A list of the books I have recently been reading.
Current as of 13March2016. The first book (Middlemarch) was read in 2009 (IIRC)
- Middlemarch George Eliot
- Finistere JL Saul
- What a Carve Up Jonathon Coe
- The Nonexistent Knight/The Cloven Viscount Italo Calvino
- Dirty Havana Trilogy Juan Pedro Gutierrez
- Make Poverty History Pamphlet
- Lobster Guillaume Lecasble
- The Consolations of Philosophy Alain de Botton
- The Erasers Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Q "Luther Blissett"
- A Mathematician Plays the Market John Allen Paulos
- The Ambassadors' Secret John North
- Moravagine Blaise Cendrars
- The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith
- Ripley Under Ground Patricia Highsmith
- Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith
- The Boy Who Followed Ripley Patricia Highsmith
- Ripley Under Water Patricia Highsmith
- The Poker Face of Wall Street Aaron Brown
- The Man Who Was Private Widdle: a life of Charles Hawtrey Roger Lewis
- Dan Yack Blaise Cendrars
- Dan Yack in Love Blaise Cendrars
- On Humanism Richard Norman
- The Tregerthen Horror Paul Newman
- The Great God Pan Arthur Machen
- The Nightwatch Sarah Waters
- Traders, Guns and Money Sadjadit Das
- Mr Clarinet Nick Stone
- The Hell Fire clubs Geoffrey Ashe
- How to Be Free Tom Hodkinson
- The Man who was Thursday G.K. Chesterton
- The Act of Roger Murgatroyd Gilbert Adair
- Beautiful Shadow. A life of Patricia Highsmith Andrew Wilson
- On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan
- The Portrait Iain Pears
- Christie Malry's Own Double Entry BS Johnson
- Japanese for Travellers Katie Kitamura
- Vathek William Beckford
- Like a fiery elephant Jonathan Coe
- The God Delusion Richard Dawkins
- The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen
- My Life in CIA Harry Mathews
- Alberto Angelo BS Johnson
- The Voyeur Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Trawl BS Johnson
- The Rings of Saturn WG Sebald
- House Mother Normal BS Johnson
- You cannot live as I have lived and not end up like this. A life of Willie Donaldson Terence Blacker
- The Unfortunates BS Johnson
- Manual Daren King
- Fortune's Formula William Poundstone
- Antwerp Nicholas Royle
- Dandy in the Underworld Sebastian Horsley
- Clarissa Samuel Richardson (continuing)
- King of Swords Nick Stone
- The Dedalus book of the Occult Gary Lachman
- Noise/Music: A history Paul Hegarty
- The Club of Queer Trades GK Chesterton
- The Vicar of Morwenstow Sabine Baring-Gould
- The End of the Affair Graham Greene
- The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius Graham Farmelo
- The Erotomaniac Ian Gibson
- Copenhagen Michael Frayn
- Red Lights Georges Simenon
- Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
- The Minotour takes a Cigarette Break Steven Sherrill
- The Manuscript Found at Saragossa Jan Polocki
- The Book of murder Guillermo Martinez
- The Death of Bunny Munro Nick Cave
- A Duchess and her Past Robert Scoble
- The Devil is Gentleman: the life & times of Dennis Wheatley Phil Baker
- The Happiness Hypothesis Jonathan Haidt
- Pastoralia George Sanders
- Modern Witchcraft Frank Smyth
- Money Martin Amis
- A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr
- Satan wants me Robert Irwin
- Sport Arbitrage Rajeev Shah
- The End of the Line Charles Clover
- The Company of Liars Karen Maitland
- C Tom McCarthy
- Exquisite Corpse Robert Irwin
- Stone's Fall Iain Pears
- A Question of Upbringing (Dance to the music of time) Anthony Powell
- The Owl Killers Karen Maitland
- Vivo: a life of Gustav Meyrink Mike Mitchell
- Austerlitz WG Sebald
- Remainder Tom McCarthy
- New Finnish Grammar Diego Marani
- Fictions Jorge Luis Borges
- Dissolution CJ Sansom
- Dark Fire CJ Sansom
- Sovereign CJ Sansom
