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Is this some guy's list? I couldn't see where it came from.

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I've got a long way to go too, but I'd exclude about a third of that list for soppy romance, no matter how well written...just yawn.

Novels aren't my favorite anyway, I prefer non-fiction mostly, but a good novel can certainly be engrossing.]]>256690

Just in case anyone is interested (and I think it is interesting to read people's bibliographies - to see what books they have chosen, and also what then may well have influenced them) here is what I have read from that l...]]>

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Just in case anyone is interested (and I think it is interesting to read people's bibliographies - to see what books they have chosen, and also what then may well have influenced them) here is what I have read from that list:

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
  
• Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
  
• Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
  
• Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
  
• The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
  
• The Crow Road – Iain Banks
  
• American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
  
• A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
  
• London Fields – Martin Amis
  
• Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
  
• The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
  
• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
  
• The Cider House Rules – John Irving
  
• Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
  
• Perfume – Patrick Süskind
  
• The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
  
• Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
  
• Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  
• The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
  
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  
• The World According to Garp – John Irving
  
• The Shining – Stephen King
  
• Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
  
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
  
• Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  
• 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
  
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. d**k
  
• Chocky – John Wyndham
  
• The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
  
• The Magus – John Fowles
  
• The Collector – John Fowles
  
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
  
• Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
  
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
  
• Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
  
• The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien*
  
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  
• Junkie – William Burroughs
  
• The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  
• Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
  
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  
• I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
  
• Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
  
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
  
• Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  
• The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
  
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
  
• At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
  
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  
• Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  
• Dracula – Bram Stoker
  
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
  
• The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
  
• The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
  
• Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  
• Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra*

*I'm in the process of reading both of these books at the moment.]]>