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Here is the list of favourite books by me, my family, friends and the internet. Most of the titles I obtained when I asked you to gift me the title and author of your favourite book(s) as a birthday present. You delivered. Do not hesitate to send me more at any time, I’ll update. (Different colours denote updates.) Here we go:
- Ackerman, Diane: A Natural History of the Senses
- Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy / Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency / The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
- Adams, Richard: Watership Down
- Ahern, Cecelia: PS, I Love You
- Alighieri, Dante: The Divine Comedy (Inferno)
- Alinsky, Saul: Rules for Radicals
- Altemus, Barbara: The Gift of Pain
- Althusser, Louis: Machiavelli and Us
- Amado, Jorge: Tereza Batista, Tired of War
- Amis, Martin: Time’s Arrow / London Fields
- Andrić, Ivo: The Bridge on the Drina
- Anonymous: Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation)
- Anouilh, Jean: Antigone
- Anson, Jay: The Amityville Horror
- Anthony, Piers: The Xanth series
- Atkinson, Kate: Life after Life
- Atwood, Margaret: The Blind Assassin / Cat’s Eye (+ALL)
- Auel, Jean M.: The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Auster, Paul: Leviathan
- Bach, Richard: Illusions
- Bacigalupi, Paolo: The Windup Girl
- Baker Kline, Christina: Orphan Train
- Baldwin, James: The Fire Next Time / If Beale Street Could Talk
- Banks, Iain: Use of Weapons / Transition
- Banks, Lynne Reid: The Indian in the Cupboard
- Barbery, Muriel: Elegance of the Hedgehog
- Barker, Clive: Imajica / Mister B. Gone (+ALL)
- Bartol, Vladimir: Alamut
- Barzini, Luigi: The Italians
- Beagle, Peter S.: A Fine and Private Place
- Beckman, Thea: Children of Mother Earth
- Beecher Stowe, Harriet: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Beston, Henry: The Outermost House
- Bibel, Debra Jan: Freeing the Goose in the Bottle
- Bishop, Anne: The Black Jewels Trilogy / The Pillars of the World (Tir Alainn Trilogy) / The Landscapes of Ephemera Series
- Block, Francesca Lia: Weetzie Bat
- Blume, Judy: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
- Bolaño, Roberto: 2666
- Boulle, Pierre: Planet Of The Apes
- Bourdain, Anthony: Kitchen Confidential
- Box, C. J.: Free Fire (and other Yellowstone region novels)
- Bradbury, Ray: The Illustrated Man / Something Wicked This Way Comes / Fahrenheit 451
- Bradley, Doug: Behind the Mask of the Horror Actor
- Brand, Paul and Phillip Yancey: The Gift of Pain
- Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
- Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
- Brunner, John: The Shockwave Rider
- Bryce Echenique, Alfredo: The Exaggerated Life of Martin Romaña
- Buck, Pearl S.: The Good Earth
- Bujold, Lois McMaster: The Curse of Chalion / Paladin of Souls (+ ALL)
- Bukowski, Charles: Pulp
- Bulgakov, Mikhail: Master and Margarita
- Burdett, John: The Bangkok series
- Burke, James: Connections
- Burke, James Lee: In the Moon of Red Ponies (Billy Bob Holland #4)
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
- Butler, Octavia E.: The Xenogenesis trilogy (aka Lilith’s Brood): Dawn / Adulthood Rites / Imago
- Calvino, Italo: Cosmicomics / Invisible Cities
- Campbell, Joseph: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Camus, Albert: The Stranger / The Myth of Sisyphus
- Canetti, Elias: The Blinding (Auto-da-Fe)
- Canfield Fisher, Dorothy: Understood Betsy
- Capra, Fritjof: The Tao of Physics
- Card, Orson Scott: The Ender Quintet (Ender’s Game / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind / Ender in Exile)
- Carey, Jacqueline: Phèdre Trilogy, Imriel Trilogy series, Moirin Trilogy series
- Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
- Carse, James P.: Finite and Infinite Games
- Cash, Wiley: A Land More Kind Than Home
- Chabon, Michael: Wonder Boys / The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Cherryh, C. J.: The Chronicles of Morgaine / The Chanur Saga
- Chomsky, Noam: Deterring Democracy
- Christopher, John (Samuel Youd): The White Mountains / The City of Gold and Lead / The Pool of Fire
- Clare, Cassandra: The Mortal Instruments series
- Clarke, Arthur C.: Rendezvous with Rama
- Clarke, Susanna: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- Cohen, Albert: Belle du Seigneur
- Colin, Beatrice: The Glimmer Palace
- Collins, Wilkie: No Name
- Collodi, Carlo: The Adventures of Pinocchio
- Conan Doyle, Arthur: Sherlock Holmes books
- Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
- Conroy, Pat: The Lords of Discipline / The Prince of Tides
- Couperus, Louis: (ALL)
- Courtenay, Bryce: The Power of One
- Crowley, John: Engine Summer
- cummings, e. e.: ViVa
- Dahl, Roald: (ALL)
- Davidson, Andrew: The Gargoyle
- Davidson, Avram: Peregrine: Primus / Peregrine: Secundus
- de Beauvoir, Simone: The Prime of Life (autobiography)
- de Lint, Charles: (ALL)
- De Saint-Exupery, Antoine: The Little Prince / Night Flight
- DeLillo, Don: Underworld / Libra
- Diamond, Jared: Guns, Germs, and Steel / Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- Dick, Phillip K.: The Man in the High Castle / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
- Dickens, Charles: Our Mutual Friend
- Dickey, Eric Jerome: Pleasure / Milk in My Coffee
- Didion, Joan: The Year of Magical Thinking / Play It as It Lays (+ALL)
- Dillard, Annie: An American Childhood
- Doctorow, E. L.: Homer & Langley
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment / The Possessed (The Devils)
- Dunn, Katherine: Geek Love
- Durand, Angelique: Mandarin Orange Sunday
- Dyson, Freeman: Disturbing the Universe
- Eco, Umberto: The Prague Cemetery/ The Name of the Rose
- Eddings, David: The Belgariad series / The Malloreon series
- Edgerton, Clyde: Walking Across Egypt (and ALL)
- Eiseley, Loren: The Star Thrower
- Eisler, Riane: Sacred Pleasure
- Eliot, George: Middlemarch
- Eliot, T. S.: (ALL)
- Ellroy, James: American Tabloid
- Ende, Michael: Momo / The Neverending Story
- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus: The Number Devil
- Epictetus et al: Stoicism and Epicureanism: Sources and Interpretation
- Esquivel, Laura: Like Water for Chocolate
- Eugenides, Jeffrey: Middlesex / The Virgin Suicides
- Faber, Michel: The Crimson Petal and the White
- Fabrio, Nedjeljko: The Practice of Life (Vježbanje života)
- Falcones, Ildefonso: Cathedral of the Sea / The Hand of Fátima
- Faulks, Sebastian: Birdsong
- Flagg, Fannie: The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion
- Foer, Jonathan Safran: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Follett, Ken: The Pillars of the Earth
- Forster, E. M.: A Passage to India
- Frankl, Viktor E.: Man’s Search For Meaning
- Frater, Alexander: Chasing the Monsoon
- French, Tana: (ALL)
- Friedman, Celia S.: The Coldfire trilogy
- Frost, Robert: (ALL)
- Fulghum, Robert: (ALL)
- Gabaldon, Diana: The Outlander series
- Gaiman, Neil: American Gods (+ ALL)
- Galloway, Janice: The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
- García Márquez, Gabriel: One Hundred Years of Solitude / Love in the Time of Cholera / Chronicle of a Death Foretold (+ALL)
- Garner, Alan: (ALL)
- Gentle, Mary: Ash: A Secret History
- George, Jean Craighead: My Side of the Mountain
- Gibbons, Stella: Cold Comfort Farm
- Gibran, Kahlil: The Prophet
- Gibson, William: Neuromancer
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Goldberg, Natalie: Long Quiet Highway
- Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
- Goodkind, Terry: The Sword of Truth series
- Greene, Graham: The Quiet American
- Gregson, Jessica: The Angel Makers
- Grossman, Lev: The Magicians trilogy
- Gruen, Sara: Water for Elephants
- Gurganus, Allan: Plays Well With Others (+ALL)
- Haasse, Hella S: (ALL)
- Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Hamilton, Laurell K.: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series / The Merry Gentry series
- Hardy, Thomas: The Return of the Native
- Harrison, Kim: The Hollows series
- Harrison, Tony: (ALL)
- Heinlein, Robert A.: Stranger in a Strange Land / Starship Troopers / Have Space Suit – Will Travel / Time Enough For Love
- Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
- Hemingway, Ernest: The Sun Also Rises / The Old Man and the Sea / A Movable Feast / The Complete Short Stories
- Herrigel, Eugen: Zen in the Art of Archery
- Hesse, Hermann: Steppenwolf / Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game) / Siddhartha
- Heyer, Georgette: (ALL her historical romance novels)
- Hill, Lawrence: The Book of Negros
- Hodges, C. Walter: The Namesake
- Homer: The Odyssey (Fagles/Knox translation/introduction) / The Iliad
- Homes, A. M.: (ALL)
- Høeg, Peter and Tiina Nunnally: Smilla’s Sense of Snow
- Hooks, Bell: Wounds of Passion
- Hosseini, Khaled: A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
- Hulme, Keri: The Bone People
- Irving, John: A Son of the Circus / Widow for One Year / A Sound like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound / The Fourth Hand / Until I Find You / The Water-Method Man / A Prayer for Owen Meany / The Cider House Rules (+ALL)
- Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let Me Go
- Jansson, Tove: Moomin books
- Jerome, Jerome K: Diary of a Pilgrimage / Three Men in a Boat / Three Men on a Bummel
- Johnson, Crockett: Harold and the Purple Crayon
- Johnson, Paul: The Birth of the Modern
- Jordan, Hillary: Mudbound
- Jordan, Robert: The Wheel of Time series
- July, Miranda: No One Belongs Here More Than You
- Jurić, Marija: The Witch of Grič
- Juster, Norton: The Phantom Tollbooth
- Kafka, Franz: The Metamorphosis
- Kaléko, Mascha: Verse für Zeitgenossen
- Kay, Guy Gavriel: (ALL)
- Kaye, M. M.: The Far Pavilions
- Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek
- Kellogg, Robert et al: The Sagas of Icelanders
- Kelman, Stephen: Pigeon English
- Kesey, Ken: Sometimes a Great Notion
- Kessler, Jackie Morse: Rage (Riders of the Apocalypse #2)
- Kidd, Sue Monk: The Secret Life of Bees / The Invention of Wings
- King, Florence: Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
- King, Stephen: The Dark Tower series / It / The Shining / Doctor Sleep / Lisey’s Story / Duma Key / Under the Dome
- Kingsolver, Barbara: The Bean Trees / Prodigal Summer / The Poisonwood Bible (+ ALL)
- Koontz, Dean: Whispers / Midnight
- Korzybski, Alfred: Science and Sanity
- Kosiński, Jerzy: The Painted Bird
- Kosmač, Ciril: The Ballad of the Trumpet and the Cloud
- Košiček, Marijan: Človek, imej se rad
- Kramer, Jerry: Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary
- Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Kureishi, Hanif: Intimacy
- Kurtz, Ernest: The Spirituality of Imperfection
- Kushner, Ellen: Swordspoint
- Kushner, Harold: When Bad Things Happen to Good People
- Lackey, Mercedes: By the Sword
- Landvik, Lorna: Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
- Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers
- Le Carré, John: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
- LeGuin, Ursula K.: Always Coming Home
- L’Engle, Madeleine: (ALL)
- Levi, Primo: The Periodic Table
- Levine, Sara: Treasure Island!!!
