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Books I would recommend

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Introduction

They're in no particular order.
Some of the items listed are plays.
They're all wonderful, wonderful pieces of literature.

 
 

On Suicide - David Hume

 
 
 

Miracles and Idolatry - Voltaire

 
 
 

On the Pleasure of Hating - William Hazlitt

 
 
 

On Love and Death - Patrick Suskind

 
 
 

Hints on Etiquette and the usages of society

 
 
 

The Night Watch - Sarah Waters

 
 
 

The Affected Provincial's Companion Volume One - Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy

 
 
 

Eleutheria - Samuel Beckett

 
 
 

Talking Heads - Alan Bennett

 
 
 

Life Among the Pirates - David Cordingly

 
 
 

Philosophical Dictionary - Voltaire

 
 
 

Small is Beautiful - E.F. Schumacher

 
 
 

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith - Peter Carey

 
 
 

Success - Martin Amis

 
 
 

Troublesome Words - Bill Bryson

 
 
 

The Book of the Courtier - Castiglione

 
 
 

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

 
 
 

Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell

 
 
 

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

 
 
 

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

 
 
 

A Woman's Life - Guy de Maupassant

 
 
 

Metamorphosis - Ovid

 
 
 

Three Men In A Boat - Jerome K. Jerome

 
 
 

The Meaning of Things - A.C. Grayling

 
 
 

Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee

 
 
 

Les Pensees - Pascal

 
 
 

The Misfortunes of Virtue and other tales - Marquis de Sade

 
 
 

The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence

 
 
 

Thus Spake Zarathustra - Neitzsche

 
 
 

Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

 
 
 

Le Grand Meaulnes - Alain Fournier

 
 
 

Lonely Planet's Guide to Micronations

 
 
 

Lonely Planet's Guide to Experimental Travel

 
 
 

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

 
 
 

Old Goriot - Honore de Balzac

 
 
 

On Love - Stendhal

 
 
 

Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake

 
 
 

Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

 
 
 

Notes from a small island - Bill Bryson

 
 
 

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

 
 
 

A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen

 
 
 

Babette's Feast - Isak Dinesen

 
 
 

Freakonomics - Stephen Levitt

 
 
 

Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

 
 
 

Will Storr vs. The Supernatural - Will Storr

 
 
 

A Certain Age - Rebecca Ray

 
 
 

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

 
 
 

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

 
 
 

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke

 
 
 

Candide - Voltaire

 
 
 

The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean

 
 
 

Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser

 
 
 

Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins

 
 
 

Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton

 
 
 

Illusions - Richard Bach

 
 
 

Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar... - Cathcart & Klein

 
 
 

The Little Prince - Antoine de St.-Exupery

 
 
 

Little Tales of Misogyny - Patricia Highsmith

 
 
 

Coraline - Neil Gaiman

 
 
 

The Thief of Always - Clive Barker

 
 
 

Perfume - Patrick Suskind

 
 
 

The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind

 
 
 

The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio

 
 
 

Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen

 
 
 

Bodas de Sangre (Eng: Blood Wedding) - Federico Garcia Lorca

 
 
 

The Abarat Trilogy - Clive Barker

 
The last book of the trilogy hasn't been published yet.
 
 

A Spy In The House Of Love - Anais Nin

 
 
 

No Exit - Jean-Paul Sartre

 
 
 

Stardust - Neil Gaiman

 
 
 

Nights At The Circus - Angela Carter

 
 
 

Beastly Tales - Vikram Seth

 
 
 

Book of Fairy Tales - Angela Carter

 
 
 

Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmund Rostand

 
 
 

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

 
 
 

Philosophy: The Classics - Nigel Warburton

 
 
 

The Woman With A Worm In Her Head: And Other True Stories Of Infectious Disease - Pamela Nagami

 
 
 

The Paranoid's Pocket Guide - Cameron Tuttle

 
 
 

The Hypochondriac's Handbook - Wendy Marston

 

2 Comments

 

Wow! This is quite a list! Thanks for sharing.
Tulips_thumb gratefuldaisyposted 160 days ago
I'm going to print this and check these out. I've already read several - Love Hitch Hikers Guide for one. Appreciated the time you spent on this.
Pam-oml-avatar-2_thumb Pamposted 54 days ago
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