The type of books a person reads give you an insight into how they think or feel. The first thing I used to do when meeting a new friend was to check out their bookshelves and record collection. It told you all you needed to know.
I am a writer.
| 107. The Ragged Trousered Philantropists | Robert Tressell |
| 108. Maddadam | Margaret Atwood` |
| 109. Ringworld Engineers | Larry Niven |
| 110. The sense of an ending | Julian Barnes |
| 111. Ringworld children | Larry Niven |
| 112. Breakfast of champions | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 113. The blind assassin | Margaret Atwood |
| 114. The Midwich Cuckoos | John Wyndham |
| 115. The Rights of Man | Thomas Paine |
| 116. Wyrd Sisters | Terry Pratchett |
| 117. Juliet Naked | Nick Hornby |
| 118. Confessions of a crap artist | Philip K Dick |
| 119. Doctor Sleep | Stephen King |
| 120. White Rooms & imaginary Westerns | Pete Brown |
| 121. Moral disorder | Margaret Atwood |
| 122. The hare with amber eyes | Edmund de Waal |
| 123. Apocalypse | D H Lawrence |
| 124. The Cosmological eye | Henry Miller |
| 125. The last continent | Terry Pratchett |
| 126. Thud | Terry Pratchett |
| 127. A tale for the time being | Ruth Ozeki |
| 128. Survivor | Chum Mey |
| 129. Falling leaves | Adeline Yen Mah |
| 130. Catch 22 | Joseph Heller |
| 131. Go Now | Richard Hell |
| 132. Bluebeard’s egg | Margaret Atwood |
| 133. Life before man | Margaret Atwood |
| 134. Life after life | Kate Atkinson |
| 135. The Who & the story of Tommy | Nigel Cawthorne |
| 136. Mr Mercedes | Stephen King |
| 137. Umbrella | Will Self |
| 138. The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde |
| 139. The Children’s act | Ian McEwan |
| 140. The Magic of Reality | Richard Dawkins |
| 141. The Shack | Wm Paul Young |
| 142. The last interview | Kurt Vonnegutt |
| 143. Strong motion | Jonathan Franzen |
| 144. Soul Music | Terry Pratchett |
| 145. The sun also rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| 146. The Woman who died a lot | Jasper Fforde |
| 147. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki | Haruki Murakami |
| 148. On the Road – original scroll | Jack Kerouac |
| 149. Discomfort zone | Jonathan Frantzen |
| 150. The Establishment and how they get away with it | Owen Jones |
| 151. The Kill List | Frederick Forsythe |
| 152. The Song of the Quarkbeast | Jasper Fforde |
| 153. One of our Thursdays is missing | Jasper Fforde |
| 154. No Matter What | Sally Donovan |
| 155. The story of my heart | Richard Jefferies |
| 156. Time must have a stop | Aldous Huxley |
| 157. Immortal coils | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 158. Chavs | Owen Jones |
| 159. Revival | Stephen King |
| 160. In God I doubt | John Humphrys |
| 161. Phil Ochs Death of a rebel | Marc Elliott |
| 162. In Watermelon Sugar | Richard Brautigan |
| 163. Blues for Mr Charlie | James Baldwin |
| 164. Stone Mattress | Margaret Atwood |
| 165. The Music of Captain Beefheart | Chris Wade |
| 166. Something rotten | Jasper Fforde |
| 167. From Here to Infinity – Scientific Horizons | Martin Rees |
| 168. Laughter and forgetting | Milan Kundera |
| 169. Saturday Night & Sunday Morning | Alan Sillitoe |
| 170. Black dogs | Ian McEwan |
| 171. This Boy | Alan Johnson |
| 172. Please Mr Postman | Alan Johnson |
| 173. If this isn’t nice what is? | Kurt Vonnegut Jnr |
| 174. Lunar Notes | Zoot Horn Rollo |
| 175. The Martian | Andy Weir |
| 176. Afterlife | Colin Wilson |
| 177. Revolution | Russell Brand |
| 178. The buried giant | Kasuo Ishiguro |
| 179. Sons and lovers | D H Lawrence |
| 180. Women | Charles Bukowski |
| 181. Collected stories | Philip K Dick |
| 182. Murder on the Marco polo | Clive Leatherdale |
| 183. The colour purple | Maya Angelou |
| 184. Reader | Noam Chomski |
| 185. Magic seeds | V S Naipal |
| 186. Notes from a small island | Bill Bryson |
| 187. Tortilla flat | John Steinbeck |
| 188. The heart goes first | Margaret Atwood |
| 189. Finding Son House | Richard Shade Gardner |
| 190. The big over easy | Jasper Fforde |
| 191. Lost in a good book | Jasper Fforde |
| 192. The Eyre affair (again) | Jasper Fforde |
| 193. The Fourth Bear | Jasper Fforde |
| 194. Sunstorm | Arthur C Clarke |
| 195. Bazaar of Bad Dreams | Stephen King |
| 196. Wind/Pinball | Haruki Murakami |
| 197. The Girl in the Spider’s Web | David Lagercrantz |
| 198. The strange library | Haruki Murakami |
| 199. The Potato Factory | Bryce Courtenay |
| 200. Bodily Harm | Margaret Atwood |
| 201. Justine | Lawrence Durrell |
| 202. Armageddon in retrospect (again) | Kurt Vonnegut Jnr |
| 203. The Tree | John Fowles |
| 204. Moon Palace | Paul Auster |
Blimey, how do you find the time? Just bought the Tressell book today, fancied a bit of right-on politics …
I really enjoyed that. I’ve been meaning to read it for decades. It really made you think about exploitation. Great book.