Are you fanatically devoted to a book, despite that most of your literary friends roll their eyes when you talk about it? That's a cult book!
Why do these books matter? Because cult books inspire cultish followings. Your readers will defend your story in late night arguments, build Internet discussion boards about your book, and finally, make web videos that play with your ideas--just like that hilarious Star Wars riff I embedded in this post.
You don't want people to put your book away when they finish. You want them to debate and quote your writing for the rest of their lives. Bookninja linked to this fun article about cult novels that you should check out this weekend--write like you want to make people obsessed! Check it out:
"we were looking for the sort of book that people wear like a leather jacket or carry around like a totem. The book that rewires your head: that turns you on to psychedelics; makes you want to move to Greece; makes you a pacifist; gives you a way of thinking about yourself as a woman, or a voice in your head that makes it feel okay to be a teenager; conjures into being a character who becomes a permanent inhabitant of your mental flophouse."
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