Favourite Books

Here are some of my favourite books,  in no particular order:

• The Histories, by Herodotus
• The Golden Ass, by Apuleius
• Samarkand, by Amin Maalouf
• The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
• Bonjour Tristesse, by Francoise Sagan
• The Violent Century, by Lavie Tidhar
• The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
• The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham
• Three Men In A Boat, by Jerome K Jerome
• Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, by Jan Morris
• Songlines, by Bruce Chatwin
• Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell
• Cider With Rosie, by Laurie Lee
• The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
• Small Wars Permitting, by Christina Lamb
• Silk, by Alessandro Baricco
• The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
• If On A Winter's Night, A Traveller, by Italo Calvino
• The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
• The Lost Honour of Katherina Blum, by Heinrich Böll
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
• The Year of Living Dangerously, by Christopher J Koch
• The General In His Labyrinth, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Ten Thousand Miles Without A Cloud, by Sun Shuyun
• The Karla Trilogy, by John le Carré