wrapped up in books

[fahye]

Sylar list (whose brains would I like to steal?):

#% Chuck Palahniuk
#% Tom Robbins
#% Peter Hoeg
% Michael Ondaatje
% Julian Barnes
# Scarlett Thomas
# William Gibson

# = ideas
% = style

Books that have made me think about something in a new way:

The End Of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
Written On The Body by Jeanette Winterson
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
The Golden Globe by John Varley
The Woman and the Ape by Peter Hoeg

Guilty pleasures, or those that feel like them:

Threshold by Sara Douglass
Good Omens (of course!) by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Larklight by Philip Reeve
Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
The Pagan series by Catherine Jinks

Favourite srs bsns books (thanks, Becca):

Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Shakespeare, obvs, but notably Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest or Hamlet
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Favourite children's books:

Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet & Allan Ahlberg
45 + 47 Stella Street And Everything That Happened and Fiddleback by Elizabeth Honey
Halfway Across The Galaxy And Turn Left by Robin Klein
The Battersea series by Joan Aiken:
- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
- Black Hearts in Battersea
- Night Birds on Nantucket
- The Cuckoo Tree
- The Stolen Lake
- Dido and Pa
- Is
- Cold Shoulder Road

Oh man. I really want to reread the Joan Aiken books now. Has anyone else read them? Is anyone up for girlish handwaving about Simon and Sophie and Dido and how fucking awesome those books are?