* The Animals
* The Byrds
* Van Morrison
* Cat Stevens
* Arlo Guthrie



You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
Hypnotized by you if I should linger
Staring at the ring around your finger

I have only come here seeking knowledge
Things they would not teach me of in college
I can see the destiny you sold
Turned into a shining band of gold

I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger

Mephistopheles is not your name
I know what you're up to just the same
I will listen hard to your tuition **
You will see it come to its fruition

I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger

Devil and the deep blue sea behind me
Vanish in the air you'll never find me
I will turn your face to alabaster
When you will find your servant is your master

Ohhh, you'll be wrapped around my finger
You'll be wrapped around my finger **
You'll be wrapped around my finger **