Cover of The Crow Road
I’m going to add this as a page, but I also thought it could be a post. Some links contain spoilers, but they are there if you want to click them!
(Some of) My favourite books:
by Iain Banks
by J.D. Salinger
by Charles Dickens
by Khaled Hosseini
by Bernard MacLaverty
by Kate Atkinson
by Philip Roth
by Jane Austen
by Yukio Mishima
byPaul Auster
And I also think The Road should be required reading for everyone.
I’ll quite happily read everything these people write:
Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, Michael Chabon, Douglas Coupland, Amy Tan, Alice Hoffman, Augusten Burroughs, A.L Kennedy, Isabel Allende and Jonathan Safran Foer.
What are your favourites books?
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Catcher was such a fantastic novel. And while I have not yet read The Road, I intend to…the movie was fantastic, and I hear the book is the same. May have to look into some of these others…thanks for the suggestions!
You’re welcome! Enjoy!
Lorna…most of these books are not known by me. I deeply appreciate your insights…so will begin to look into them!
These are wonderful, or at least I think so! Hope you find some gems! 🙂
In alphabetical order by author, not a definitive list, ‘cos I change my mind all the time 🙂
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Crow Road – Iain Banks
Lanark – Alasdair Gray
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Death and the Penguin – Andrey Kurkov
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Spring Snow – Yukio Mishima
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
1984 – George Orwell
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
The Illumintatus! Trilogy – Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Aren’t you impressed I didn’t just cut and paste ‘Death and the Penguin’ 10 times? 😉 xox
I like your list, there. Can we go for coffee and talk about them? Do you have a girlfriend? Because, y’know, I like boys who read. Just sayin’. 😉
Hmmm, those are some good books! I’ve been trying to compile a list of my favorites as well, but it’s so hard because I love so many. Lol!
Yep, this was taken from a longer list of about 50! 🙂
My friend had me read ATOWN LIKE ALICE by Neville Shute.. great.
Also ON THE BEACH by N.SHUTE
I am now reading EVEN SILENCE HAS AN END by Ingrid Bettencourt about her captivity by the FARC in Columbia.
Will start THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITHTHE HORNETS NEST next…
No end in sight to this reading business..
You’ve given me quite a few to add to my TBR pile!