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Every book is an escape hatch...
They say writing lists is a sign of madness, but what the hell...
I can't resist recommending things, so here are lists of
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse; The Waves; Mrs Dalloway
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby.
J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye.
Mary Gaitskill: Two Girls, Fat and Thin.
William Golding: The Spire; The Inheritors; Pincher Martin
Leonard Cohen: Beautiful Losers, The Favourite Game
Denis Diderot: Jacques the Fatalist
Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
Samuel Beckett: Murphy; Molloy; Malone Dies; Unnameable; How it is; Texts for Nothing; Company; Ill Seen Ill Said
Aiden Higgins: Langrishe, Go Down
Saul Bellow Herzog
Raymond Radiguet: The Devil in the Flesh
Alain Fournier: Le Grand Meaulne
Julian Barnes: Flaubert’s Parrot
Jonathan Coe: What a Carve Up!; The House of Sleep
Bernard MacClaverty: Grace Notes
Jean Rhys: Good Morning Midnight; After Mr. MacKenzie; Voyage in the Dark; Quartet
Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
Albert Camus: The Outsider; The Plague
Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea
Robert Musil: The Man Without Qualities
Thomas Bernhard: Extinction
Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano
J.L.Carr: A Month in the Country
Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Sputnik Sweetheart
Banana Yoshimoto: N.P.
Yasunari Kawabata: Thousand Cranes; Beauty and Sadness
Kenzaburo Oe: The Silent Cry
James Baldwin: Giovanni’s Room; Another Country
Shusako Endo: Scandal
Guiseppe di Lampedusa: The Leopard
Graham Greene: The End of the Affair; The Heart of the Matter; Dr Fischer of Geneva
Ken Saro-Wiwa: Lemona’s Tale
Jamaica Kincaid: Lucy; The Autobiography of my Mother
A.E. Ellis: The Rack
L.P. Hartley: The Go-Between; The Hireling; The Shrimp and the Anemone
Joseph Conrad: Victory
Tahar Ben Jelloun: This Blinding Absence of Light; Corruption
Heinrich Boll: Group Portrait with Lady; The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Alasdair Gray: 1982, Janine
Natalie Sarraute: Between Life and Death; The Use of Speech
Claude Simon: Conducting Bodies; The Flanders Road
Alain Robbe-Grillet Jealousy
Hélène Cixous First Days of the Year
James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Oscar Wilde: Picture of Dorian Grey
P.J.Kavanagh: People and Weather
Jeanette Winterson: Gut Symmetries; Oranges are not the only Fruit; Lighthousekeeping; Written on the Body
Susan Hill The Bird of Night, The Woman in Black
T.S.Eliot: Four Quartets
Grevel Lindop: Playing with Fire; Selected Poems
Marilyn Hacker: Love Death and the Changing of the Seasons; Selected Poems
Kim Addonizio: Tell Me, The Philosopher's Club
Jaroslav Seifert: An Umbrella from Piccadilly; Selected Poems
Georg Trakl: Selected Poems
R.M.Rilke: Duino Elegies
Sharon Olds: The Wellspring
Mark Doty: My Alexandria
Paul Celan: Selected Poems
Ingeborg Bachmann: Darkness Spoken
Louis MacNeice: Autumn Journal
Mark Strand: Blizzard of One; Dark Harbor
Wallace Stevens: Collected Poems; The Palm at the End of the Mind
Priscilla Becker: Internal West
Louise Gluck: The Seven Ages
David Constantine: Casper Hauser
Leonard Cohen: Flowers for Hitler; The Energy of Slaves
Sappho: Poems
Andre du Bouchet: The Uninhabited
Samuel Beckett Everything he wrote.
Martin Crimp: Attempts on Her Life; The Country
Shelagh Stephenson: The Memory of Water; Five Kinds of Silence; An Experiment with an Air Pump
Bernard Kops: Sailing With Homer; Playing Sinatra
Sarah Kane: Crave
Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Night of the Iguana; Sweet Bird of Youth
Athol Fugard: Hello and Goodbye
Arthur Miller: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; Mr Peter's Connections
David Auburn: Proof
Rebecca Prichard: Yard Gal
Howard Barker: Victory; Scenes from an Execution; Und; Dead Hands; The Fence in its Thousandth Year
Nick Dear: The Art of Success; Power
Nicholas Wright: Vincent in Brixton
Ed Thomas: Gas Station Angel
Diana Son: Stop Kiss
John Corwin: Navy Pier
Patrick Marber: Closer
Margaret Edson: Wit
Edward Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Three Tall Women; The Play About the Baby
Diane Samuels: Kindertransport
Michael Kittermaster: Play Within
Don Taylor: Underworld
Martyn Wade: Before and After Summer
August Wilson: Jitney
Vassily Sigarev: Plasticine
Luigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party; The Caretaker; The Homecoming; Betrayal; No Man’s Land; Ashes to Ashes; Mountain Language
Joe Orton: Loot; What the Butler Saw
Henrik Ibsen: Ghosts; The Wild Duck; A Doll’s House; Hedda Gabler
David Mamet: Glengarry Glen Ross; Duck Variations; Edmond
Sam Shepard: True West
Andrei Tarkovsky Stalker; Ivan’s Childhood; Mirror; Solaris; The Sacrifice
Patricia Rozema: I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing; When Night is Falling
Lea Pool: Ann Trister; Lost and Delirious
Raoul Ruiz: Time Regained
Alain Resnais: Hiroshima Mon Amour
Virginie Despentes & Coralie Trinh Thi: Baise Moi
Terence Malik: The Thin Red Line
Lucile Hadzihalilovic: Innocence
Francois Truffaut: The Four Hundred Blows
Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Amelie
G.W.Pabst: Pandora’s Box
Darren Aronofsky: Requiem for a Dream; Pi
Edgar Reitz: Heimat 1, 2 & 3
Steven Soderbergh: Solaris
Jacques Tourneur: Night of the Demon
Christopher Hampton: Carrington
Michael Radford: Il Postino
Akira Kurosawa: Rashomon, Ran
Julian Schnabel: Basquiat
David Lean: Brief Encounter
Carol Reed: The Third Man
Luc Besson: Leon
Takashi Miike: Audition
Hideo Nakata: The Ring
Michelangelo Antonioni: L’Avventura
Federico Fellini: La Strada
