Monday 30 March 2009

Indispensable Reading List

During a group discussion I recently participated in, the subject of the books we find "indispensable" came up.  The books we've got something out of, have enriched our lives, maybe influenced our thinking to some extent.  Here, in no particular order, is my list:

"The Life of Pi" Jan Martel
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" Philip K Dick
"The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" Douglas Adams
"The Silmarillion" J R R Tolkien
"A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens
"Hitler: A Study in Tyranny" Alan Bullock
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" Mark Haddon
"Sophie's World" Jostein Gaarder
"Nightfall" Isaac Asimov
"Moby-Dick" Herman Melville
"In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" Nathaniel Philbrick
"Fluke" James Herbert
"The Fourth Dimension and how to get there" Rudy Rucker
"Far from the Madding Crowd" Thomas Hardy
"Farmer in the Sky" Robert A. Heinlein
"The Metamorphosis" Franz Kafka
"Wuthering Heights" Emily Bronte
"From Hell" Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
"Animal Farm" George Orwell
"Slowness" Milan Kundera