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
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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 |
Something more than just learning a new language. Not so simple as that. Learning a new language implies having already learnt the first one. Learning a new language isn't just about the words. There is the context, the history, culture, and sense. There is the need to read and read and read. To observe, feel, and breathe. Now that's learning
Books that I've read over the past 8 years
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