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