- Lewis, C. S.: The Chronicles of Narnia series / The Problem of Pain / The Space Trilogy series
- Li, Yiyun: The Vagrants
- Lindgren, Astrid: Pippi Longstocking (+ALL)
- Lowry, Lois: The Giver
- Lumley, Brian: Necroscope books
- Macfarlane, Robert: Landmarks
- MacHale, D. J.: Pendragon series
- MacLane, Mary: My Friend Annabel Lee
- MacLean, Alistair: HMS Ulysses
- Maclean, Norman: A River Runs Through It
- Mahabharata
- Mahfouz, Naguib: The Cairo Trilogy
- Mantel, Hilary: Wolf Hall
- Marent, Thomas: Butterfly
- Martel, Yann: Life of Pi
- Martin, George R. R.: A Song of Ice and Fire series
- Martin, J. P.: Martin’s Uncle series
- Marx, Karl: Das Kapital
- Matthiessen, Peter: Far Tortuga
- Maugham, W. Somerset: The Razor’s Edge
- May, Julian: The Saga of Pliocene Exile series
- McCaffrey, Anne: Pern series / The Ship Who Sang
- McCarthy, Cormac: (ALL)
- McCourt, Frank: Angela’s Ashes
- McCrumb, Sharyn: The Rosewood Casket (and others from Ballad series)
- McCullers, Carson: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- McCullough, Colleen: The Thorn Birds
- McEwan, Ian: On Chesil Beach
- McKenna, Jed: The Enlightenment Trilogy
- McMurtry, Larry: Lonesome Dove
- Michener, James A.: Tales of the South Pacific (+ALL)
- Milčinski, Fran: Butalci
- Milford, Nancy: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Miller, Philip, and Molly Devon: Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism
- Milne, A. A.: Winnie-the-Pooh
- Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas (+ALL)
- Monsarrat, Nicholas: The Cruel Sea
- Montgomery, Lucy Maud: Anne of Green Gables
- Moore, Christopher: Lamb
- Morgan, Marlo: Mutant Message Down Under
- Morgan, Richard K.: Altered Carbon / Broken Angels / Woken Furies
- Mowat, Farley: The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float
- Munthe, Axel: The Story of San Michele
- Murakami, Haruki: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Murray, Paul: An Evening of Long Goodbyes
- Musashi, Miyamoto: The Way of the Samurai (The Book of Five Rings)
- Nabokov, Vladimir: Invitation to a Beheading / Lolita
- Niffenegger, Audrey: The Time Traveler’s Wife
- Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin
- Niven, Larry: Ringworld
- Oklopdžić, Milan: Ca Blues
- Olds, Sharon: (ALL)
- Ondaatje, Michael: In the Skin of the Lion
- O’Neill, Heather: Lullabies for Little Criminals
- Orczy, Baroness Emma: The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Orwell, George: 1984 / Animal Farm
- Ovid: Metamorphoses
- Ozeki, Ruth: A Tale for the Time Being
- Palahniuk, Chuck: Choke
- Paterson, Katherine: Bridge to Terabithia
- Patterson, Kerry & Joseph Grenny: Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
- Peat, F. David: Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm
- Peniakoff, Vladimir: Popski’s Private Army
- Penny, Louise: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series
- Pessl, Marisha: Special Topics in Calamity Physics / Night Film
- Pirsig, Robert M.: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance / Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
- Poe, Edgar Allen: (ALL)
- Portis, Charles: The Dog of the South / True Grit / Norwood
- Potok, Chaim: The Chosen / My Name is Asher Lev
- Powers, Richard: Galatea 2.2
- Powys, John Cowper: A Glastonbury Romance
- Pratchett, Terry: The Wee Free men / A Hat Full of Sky / The Wintersmith / I Shall Wear Midnight (+ other Discworld Books)
- Pratchett, Terry and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens
- Prechtel, Martin: Long Life, Honey In The Heart
- Proulx, E. Annie: The Shipping News / Brokeback Mountain
- Pullman, Philip: His Dark Materials trilogy
- Puzo, Mario: The Godfather
- Quick, Matthew: The Silver Linings Playbook
- Radović, Duško: Beograde, dobro jutro (1, 2, 3) (Belgrade, Good Morning)
- Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged / The Fountainhead
- Rawls, Wilson: Where the Red Fern Grows
- Réage, Pauline: Story of O
- Reilly, Matthew: Contest
- Reiss, Tom: The Orientalist
- Reynolds, Sheri: A Gracious Plenty
- Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea
- Rice, Anne: Exit to Eden / Servant of the Bones
- Robbins, Tom: Jitterbug Perfume (+ALL)
- Roberts, Keith: Pavane
- Robinson, Marilynne: Gilead
- Roquelaure, A. N. (Anne Rice): The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy (The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty’s Punishment, Beauty’s Release)
- Rosten, Leo: The Joys of Yiddish
- Roth, Philip: Zuckerman Bound series
- Rothfuss, Patrick: The Kingkiller Chronicle: The Name of the Wind / The Wise Man’s Fear
