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David Shenk - Data Smog
Traveler's Tales Hong Kong
Peter Hopkirk - Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
Danziger - Danziger's Travels
Singh - Delhi
Royina Grewal - In Rajasthan. India.
Styles - Moated Mountain
Coburn - Nepali Aama
Chris Bonnington - Everest the Hard Way
Maugham - Catalina
Sun - The Art of War
Walter Miller - A Canticle of Leibowitz
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Asimov - Foundations. A Sci-Fi series.
Agatha Christie - Ten Little Indians
Forsyth - The Day of the Jackel
Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Chaim Potek - The Promise
Hesse - Siddartha
John Irving - The World According to Garp
Patrick Dennis - Auntie Mame
Richard Adams - Watership Down
Irving Stone - The Agony and the Ecstasy
Frank Herbert - Dune. I read most of the excellent series. Might have missed "Grandson of Dune".
George Orwell - 1984
Puzo - The Godfather
Becket - Waiting for Godot. The only Becket I could ever get through.
Huxley - Brave New World
Burgess - Clockword Orange
Donaldson - Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. A superb sci-fi fantasy series.
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
Mary Stuart - The Wicked Day
Richard Bach - Illusions
Jenny Pearce - Under the Eagle
Hunter S Thompson - The Great Shark Hunt
Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S Thompson - Hell's Angels
Le Carre - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
Ken Dryden - The Game
White - The Once and Future King
Will Durant - The Story of Philosophy. I read this book, recommended by Ron, twice. "Philosophy's Greatest Hits".
Richler - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
P.J. O'Rourke - Holidays in Hell
Voltaire - Candide
Victor Milan - Cybernetic Samurai
Asimov - Opus 100
Asimov - Opus 200
Michener - Sayonara
Claval - King Rat
Claval - Shogun
Ruskin - Sesame and Lilies
Michner - Rascals in Paradise
Asimov - Chronology of the World
Postman - Teaching as a subversive Activity
Conrad - Heart of Darkness
George Jonas - Vengeance
Graham Greene - Our Man in Havana
Archer - As The Crow Flies
Thomas Berger - Being Invisible
Ralph Ellison - The Invisible Man
Chekhov - Lady With The Little Dog
Riverside Anthology of Literature
Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide. A big influence on my reading choices & in starting this life list.
Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Maugham - Of Human Bondage
Dickens - David Copperfield
A Midwife's Tale
Stephen Vizinczey - In Praise of Older Women
Gibson - Neuromancer
McWilliams - Life 101
Richler - Joshua Then and Now
Richler - Kicking Tomorrow
Hofstader - Godel, Escher, Bach
Robertson Davies - Fifth Business, (Cornish trilogy)
Robertson Davies - The Manitcore, (Cornish trilogy)
Robertson Davies - World of Wonders, (Cornish trilogy)
C.S. Lewis - Screwtape Letters
Edith Hamilton - Mythology
Pat Conroy - Prince of Tides
Fulgham - All I needed to know I learned in Kindergarden
Fulgham - It was on fire when I lay down on it
Crichton - Rising Sun
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
Robertson Davies - Rebel Angels
Robertson Davies - What's Bred in the Bone
Robertson Davies - The Lyre of Orpheus
Winokur - The Portable Curmudgeon
Cringley - Accidental Empires
Sennett - Laughing in the Dark
Norman MacLean - A River Runs Through It
Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Hesse - Rosshalde
Maugham - Liza of Lambeth
Maugham - Cakes and Ale
Maugham - For My Pleasure
Robin Maugham - Conversations with Willie
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain. One of the most over-rated of the over-rated classics. What's the German word for verbose?
George Fraser - Royal Flash
Robert Graves - Claudius the God
Robert Graves - I Claudius
Isaac Asimov - Opus 300
Isaac Asimov - Familiar Poems Annotated
Isaac Asimov - In the Beginning
Isaac Asimov - Asimov's Guide to the Bible
Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian
Renault - Fire From Heaven
Renault - Funeral Games
Llosa - Captain Pantoja & the Special Service. The most memorable of the magic realism South American novels I have read.
Asimov - Chronology of Science & Discovery
Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
Robertson Davies - Tempest Tost
Robertson Davies - Leaven of Malice
Robertson Davies - A Mixture of Frailties
Maugham - Quartet
Rand - For the New Intellectual
Michner - The Novel
Benayoun - The Films of Woody Allen
Ted Morgan - Maugham
Bly - Iron John
Milne - The Sacred Earth
Knowles - A Separate Peace. A wonderful, important book. I really should have listed it as one of my favourites.
Robertson Davies - Murther and Walking Spirits. A weak book for Davies, I thought.
Cervantes - Don Quixote (part 1)
Asimov - Asimovs Annotated Paradise Lost
Rabelais - Gargantua
Hesse - Stephenwolf
Malcolm Little - Autobiography of Malcolm X
Asimov - Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
Gibson - Mona Lisa Overdrive
Nye - Falstaff
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary. Very good!
name - Lords of the Rings, 19xx. A book.
Clavel - Gai-Jin
Asimov - The Greeks, A Great Adventure
Maugham - Ten Great Novelists A wonderous book. Maugham trashes the 10 best books he can find.
Maugham - Rain
Jean Auel - Clan of the Cave Bear. Excellent. Too bad the many sequels could not match this one.
Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently Holist Detective Agency
Boorstin - Creators. Superb.
