tisdag 13 november 2007

Lost in a good book

People say that life is the thing but I prefer reading

Biblioteket i Babel Jorge Luis Borges
Bläckhjärta; Inkspell; Bläckdöd Cornelia Funke
Conversations with Lord Byron on perversion, 163 years after His Lordship’s death Amanda Prantera
Den oändliga historien Michael Ende
Dorés bibel Torgny Lindgren
Emotionally weird Kate Atkinson
En alltför högljudd ensamhet Bohumil Hrabal
Fables: Legends in exile; Animal farm; Storybook love; March of the wooden soldiers; The mean seasons; Homelands; Arabian nights (and days); Wolves; Sons of the empire; The good prince; War and pieces, The Great Fables Crossover Bill Willingham m fl
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Firmin : adventures of a metropolitan lowlife Sam Savage
Gårdagens ö Umberto Eco
Happiness ™ Will Ferguson
Hyssj! Jean-Marie Gourio
Kafka på stranden Haruki Murakami
Kavalier & Clays fantastiska äventyr Michael Chabon
Lord Byron’s novel: The evening land John Crowley
Making love: A conspiracy of the heart Marius Brill
Matilda Roald Dahl
Not the end of the world Kate Atkinson
Oracle night Paul Auster
Small world David Lodge
Sofies värld Jostein Gaarder
Succubus blues Richelle Mead
Supping with panthers Tom Holland
The Anubis gates Tim Powers
The big over easy; The fourth bear Jasper Fforde
The city of dreaming books Walter Moers
The end of Mr. Y Scarlett Thomas
The Eyre affair; Lost in a good book; The well of lost plots; Something rotten; First among sequels Jasper Fforde
The memoirs of Lord Byron : a novel Robert Nye
The PowerBook Jeanette Winterson
The princess bride William Goldman
The privilege of the sword Ellen Kushner
The stress of her regard Tim Powers
Whiskey and Water, Ink and Steel, Hell and Earth Elizabeth Bear
Wolves of the Calla; Song of Susannah; The dark tower Stephen King

Böcker man ska läsa innan man fyller 20

Alice’s adventures in Wonderland, Through the looking-glass Lewis Carroll
Bonjour tristesse Françoise Sagan
Den unge Werthers lidanden Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (var en stor poet)
Don’t bite the sun; Drinking sapphire wine Tanith Lee
Have space suit – will travel Robert A. Heinlein
Jack Ulf Lundell
Juliane och jag Inger Edelfeldt
Kris Karin Boye
Lille prinsen Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Lud-in-the-Mist Hope Mirrlees
Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen
Pesten Albert Camus
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
Skit i traditionerna Leif Panduro
Sofies värld Jostein Gaarder
Stardust Neil Gaiman
Stora boken om Pippi Långstrump Astrid Lindgren
Svärdet i stenen T.H. White
Ur-Pippi Astrid Lindgren
Zen och konsten att sköta en motorcykel Robert M. Pirsig

Tunna böcker med tveksamt innehåll

All quiet on the Orient Express Magnus Mills
Badrummet Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Berättelser från dom Katarina Frostenson
Biblioteket i Babel Jorge Luis Borges
Cat's cradle Kurt Vonnegut
Dagarnas skum Boris Vian
Death: The high cost of living Neil Gaiman m fl
De osynliga städerna Italo Calvino
De utestängda Elfriede Jelinek
Drömmaren och sorgen Eva-Marie Liffner
Dvärgen Pär Lagerkvist
Ella Minnow Pea Mark Dunn
Fables: Legends in exile; Animal farm; Storybook love; March of the wooden soldiers; The mean seasons; Homelands; Arabian nights (and days); Wolves; Sons of the empire; The good prince; War and pieces Bill Willingham m fl
Ferdydurke Witold Gombrowicz
Fisk och kultur Sjón
Främlingen Albert Camus
Hertigens kartonger Erik Beckman
Hummelhonung Torgny Lindgren
Inlandsbanan Erik Beckman
Insekternas liv Viktor Pelevin
Kameler dricker vatten Erik Beckman
Kameran Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Livet på den här planeten Malte Persson
Monsieur Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Move under ground Nick Mamatas
Nedstörtad ängel Per Olov Enquist
Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen
Preludes & Nocturnes; The doll's house; Dream Country; Season of Mists; A Game of You; Fables and Reflections; Brief Lives; World's End; The Kindly Ones; The Wake Neil Gaiman m fl
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei Koji Kumeta
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
Slapstick, or. Lonesome no more! Kurt Vonnegut
The dragons of Babel Michael Swanwick
The Exeter text Georges Perec
The helmet of horror Viktor Pelevin
The portent Peter Bergting
The restraint of beasts Magnus Mills
The scheme for full employment Magnus Mills
The stone gods Jeanette Winterson
TV Jean-Philippe Toussaint
V for Vendetta Alan Moore & David Lloyd
We have always lived in the castle Shirley Jackson
Welcome to the monkeyhouse Kurt Vonnegut
Wormwood Poppy Z Brite

Tjocka böcker med tveksamt innehåll

Against the day Thomas Pynchon
Bernard Foys tredje rockad Lars Gustafsson
Berättelser om beskydd Erik Fosnes Hansen
City Alessandro Baricco
Don’t bite the sun; Drinking sapphire wine Tanith Lee
Drömfakulteten Sara Stridsberg
Egyptologens gåta Arthur Phillips
En världshistoria i 10 ½ kapitel Julian Barnes
Finnegans wake James Joyce
Fjäriln vingad Stefan Eriksson
Foucaults pendel Umberto Eco
Förföraren; Erövraren; Upptäckaren Jan Kjærstad
Försvinna Georges Perec
Glaspärlespelet Hermann Hesse
Gravity's rainbow Thomas Pynchon
Gårdagens ö Umberto Eco
Iron Council China Miéville
Jack of Ravens Mark Chadbourn
Kafka på stranden Haruki Murakami
Livet en bruksanvisning Georges Perec
Making love: A conspiracy of the heart Marius Brill
Mason & Dixon Thomas Pynchon
New York-trilogin Paul Auster
Shadow; Pattern; Memory K.J. Parker
The big over easy; The fourth bear Jasper Fforde
The city & the city China Miéville
The end of Mr. Y Scarlett Thomas
The Eyre affair; Lost in a good book; The well of lost plots; Something rotten; First among sequels Jasper Fforde
The gone-away world Nick Harkaway
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne
The magus John Fowles
The people’s act of love James Meek
The satanic verses Salman Rushdie
Ulysses James Joyce
V Thomas Pynchon