- Rowell, Rainbow: Eleanor & Park
- Rowling, J.K.: Harry Potter books
- Roy, Arundhati: The God of Small Things
- Ruiz Zafón, Carlos: The Shadow of the Wind
- Rushdie, Salman: Midnight’s Children
- Rutherfurd, Edward: Sarum / Russka (+ALL)
- Sagan, Carl: Contact
- Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye
- Saraf, Sujit: The Peacock Throne
- Saramago, José: Blindness
- SARK: Succulent Wild Woman
- Scaer, Robert: The Body Bears the Burden
- Scott Fitzgerald, Francis: The Great Gatsby
- Scovel Shinn, Florence: The Game of Life and How to Play It
- Shafak, Elif: The Forty Rules of Love
- Shaffer, Mary Ann, and Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Shaffer, Peter: Equus
- Shakespeare, William: Hamlet
- Shaw, Irwin: Young Lions
- Sheckley, Robert: Journey Beyond Tomorrow
- Shute, Nevil: Trustee from the Toolroom / The Chequer Board / On the Beach / A Town Like Alice / The Far Country
- Silverstein, Shel: Where the Sidewalk Ends
- Simmel, Johannes Mario: Der Stoff, aus dem die Träume sind
- Simmons, Dan: Drood
- Smith, Betty: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Somé, Malidoma Patrice: Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
- Sophocles: Oedipus the King
- Stapledon, Olaf: Star Maker
- Stedman, M. L.: The Light Between Oceans
- Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath / East of Eden / Of Mice and Men / Cannery Row
- Stephenson, Neal: Anathem / Snow Crash
- Stewart, Sean: Mockingbird
- Stoppard, Tom: Arcadia
- Straub, Peter: Koko
- Strayed, Cheryl: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
- Stross, Charles: Rule 34 / Laundry Files series
- Strout, Elizabeth: Olive Kitteridge
- Sturluson, Snorri (?): Egil’s Saga
- Svěrák, Zdeněk: Mr. McWurst and Mr. Toothpickson
- Svetina, Tone: Ukana
- Šalamun, Tomaž: Poker / The Purpose of the Cloak
- Tartt, Donna: (ALL)
- Tepper, Sheri S.: The Gate to Women’s Country
- Texier, Catherine: Breakup: The End of a Love Story
- The Arabian Nights: One Thousand and One Nights
- Themerson, Stefan: The Mystery of the Sardine
- Theroux, Paul: The Great Railway Bazaar
- Thoreau, Henry David: Walden
- Thurber, James: The White Deer
- Tiptree, James Jr: Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
- Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit
- Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
- Toltz, Steve: A Fraction of the Whole
- Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe: Il Gattopardo
- Tompkins, Peter: Secrets of the Soil
- Toole, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces
- Trumbo, Dalton: Johnny Got His Gun
- Trungpa, Chögyam: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
- Tsvetaeva, Marina: (ALL)
- Twain, Mark: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Tyler, Anne: Celestial Navigation
- Tzu, Lao: Tao Te Ching (The Way and Its Power)
- Vance, Jack: The Lyonesse Trilogy
- Vargas Llosa, Mario: The Time of the Hero / Conversation in The Cathedral
- Varley, John: The Gaea trilogy: Titan / Wizard / Demon
- Verghese, Abraham: Cutting for Stone
- Vince, Nicholas: What Monsters Do / Other People’s Darkness
- Vinge, Vernor: A Fire Upon the Deep
- Virgil: The Aeneid
- Voltaire: Candide
- Vonnegut, Kurt: Galápagos / Cat’s Cradle / The Sirens of Titan
- Vreeland, Susan: Girl in Hyacinth Blue / Clara and Mr. Tiffany
- Wagamese, Richard: Indian Horse
- Wallace, David Foster: Consider the Lobster (+ALL)
- Waltari, Mika: The Egyptian
- Ward, J. R.: The Black Dagger Brotherhood series
- Washburn, Michael: The Ego and the Dynamic Ground
- Waters, Sarah: Fingersmith / Tipping the Velvet
- Watts, Alan: This Is It / The Way of Zen / The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (+ALL)
- Weeks, Brent: The Night Angel trilogy
- Wells, H. G.: The Shape of Things to Come / The War of the Worlds
- Wheatley, Dennis: To the Devil a Daughter
- White, E. B.: Charlotte’s Web
- White, T. H.: The Once and Future King
- Wiesel, Elie: Night
- Wilde, Barbie: The Venus Complex
- Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Williams, Roger: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
- Wilson, F. Paul: Repairman Jack series
- Winston, Sheri: Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure
- Winter, Kathleen: Annabel
- Winterson, Jeanette: Lighthousekeeping / Sexing the Cherry / PowerBook / Passion / Written on the Body
- Wolfe, Tom: A Man in Full
- Wolkers, Jan: (ALL)
- Woolf, Virginia: The Waves
- Wright, Richard: Native Son
- Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn: Saint-Germain series
- Young, William P.: The Shack
- Zaslow, Jeffrey: The Girls From Ames
