I should imagine this will be phenomenally lengthy but I guess the internet is as good a place as any to keep this.
- Inkworld series, by Cornelia Funke
- Norwegian Wood, The Elephant Disappears, by Haruki Murakami
- A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Scoop, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh
- Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas
- A Room of Ones Own, by Virginia Woolf
- The Count of Monte Cristo, The Black Tulip, by Alexandre Dumas
- The complete plays of J.M.Barrie
- Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster
- Salomé, A House of Pommegrantes, by Oscar Wilde
- Oranges are not the only fruit, Written on the Body, Sexing the Cherry, by Jeanette Winterson
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
- The Bloody Chamber, Night at the Circus, by Angela Carter
- Catcher in the Rye, by J.D.Salinger
- The Liar, by Stephen Fry
- Red Carpets and other Banana Skins, by Rupert Everett
- The Mother Tongue, Notes from a Small Island, Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson
Have you read ‘The Jew of Malta’? Apart from the hideous anti-semitism, it’s a really good play. Actually, you can’t disocciate the ideas from the play, so there are bits that make your eyebrows shoot up in shock/horror/disgust, but it’s also really excellent.
Shame Marlowe’s not as popular as Shakespeare, sez I.
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Yeah, I much prefer Fautus, to be honest … But I like the Jew of Malta. In many ways I think the characters have a lot more integrity than Merchant of Venice which is the age-old comparative.
oh, and another book I think you’d enjoy – ‘If this is a Man’ by Primo Levi. And possibly to go with it ‘The Truce’. AND ‘If on a winter’s night a traveller’ by Italo Calvino, which is amazing.
I like Italian Literature.
Cxxx
Just noticed this – I can lend you Oranges, Bloody Chamber, Handful of Dust, all the Bryson, and Duchess.
Calvino is ok. He didn’t exactly change my world though… I mean, it’s alright. Just not the sort of thing I enjoy reading much.
Hel I will hold you to that on the Oranges and Bloody Chamber front. Handful of Dust and the Bryson are waiting on my bookshelf and to be honest I’ve had such renaissance overload this term I think I’d rather die than read another bloody play.