Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

Hiroshima by John Hersey

Suggestions for related material:

Novels

Albert Camus, The Outsider

J D Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Chuck Palahiuk, Fight Club

Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Lynne Reid, The L Shaped Room

Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

Franz Kafka, The Trial

Phillip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Saul Bellow, Dangling Man

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Ralph Ellison, The Invisible man

Plays

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

Jophn Osborne, Look Back in Anger

Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are Dead

Jean Anouilh, Antigone

Poetry

Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"

T S Eliot, "The Wasteland"

 Film

Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal

Jerzy Kosinski, Being There

Sam Mendes, American Beauty

 Todd Solonz, Happiness

Burr Steers, Igby Goes down

Lindsay Anderson, ... If

Mike Nicols, The Graduate

David O Russell, I (heart) Huckabees

  Michael Gondry, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 

Milos Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Peter Weir, The Truman Show

Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovitch

Christopher Nolan, Memento

Erick Black and Frauke Sandig, After the Fall (documentary)

Jayne Loader and kevin Rafferty, Atomic Cafe (documentary)