Favourite Books

Robert Alter - The Art Of Biblical Narrative
Robert Alter - The Art Of Biblical Poetry
Robert Alter - The Wisdom Books
Robert Alter - The Book Of Psalms

Torah / Job / Psalms / Song Of Solomon / Isaiah / Daniel / Ecclesiastes / Ruth

Maccabees

Hebrew Bible
Qur'an [trans. Ahmed Ali, N. J. Dawood]
The Bhagavad Gita [trans. Juan Mascaro]

William Shakespeare - all plays, everything

Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago
D. H. Lawrence - Lady Chattlerley's Lover
Vladimir Nabakov - Lolita
Ernest Hemingway - Islands In The Stream
Virgil - Aeneid
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Walt Whitman - Leaves Of Grass
William Faulkner - Light In August
William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!
John Steinbeck - To A G-d Unknown

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - Faust
David Gutterson - East Of The Mountains
Thomas Hardy - Jude The Obscure
Thomas Hardy - Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
H.G. Wells - The Island Of Dr. Moreau
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
John Steinbeck - The Grapes Of Wrath
J.D. Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye
Seamus Heaney trans. - Beowulf
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Charles Dickens - A Tale Of Two Cities
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime And Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Mark Z. Danielewski - House Of Leaves
Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse
Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy - Outer Dark
Cormac McCarthy - Child Of G-d
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Cormac McCarthy - No Country For Old Men
Arthur Miller - The Crucible
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
James Joyce - Ulysses
James Joyce - A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac - Desolation Angels
Jack Kerouac - Big Sur
Jack Kerouac - Selected Letters, Vol. 1 & 2
Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire
Tenneessee Williams - Summer And Smoke
William Inge - Splendour In The Grass
Eugene O'Neill - Long Day's Journey Into Night
Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward, Angel: A Story Of The Buried Life
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Paul Zindel - The Pigman
Amy Tan - The Hundred Secret Senses
Mario Vargas Llosa - Death In The Andes
Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie - The Moor's Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie - Grimus
Salman Rushdie - Shame
Voltaire - Candide
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince
Jerzy Kosiński - The Painted Bird
John Milton - Paradise Lost
Franz Kakfa - The Metamorphosis
Frank McCourt - Teacher Man
Frank McCourt - 'Tis
N. Scott Momaday - House Made Of Dawn
John Steinbeck - East Of Eden
Henry Miller - Black Spring
Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark
Isak Dinesen - Out Of Africa
Nikos Kazantzakis - The Last Temptation Of Christ
Nikos Kazantzakis - The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
Herman Melville - Moby-Dick
Italo Calvino - If On A Winter's Night
Anton Chekhov - Uncle Vanya
Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Hermann Hesse - Siddharts
Homer - The Odyssey
Homer - Iliad
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables
David Vann - Caribou Island
David Vann - Legend Of A Suicide [Stories/Novella]
Richard Adams - Watership Down
Marguerite Duras - The Lover
Marguerite Duras - The North-China Lover
Marguerite Duras - Destroy, She Said
Ralph Ellison - The Invisible Man
T.E. Lawrence - Seven Pillars Of Wisdom
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter series
C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles Of Narnia
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien - The L-rd Of The Rings
Virginia Woolf - Orlando
William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Story
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
Roberto Bolaño - 2666
Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
John O'Brien - Leaving Las Vegas
Darcey Steinke - Suicide Blonde
Tim O'Brien - In The Lake Of The Woods
Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
Alexander Trocchi - Cain's Book
Alan Paton - Cry, The Beloved Country
Chaim Potok - The Promise
Chaim Potok - The Chosen
Bernard Malamud - The Fixer
Sherman Alexie - Indian Killer
Paula Gunn Allen - The Woman Who Owned The Shadows
Anne Rice - The Wolf Gift
Anne Rice - The Wolves Of Midwinter
Anne Rice - The Vampire Chronicles
Anne Rice - Mayfair Witches
Anne Rice - Violin
Anne Rice - Servant Of The Bones
Don DeLillo - Cosmopolis
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
Jeanne Kalogridis - Covenant With The Vampire
Jeanne Kalogridis - Children Of The Vampire
Jeanne Kalogridis - L-rd Of The Vampires
Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
Barbara Michaels - The Dark On The Other Side
Robert Jordan - Wheel Of Time series
Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow Thorn trilogy
A. A. Milne - The World Of Christopher Robin
A. A. Milne - The World Of Pooh
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll - Alice Through The Looking Glass
Sylvia Cassedy - Behind The Attic Wall
Bill Wallace - Trapped In Death Cave
Tad Williams - Child Of An Ancient City
Wilson Rawls - Where The Red Ferm Grows
Stephen King - Needful Things
Stephen King - The Stand
Stephen King - Salems Lot
Michael Faber - Under The Skin
Tom McCarthy - Remainder
Susan Minot - Evening
Shirley Jackson - The Haunting Of Hill House
Howard Norman - The Bird Artist
John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching G-d
Malala Yousafzai - I Am Malala
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Poetry:

William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Sherman Alexie, Hart Crane, Mahmoud Darwish, Arthur Rimbaud, T.S. Eliot, Forough Farrokhzad, Elizabeth Alexander, Gerard Manley Hopkins, L-rd Byron, Seamus Heaney, Walt Whitman, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Baudelaire, Ted Hughes, William Butler Yeats, John Keats, Adrienne Rich, Emily Dickinson, Loreena McKennitt, Joni Mitchell, Layne Staley, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, Tom Lowenstein

Dr Seuss - The Lorax
L-rd Byron - Child Harolde's Pilgrimage