Books I have read


The following are the books I have read. This will be continually updated. They are in no particular order.

Feel free to email me with book suggestions :)

Fiction

The room – Hubert Selby Jr

Last Exit to brooklyn – Hubert Selby Jr

Woman – Charles Bukowski

Ham on Rye -Charles Bukowski

On the road – Jack Kerouac

Lonesome Traveller – Jack Kerouac

Mysteries – Knut Hamsun

Hunger – Knut Hamsun

84 charing cross – Helen Henff

Our lady of the flowers – Jean Genet

Down and out in Paris and London – George Orwell

1984 – George Orwell

Animal farm – George Orwell

Ask the dust – John Fante

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson

Better than sex – Hunter S Thompson

Faust part one – Goethe

Gargantua and Pantagruel – François Rabelais

The Immoralist – André Gide

Fight club – Chuck Palahniuk

Diary – Chuck Palahniuk

Haunted – Chuck Palahniuk

The Tin Drum -Günter Grass

The Algebraist – Ian M. Banks

Telling Tales – various authors

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez

Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez

Queer – William S. Burroughs

The Ticket That Exploded – William S. Burroughs

journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Death on Credit – Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Castle to Castle – Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Canon fodder – Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Double – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Yellow dog – Martin Amis

Atomised – Michel Houellebecq

How to Talk Dirty and Influence People – Lenny Bruce

Napalm and Silly Putty – George Carlin

City Sister Silver – Jachym Topol

The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

Jacques the Fatalist and his Master – Denis Diderot

Tropic of Cancer, – Henry Miller

Tropic of Capricorn, – Henry Miller

Nexus – Henry Miller

Nine – Andrzej Stasiuk

Tales of Galicia – Andrzej Stasiuk

Russian Disco – Wladimir Kaminer

Andromache/Britannicus/Berenice – Jean Racine

Cryptonomicon -Neal Stephenson

The Good Soldier Schweik – Jaroslav Hašek

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa – Jan Potocki

Fathers and Sons – Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin – Vladimir Voinovich

The Castle -  Franz Kafka

Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

Visions of Poesy: Anthology of 20th Century Anarchist Poetry – Clifford Harper

The Unknown Soldier – Väinö Linna

Chatham Town Welcomes Desperate Men – Billy Childish

My Fault – Billy Childish

Non – fiction

The History of American Trotskyism – James P. Cannon

Before the Dawn – Gerry Adams

Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx

Sex changes – Pat Califia

Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World – Mark Curtis

Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses – Mark Curtis

Keeping the rabble in Line – Noam Chomsky

Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order – Noam Chomsky

No gods no masters 1 & 2 – Daniel Guérin

Jewish History , Jewish Religion – Israel Shahak

Levellers and the English Revolution – Henry N. Brailsford

Just for fun – Linus Torvalds

A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present – Howard Zinn

Genes, Peoples and Languages – Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

The Red Queen – Matt Ridley

The Art of Travel – Alain de Botton

Status Anxiety – Alain de Botton

History of Western Philosophy – Bertrand Russell

Dada: Art and Anti-Art – Hans Richter

Solidarity Forever: An Oral History of the Iww – Stewart Bird

Interpreting Dreams – Sigmund Freud

The Trouble With Being Born – Émile Michel Cioran