Books
Books I have loved:
Matilda, Roald Dahl
The Borrowers, Mary Norton
The Babysitters Club series, Ann M. Martin
The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
Wizard of Oz series, L. Frank Baum
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Daddy Long Legs, Jean Webster
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon
Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollen
Anybody Out There?, Marian Keyes
Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne
George Eliot, Middlemarch
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson* (Laura)
Notable books I have read:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Emma, Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
The Riftwar Saga, Raymond E Feist
Wizards First Rule, Terry Goodkind
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
Snow Crash, Neil Stephenson
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
Nineteen Eighty-Four , George Orwell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
The Truth Machine, James L. Halperin
Meditations for the Humanist, A. C. Grayling
Random Acts of Kindness, Danny Wallace
Cosmos and The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Stephanie Plum series, Janet Evanovich
Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splended Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Havana Nocturne, T.J. English
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
Zoo Quest for a Dragon, David Attenborough
Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling
Dear American Airlines, Jonathan Miles
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
Chocolat, Joanne Harris
All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
Blackwater, Jeremy Scahill
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
World Without End, Ken Follett
Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer
A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
Of Love and Other Demons, Gabriel García Márquez
A Century of November, W.D. Wetherell
Love in the time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
The Help, Kathryn Stockett* (Amazon)
The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak* (Laura, Greg)
The Belgariad, David Eddings
Books on my bookshelf, waiting to be read:
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
King Leopold’s Ghost, Adam Hochschild
Flashman, George MacDonald Fraser* (Amazon)
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon* (Laura)
Books on my kindle, waiting to be read:
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales and Stories
Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron
Thousand and One Nights
Honore de Balzac, Old Goriot
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Anton P Chekhov, Selected Stories
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Gilgamesh
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey
Knut Hamsun, Hunger
Victor Hugo,The Hunchback of Notre Dame
James Joyce, Ulysses
Franz Kafka, The Trial
Kalidasa, The Recognition of Sakuntala
DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
Giacomo Leopardi, Complete Poems
Mahabharata
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Shikibu Murasaki, The Tale of Genji Genji
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales
Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace; Anna Karenina
Virgil, The Aeneid
Books I would like to read:
The War of Don Emannuel’s Nether Parts, Louis de Bernieres (Laura)
Obernewtyn, Isobelle Carmody (Sarah)
The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami (Simon)
Franny and Zooey, J D Salinger (Freya)
Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson (Freya)
The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass (Freya)
Marley & Me, John Grogan*
For One More Day, Mitch Albom*
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts (Greg)
The Host,Stephenie Meyer* (Greg)
Dear Editor…The collected letters of Oscar Brittle, Glenn Fowler, Christoper Smyth, and Gareth Malone (Greg)
March, Geraldine Brooks* (Greg)
True Grit, Charles Portis (Greg)
The Road, Cormac McCarthy (Greg)
The White Queen, Philippa Gregory* (Amazon)
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks* (Amazon)
Silent Lies, M. L. Malcolm* (Amazon)
The Life of Pi, Yann Martel* (Greg)
Résistance, Agnès Humbert*
House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds
The Terminal Man, Alfred Mehran (The Terminal)
This Accursed Land, Lennard Bickel (Garth)
The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb* (Garth)
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace (I Write Like)
* = available for the kindle in Europe
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