18.7.09

On The (rules of the) Road

The Methodology

Rule #1: I only recommend books I like, not books that a million other people think are awesome and I think are shite. Of course, I do like books that other people like as well. I'm not a hipster reader.

Sub-Rule #1a: Sometimes I'm a hipster reader. Deal.

Rule #2: Recommendations come with related books and things. If you hate the related items and then hate the book you know who's fault that is? Yeah, not mine.

Rule #3: There will be no Steinbeck


The Masterlist

This is the list of books that have/will be featured whenever I get around to it. Entries will be linked from here or in the archives and this list will be constantly updated whenever I feel like it.

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Watership Down by Richard Adams
  • Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  • The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
  • Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
  • Angels in America by Tony Kushner
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Love in the Time of the Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
  • Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
  • The God of Small Things by Arundthati Roy
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safron-Foer
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  • The Once and Future King by T.H. White


My Virtual Bookcases


This is an electronic version of the actual books I have chosen to spend money on in the last 10 years that I've been buying books. Some are a little wack. Whatever.


Up next: The First Recommendation.

2 comments:

Andrew Leprechaun said...

#3 sold me. /follow

Kate said...

i want to read the road but i also do not want to be morbidly depressed whilst i try to relax.