I hope this catches on

[fahye]

By command of schiarire, a slightly more interesting meme than the Big Read 100.



30 books I've liked or would like to read

(I kept it to one book per author, which means that the listed books are probably my favourite ones in anyone's oeuvre. Unread books are in italics.)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun
Jane Austen: Persuasion
Julian Barnes: A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Susannah Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Robert Dessaix: A Mother's Disgrace
Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking
Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones' Diary
E.M. Forster: Howards End
William Gibson: Pattern Recognition
Neil Gaiman: American Gods
Graham Greene: The End of the Affair
Frank Herbert: Dune
Peter Høeg: Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow
Catherine Jinks: Pagan's Crusade
Diana Wynne Jones: Howl's Moving Castle
Elizabeth Knox: Daylight
Haruki Murakami: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveller's Wife
Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient
Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club
Terry Pratchett: Night Watch
Philip Reeve: Larklight
Tom Robbins: Half Asleep in Frog Pyjamas
Oliver Sacks: An Anthropologist on Mars
Dorothy L. Sayers: Murder Must Advertise
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
Donna Tartt: The Secret History
Scarlett Thomas: The End of Mr Y
John Varley: The Golden Globe
Jeannette Winterson: Art & Lies

Comments

[the-grynne.livejournal.com]

I quite enjoyed Daylight. Not as original or as magical as The Vintner's Luck, but an interesting take on the vampire legend.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I have great faith in Elizabeth Knox after The Vintner's Luck and Black Oxen. I just have far too many things to read in the interim!

[famousdeaths.livejournal.com]

I love this list! I really need to get my ass into gear and read some Diana Wynne Jones. It seems like everywhere I turn someone is talking about this lady. I'm curious.

And I seriously need to reread The End of the Affair, but that book kinda broke me.

[shati.livejournal.com]

What is Pattern Recognition like? I own it, somewhere, but I've never gotten around to reading it.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I love it; I read it before Neuromancer and I still like it much better. I like that it's about the internet and brand names and conspiracy theories.