Ever been asked for book or author recommendations and your mind’s drawn a blank?
Me too.
To stave off that feeling in the future, a list of those whose company I remember enjoying somewhere along life’s path so far.
Maybe some have found or will find a similarly enjoyable place in your life, too 😃
(In alphabetical rather than chronological order, as that could get messy 🤔)
Richard Adams Watership Down
Nafeez Masaddeq Ahmed The War on Truth
Jon Lee Anderson Che Guevara – A Revolutionary Life
Mikhail Bakunin Selected Writings from Mikhail Bakunin: Essays on Anarchism
James Baldwin Tell Me How Long the Train’s been Gone <review>
Paul Bowles A Distant Episode – The Selected Stories
John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Richard Brautigan In Watermelon Sugar
Buddhadasa Bhikku Anapanasati – Mindfulness with Breathing: Unveiling the Secrets of Life (A Manual for Serious Beginners)
Charles Bukowski Tales of Ordinary Madness
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
Jung Chang Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Henri Charrière Papillon
Noam Chomsky Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
John Cornwell Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Michael Cunningham Specimen Days
Richard Dawkins The God Delusion
Louis de Bernières The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts
Louis de Bernières Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Philip K. Dick A Scanner Darkly
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Christopher Duggan A Concise History of Italy
Umberto Eco The Prague Cemetery
Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho
John Fante Brotherhood of the Grape
Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
Ludwig Feuerbach The Essence of Christianity
Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair
Rebecca Fraser A People’s History of Britain
Thomas R. Flynn Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction
Jostein Gaarder The Solitaire Mystery <review>
Neil Gaiman American Gods
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
William Goldman The Princess Bride
John N. Gray False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism
John N. Gray Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
Henry Green Doting
Steve Hagen Buddhism Plain and Simple <review>
Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Jaroslav Hašek The Good Soldier Švejk <review>
Victor Headley Yardie
Joseph Heller Catch-22
Hermann Hesse Beneath the Wheel
Hermann Hesse Knulp <review>
Hermann Hesse The Fairy Tales
Hermann Hesse Demian
Hermann Hesse Klingsor’s Last Summer <review>
Hermann Hesse (translated by James Wright) Wandering <review>
Hermann Hesse Narcissus and Goldmund
Hermann Hesse The Journey to the East
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
Nick Hornby A Long Way Down
Bohumil Hrabal The Little Town where Time Stood Still
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
Liz Jensen The Uninvited
Franz Kafka The Trial
Ryszard Kapuśiński Imperium <review>
Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Stephen King Salem’s Lot
Stephen King The Shining
Stephen King It
Stephen King The Drawing of the Three
Stephen King The Waste Lands
Stephen King Insomnia
Stephen King The Green Mile
Stephen King Wizard and Glass
Stephen King Black House
Peter Kropotkin Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings <review>
Milan Kundera The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera The Art of the Novel
Milan Kundera Immortality
Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson The Girl who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Ursula K. Le Guin City of Illusions
Ursula K. Le Guin The Dispossessed
Nathan Long Jane Carver of Waar <review>
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall <review>
Hilary Mantel Bring up the Bodies
Guy de Maupassant Pierre and Jean
Toni Morrison Beloved
Haruki Murakami A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami What I Talk About when I Talk About Running <review>
John O’Brien The Assault on Tony’s
George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
Arto Paasilinna The Howling Miller
Jeremy Paxman The English: Portrait of a People
David Peace The Damned United <review>
Francine Prose Blue Angel
Francine Prose Reading Like a Writer A Guide for People who Love Books and for Those who Want to Write Them
Lisa Purcell Anatomy, Stretching and Training for Cyclists <review>
Mario Puzo The Godfather
Walpola Rahula What the Buddha Taught
Anne Rice The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice The Queen of the Damned
Anne Rice The Tale of the Body Thief
Anne Rice Blood and Gold
Gregory David Roberts Shantaram
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
J. D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye
Will Self The Book of Dave
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Iceberg Slim Pimp
Susan Sontag In America
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
Neal Stephenson Quicksilver
Koji Suzuki Ring
Wisława Szymborska Chwila / Moment
Hunter S. Thompson Hell’s Angels
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loating in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968-1976
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
S.J. Watson Before I Go to Sleep
Irvine Welsh Filth
Irvine Welsh Porno
Irvine Welsh Skagboys
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Test
Virgina Woolf To the Lighthouse
Philip G. Zimbardo The Lucifer Effect – How Good People Turn Evil
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