The Book Tower

Top twenty favourite books in no particular order. Don’t think about it for too long. Take twenty minutes only to compile your list. Bold the ones you’ve read, or reread, since you’ve started blogging. Include novels, non fiction and plays.

• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
• Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
• The Orton Diaries by Joe Orton
• Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Remainder by Tom McCarthy
• Dracula by Bram Stoker

So make of it what you will, compiled in just under twenty minutes. There are less since I’ve been blogging books that I would have thought, and while The Road and Gormenghast will probably stay on my list for a long time, it will be interesting to see how long Neil Gaiman and Tom McCarthy stick around for. And, not having read Salinger for a long time, it’s only pleasant memories that put him on the list.