reading list
Others
to read again
to read
- Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
reading now
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
- The Naive and Sentimental Lover - John LeCarre
read
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
- A Darkness at Sethanon - Raymond E. Feist
- A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
- A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
- A Murder of Quality - John LeCarre
- A Series of Unfortunate Events 1: The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
- A Series of Unfortunate Events 2: The Reptile Room - Lemony Snicket
- A Series of Unfortunate Events 3: The Wide Window - Lemony Snicket
- A Series of Unfortunate Events 4: The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snicket
- A Series of Unfortunate Events 5: The Austere Academy - Lemony Snicket
- A Series of Unfortunate Events 6: The Ersatz Elevator - Lemony Snicket
- A Small Town in Germany - John LeCarre
- A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin
- Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
- Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That - Harry Mount
- An Apology for Poetry - Sir Philip Sidney
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
- Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- Call for the Dead - John LeCarre
- Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
- Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry - B. S. Johnson
- Coraline - Neil Gaiman
- Count Karlstein - Philip Pullman
- Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
- Czech Fairy-tales - K.J. Erben and Božena Němcová
- Damage - Josephine Hart
- Death and Nightingales - Eugene McCabe
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Esio Trot - Roald Dahl
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- Finn Family Moomintroll - Tove Jansson
- For Esmé ~ with Love and Squalor and other stories - J.D. Salinger
- Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
- Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
- Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon
- Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
- Hard Times - Charles Dickens
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
- Highway Robbery - Kate Thompson
- How to Read and Why - Harold Bloom
- How to Read: Shakespeare - Nicholas Royle
- I am Legend - Richard Matheson
- In Praise of Older Women - Stephen Vizinczey
- Irish Sagas & Folk Tales - Eileen O'Faoláin
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
- Joy in the Morning - P. G. Wodehouse
- Lady Susan - Jane Austen
- Lyra's Oxford - Philip Pullman
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
- Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien
- Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
- Octopussy - Ian Fleming
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Once Upon a Time in the North - Philip Pullman
- Oranges are not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
- Pearl - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Peter Pan in Scarlet - Geraldine McCaughren
- Playing with the Grown-ups - Sophie Dahl
- Poirot Investigates - Agatha Christie
- Puckoon - Spike Milligan
- Q & A - Vikas Swarup
- Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
- Right Ho, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
- Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders - John Mortimer
- Sandition - Jane Austen
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T. E. Lawrence
- Shadowmarch - Tad Williams
- Shadowplay - Tad Williams
- Shakespeare: King Lear - A reader's guide to essential criticism - Edited by Susan Bruce
- Silas Marner - George Eliot
- Silverthorn - Raymond E. Feist
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Bernard O'Donoghue
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Simon Armitage
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
- Talking Heads - Alan Bennett
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Thank You, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett
- The Best of Times - Michael Morpurgo
- The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
- The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
- The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- The Children of Hurin - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Code of the Woosters - P. G. Wodehouse
- The Complete Brigadier Gerard - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
- The Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith
- The Duel - Joseph Conrad
- The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
- The Four Loves - C. S. Lewis
- The Great Books - Anthony O'Hear
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Great Shadow - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Oscar Wilde
- The Illiad - Homer, translated by Martin Hammond
- The Inimitable Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
- The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
- The Living Daylights - Ian Fleming
- The Looking-Glass War - John LeCarre
- The Lost Stradivarius - J. Meade Falkner
- The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
- The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
- The Odyssey - Homer, translated by Martin Hammond
- The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
- The Problem of Pain - C. S. Lewis
- The Property of a Lady - Ian Fleming
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy
- The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
- The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls - John R. King
- The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John LeCarre
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J. K. Rowling
- The Third Man and The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
- The Vanished Library - Luciano Canfora
- The Water-babies - Charles Kingsley
- The Watsons - Jane Austen
