Set up as books on travel, with some of them ending up as war. Also: "This twist-laden thriller, later adapted into a screenplay by Tom Stoppard, popularised the previously little-known story of Bletchley Park." Yeah, right. 25 out of 129 books

Read, unfinished, hated

Junghyo Ahn, Silver Stallion (1990)
Richard Aldington, Death of a Hero (1929)
Beryl ( Read more... )

Read, unfinished, hated. Some typically perverse choices - and every pleasurable inclusion is matched by a stupid exclusion . Roundabout 70 out of 149. The first time I've felt well read!

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
Brian W Aldiss, Non-Stop (1958)
Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1951)
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin ( ( Read more... )

Read, unfinished, hated

Look - Thomas Love Peacock. 134 titles? Have I missed something? There was odd formatting with ff s and fi s. I've read 16.

Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958)
Martin Amis, London Fields (1989)
Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable (1935)
James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain (1953)
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Read, unfinished, hated (I don't do much hating, but the second and third groups meld). Note some series as series, and Banks. 145 titles; 24 read, mostly between the ages of 18 and 25.

Kobo Abe, The Face of Another (1964)
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868)
Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995)
Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye (1988)
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A good day to be teaching about the Great Tradition today. 149 titles - too many of them by Waugh and Wodehouse and - good grief - Phil Farmer. Read, unfinished, hated. 24 out of 149? A few movies and tv versions as well.

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1954)
Martin Amis, Money (1984)
Martin Amis, The Information (1995)
Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory ( Read more... )

Some perverse choices here - and because it's novels, it's hardly the best Sherlock Holmes. Read, unfinished, hated.  I make 45 of about 145/146.

Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)
Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, Fantômas (1911)
Eric Ambler, Epitaph for a Spy (1938)
Eric Ambler, Journey into Fear (1940)
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Yes, well: bold means I've read it, italic on author means started but didn't finish, struck through hated it. Yes, a low score of read - out of somethin g like 145..

Henri Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913)
Layla al-Juhani, Jahiliyya (2006)
Latifa al-Zayyat, al-Bab al-Maftouh (1960)
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro (1899 ( Read more... )