The idea is that I’m going to read these books in the order that I wrote them down, which is quite random, and already I’ve broken this rule. Anyway, I’ve read some of these before (*) but they’re deserving of a re-read, and others just sound interesting because of their author, title, film or celebrity.
- *A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (Watched the film afterwards. Rather more disturbing than the book)
- The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides (The book I wish I’d written)
- Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey (I started it but lost interest. Will get back to it)
- The Satanic Verses – Salmon Rushdie (Started this but totally lost the plot – literally. Will try again later)
- The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe (Totally dug this)
- *Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Less than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis (The Catcher in the Rye of the 80s)
- Beijing Confidential – Jan Wong (June 08)
- On the Road – Jack Kerouac
- The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – Jose Saramango
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
- *The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – Italo Calvino
- Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
- *Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip K Dick
- The Electric Koolaid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
- Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges
- Catch 22 – Joseph Heller (I don’t remember a thing about it and I read it last year – need to re read)
- The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
- Lolita – Vladimir Nobokov (I hope the rest of the book is better than the first pargraph)
- The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzakis
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
- In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
- For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
- *Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
- *Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- *Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- *To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Life of Pi – Yann Martel
- The Prophet – Kalil Gibran
- The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
- The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
- The Nun – Denis Diderot
- Faust – Johann Wolfgang Von Guethe
- No Logo – Naomi Klein (July 08)
- The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
- Dry, A Memoir – Augustin Burroughs. And so begins my love afair with Burroughs.
- Running with Scissors – Augustin Burroughs – just arrived from Amazon
- The Millennium trilogy – reading the first one now – finished. Seriously though, what drivel. Don’t know if I’ll get to the second one but it’s on the shelf.
- Status Anxiety – Alain de Botton – love love love! Have a few more of his coming from Amazon.
- Hollywood Ending (aka John Belushi is Dead – in the US) – Kathy Charles. Happened to start talking to a friend of the authors as JJ and I were dining at Tiamo on Lygon Street. Ran into Readings and bought their last copy. Yay!