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1. “Portnoy’s Complaint” - Philip Roth
2. “The Farewell Symphony” - Edmund White 3. “Mrs. Dalloway” - Virginia Woolf 4. “Deception” - Philip Roth 5. “ Taming The Beast” - Emily Maguire 6. “Sunstroke” - Tessa Hadley 7. “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 8. “Bluesman” - Andre Dubus III 9. “Love Me” - Gemma Weekes 10. “Mud” - Michele Roberts 11. “Seize The Day” - Saul Bellow 12. “The Sound Of My Voice” - Ron Butlin 13. “Kalooki Nights” - Howard Jacobson 14. “City Boy” - Edmund White 15. “The Good Psychologist” - Noam Shpancer 16. “Light Fell” - Evan Fallenberg 17. “The Women Who Got Away” - John Updike 18. “Townie” - Andre Dubus III 19. “Disturbing The Peace” - Richard Yates 20. “The House of Sand & Fog” - Andre Dubus III 21. “Lord of the Flies” - William Golding 22. “The Last Weekend” - Blake Morrison 23. “Teach Us To Sit Still” - Tim Parks 24. “Going Buddhist” - Peter J. Connradi 25. “Goodbye Columbus; And Other Stories” - Philip Roth 26. “The Idle Parent” - Tom Hodgkinson 27. “Come On In!” - Charles Bukowski 28. “How To Be A Woman” - Caitlin Moran 29. “Hollywood” - Charles Bukowski 30. “Tales of Ordinary Madness” - Charles Bukowski 31. “Brooklyn Follies” - Paul Auster 32. “Giovanni’s Room” - James Baldwin 33. “The Slap” - Christos Tsiolkas 34. “The Nose” - Nikolai Gogol 35. “Away From Her” - Alice Munro 36. “The Final Testament of the Holy Bible” - James Frey 37. “The Maples Stories” - John Updike 38. “A Christmas Carol” - Charles Dickens Books in bold were particularly good. 1. “Netherlands” - Joseph O’Neill
2. “Envy” - Kathryn Harrison 3. “An Education” - Lynn Barber 4. “The Diving-Bell & The Butterfly” - Jean-Dominique Bauby 5. “The Dying Animal” - Philip Roth 6. “Strangers” - Anita Brookner 7. “We Don’t Live Here Anymore” - Andre Dubus 8. “The Garden Of Last Days” - Andre Dubus III 9. “On Chesil Beach” - Ian McEwan 10. “The Humbling” - Philip Roth 11. “Must You Go?: My Life With Harold Pinter” - Antonia Fraser 12. “The Kiss” - Kathryn Harrison 13. “The Buddha Of Suburbia” - Hanif Kureishi 14. “The Spend Less Handbook” - Rebecca Ash 15. “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” - Moshin Hamid 16. “Death Of A Lady’s Man” - Leonard Cohen 17. “The Postman Always Rings Twice” - James M. Cain 18. “The Bridges Of Madison County” - Robert James Waller 19. “Homage To Catalonia” - George Orwell 20. “The Monk” - Matthew Lewis 21. “Apples” - Richard Milward 22. “Indignation” - Philip Roth 23. “Wetlands” - Charlotte Roche 24. “The God Delusion” - Richard Dawkins 25. “Exit Ghost” - Philip Roth 26. “A Jew Must Die” - Jacques Chessex 27. “The Finkler Question” - Howard Jacobson 28. “In Praise of Older Women” - Stephen Vizinczey 29. “Invisible” - Paul Auster 30. “Black Coffee Blues” - Henry Rollins 31. “American Pastoral” - Philip Roth 32. “No More Mr Nice Guy” - Howard Jacobson 33. “Intimacy” - Hanif Kureishi 34. “The Act of Love” - Howard Jacobson 35. “Room” - Emma Donoghue 36. “The Dwarfs” - Harold Pinter 37. “The Taxi Queue” - Janet Davey 38. “The Breast” - Philip Roth 39. “Becoming Strangers” - Louise Dean 40. “The Easter Parade” - Richard Yates 41. “Nemesis” - Philip Roth 42. “Young Hearts Crying” - Richard Yates 43. “The Fifth Child” - Doris Lessing 44. “The Prague Orgy” - Philip Roth 45. “Push” - Sapphire Books in bold were particularly good. 1. “Notes Of A Dirty Old Man” - Charles Bukowski
