Books I've Read

A list of books i've read and owned. By no means complete at the moment, I'm working on it.

A
Mark Abley Spoken Here
Monica Ali Brick Lane
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Alan Ayckbourn Absent Friends

B
John Banville The Sea
Chris Bohjalian Midwives
Melvyn Bragg The Adventures of English
Dan Brown The Da Vinci Code
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange

C
Lewis Caroll Through the Looking Glass
Agatha Christie A Pocket Full of Rye
Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackryod
Agatha Christie Curtain
Agatha Christie Murder in Mesopotamia
Agatha Christie Taken at the Flood
Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie The Seven Dials Mystery
Agatha Christie And Then There Were None
Paulo Coelho The Alchemist
Enrico Coen The Art of Genes

D
Andrew Dalby Language in Danger
Andrew Dalby Dictionary of Languages
Charles Darwin The Origin of Species
Richard Dawkins The Ancestor’s Tale
Guy Deutscher The Unfolding of Language
Jared Diamond The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared Diamond Collapse – How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment

E
Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides

F
Helen Fielding Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl

G
Jostein Gaarder Sophie’s World
Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha
William Golding Lord of the Flies
Stephen Jay Gould The Lying Stones of Marrakech
Stephen Jay Gould I Have Landed

H
Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon A Spot of Bother
Tim Harford The Undercover Economist
Jaroslav Hasek The Good Soldier Svejk
Joseph Heller Catch 22
Zoe Heller Everything You Know
Zoe Heller What Was She Thinking? Notes of a Scandal
Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
Nick Hornby How to Be Good
Nick Hornby About A Boy
Nick Hornby Speaking with the Angel
Nick Hornby A Long Way Down

I
John Irving The Cider House Rules
John Irving The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving The World According to Garp
Kazuo Ishiguro When We Were Orphans

J
Steve Jones Y: The Descent of Men

K
Franz Kafka The Trial
Milan Kundera Ignorance
Milan Kundera Laughable Loves
Milan Kundera Immortality
Milan Kundera The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being

L
C S Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia

M
Richard Matheson What Dreams May Come
Frank McCourt Angela’s Ashes
Frank McCourt ‘Tis
David Mitchell Ghostwritten
David Mitchell Cloud Atlas

N
Nettle and Romaine Vanishing Voices – the Extinction of the World’s Languages

O
Michael Ondaatje The English Patient
George Orwell Animal Farm
George Orwell 1984

P
Steven Pinker Words and Rules

R
Joan Roughgarden Evolution’s Rainbow
J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone
J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Sccrets
J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things

S
Antoine de Saint Exupery The Little Prince
J D Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Robert Sapolsky Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
Robert Sapolsky The Trouble with Testosterone
Jose Saramago Seeing
Ben Schott Schott’s Original Miscellany
Ben Schott Schott’s Food and Drink Miscellany
Ben Schott Schott’s Sporting, Gaming, and Idling Miscellany
Zadie Smith White Teeth
Zadie Smith The Autograph Man
Zadie Smith On Beauty
John Steinback Of Mice and Men

T
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Colin Tudge The Variety of Life

W
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Y
Adeline Yen Mah Falling Leaves