favorite books
i realise how terribly narcissistic it seems to have enough self-importance to put out a list of what i consider is good literature. nevertheless, i recommend these works and implore you all to read them.
books
- Candide / Voltaire
- A clockwork orange / anthony burgess
- Adrian Mole - from minor to major / Sue townsend
- perfume / patrick suskind
- Leviathan / hobbes
- la peste / albert camus
- the stranger / albert camus
- the metamorphosis / franz kafka
- the trial / franz kafka
- le grand meaulnes / alain fournier
- l'arrache-coeur / boris vian
- Against nature / huysmans
- far from the madding crowd /thomas hardy
- the portrait of dorian gray / oscar wilde
- a nip in the air / john betjeman
- Lady Chatterly's Lover / DH Lawrence
- Brighton rock/ Graham Greene
- observatory mansions/ edward carey
plays
- rosencrantz and guildernstern are dead/ tom stoppard
- waiting for godot/samuel beckett
- cyrano de bergerac/edmond rostand
- conversation at night with a despised character/fredriech durrenmatt