- The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien
- Revelation CJ Sansom
- Monsignor Quixote Graham Greene
- Heartstone CJ Sansom
- Number9dream David Mitchell
- Jonathon Strange & Mister Norrell Susanna Clarke
- Baron's Court, All Change Terry Taylor
- The Leopard Guiseppe di Lampedusa
- Schild's Ladder Greg Egan
- Mr Phillips John Lanchester
- The Prague Cemetary Umberto Eco
- The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst
- The Gourmet Kazuo Ishiguro
- A Month in the Country JL Carr
- The terrible privacy of Maxwell Sim Jonathon Coe
- The dead all have the same skin Boris Vian
- The Gallows Curse Karen Maitland
- The thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell
- The Periodic Table Primo Levi
- A Buyer's Market (Dance to the music of time#2) Anthony Powell
- The Acceptance World (Dance to the music of time#3) Anthony Powell
- At lady Molly's (Dance to the music of time#4) Anthony Powell
- Black Swan Green David Mitchell
- Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (Dance to the music of time#5) Anthony Powell
- Ghostwritten David Mitchell
- The Kindly Ones (Dance to the music of time#6) Anthony Powell
- The Valley of Bones (Dance to the music of time#7) Anthony Powell
- The Soldier's Art (Dance to the music of time#8) Anthony Powell
- The Prayer Cushions of the Flesh Robert Irwin
- The Military Philosophers (Dance to the music of time#9) Anthony Powell
- Books do Furnish a Room (Dance to the music of time#10) Anthony Powell
- The Age of consent George Monbiot
- Temporary Kings (Dance to the music of time#11) Anthony Powell
- Hearing Secret Harmonies (Dance to the music of time#12) Anthony Powell
- Stranger's Child Alan Hollinghurst
- Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishigurio
- Beowulf Anon
- The Chymical Wedding Lindsay Clarke
- Amelie Nothromb The life of hunger
- Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow Daniel Kahneman
- Capital John Lanchester
- Whoops John Lanchester
- Earthly Powers Anthony Burgess
- I live under a Black Sun Edith Sitwell
- Our Town Thornton Wilder
- The Gaudy Image William Talsman
- Justine Lawrence Durrell
- Balthazar Lawrence Durrell
- Mountolive Lawrence Durrell
- Clea Lawrence Durrell
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Edwin Lefevre
- Interpretation of Murder Jed Rubenfeld
- The Swimming Pool Library Alan Hollinghurt
- The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver
- Snuff Chuck Palahniuk
- How to think more about sex Alain de Botton
- The pillow boy of Lady Onogoro Alison Fell
- Haunted Chuck Palahniuk
- Fisher's face Jan Morris
- Why Stock Markets Crash Didier Sornette
- Children of Men PD James
- Poppet Mo Hayder
- The Arabian Nightmare Robert Irwin
- The Necrophiliac Gabriella Wittkorp
- The Voynich Manuscript Gerry Kennedy & Rob Churchill
- The Bell Iris Murdoch
- Flash Boys Michael Lewis
- The Mysteries of Algiers Robert Irwin
- The Limits of Vision Robert Irwin
- A short introduction to Global Warming Mark Maslin
- The Black Prince Iris Murdoch
- Edith Sitwell Richard Greene
- Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar
- Don't tell Sybil George Melly
- Strange Angel A life of John Whitesnade Parsons George Pendle
- The Bone Clocks David Mitchell
- Genius in my Basement
- Murder at the Margin
- Memoirs of a gnostic dwarf David Mardsen
- Freaksome Tales VV Zwigferd Gloume
- The Big Short Michael Lewis
- The Absent Therapist Will Eaves
- Image of the Beast Philip Jose Farmer
- Jolly Lad John Doran
- The Bright Labyrinth Ken Hollings
- The Problem with Physics Lee Smolin
- The Man Who Was Norris Tom Cullen
- Arcadia Iain Pears
- Maiden Voyage Denton Welch
- Find Actor Hart Harry Stephen Keeler
- The Secret Knowledge Andrew Crumey
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carston Mccullers