MY 100 FAVOURITE BOOKS (to be updated from tie to time)
Banville, John, The Untouchable
Ballard, J.G., The Atrocity Exhibition
Barthes, Roland, A Lovers Discourse
Baum, L. Frank, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Benjamin, Walter, Camera Lucida
Binet, Laurent, Hhhh
Borges, Jorge Luis, Labyrinths
Breton, Andre, Nadja
Brodsky, Joseph, Watermark
Burton, Robert, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Calvino, Italo, If On a Winter’s Night A Traveller
Camus, Albert, The Outsider
Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Carver, Raymond, Cathedral Catullus, The Complete Poems
Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote
Chandler, Raymond, The Long Goodbye
Clark, T.J., The Sight of Death
Cocteau, Jean, Les Enfants Terribles
Colette, Cheri
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness
Dante, Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Dick, Philip K., Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations
Diderot, Denis and d’Alembert, Jean le Rond, Encyclopedia
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, The Idiot
Duras, Marguerite, The Lover
Dyer, Geoff, Out of Sheer Rage
Ellroy, James, American Tabloid
Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying
Ferrante, Elena, My Brilliant Friend
Fitzgerald, Penelope, The Blue Flower
Fitzgerald, F., Scott, The Great Gatsby
Forster, E. M., A Room with a View
Garner, Alan, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Gibson, William, Neuromancer
Greene, Graham, The End of the Affair
Halsey, Alan, The Text of Shelley’s Death
Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time
Hearn, Lian, Across the Nightingale Floor
Highsmith, Patricia, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Holmes, Richard, Footsteps
Homer, The Odyssey
Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Remains of the Day
James, Henry, The Wings of the Dove
Joyce, James, Ulysses
Kadare, Ismail, The Palace of Dreams
Kafka, Franz, The Trial
Knausgaard, Karl Ove, My Struggle
Konigsburg, E. L., From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
Kristof, Agota, The Notebook
Le Carré, John, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Lem, Stanislaw, Solaris
Levi, Primo, The Periodic Table
Lively, Penelope, Moon Tiger
Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice
Marani, Diego, New Finnish Grammar
Marias, Javier, The Infatuations
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, Love in the Time of Cholera
Maxwell, William, Time Will Darken It
Michaels, Anne, Fugitive Pieces
Miller, Madeleine, The Song of Achilles
Morris, Jan, Venice
Nabokov, Vladimir, Speak Memory
Nabokov, Vladimir, Pale Fire
Ondaatje, Michael, The English Patient
Orwell, George, Down and Out in Paris and London
Patchett, Ann, Bel Canto
Perec, George, W or the Memory of Childhood
Pessoa, Fernando, The Book of Disquiet
Pliny the Younger, Letters
Polo, Marco, The Travels
Proust, Marcel, In Search of Lost Time
Pullman, Philip, Northern Lights
Tanizaki, Junichero, In Praise of Shadows
Tartt, Donna, The Secret History
Tsypkin, Leonid, Summer in Baden Baden
Saki, Short Stories
Sagan, Francoise, Bonjour Tristesse
Salinger, J. D., The Catcher in the Rye
Salter, James, Light Years
Schama, Simon, Landscape and Memory
Sebald, W. G., Austerlitz
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
Shonagon, Sei, The Pillow Book
(Anonymous) , The Thousand and One Nights
Thubron, Colin, In Siberia
Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Verne, Jules, Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Walser, Robert, Microscripts
Wells, H.G., The Island of Dr Moreau
Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Williams, John, Stoner