Books

06/07/2014

Here is a list of books that made an impact on me when I read them. There may have been other but I can’t remember them right now, so this list is sort of self defining.

Having said that I keep recalling books to add to this list. So I am treating this blog entry as a work in progress.

Cat in the Hat

Asterix and Obelix

All of Biggles– W E Johns

The stormy petrel – Violet Needham

Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson

Time enough for love – Robert Heinlein
   
Such is life – Joseph Furphy
  
We the living – Ayn Rand 
  
The hobbit and lord of the rings – Tolkien
  
No bugles, no drums – Charles Durdan

All of Raymond Chandler

All of Damon Runyon

The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

The cruel sea – Nicholas Monserratt

Animal Farm and 1984– George Orwell

Tom Sawyer and the Adventure of huckleberry Finn and roughing it – Mark Twain

All of Kurt Vonnegut

All of Ursula le Guin

The power and the glory – Graham Greene

No highway – Nevil Shute

The Caine mutiny – Herman Wouk

The devil’s advocate – Morris West

Siddhartha – Herman Hesse

Vanity Fair – William makepeace Thackeray

Madame Bovary – Gustav Flaubert

Ulysses – James Joyce

The Turning – Tim Winton

Washington Place – Henry James

Chronicles – Bob Dylan

Both sides of the moon – Alan Duff

Fate is the Hunter – Ernest K. Gann

My wicked, wicked ways – Errol Flynn

Cruising in Seraffyn – Larry Pardey and Lin Parde

The new, new thing – Michael Lewis