My Bookshelf

To-read – hopefully I’ll get through this list before I die

1. A Brief History of Time :: Stephen Hawking
2. Catch-22 :: Joseph Heller
3. Clockwork Orange :: Anthony Burgess
4. Coraline :: Neil Gaiman
5. The Dark Tower series :: Stephen King
6. Desert Solitaire :: Edward Abbey
7. The Graveyard Book :: Neil Gaiman
8. Heart of Darkness :: Joseph Conrad
9. House of Leaves :: Mark Z. Danielewski
10. Neuromancer :: William Gibson
11. The Omnivore’s Dilemma :: Michael Pollan
12. Slaughterhouse Five :: Kurt Vonnegut
13. Snow Crash :: Neal Stephenson
14. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold :: John Le Carré
15. Stranger in a Strange Land :: Robert A. Heinlein
16. Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey :: Jane Goodall
17. A Walk in the Woods :: Bill Bryson
18. The Wind in the Willows :: Kenneth Grahame

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Best-read – some of my all-time faves

1. As I Lay Dying :: William Faulkner
2. Corelli’s Mandolin :: Louis de Bernieres
3. The Count of Monte Cristo :: Alexander Dumas
4. The Diamond Age :: Neal Stephenson
5. East of Eden :: John Steinbeck
6. Ender’s Game :: Orson Scott Card
7. The Foundation Trilogy :: Isaac Asimov
8. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World :: Haruki Murakami
9. His Dark Materials trilogy :: Philip Pullman
10. Little Brother :: Cory Doctorow
11. Neverwhere :: Neil Gaiman
12. Othello :: William Shakespeare
13. Le Petit Prince :: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
14. Poisonwood Bible :: Barbara Kingsolver
15. Pride and Prejudice :: Jane Austen
16. Prodigal Summer :: Barbara Kingsolver
17. A Tale of Two Cities :: Charles Dickens
18. The Sandman Chronicles :: Neil Gaiman
19. Watchmen :: Alan Moore
20. Watership Down :: Richard Adams
21. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War :: Max Brooks

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Second-chance books – for those books I hated but feel deserve a reread before final judgment

1. Catcher in the Rye :: J.D. Salinger
2. The God of Small Things :: Arundhati Roy