The Book list

The idea is that I’m going to read these books in the order that I wrote them down, which is quite random, and already I’ve broken this rule. Anyway, I’ve read some of these before (*) but they’re deserving of a re-read, and others just sound interesting because of their author, title, film or celebrity.

• *A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess (Watched the film afterwards. Rather more disturbing than the book)
• The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides (The book I wish I’d written)
• Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey (I started it but lost interest. Will get back to it)
• The Satanic Verses – Salmon Rushdie (Started this but totally lost the plot – literally. Will try again later)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe (Totally dug this)
• *Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Less than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis (The Catcher in the Rye of the 80s)
• Beijing Confidential – Jan Wong (June 08)
• On the Road – Jack Kerouac
• The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – Jose Saramango
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
• *The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – Italo Calvino
• Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
• *Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip K Dick
• The Electric Koolaid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
• Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges
• Catch 22 – Joseph Heller (I don’t remember a thing about it and I read it last year – need to re read)
• The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
• Lolita – Vladimir Nobokov (I hope the rest of the book is better than the first pargraph)
• The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzakis
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
• The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
• In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
• For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
• *Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
• *Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• Moby Dick – Herman Melville
• *Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
• *To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• The Prophet – Kalil Gibran
• The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
• The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
• The Nun – Denis Diderot
• Faust – Johann Wolfgang Von Guethe
• No Logo – Naomi Klein (July 08)
• The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
• Dry, A Memoir – Augustin Burroughs. And so begins my love afair with Burroughs.
• Running with Scissors – Augustin Burroughs – just arrived from Amazon
• The Millennium trilogy – reading the first one now – finished. Seriously though, what drivel. Don’t know if I’ll get to the second one but it’s on the shelf.
• Status Anxiety – Alain de Botton – love love love! Deep and not a wanker.
• Hollywood Ending (aka John Belushi is Dead – in the US) – Kathy Charles. Happened to start talking to a friend of the authors as JJ and I were dining at Tiamo on Lygon Street. Ran into Readings and bought their last copy. Yay! Freaking awesome. Review is here.
• *Madame Bouverie – Gustav Flaubert – I’ve got a story idea and this is research.
• Just Kids – Patty Smith – Ahhhh
• Neon Angel - Cherie Currie
• Transformer (Lou Reed) Brilliant
• *A bunch of Agatha Christie books

* Books I'm re-reading