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  1. I'd definitely put 'How To Stop Time' by Matt Haig in my top ten reads of 2018, a very good book.
  2. It is really dark and some scenes are very unpleasant, but I like the way the main character is written.
  3. Yesterday I finished 'The Wasp Factory' by Iain Banks and although it was very dark, I thought it was brilliant. Now I'm attempting to continue 'Master and Commander's by Patrick O'Brien, a book I tried to read in 2018 and put down. On my second attempt, I think I'm finally getting into this book!
  4. I haven't read the second book in the series, but this review makes me excited to re-read the first one and the continue with the rest of the trilogy!
  5. Thank you! I've just finished 'The Wasp Factory' and I thought it was disturbing, but brilliant.
  6. I've just finished 'The Wasp Factory' by Iain Banks and all I can say is wow! This story is told by Frank, a 16 year old boy, who lives on a remote island in Scotland with his father. This is about Frank, his very dysfunctional family and trying to find his brother, who has escaped from a mental institution. What I love about this book is the way in which Iain Banks writes characters. Frank is such a complex character that, although in essence he is an evil person, there are flashes of innocence and sensitivity about him, that you can't help but like him. One moment you feel like he is the only reasoable memeber of his family and then gradually, you realize his true character. Despite that, you feel sorry for Frank and the life that he has grown up in and the next, completely horrified by some of the things he does in the novel. He's not just a bad character, which in turn, makes him all the more believable. I also liked some of the dark humour in this novel. Some of the more disturbing stories of Frank's family history were told in such a way, as to make them funny. I felt guilty for laughing at times, but I couldn't help it! Away from the story itself, I liked how the novel comments on human nature's need for power and to overpower others. This idea is relevant in the areas of gender, politics and society. This novel isn't story driven, but character driven, so the story was a bit slow at times. However, I was not expecting the twist at the end. This might not be for everyone, because it is so dark and at times, really intense. However, I thought this was a brilliant first read for 2019. I would give this 5 starts, but I have to knock a point off, because this book dragged a couple of times. My Rating **** 1/2
  7. Thanks for posting this! I'm looking forward to taking part in this year's read-a-thons.
  8. Thank you, you too! I've never actually read anything by Iain Banks before, so this will be interesting.
  9. I hope we all have a great reading year. This year, I'm not going to set myself any reading goal (last year's was 30 books). In fact, I've deleting Good Reads because I was reading books for the sake of hitting a score, rather than actually savouring them. Instead, I want to focus more on re-reading books and also reading books that are chunky, mostly consisting of 600+ pages. So, by the end of this year, I won't have read a large number of books, but hopefully, a large amount of pages. That's why my TRB lists are divided into the new books I have on my shelves and the ones that I would like to re-read this year. I'm looking forward to seeing what books this year will bring! I'm actually starting 2019 with a relatively short book, which is 184 pages, 'The Wasp Factory' by Iain Banks. This looks a bit dark!
  10. January 'The Wasp Factory'- Iain Banks **** 1/2 'Master and Commander'-Patrick O'Brien *** February 'The Passage'- Justin Cronin (Started in January) **** 1/2 'White Teeth'- Zadie Smith *** 'Testimony'- Anita Shreve *** March 'The Knife of Never Letting Go'- Patrick Ness (Started in February) **** 'The Diving -Bell and The Butterfly'- Jean-Dominique Bauby **** 'Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine'- Gail Honeyman (DNF) 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'- J.K. Rowling **** 'The Twelve'- Justin Cronin *** April (Started in March) 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest'- Stieg Larsson *** 'I Let You Go'- Claire Mackintosh **** 'Never Say Spy'- Diane Henders *** June 'The Keeper of Lost Things'- Ruth Hogan *** 'The Hole'- Guy Burt **** 'An Unwanted Guest' - Shari Lapena *** 'Impression of a Dilema'- Ann Sharples **** July 'Inkheart'- Cornelia Funke *** 'Queen Camilla'- Sue Townsend ** 1/2 'The Shadow of the Wind'- Carlos Ruiz Zafon ***** August 'It'- Stephen King (Started in July) **** 'The Crow Trap'- Ann Cleeves *** September 'The Finisher'- David Badacci ** 'The Dead Ex'- Jane Corry ** October 'The Girl In Between'- Laeken Zea Kemp **** 'My Left Foot'- Christy Brown **** 'The Bone Collector'- Jeffery Deaver ***** 'Strangers Assume my Girlfriend is my Nurse'- Shane Burcaw **** 'Accessing the Future: A Disability Themed Anthology of Speculative Fiction'- Kathryn Allen *** November 'The Institute'- Stephen King **** 'The Gunslinger'- Stephen King **** December 'The Uninvited'- Liz Jensen *** 'The Drawing of the Three'- Stephen King ****
  11. The boxes look brilliant! 'Melmoth' is a book that I'm tempted to read. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this. Happy New Year! Here's to some great reads in 2019!
