As of 31 Aug 2007

Books I'm reading:

Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

Tony O'Neill, Songs from the Shooting Gallery

Julio Cortazar, Blow-Up and other stories

Books I'm still intending to read:

Ben Marcus, Notable American Women

Erasmus, In Praise of Folly

Recently read books:

(Apologies for the large gap between then and now. I've been a bit busy.)

2007

Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice

Alan Warner, Morvern Callar

Jon Savage, England's Dreaming

Jul - Dec 2004

James Joyce, Ulysses

James Flint, The Book of Ash

Jonathan Lethem, Amnesia Moon

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

James Herbert, The Rats & The Fog

Matt Thorne, Cherry

Giles Smith, Lost in Music

Tim Krabbe, The Rider

Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

Jan - Jun 2004

Hari Kunzru, Transmission

Conan Doyle, The Adventures and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Ruby Speechley, Fanatical About Number Plates

Robert Lowell, Collected Poems

Don Paterson, Landing Light

Christopher Ricks, Dylan's Visions of Sin

Auden and Isherwood, Journey to a War

Auden and MacNeice, Letters from Iceland

Sep - Dec 2003

Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun

John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy and all the other Smiley books, from Call for the Dead onwards

Aug - Sept 2003

Fred Goodman, The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen and the Head-on Collision of Rock and Commerce

John le Carré, The Looking-Glass War

J.G.Ballard, Millennium People

Petronius, The Satyricon

Stav Shevez, The Devil's Playground

Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey

John Mortimer, Voyage Round my Father

John Harris, The Last Party: Blair, Britpop and the Demise of British Rock

Simon Goddard, The Smiths: The Songs that Saved Your Life

July 2003

William Golding, The Inheritors

J.G.Ballard, The Drowned World

James Joyce, Finnegans Wake - finally finished and rebegun

Read in the past couple of years:

Jane Austen, Persuasion

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Matt Thorne, Child Star

Harold Bloom, The Western Canon

C.S.Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

Anthony Julius, Transgressions: The Offences of Art

M.John Harrison, Light

Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Slavoj Zizek, Revolution at the Gates

Sam Lipsyte, The Subject Steve

Henry James, The Golden Bowl

May Sinclair, Uncanny Stories

Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite

Chris Bachelder, Bear v Shark

Lance Armstrong, It's not about the bike

Eliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra

Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man

Julian Baggini and Jeremy Strangroom eds., New British Philosophy

Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl, White Powder

Tolstoy, War and Peace

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are not the only fruit

Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

Charles Willeford, The Machine in Ward Eleven

John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

Steven Poole, Trigger Happy