Updated Reading List 2014
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Antic Hay Aldous Huxley
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
Songs of Innocence and Experience William Blake
The Power of Myth Joseph Campbell
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
Trainspotting Irvine Welsh
Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning Edward Carpente
rEnglish Myths and Legends Henry Bett
The Goldfinch Donna Tartt
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Complete Works of Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Dombey and Sons, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist & Martin Chuzzlewit)
The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell
The Masks of God Joseph Campbell
Me Stories of My life by Katherine Hepburn
Lauren Becall By Myself By Lauren Becall
Complete Works of Graham Greene
A World of My own Graham Greene
Aping Mankind Raymond Tallis
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
The Power of Now Eckhart Tolle
An Autobiography Mohandas K. Gandhi
My Life Nelson Mandela
The idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Animal Farm George Orwell
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Mortal Coils Aldous Huxley
Mill On the Floss George Eliot
Adam Bede George Eliot
Therese Raquin Emile Zola
The power and the Glory Graham Greene
Middlemarch George Eliot
Greenmantle George Buchan
Man's Search for Meaning Victor E. Frankel
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is quite good. An image of America as it exists at its best moments.
ReplyDeleteTried reading "A Clockwork Orange" and was just too repulsed to keep reading.
I think Adam Bede is a truly great book. Loved it.
Lolita is an excellent book that isn't on your list. If you haven't already read it.
Yeah I couldn't sit through the "Clockwork Orange" movie but I've heard, like in most cases, the book is better than the movie so I'm going to check it out.
DeleteI've read all of Eliot's books now and Adam Bede is truly a great book. I love the way Eliot writes its very similar to her contemporaries, I'm thinking Charlotte Bronte and Dickens'- in the way they write with omni-present narrators. You'll see great passages of depth and detail in Eliot's work which you can read and re-read without getting bored.
I've heard great things about Lolita but haven't read it so I'll add it to my list and check it out. Thanks.