Hunter S. Thompson - Songs of the Doomed
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Balzac - Old Man Goriot
Leonard Krishtalka - Dinosaur Plots
Coover - Universal Baseball Association
Dostoyevski - The Idiot
Behr - The Last Emperor
Camus - The Myth of Sissyphus
Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Eco - The Name of the Rose
Dostoyevski - Notes From the Underground
Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
Greene - Monsieur Quixote
Hesse - Siddhartha
Michener - The Source
Winston Churchill - My Early Life
Robertson Davies - Reading and Writing
Monsarrat - The Master Mariner - Book 2 - Darken Ship
Monsarrat - The Master Mariner - Book 1 - Running Proud
Bowden - One Crowded Hour. Asia.
Dostoyevski - The Brothers Karamazov
Helprin - Elice Island
Bronte - Jane Eyre
LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness. One of my favourite Sci-Fi books.
Michener - Mexico
Wilbur Smith - River God
Banks - The Sweet Hereafter
Peter Mathiessen - At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Ondaatje - The English Patient
Randy McCharles - The Mastren. My brother's unpublished novel.
Helprin - A Soldier of the Great War
Helprin - Refiner's Fire
Blaylock - The Coin
Clancey - Debt of Honour
Fowles - The Magus
Lucretius - On the Nature of the Universe
Shaw - Arms and the Man
Shaw - Major Barbara
Kafka - Metamorphosis
Le Carre - The Little Drummer Girl
Hesse - The Prodigy
Mafouz - Midaq Alley. Muslim Egypt.
Friedman - Beruit to Jerusalem
Hooker - M.A.S.H.
Nabokov - Baghdad without a Map
Michner - Journey
Ryan - Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
McNabb - Bravo Two Zero
Forsyth - The Devil's Alternative
Dave Barry - All the Troubles in the World
Piers Paul Read - Alive
Joyce - Dubliners
Shelley - Frankenstein
Walton - Beyond Winning
Fizgerald - The Great Gatsby
John Irving - The Hotel New Hampshire
Donaldson - The Real Story
John Clifford Mortimer - Rumpole
Hemmingway - Snows of Kilimanjaro. My favourite Hemmingway story.
A. E. Hotchner - Papa Hemmingway
Colleen McCullough - Thornbirds
Crichton - Sphere
Pat Conroy - Beach Music
Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire
Hulsker - Vincent and Theo Van Gogh
Pollock & Orton - Vincent Van Gogh
Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers
Ondaatje - Coming Through Slaughter
Waitman - Playing Through
Russell Banks - Rule of the Bone
Michner - Space
Wilbur Smith - The Seventh Scroll. Historical Egypt.
Karoli & ghost - Feel No Fear
Conroy - Body and Soul
Rittenburg - The Man Who Stayed Behind
Hughes - The Fatal Shore
Chang - Wild Swans
Roberts - River in the Desert
Traveller's Tales Thailand
Maugham - A Gentleman in the Parlour
Hemmingway - A Moveable Feast. Paris.
Buruma - God's Dust
Roger Rapoport, Marguerita Castanera (Editor) - I Should Have Stayed Home
Sesser - Lands of Charm and Cruelty
Pat Riley - The Winner Within
Tim Ward - What the Buddha Never Taught
Nabokov - Pnin
Theroux - The Imperial Way
Robert Hunter - On the Sky, Zen & the Art of International Freeloading
Pat Conroy - The Great Santini
Pete Dexter - Paris Trout
Traveller's Tales India
Prissig - Lila
Nugent - The Search for the Pink-headed Duck. India.
Iyer - Videonight in Kathmandu. Nepal.
Nichol - Borderlines
John Hubner, Lindsey Gruson - Monkey on a Stick. On radical Hari Krishnas.
Coupland - Microserfs
Elis - Less Than Zero
Zukav - Dancing Wu Li Masters
Neville - The Eight
Updike - Roger's Version
Diehl - Thai Horse
Bosse - The Warlord
Bosse - Fire in Heaven
Monsarrat - The White Rajah
Naipaul - India; A Wounded Civilization
Davidson - A Long Way to Shiloh
Greene - The Quiet American
Shand - Travels on my Elephant
Koch - The Year of Living Dangerously
Bowman - The Ascent of Rum Doodle. A brilliant mountain climbing spoof.
Segaller - Thai Ways
Jeff Greenwald - Shopping for Buddhas
Thera Nyanaponika - The Power of Mindfulness. Buddhism.
K. Sri Dhammananda - Meditation, The Only Way. Buddhism.
Anuradha Seneviratna - The Buddha Sakyamuni. Buddhism.
Eric Newby - A short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Eric Newby - Slowly Down the Ganges
Tim Page - Sri Lanka
PD James - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Dorothy Parker - Big Blonde and other stories
Rooney - My War
Bantock - Griffin and Sabine
Lowry - The Giver
Hemmingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Christopher Ondaatji - The man-eater of Punanai
Roberts - Journey of the Magi
de Silva - Taj. India.
David Roberts - Empire of the Soul
Naipaul - India, A Million Mutinies Now.
Somerville-Large - To the Navel of the World
Heller - Closing Time. A really, really bad opportunistic sequel to Catch-22. If Heller was not already dead, I would shoot him for this drivel.
Robert Palmer - Rock'n'Roll, An Unruly History
Lustbader - White Ninja
Steinbeck - The Pearl
Winokur - A Curmudgeon's Garden of Love
Larry Rice - Frieze
Karras - Face the North Wind
Mehta - Raj
Larry Rice - A Good Walk, Spoiled. Golf.
Coupland - Polaroids from the Dead
Thurbron - The Silk Road
Tim Severin - In Search of Genghis Khan
Gedge - House of Dreams
Thesiger - The Last Nomad
Krista Quiner & Kim Zmescal - Determination to Win
SJ Perelman - Westward Ha!
Robert Harris - Fatherland
William Gibson - Virtual Light
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