The Barnes & Noble list of writers whose works are most shoplifted:
Martin Amis
Paul Auster
Georges Bataille
William Burroughs
Italo Calvino
Raymond Chandler
Michel Foucault
Dashiell Hammett
Jack Kerouac
Jeanette Winterson.
Apparently readers of these books are a rather scurvy lot.
From:
http://www.observer.com/pages/edgy.htm
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