books

A wee while ago I asked my friends which books I should read. They came back with an eclectic list - because obviously my friends read a lot of books and (hopefully) also have excellent taste. After whittling out all of the vague authors names-with-no-book-titles, and already-read gems, I now have myself a list. Initially I was going to conduct a Kinders Al Kinley inspired 2013 challenge for myself - but I just don't think I have his determination. (However he did contribute to this list - for which I am grateful). I have added one of my own which has been sat by my bed for many moons (Oh What a Carve Up) which was given to me by a good friend many many months ago. Sorry Jules. It is on a list now, so don't worry. 

I'm not going to make a foolish promise to read all of the books below. Come on. But I will use this is a go-to list. Expect reviews. short and sweet ones. Soon. (Hopefully).

So here you go. My to-reads. 

Margaret Atwood - oryx and crake

Paul Auster – Leviathan

Paul Auster - Mr Vertigo

Franco Berardi - The Soul at Work

Mikhil Bulgakov - Master and margarita

Camus - The Outsider

Camus - The Plague

Jonathan Coe – Oh What a Carve up.

Michael Cunningham - A Home at the end of the world

Jared Diamond - Collapse

Junot Diaz - Oscar Wao + Drown

Dickens - Great Expectations

Jim Dodge - Stone Junction

David Eagleman - Sum

Jeffery Eugenides - Middlesex

Fitzgerald – Gatsby

Robert Girardi - Madeleine's Ghost

Ursula Le Guin - The Dispossessed

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls

Frank Herbert - Dune series

Huxley - Brave New World

Jeroen Krabbe - The Discovery of Heaven

Primo Levi - If This is a Man

Marquez - The General In His Labyrinth

Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude

Last of the Savages - Jay McInernery

Czesław Miłosz - Captive Mind

Haruki Murakami - IQ 84

Alun Paton - Cry the Beloved Country

Mervyn Peake - Ghormenghast trilogy

Marge Piercy - Gone to Soldiers

Thomas Pynchon - Gravities Rainbow

Antione de Sant Exupery - The Little Prince

Salinger - Franny and Zoey

Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis

Rebecca Solnit - Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disasters

John Steinbeck - East of Eden

Scarlett Thomas - End of Mr Y

Stefan Zweig - Chess Story