Books that I've read over the past 8 years

1984 George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Absolute Beginners Colin MacInnes
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
Aesop’s Fables Aesop
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
The Accidental Ali Smith
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
Alone in Berlin Hans Fallada
American Psycho Bret Easton
Animal Farm George Orwell
The Aneid Virgil
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
The Art of War Sun Tzu
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
The Bible - Old Testament completed Moses, erm God, erm Anon
The Bible - New Testament completed Paul, Peter, Matthew, erm lots
Big Sur Jack Kerouac
Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse
Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote
Brighton Rock Grahame Greene
Candide Voltaire
Catch 22 Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Civilisation Niall Ferguson
Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas de Quincey
The Count of Monte Cristo Axlendre Dumas
Crash  J G Ballard
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
Dangling Man Saul Bellow
Death in Rome Wolfgang Koeppen
Death in Venice Thomas Mann
The Dark Half Stephen King
Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler
The Dead are Silent Arthur Schnitzler
Death of a Salesman Arthur Millar
The Devil in the Flesh Raymond Radiguet
The Diary of a Nobody Grossmith
Disgrace J.M. Coetzee
The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell
Dracula Bram Stoker
The Dying Animal Philip Roth
Eichmann in Jerusalem (the banality of evil) Hannah Arendt
Electra Sophocles
The End of the Affair Graham Greene
Les Enfants Terribles Jean Cocteau
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
Essential Tales Edgar Allan Poe
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
The Eye in the Door Pat Barker
Faces in the Water Janet Frame
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
The Fall Albert Camus
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe
Les Fleurs du Mal Charles Baudelaire
The Forgotten Soldier Guy Sajer
Fantomas Pierre Souvestre
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
French Decadent Tales Stephen Romer (translations)
Germany - Memories of a Nation Neil MacGregor
The Ghost Road Pat Barker
The God Delusion Richard Dawkins
God is not Great Christopher Hitchens
Good morning, midnight Jean Rhys
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
Goodbye to all That Robert Graves
Goodbye to Berlin Christopher Isherwood
Goodbye, Things The New Japanese Minimalism Fumio Sasaki
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene
The Hell (L’enfer) Henri Barbusse
The Histories Tacitus
The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
House of Meetings Martin Amis
How to be Both Ali Smith
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
Homage to Catalonia George Orwell
The Hours Michael Cunningham
Howard’s End E.M. Forster
How the French think Sudhir Hazareesingh
I am Legend Richard Matheson
If this is Man Primo Levi
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Iliad Homer
The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury
The Immoralist André Gide
The Inferno Dante Alighieri
The Inferno Henri Georges
The Island of Dr Moreau H.G. Wells
In cold blood Truman Capote
Jacob’s Room Virginia Woolf
Jesus’ Son Denis Johnson
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
King Solomon’s Mines H Rider Haggard
The Koran Chapter 1-59
The Last Day of a Condemned Man Victor Hugo
Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby Jr
The Life and Times of Michael K J.M. Coetzee
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Alan Sillitoe
Lord of the Flies William Golding
Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
The Machine Stops E.M. Forster
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
The Mandarins Simone de Beauvoir
The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick
Medea Euripides
Meditations Marcus Aurelius
Memoirs of Fanny Hill John Cleland
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Metamorphoses  Ovid
The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Mr Norris changes trains Christopher Isherwood
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
The Nagano Thrift Shop Hiromi Kawakami
Naked Lunch William Burroughs
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre
Never let me go Kazuo Ishiguro
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Oedipus Rex trilolgy Sophocles
On Sparta Plutarch
The Oresteian Trilogy Aeschylus
Orestes Euripides
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Oranges are not the only Fruit Jeanette Winterson
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton
On the Road Jack Kerouac
Parisians Graham Robb
The Periodic Table Primo Levi
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
Pilgrims Progress John Bunyan
The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe
The Poems of Sappho Sappho
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
The Plague Albert Camus
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli
Prometheus Bound Aeschylus
The Reader Bernhard Schlink
Rebecca Daphne de Maurier
Regeneration Pat Barker
The Return of the Soldier Rebecca West
Revolutionary Road Richard Yates
The Road Cormac McCarthy
The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
A Room with a View E.M. Forster
Rabbit, Run John Updike
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Edward Fitzgerald
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad
Seize the Day Saul Bellow
Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson
Sons and Lovers D H Lawrence
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
This Sporting Life David Storey
The Spy who came in from the Cold John le Carre
Stoner John Williams
Storm of Steel Ernst Junger
Strange weather in Tokyo Hiromi Kawakami
The Stand Stephen King
The Stranger Albert Camus
The Symposium Plato
Tarr Wyndham Lewis
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Theogony Hesiod
Thérese Raquin Emile Zola
The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett
The Third Man Graham Greene
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan
The Tim Drum Gunter Grass
The Time Machine H.G. Wells
The Trial Franz Kafka
The Trojan Women Euripides
The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carre
To Kill a Mockingbird Lee Harper
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
Trespass Rose Tremain
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
Twelve Caesars Suetonius
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 
Under Fire: the Story of a Squad Henri Barbusse
The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells
This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen Tadeusz Borowski
The View from the Bridge Arthur Miller
Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh
The Voyeur Alain Robbe-Grillet
The Wasteland T.S. Elliot
Watchmen Alan Moore
Watership Down Richard Adams
We need to talk about Kevin Lionel Shriver
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
The Willows Algernon Blackwood
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett
The Waves Virginia Woolf
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L Frank Baum
Works and Days Hesiod
The Year of the Flood Margaret Atwood

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