Books for Heather in Listology
- July 14, 2014, 2:59 p.m.
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Had cause to send a list of recommended reads to a friend.
Can't say this is a complete list but just what comes up right now as I was "Another Earth" (a very good movie) and I'll just try to keep it concise, say three per...
Reading it over it's a tad Anglo centric and heavy on the fantasy and socio stuff, but here a list be that may keep you busy for a spell.
George Orwell :- Nineteen eighty f=four Animal farm Homage to Catalonia
Jack Kerouac :- On the road (of course, but read it not with longing to wander but sympathy for existence) Lonesome Traveler
H.G.Wells :- The Island of Dr Moreau The War of the Worlds Things to Come
Sylvia Plath :- Johnny Panic and the Bible of dreams The Bell Jar
Graham Greene :- The quiet American Travels with my aunt The Destructors (short story)
Jules Verne :- Around the world in eighty days The lighthouse at the End of the world A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Neil Gaiman :- American Gods Anansi boys Smoke and Mirrors
Isaac Asimov :- The end of eternity I,Robot
Phillip K. Dick :- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Terry Pratchett :- Discworld - who know which one to direct you too ... Guards!Guards!Guards! is a good start. Carpet People The Long Earth
Haruki Murakami :- Kafka on the Shore Sputnik Sweetheart A Wild Sheep chase
J. D. Salinger :- The Catcher in the Rye For Esme - with love and squalor
Paulo Colelho :- The Alchemist
Louis de Bernieres :- Birds without wings The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts A partisan's daughter
Leo Tolstoy :- Anna Karenina War and peace
Fyodor Dostoyevsky:- The idiot
Franz Kafka :- The Trial Metamorphosis The Castle
Robert Louis Stevenson :- Travels with my donkey Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Henry David Thoreau :- Where I lived and what I lived for (Walden)
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