Thread of books mentioned or recommended by Bert/featured in The Used’s lyrics:

‘The People and the Trees’ by Hanya Yanagihara

‘S.’ by Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams

‘Gravity’s Rainbow’ by Thomas Pynchon—which is also yet another song in #Heartwork.

A personal favourite: ‘This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life’ by David Foster Wallace. You can listen to David deliver this amazing piece here:

“The Lottery”, short story by Shirley Jackson—and another fantastic song from WeAreTheUsed’s #Heartwork.

Best science fiction novel ever produced—Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’, mentioned in #TheOceanOfTheSky, where Bert quotes one of the most famous bits from the novel: “Fear is the mind killer...”.

William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. In ‘Iddy Biddy’ you can hear Bert recite act 1, scene 5 from this masterpiece.

“The Iliad” by Homer.