  12. Wish List 'Map of Days'- Ransom Riggs 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'- Joan Lindsay 'Midnight's Children'- Salman Rushdie 'The Dry'- Jane Harper 'The Lido'- Libby Page 'CIrce'- Madeline Miller 'Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine'- Gail Honeyman 'The Butcher's Hook' -Janet Ellis 'Transcription'- Kate Atkinson 'Big Sky'- Kate Atkinson
  13. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this book. Happy New Year to you!
  14. At the beginning of this year, I set myself a target of reading 30 books and I made that target, yesterday. Just in time for the new year.
  15. 1001 books to Read before you Die Challenge Titles I have read, are highlighted in red:Pre-17001001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus1000. Metamorphoses – Ovid999. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton998. Aithiopika – Heliodorus997. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous995. Gargantua and Pantagruel – François Rabelais994. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly993. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan990. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette989. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn1700s988. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe986. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe984. Roxana – Daniel Defoe983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift981. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift979. Pamela – Samuel Richardson978. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson977. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett976. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding975. Fanny Hill – John Cleland974. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett973. Amelia – Henry Fielding972. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox971. Candide – Voltaire970. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson969. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau968. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot967. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau966. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole965. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith964. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne963. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne962. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie961. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett960. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe959. Evelina – Fanny Burney958. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau957. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos956. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau955. Cecilia – Fanny Burney954. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade953. Vathek – William Beckford952. Justine – Marquis de Sade951. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin950. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano949. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe948. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe947. The Monk – M.G. Lewis946. Camilla – Fanny Burney945. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot944. The Nun – Denis Diderot943. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin1800s942. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth941. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen939. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen936. Emma – Jane Austen935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott934. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth933. Persuasion – Jane Austen932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott929. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott928. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin927. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper924. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni923. The Red and the Black – Stendhal922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo921. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac920. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac919. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe915. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal914. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens912. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas907. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë 901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne894. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert885. Adam Bede – George Eliot884. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens882. Max Havelaar – Multatuli881. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot878. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope877. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens875. Silas Marner – George Eliot874. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky870. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope864. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky860. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope858. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy856. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope855. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll853. Middlemarch – George Eliot852. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev851. Erewhon – Samuel Butler850. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky849. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne847. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert844. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy843. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot842. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev841. Drunkard – Émile Zola840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy839. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy838. The Red Room – August Strindberg837. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky836. Nana – Émile Zola835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace834. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert833. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James832. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson830. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy828. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans827. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater826. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain824. Germinal – Émile Zola823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 819. She – H. Rider Haggard818. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy817. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg816. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés815. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant814. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson813. Hunger – Knut Hamsun812. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg811. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola810. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy807. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf806. New Grub Street – George Gissing805. News from Nowhere – William Morris804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle803. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith802. Born in Exile – George Gissing801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy798. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells795. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz794. Dracula – Bram Stoker793. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide792. What Maisie Knew – Henry James791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin787. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross1900s785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad784. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling782. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad779. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James778. The Immoralist – André Gide777. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers776. The Ambassadors – Henry James775. The Golden Bowl – Henry James774. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster771. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann770. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton769. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy768. Young Törless – Robert Musil767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad765. Mother – Maxim Gorky764. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson763. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett762. The Iron Heel – Jack London761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster760. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse759. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells758. Strait is the Gate – André Gide757. Martin Eden – Jack London756. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein755. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel754. Howards End – E.M. Forster753. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton751. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs746. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse745. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel744. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham740. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf739. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford738. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce735. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton734. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen733. Summer – Edith Wharton732. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad731. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West730. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis729. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence727. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis726. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton725. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley724. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence723. Ulysses – James Joyce722. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis721. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence720. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair718. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse716. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf715. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings714. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield713. Amok – Stefan Zweig712. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley711. Cane – Jean Toomer710. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo709. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster707. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin706. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann705. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen704. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville703. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather702. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky701. The Trial – Franz Kafka700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf697. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos696. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello693. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence692. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek691. The Castle – Franz Kafka690. Blindness – Henry Green689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway688. Amerika – Franz Kafka687. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf685. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust684. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse683. Nadja – André Breton682. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford681. Quicksand – Nella Larsen680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh679. Quartet – Jean Rhys678. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis677. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence675. Orlando – Virginia Woolf674. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille673. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe672. