| Part of the enjoyment of travelling is being able to find the time to read all those books you've been meaning to get round to or read again because they were wonderful, weird or vague the first time round. This is my reading list for the year. In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje Postcards - Annie Proulx Muck - NJ Dodic Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay Remembering Babylon - David Malouf Daisy Bates in the Desert - Julia Blackburn Something Leather - Alasdair Gray By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - Paulo Coelho The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler My Place - Sally Morgan Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee Microserfs - Douglas Coupland The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark The Colour Purple - Alice Walker The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway One Hundered Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Go Ask Alice - Anon The Hanging Garden - Ian Rankin The Beach - Alex Garland He Died with a Felafel in his Hand - John Birmingham The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Chocolat - Joanne Harris Paddy Clarke HaHaHa - Roddy Doyle On the Road - Jack Kerouac Let's Get Lost - Craig Nelson The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder Motorcycle Masala - Peter Riordan Lady Oracle - Margaret Atwood The Black Book - Ian Rankin Kiwi Tracks - Andrew Stevenson Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien The Railway Man - Eric Lomax Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra The Lady in the Van - Alan Bennett A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi Tooth and Nail - Ian Rankin |
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