My Current Top Ten Reads.

In no real order, and leaving out non-fiction or things that I wrote:

  1. Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan (and Gormenghast)
  2. H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines
  3. William Gibson, Count Zero
  4. Geoffrey Willians and Ronald Searle, The Compleet Molesworth
  5. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
  6. George Orwell, 1984
  7. John le Carre, The Secret Pilgrim
  8. James Blaylock, Homunculus
  9. Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely
  10. Raymond Chandler, The Lady In The Lake
 
Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
Dragons of Winter Night, Weis & Hickman
The Silmarillion, Tolkien
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurty
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
 
I have to dash this off and not take it seriously or I could be paralyzed. I'm just going to list ten literary works that I turn to often and often and get out of here.

The Lord of the Rings
C. S. Lewis's space trilogy
Arthur Machen's autobiographical Far-Off Things
Dostoevsky's Demons
-------------- Brothers Karamazov
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
--------- War and Peace
Shakespeare's Winter's Tale
Norwegian Folk Tales (Asbjornsen and Moe, illus by Kittelsen and Werenskiold)
Conrad's The Secret Agent
 
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