Listmania!
Reading List 2005
VinelandVineland by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £0.01
A good place to start.
Steppenwolf (Essential Penguin)Steppenwolf (Essential Penguin) by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £2.87
Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through BritainWaterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £3.55
Plain Pleasures (Peter Owen Modern Classic)Plain Pleasures (Peter Owen Modern Classic) by Jane Bowles
Buy new: £9.95 / Used from: £1.98
Naked LunchNaked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Buy used from: £4.95
The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.03
Difficult LovesDifficult Loves by Calvino Italo
Buy used from: £5.95
Memoirs of a Madman (Hesperus Classics)Memoirs of a Madman (Hesperus Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy used from: £0.47
QuarantineQuarantine by Jim Crace
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01
The Poet and the LunaticsThe Poet and the Lunatics by G.K. Chesterton
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £3.78
I loved Chesterton at 15 and still do at 30!
The Baron in the Trees (Harbrace Paperbound Library, 72)The Baron in the Trees (Harbrace Paperbound Library, 72) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.90
This is fabulous.
1982, Janine (Canongate Classics)1982, Janine (Canongate Classics) by Alasdair Gray
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £3.49
Rejoice and despair!
Mason and DixonMason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.05
God but I love this book!
A Matter of Death and LifeA Matter of Death and Life by Andrey Kurkov
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £0.32
Not as good as Death and the Penguin.
The Collector (Vintage Classics)The Collector (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £3.07
Not gruesome, but a stomach-churning page turner nonetheless.
Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honey BeeSweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honey Bee by Hattie Ellis
Buy used from: £5.96
Bees!
The Man Who Knew Too MuchThe Man Who Knew Too Much by G.K. Chesterton
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.70
BabylonBabylon by Viktor Pelevin
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01
The House of BreathThe House of Breath by William Goyen
Buy used from: £0.20
Beautiful, hypnotic and ever-so-slightly depressing...
Street of Crocodiles (Penguin 20th century classic)Street of Crocodiles (Penguin 20th century classic) by Bruno Schulz
Buy used from: £5.70
Uplifting and intimate. Father is a wonderful, sympathetic character, drawn with the utmost affection. I'm assigning personalities to inanimate objects after reading this.
Jamaica InnJamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01
An engaging enough holiday read.
Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Books)Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes
Buy used from: £0.01
It had it's moments, but generally I found it a bit annoying.
Geek Love (Abacus Books)Geek Love (Abacus Books) by Katherine Dunn
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £2.77
I'm loving this and finding it hard to put down.
A Confederacy of Dunces (Essential Penguin)A Confederacy of Dunces (Essential Penguin) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £2.77
Was reading this when Katrina struck - that was kind of weird. Great characters.
Suttree (Picador Books)Suttree (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.50
Thank you Tim Branney!