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner670. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West669. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen668. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque666. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia665. Living – Henry Green664. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway662. Passing – Nella Larsen661. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett659. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh658. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning657. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham655. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett654. The Waves – Virginia Woolf653. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth652. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett651. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley648. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon646. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil645. A Day Off – Storm Jameson644. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein642. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers641. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West640. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald637. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller635. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain634. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev633. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht632. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers631. Burmese Days – George Orwell630. England Made Me – Graham Greene629. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy627. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood626. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti625. Independent People – Halldór Laxness624. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner621. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell618. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West617. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley616. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner615. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)613. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis612. In Parenthesis – David Jones611. The Years – Virginia Woolf610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett606. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene604. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson600. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler598. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys597. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller596. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood595. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck591. Party Going – Henry Green590. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati589. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene588. Native Son – Richard Wright587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway586. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler585. The Hamlet – William Faulkner584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf583. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton582. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White581. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien580. Conversations in Sicily – Elio Vittorini579. The Outsider – Albert Camus578. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner577. Embers – Sandor Marai576. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse575. Caught – Henry Green574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry573. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow572. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges571. Transit – Anna Seghers570. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham569. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi568. Arcanum 17 – André Breton567. Loving – Henry Green566. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck564. Animal Farm – George Orwell563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh562. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andric561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake560. Back – Henry Green559. The Plague – Albert Camus558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino557. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry556. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi555. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau554. The Victim – Saul Bellow553. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton551. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene550. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot549. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia548. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell546. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren545. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier544. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge542. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk540. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber535. The Third Man – Graham Greene534. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz533. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille532. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett530. The Rebel – Albert Camus529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger528. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett524. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar523. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson522. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison519. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin516. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow515. Junkie – William Burroughs514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis513. Watt – Samuel Beckett512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley509. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding507. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage505. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis504. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch503. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan502. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini501. The Recognitions – William Gaddis500. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis499. The Quiet American – Graham Greene498. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett497. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien493. The Floating Opera – John Barth492. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow491. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon489. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin488. Justine – Lawrence Durrell487. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak485. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac483. Homo Faber – Max Frisch482. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham480. Voss – Patrick White479. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White476. The End of the Road – John Barth475. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe471. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe468. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark464. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow463. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes462. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee458. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee455. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien454. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino453. How It Is – Samuel Beckett452. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark449. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass448. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem447. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger444. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani442. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien441. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing439. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey435. The Collector – John Fowles434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath432. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré429. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol428. The Graduate – Charles Webb427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut426. V. – Thomas Pynchon425. Herzog – Saul Bellow424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe422. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme420. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey419. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut416. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien415. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o414. Things – Georges Perec413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys410. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras409. The Magus – John Fowles408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote407. Trawl – B.S. Johnson406. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West405. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien403. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson402. The Joke – Milan Kundera401. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez398. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe396. Chocky – John Wyndham395. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf394. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines393. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan392. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke388. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn387. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn386. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen385. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch384. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal383. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen382. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec381. Them – Joyce Carol Oates380. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo378. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth377. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles375. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.374. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines373. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover372. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado371. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard370. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell368. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison364. The Ogre – Michael Tournier363. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark362. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima361. Rabbit Redux – John Updike360. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs359. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow356. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul355. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood353. G – John Berger352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson351. The Breast – Philip Roth350. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino349. Sula – Toni Morrison348. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch347. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon346. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene345. Crash – J.G. Ballard344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino343. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell342. A Question of Power – Bessie Head341. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll337. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee336. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle335. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow334. Correction – Thomas Bernhard333. Dead Babies – Martin Amis332. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow331. High Rise – J.G. Ballard330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan329. Fateless – Imre Kertész328. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme327. Grimus – Salman Rushdie326. