The other day the estimable Bee posted a wonderful book list. It made me think I wanted to write a list too. This should have been fun, instead it consumed a greater part of my walking-the-dog-time when I didn't have a pencil handy. I was glad Bee's bookshelf was messy; I think the shelves of those greedy for books often are. I have omitted most books she mentions.
Herewith a short selection of books that popped into my mind
highbrow and lowbrow all tumbled together.
Historical Stuff
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Austerlitz by W.G Sebald
Good Read Women Writers
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Frost in May by Antonia White
Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M.Homes
Famous Books I have Not Managed to Read
(either tried and gave up or didn't get to yet....)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Moby Dick by Herman Mellville
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Ulysses by James Joyce
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Trashy Books that Were Wonderful
Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz
The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Sorrell and Son by Warwick Deeping
The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
People Who Know How to Write Short Stories
M.R. James
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Katherine Mansfield
Books to Make You Laugh
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Wheedon Grossmith
Naked by David Sedaris
Stephen Leacock
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens
Books I Loved as a Child
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy
Half Magic by Edward Eagar
The Black Riders by Violet Needham
Five Children and It by E.Nesbit
The Bell Family by Noel Streatfield
This is quite long enough for a blog post.
Please write and tell me what you would have added.....
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