Wednesday 5 May 2010

Memo

As I've got older, novels and plays have become more important to me for some reason. So, just to remind myself of what I've read, or might want to reread, here is a list, as far as I can recall, of the fiction that I've perused over the past five years or so.

Novels and short stories
The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Yacubian Building, Alaa Al-Aswany
A Room with a View, Forster
Barry Lyndon, Thackery
Vanity Fair, Thackery
The Power and the Glory, Greene
Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
Candide, Voltaire
Cider with Rosie, Laurie Lee
Don Quixote, Cervantes
Down and Out in Paris and London, Orwell
Homage to Catalonia, Orwell
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Emma, Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Mansfield Park, Austen
To The Lighthouse, Wolfe
Mrs Dalloway, Wolfe
Farewell Gulsary, Aitmatov
Jamila, Aitmatov
Fiesta, Hemmingway
The Old Man and the Sea, Hemmingway
Hemmingway’s short stories
If This Is A Man, Primo Levi
Life and Fate, Vassily Grossman
Robinson Cruesoe, Defoe
Swann’s Way, Proust
The 42nd Parallel, Dos Passos
The Hobbit, Tolkien
The Foundation Pit, Platonov
The Inheritors, Golding
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
The Return of the Native, Hardy
The Trial, Kafka
The Rainbow, Lawrence
Selected Tales, Lawrence
War and Peace, Tolstoy
Yellow Dog, Amis

Shikasta, Doris Lessing
Blade Runner, Dick
Time Out of Joint, Dick

The Lady with a Dog and other stories, Chekhov
The Steppe, Chekhov
The Dual, Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov

Shakespeare
Anthony and Cleopatra
Richard II
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
Hamlet

Detective and crime stories
The Woman in White, Collins
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle
Wysteria House, Conan Doyle
The red-headed league, Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskevilles, Conan Doyle
White Queen, Boris Akunin
Leviathan, Boris Akunin
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
Tishomingo Blues, Elmore Loenard
Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
The Silver Pigs, Lindsey Davis
Three Hands in the Fountain, Lindsey Davis
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie

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