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- The Woman Who Did - Grant Allen
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- Thud! - Terry Pratchett
- Tintin and the Secret of Literature - Tom McCarthy
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- Tolkien's Gown and Other Stories of Famous Authors and Rare Books - Rick Gekoski
- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Uncle Bernac - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Villette - Charlotte Brontë
- We - Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Clarence Brown
- What Became of Jane Austen? and other questions - Kingsley Amis
- Why Not Catch-21?: The Stories Behind the Titles - Gary Dexter
- Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Summer 2004 Reading List
to read again
- The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
to read
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
read
- A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
- Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh
- Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
- High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
- King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
- Magician - Raymond E. Feist
- Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka
- Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Silicon Snake Oil - Clifford Stoll
- The Fight - Norman Mailer
- The Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
- The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
- The Plague - Albert Camus
- Weaving the Web - Tim Berners-Lee
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
New Zealand Trip
read
- All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot
- Beowulf - Seamus Heaney
- Chess for Beginners: A Picture Guide - Al Horowitz
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Fragment of a Novel - Lord Byron
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia - Michael Asher
- Let Sleeping Vets Lie - James Herriot
- Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across The World - Ewan Mc Gregor and Charley Boorman
- Longitude - Dava Sobel
- Maori Myth and Legend - A. W. Reed
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Over to You - Roald Dahl
- Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals of Captain R. F. Scott - Captain R. F. Scott
- She - H. Rider Haggard
- Smith of Wootton Major - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Book of Merlyn - T. H. White
- The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
- The Bourne Supremacy - Robert Ludlum
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
- The Godfather - Mario Puzo
- The Hitckhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- The Homecoming of Beorthnoth Beorthelm's Son - J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Last of the Mohicans - J. Fenimore Cooper
- The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddor
- The Lord God Made Them All - James Herriot
- The Mole Family's Christmas - Russell Hoban
- The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
- The Once and Future King - T. H. White
- The Princess Bride - William Goldman
- The Queen's Conjuror - Benjamin Woolley
- The Redemption of Althalus - David Eddings and Leigh Eddings
- The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
- The Vampyre - John Polidori
- Time - Alexander Waugh
- Tree and Leaf - J.R.R. Tolkien
- Tristan and Iseult - Rosemary Sutcliff
- Uriel's Machine - Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas
- Vet in a Spin - James Herriot
- Vet in Harness - James Herriot
- Vets Might Fly - James Herriot
Finance and Trading
to read
Short Stories
read
- A Chapparal Christmas Gift - O. Henry
- A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote
- A Rose for Emily - William Faulkner
- Bella Fleace Gave a Party - Evelyn Waugh
- Christmas - Vladimir Nabokov
- Christmas at Thompson Hall - Anthony Trollope
- Christmas Fugue - Muriel Spark
- Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor - John Cheever
- Crèche - Richard Ford
- Dancing Dan's Christmas - Damon Runyon
- Green Holly - Elizabeth Bowen
- Guests of the Nation - Frank O'Connor
- Lord Arthur Saville's Crime - Oscar Wilde
- Reginald's Christmas Revel - Saki (H. H. Munro)
- Texts - Ursula Le Guin
- The Blue Carbuncle - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Burglar's Christmas - Willa Cather
- The Carol Sing - John Updike
- The Loudest Voice - Grace Paley
- The Night Before Christmas - Nikolai Gogol
- The Portrait of Mr. W.H. - Oscar Wilde
- The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe
- The Sphinx without a Secret - Oscar Wilde
- The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton - Charles Dickens
- The Trout - Seán O'Faoláin
- The Turkey Season - Alice Munro
- There Will Come Soft Rains - Ray Bradbury
- Vanka - Anton Chekhov
- Where Love is, God is - Leo Tolstoy
Plays
read
- A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
- Agamemnon - Aeschylus, translated by Philip Vellacott
- Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand, translated by Christopher Fry
- Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
- King John - William Shakespeare
- King Lear - William Shakespeare
- Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill
- Macbeth - William Shakespeare
- Medea - Euripides, translated by Philip Vellacott
- Oedipus Rex - Sophocles, translated by E.F. Watling
- The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster
- The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
- The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
- The Shadow of a Gunman - Seán O'Casey
- Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
History
read
- 1848: Year of Revolution - Mike Rapport
- From Vienna to Versailles - L.C.B. Seaman
- Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform 1801-1881 - David Saunders
- The Origins of The Russian Revolution 1861-1917 - Alan Wood