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell325. W, or the Memory of childhood – Georges Perec324. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez323. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf322. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme321. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice319. The Public Burning – Robert Coover318. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo317. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke316. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector315. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison314. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o313. Dispatches – Michael Herr312. The Shining – Stephen King311. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter309. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee308. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt307. Yes – Thomas Bernhard306. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch304. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec303. The World According to Garp – John Irving302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino299. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll298. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer297. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul296. Shikasta – Doris Lessing295. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco292. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole290. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom289. Rites of Passage – William Golding288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie287. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee286. Broken April – Ismail Kadare285. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin284. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer283. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray281. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike280. The Names – Don DeLillo279. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard278. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin277. The Newton Letter – John Banville276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker271. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White270. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi269. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus268. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek267. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing266. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee265. Waterland – Graham Swift264. La Brava – Elmore Leonard263. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor262. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett261. Shame – Salman Rushdie260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes258. Neuromancer – William Gibson257. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard252. The Lover – Marguerite Duras251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago250. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?248. Legend – David Gemmell247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd246. Queer – William Burroughs245. White Noise – Don DeLillo244. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood241. Contact – Carl Sagan240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis239. A Maggot – John Fowles238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez235. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann234. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel233. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi232. Foe – J.M. Coetzee231. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro229. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt228. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons226. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates225. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o224. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore223. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae222. Beloved – Toni Morrison221. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul220. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe217. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan215. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind214. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy212. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke211. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks206. Libra – Don DeLillo205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey204. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson201. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood198. The Book of Evidence – John Banville197. London Fields – Martin Amis196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway192. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker191. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro189. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow188. Moon Palace – Paul Auster187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson186. A Disaffection – James Kelman185. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi183. Possession – A.S. Byatt182. Like Life – Lorrie Moore181. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham180. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien179. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster178. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge177. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald176. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon175. Amongst Women – John McGahern174. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard173. Wise Children – Angela Carter172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres171. Downriver – Iain Sinclair170. Regeneration – Pat Barker169. Typical – Padgett Powell168. Mao II – Don DeLillo167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang164. Arcadia – Jim Crace163. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud162. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan161. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)160. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín159. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates158. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje155. Jazz – Toni Morrison154. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks152. Indigo – Marina Warner151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker150. A Heart So White – Javier Marias149. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch148. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt146. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood144. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides142. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields141. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe139. On Love – Alain de Botton138. Complicity – Iain Banks137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth136. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx132. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm131. Disappearance – David Dabydeen130. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman127. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami124. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee123. Land – Park Kyong-ni122. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq121. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst120. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster119. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis118. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose117. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink115. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald114. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth113. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie112. The Information – Martin Amis111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner110. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood108. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin107. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace106. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker104. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels103. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard101. Silk – Alessandro Baricco100. The Untouchable – John Banville99. American Pastoral – Philip Roth98. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey96. Underworld – Don DeLillo95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan94. Great Apes – Will Self93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy91. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham88. Another World – Pat Barker87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters84. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon83. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom82. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan80. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq78. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb74. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster2000s69. Pastoralia – George Saunders68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth61. How the Dead Live – Will Self60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill46. Fury – Salman Rushdie45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen42. Atonement – Ian McEwan41. Schooling – Heather McGowan40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon35. Dead Air – Iain Banks34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides32. Shroud – John Banville31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami27. Unless – Carol Shields26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer25. The Double – José Saramago24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee20. Islands – Dan Sleigh19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner15. The Colour – Rose Tremain14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd10. Vanishing Point – David Markson9. The Master – Colm Tóibín8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble6. The Sea – John Banville5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith2. Saturday – Ian McEwan1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  16. TBR List 'War and Peace'- Leo Tolstoy 'Schindler's List'- Thomas Keneally 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest'- Steig Larsson 'A Tale of Two Cities'- Charles Dickens 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them' (Original Screen play)- J.K Rowling 'Christine'- Stephen King 'The Pilot's Wife'- Anita Shreve 'Queen Camilia'- Sue Townsend 'Three Men in a Boat'- Jerome K. Jerome 'Dracula'-Bram Stoker 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'- James Joyce 'Ulysses'-James Joyce 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'- John Buchan 'The Collective'- Stephen King 'Duma Key'- Stephen King 'Just After Sunset'- Stephen King 'The Godfather'- Mario Puzo 'The Knife of Never Letting go- Patrick Ness 'The Girl On the Train'- Paula Hawkins 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell'- Susanna Clarke 'Affinity'- Sarah Waters 'The Wasp Factory'.- Iain Banks 'Master and Commander'- Patrick O'Brien Books I want to Re-Read List The 'Dark Tower' Series- Stephen King 'The Stand'- Stephen King 'The Shining'- Stephen King The 'Harry Potter' Series- J.K Rowling 'The Passage'- Justin Cronin 'His Dark Materials' Trilogy- Philip Pullman 'Never Let Me Go'- Kazuo Ishiguro 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog'- Muriel Barbery 'The Art of Racing in the Rain'- Garth Stein 'Three Things About Elsie'- Joanna Cannon 'The Hunger Games' Trilogy- Suzanne Collins 'The Hole'- Guy Burt 'The Rapture' -Liz Jensen 'The Road'- Cormac McCarthy 'Wuthering Heights'- Emily Bronte 'Far from the Madding Crowd'- Thomas Hardy 'Oliver Twist'-Charles Dickens 'Memoirs of a Geisha'- Arthur Golden
  17. My Rating System: ***** Loved it. Would Recommend. **** Liked it *** It was ok, but had some faults ** Didn't like it * Hated it
  18. wow! this is an amazing amount! I haven't thought about how I'm going to set up my 2019 reads yet, I've decided not to make a Goodreads goal though. I'd prefer to log everything on this board and in the book log I got for christmas. I hope you read some excellent books in 2019!
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