- Zelazny, Roger: Nine Princes of Amber (and the rest of The Chronicles of Amber) / Lord of Light / Donnerjack (finished by Jane Lindskold)
- Zusak, Markus: The Book Thief
My favorite book is Mika Waltari’s “The Egyptian”. A classic! Are you going to read all of these? 🙂
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Yeahhh, snowsomewhere, congratulations for being the first on here to give me your book! First I will put it in my list and when the time comes, I will read it. (Having plans to do more offline reading again when the sun burns www :D)
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That is an incredibly long list and I have only read a handful of them. I have a very difficult time choosing a favorite book. A few books that I have enjoyed reading: Cutting for Stone, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Clara and Mr. Tiffany, Life of Pi, Light Between Oceans, Man’s Search for Meaning, Mudbound, Olive Kitteridge, The Angel Makers, The Blind Assassin, The Book Thief, Orphan Train, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Invention of Wings, The Silver Linings Playbook, Treasure Island!!! (by Sara Levine), The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion, A Tale for the Time Being, A Land More Kind Than Home, Pigeon English, and The Vagrants. Sorry for the long list and its lack of authors. I am currently reading: The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton.
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Oh, Robin, this is a long list indeed! I can take care of the authors, that’s not a problem. Thank you very much!
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I’m so sorry. I did not want to make work for you. 😦
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😀 Robin, but that’s the point! It’s not work, it’s pleasure! Never be sorry for giving me books. 🙂
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My favorite book is “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole. A madcap, hilarious yet somehow heartbreaking account of a young man’s lunatic adventures while living in New Orleans with his elderly mother. It won a Pulitzer. Tragically, the author committed suicide prior to ever realizing the fruits of his labor though his mother worked endlessly to have manuscript read and ultimately published.
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Thank you very much, Kathy Simmons! I’ll include it on the list most gladly.
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Fab list! Some of my favourites include: The Outermost House by Henry Beston, A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys (not really a romance, by the way), and The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham.
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Thank you very much for your contributions, maedez! Always welcome.
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🙂
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I found “Watership Down” on your list. This is ages ago! I must still have it… I will try to find…
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tgeriatrix, I have not read it yet myself, it is somebody’s favourite, that’s why it is on this list. Also, I’d really love to know some of yours if you choose to give me their titles. Thanks!
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A very long list indeed, and including many of my favourites like Thomas Hardy’s “Return of the Native”. I have read most of his books and that is my favourite. But no Dickens? Well let me remedy that with my suggestion of “My Mutual Friend”. I shall also gift you “Cold Comfort Farm” By Stella Gibbons – a very funny parody of a form of fiction that has long been forgotten. Imagine Jane Austen in D H Lawrence country. And for the fun of language Leo Rosten’s “The Joys of Yiddish”. Enjoy
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Excellent, Radical Rambler, I’m very happy that you have chosen your favourites for my list. Will put them up most gladly. Happy reading!
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Personally, I think your book list is too long. If it is supposed to be a list of your favourites, or your recommendations, then I personally would like to see a top 20. This isn’t a criticism, well done for listing and revising all these!
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Hihi, too long book list? Said no man ever. 😀 Thank you for your opinion. It is not supposed to be anything. But how about that favourite book of yours? No?
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