ii. READING LIST

People

  • Margaret Atwood
  • Haruki Murakami
  • Michael Cunningham
  • Marjorie Barnard
  • David Mitchell
  • Chuck Palahniuk
  • Phillip Pullman
  • J. K. Rowling
  • Richard Siken
  • Walt Whitman

Books

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • after the quake by Haruki Murakami
  • A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  • A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
  • Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
  • Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
  • Angels in America by Tony Kushner
  • Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
  • A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  • A Quiet Life by Kenzaburo Oe
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
  • A Streetcar Named Desire & Other Plays by Williams Tennessee
  • Atomised by Michael Houellebecq
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  • A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
  • The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
  • The Blind Assasin by Margaret Atwood
  • Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
  • The Blue Room by David Hare
  • Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra
  • The Book of Other People ed. by Zadie Smith
  • Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Bridget Jones by Helen Fielding
  • The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
  • The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
  • By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
  • Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
  • Close Range: Brokeback Mountain & Other Stories by Annie Proulx
  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  • Collected Plays: Two of Alfian Sa’at
  • Collected Poems: 1909-1962 of T.S. Eliot
  • Collected Short Stories: Vol. 1 of W. Somerset Maugham
  • Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
  • The Curse of Salamander Street by G.P. Taylor
  • Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
  • The Dead Fish Museum: Stories by Charles D’Ambrosio
  • The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
  • The Door by Margaret Atwood
  • Earlier by Eleanor Wong
  • East, West by Salman Rushdie
  • The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
  • Emily of Emerald Hill by Stella Kon
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • The End of His Orbit by Cyril Wong
  • Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham
  • Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima
  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
  • Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
  • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time by Yasutaka Tsutsui
  • God is Dead by Ron Currie
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Hard-boiled Wonderland & The End of the World by Haruki Murakami
  • Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
  • Hate: A Romance by Tristan Garcia
  • Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
  • His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
  • Hospital by Toby Litt
  • The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  • The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
  • If This Is A Man by Primo Levi
  • In A Dark Wood by Marcel Moring
  • Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Invitation to Treat by Eleanor Wong
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  • King Lear by William Shakespeare
  • The Ladies of the Corridor by Dorothy Parker & Arnold D’Usseau
  • Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  • The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
  • Living by Henry Green
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
  • Love Begins In Winter by Simon Van Booy
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
  • The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Maurice by E.M. Forster
  • Medea by Euripedes
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
  • Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • New Penguin Parallel Text: Short Stories in Japanese ed. by Michael Emmerich
  • Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  • number9dream by David Mitchell
  • The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry
  • One Day by David Nicholls
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
  • Piercing by Ryu Murakami
  • Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg
  • Possession by A.S. Byatt
  • Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Room by Emma Donoghue
  • The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
  • Selected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop
  • Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka
  • The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
  • Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
  • Shadowmancer by G.P. Taylor
  • The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight trans. by Bernard O’Donoghue
  • Smoke And Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  • South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
  • Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
  • Strange Boy by Paul Magrs
  • The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
  • Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
  • Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
  • The Tent by Margaret Atwood
  • The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
  • To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  • The Truth About Celia by Kevin Brockmeier
  • Underground by Haruki Murakami
  • W;t by Margaret Edson
  • Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
  • The Waves by Virginia Woolf
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
  • 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
  • 100 Selected Poems by e e cummings

Now Reading

  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

Next To Read + Should Revisit

  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • An Enemy of the People by Arthur Miller
  • The Annotated Collected Poems of Edward Thomas
  • The Art of Love by Ovid
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • Classic Jane Austen: Complete & Unabridged pub. by Penguin Books India
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Inferno by Dante Alighieri
  • The Information by Martin Amis
  • The Liar by Stephen Fry
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Loving + Party Going by Henry Green
  • On Happiness by Kenny Png and Jeremy Fernando
  • The Persimmon Tree & Other Stories by Marjorie Barnard
  • Poems of William Blake, sel. by Patti Smith
  • The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Selected Works of Virginia Woolf pub. by Wordsworth Editions
  • Sodom & Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
  • Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
  • The Truce by Primo Levi
  • Wicked by Gregory Maguire
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*Anime List

3 Responses

  1. HEYY! surprised? haha. all the best for you exams! hope to see you soon yeah. ((:

  2. Gods of Kobol, the list is growing. Well, can lend you quite a few books on the list. and we still need to spend my 100 kino vouchers.

  3. Ping has the slaughterhouse-5! Also, there’s this beautiful bookstore near my hall, which has books books books and going at really decent prices :D

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