The Books

FANTASY
1. Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut

TRAVEL
1.Down Under- Bill Bryson
2.Me, Myself and Prague- Rachael Weiss

SCIENCE
1. Radical Evolution- Joel Garreau
2. The Elegant Universe- Briane Greene
3. The Blind Watchmaker...- Richard Dawkins

BOOKS I DIDN’T FINISH
1. Anna Karinina- Leo Tolstoy
2. Sophie’s World- Jostein Gaarder
3. East of Eden- John Steinbeck
4. David Copperfield- Charles Dickens

HISTORY/POLTICS/WAR
1. Arthur’s Britain- Leslie Alcock
2. The Black Death- Philip Ziegler
3. The History of the Devil- Gerald Messadie
4. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon- David Grann
5. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West- Dee Brown


BOOKS FROM ‘1001 BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU DIE’
1. Fingersmith- Sarah Waters
2. Atonement- Ian McEwan
3. Austerlitz- W. G. Sebald
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany- John Irving
5. The Cider House Rules- John Irving
6. Delta of Venus- Anais Nin

CLASSICS
1. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
2. Lady Chatterly’s Lover- D. H. Lawrence
3. Frankenstein- Mary Shelly
4. The Castle of Otranto- Horace Walpole
5. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
6. The Time Machine- H. G. Wells
7. A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess

POPULAR AUTHORS I HAVEN’T READ
1. Watership Down- Richard Adams
2. Vox- Nicholas Baker
3. So This is Depravity- Russel Baker
4. The Blind Assassin- Margaret Atwood
5. Dead Until Dark- Charlaine Harris
6. The Name of the Rose- Umberto Eco
7. The Color of Magic- Terry Pratchet
8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle- Haruki Murakami

PRIZE WINNERS
1. The Bridges of Madison County- Robert James Waller
2. Snow Falling on Cedars- David Guterson
3. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood- Rebecca Wells
4. The Colour Purple- Alice Walker
5. Beloved- Toni Morrison
6. The Sea, The Sea- Iris Murdoch
7. Midnight’s Children- Salmon Rushdie
8. Old Devils- Kingsley Amis
9. Life of Pi- Yann Martel

BOOK CLUB BOOKS
1. Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
2. Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides
3. The God Delusion- Richard Dawkins
4. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
5. Handle With Care- Jodi Picoult
6. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
7. A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Hosseini
8. The Road- Cormac McCarthy
9. American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
10. The Secret Life of Bees- Sue Monk Kidd