Book recommendations
(original/English titles used)
- Douglas Adams:
- The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy (five parts)
- Margaret Atwood
- Alias Grace
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Lady Oracle
- The Blind Assassin
- Oryx and Crake
- Jean-Dominique Bauby:
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Ray Bradbury:
- Fahrenheit 451
- Mihail Bulgakov:
- The Master and Margarita
- Douglas Coupland:
- Microserfs
Generation X
Girlfriend in a Coma
Miss Wyoming
All Families Are Psychotic
Shampoo Planet
Hey, Nostradamus!
Eleanor Rigby
JPod
The Gum Thief - Marie Darrieussecq:
- Pig Tales
- Alexandre Dumas:
- The Black Tulip
- Zlata Filipovic:
- Zlata's Diary
- Anne Frank:
- Young girl's diary
- Kinky Friedman:
- Elvis, Jesus & Coca-Cola
- Jostein Gaarder:
- Sophie's World
The Solitaire Mystery - Winston Groom:
- Forrest Gump
- Einar Már Guðmundsson:
- Fótspor á himnum
Draumar á jörðu - Torey Hayden:
- The Sunflower Forest
- The Mechanical Cat
- Aldous Huxley:
- Island
- John Irving:
- A Widow for One Year
- Todd Keisling:
- A Life Transparent
- Thomas Keneally:
- Schindler's list
- Imre Kertész:
- A kudarc
- Stanislaw Lem:
- Solaris
- Myron Levoy:
- Alan and Naomi
- Erlend Loe:
- Naiv, super
- L
- Fakta om Finland
- Doppler
- Bernard Malamud:
- God's Grace
- George Orwell:
- 1984
- Sylvia Plath:
- The Bell Jar
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:
- The Little Prince
- Johanna Sinisalo:
- Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi
- Lasisilmä
- Saracen Tate:
- 5 Suicide Notes
- Leo Tolstoi:
- Anna Karenina
- Dalton Trumbo:
- Jonny got his gun
- Leon Uris:
- Exodus
- H. G. Wells:
- The Time Machine
- Oscar Wilde:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
This list does not contain all the good novels that I have read - I started reading books when I was five, at a pace of several a week (sometimes several a day) so I had already forgotten many great novels by the time I began constructing this list.
If you want to purchase any of these books, you can visit e.g. Amazon or just consult a real-life bookstore. Most of these books aren't really new, so you might have better luck buying some of them second-hand. Remember that books last for decades and provide joy for many generations!