bobbyp said:Kate Barker - Case histories
George Orwell - The Road to Wigan Pier (very thought provoking, amazing how little some things have changed)
Terrry Deary - The Terrible Tudors
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The House of the Dead
Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Siegfried Sassoon - Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (17 years I've been reading this for now!)
I really should just knuckle down and finish some of these. Or declare them unread.
Paulus said:This last few months I have got into Robert Rankin. He is a west London Terry Pratchet, but with more humour. I am reading the Brentford trilogies at the moment. The present one is called East of Ealing. There are 8 of them???? I find them very funny in a quirky sort of way.
miloat said:Yet to read that one by Orwell homage to catolonia is a great book of his.
SamNichols said:That's one of my favourite books ever. I love Philip Roth, he's an absolute giant in the US, but not a lot of people seem to read him over here. American Pastoral is his best though.
Rapples said:I've just re read this
http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/english/
If you like Orwell it's worth a look