2. “Slaughterhouse Five” - Kurt Vonnegut 3. “Revolutionary Road” - Richard Yates 4. “The Reader” - Bernard Schlink 5. “Blind Faith” - Ben Elton 6. “The Witch Of Portobello” - Paulo Coelho 7. “Midnight All Day” - Hanif Kureishi 8. “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun” - Haraki Murakami 9. “Confessions Of A Pilgrim” - Juan Arias 10. “Factotum” - Charles Bukowski 11. “Gods Behaving Badly” - Marie Philips 12. “Songs Of Innocence, Songs Of Experience” - William Blake 13. “Hardcore Zen” - Brad Warner 14. “Zen Wrapped Up In Karma Dipped In Chocolate” - Brad Warner 15. “Utopian Dreams” - Tobias Jones 16. “Women” - Charles Bukowski 17. “Success” - Martin Amis 18. “A Heart Shaped Bullet” - Kathryn Flett 19. “In Between The Sheets” - Ian McEwan 20. “Lolita” - Vladimir Nabokov 21. “Palm Sunday” - Kurt Vonnegut 22. “The Death Of Bunny Munro” - Nick Cave Books in bold were particularly good. 1. “How To Be Idle” - Tom Hodgkinson
2. “How To Be Free” - Tom Hodgkinson 3. “Buddhism: Plain and Simple” - Steve Hagen 4. “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” - Haruki Murakami 5. “Get A Life! The Little Red Book of White Dot” - David Burke/Jean Lotus 6. “The Game” - Neil Strauss 7. “The Idler” magazine Issues 38 - 41. 8. “The Pilgrimage” - Paulo Coelho 9. “The Favourite Game” - Leonard Cohen 10. “Eleven Minutes” - Paulo Coelho 11. “Like A Flowing River” - Paulo Coelho 12. “Before Night Falls” - Reinaldo Arenas 13. “The Road” - Cormac McCarthy 14. “Breakfast Of Champions” - Kurt Vonnegut 15. “After Dark” - Haraki Murakami 16. “The Zahir” - Paulo Coelho 17. “The Fifth Mountain” - Paulo Coelho 18. “Brida” - Paulo Coelho 19. “The Valkyries” - Paulo Coelho 20. “The Man In The High Castle” - Philip K. Dick 21. “Flashman: Papers One” - George MacDonald Fraser 22. “Wilt” - Tom Sharpe 23. “A Clockwork Apple” - Belinda Webb 24. “Are You Experienced?” - William Sutcliffe 25. “God Is Dead” - Ron Currie Jr. 26. “Cake” - Sandra Newman 27. “Ham On Rye” - Charles Bukowski 28. “Who Moved My Blackberry?” - Lucy Kellaway 29. “The Average American Male” - Chad Kuttgen 30. “Armageddon In Retrospect” - Kurt Vonnegut 31. “Bluebeard” - Kurt Vonnegut 32. “Memories Of My Melancholy Whores” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 33. “Queer” - William Burroughs 34. “The Most Beautiful Woman In Town” - Charles Bukowski 35. “Post Office” - Charles Bukowski 36. “Hocus Pocus” - Kurt Vonnegut 37. “Kasamakura” - Natsume Sasaki Books in bold were particularly good. 1. “The Tattooed Girl” - Joyce Carol Oates
2. “The Book Of Longing” - Leonard Cohen 3. “The Alchemist” - Paulo Coelho 4. “Brave New World” - Aldous Huxley 5. “Free To Be Human” - David Edwards 6. “Not Buying It” - Judith Levine 7. “Breaking Open The Head” - Daniel Pinchbeck 8. “Radical Simplicity” - Dan Price 9. “The Name Of This Book Is Dogme ‘95” - Richard Kelly 10. “Dumbing Us Down” - John Taylor Gatto 11. “What Should I Do With My Life?” - Po Bronson 12. “Introducing Jesus” - Ray Clements 13. “The Language Of God” - Francis S. Collins 14. “Veronika Decides To Die” - Paulo Coelho Books in bold were particularly good. 1. “Love Janis” - Laura Joplin
2. “Daisy Miller” - Henry James 3. “Female Chauvinist Pigs” - Ariel Levy 4. “A Spy In The House Of Love” - Annis Nin 5. “A Confederacy Of Dunces” - John Kennedy O’Toole 6. “The Outsider” - Albert Camus 7. “Tropical Animal” - Pedro Juan Gutierrez 8. “House Of Incest” - Annis Nin 9. “The Insatiable Spider Man” - Pedro Juan Gutierrez 10. “Bill Hicks: Agent Of Evolution” - Kevin Booth & Michael Bertin 11. “Self-Made Man” - Norah Vincent 12. “High Fidelity” - Nick Hornby 13. “About A Boy” - Nick Hornby 14. “Plays Well With Others” - Allan Garganus 15. “Essays In Love” - Allain De Botton 16. “The Great Gatsby” - F. Scott Fitzgerald 17. “1984” - George Orwell Books in bold were particularly good. |
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