1000 Books You Must Read Before You Die PART I
11 June 2009
These are books I’ve read, oh yeas, and ‘Lord of the Rings.’ Many I have read in the last couple of months, a good handful (the Science Fiction with the exception of H G Wells) I read as a young teen.
Most of these are on the Guardian’s 1000 Books you must read. I failed to read more than 300 pages of Proust, ‘Remembrance of Things Past’ having heard a recommendation for it from Sebastian Foulkes on Desert Island Discs. I also failed to get far with ‘Ulysses’ James Joyce … though I loved ‘Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.’ David Waller, whose book ‘The Magnificent Mrs Tennant’ recently came out tried once again to help me through Ulysseus. He read English at Oxford so ought to know something about literature – David W I can read, and he should dare to write novels.
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Time Traveller’s Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Silas Marner
George Elliot
My Family and other animals
Gerald Durrell
Tono Bungay
H G Wells
The Time Machine
H G Wells
The War of the Worlds
H G Wells
The Islands of Dr Moreau
H G Wells
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Foundation & Empire
Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov
The Portrait of the Man as an Artist
James Joyce
Harry Potter
JK Rowling
Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut
Sunset Song
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Curious incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Atomised
Mark Michel Houellebecq
The Naked & the Dead
Norman Mailer
Regeneration
Pat Barker
The Eye in the Door
Pat Barker
The Ghost Road
Pat Barker
Count Belisarius
Robert Graves
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Stranger in a strange land
Robert Heinlein
Time Enough for Love
Robert Heinlein
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
How the dead live
Will Self
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