Favourite Books

Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes (Spain)
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (England)
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (Russia)
The Karamazov Brothers (The Brothers Karamazov) – Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia)
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville (United States)
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (France)
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert (France)
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia)
The Trial – Franz Kafka (Austria-Hungary/Czech Republic)
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia)
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë (England)
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf (England)
The Stranger – Albert Camus (France)
Voyage au bout de la nuit – Louis-Ferdinand Céline (France)
Le Deuxième Sexe – Simone de Beauvoir (France)
The Golden Pavillion - Yukio Mishima (Japan)
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende (Chile)
The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu (Japan)
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo (France)
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (United States)
Blindness – José Saramago (Portugal)
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (Poland/England)
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad (Poland/England)
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad (Poland/England)
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad (Poland/England)
Hadrien’s Memoirs – Marguerite Yourcenar (France)
In a Shallow Grave – James Purdy (United States)
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann (Germany)
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann (Germany)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers (United States)
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (United States)
De Avonden – Gerard Reve (Netherlands)
The Asiatics – Frederick Prokosch (United States)
The Seven Who Fled – Frederick Prokosch (United States)
The Memoirs from Beyond the Grave – François-René de Chateaubriand (France)
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway (United States)
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner (United States)
Hunger – Knut Hamsun (Norway)
The Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsun (Norway)
Lucky Per (Lykke-Per) – Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark)
À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) – Marcel Proust (France)

A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara (United States)
My Struggle (Min Kamp series) – Karl Ove Knausgård (Norway)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz (Dominican Republic/United States)
The Road – Cormac McCarthy (United States)
Beloved – Toni Morrison (United States)
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (India)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (Japan)
White Teeth – Zadie Smith (United Kingdom)
Life of Pi – Yann Martel (Canada)
Atonement – Ian McEwan (United Kingdom)
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Spain)
The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri (United States/India)
The Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolaño (Chile)
American Pastoral – Philip Roth (United States)
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)
2666 – Roberto Bolaño (Chile)
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (India/Canada)
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen (United States)
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (United Kingdom)
The Secret History – Donna Tartt (United States)
Drop City – T.C. Boyle (United States)
The Women – T.C. Boyle (United States)
The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst (United Kingdom)
The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnam/United States)
The Sportswriter – Richard Ford (United States)
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (Russia/United States)
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov (Russia/United States)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong (Vietnam/United States)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon (United States)
Two Lives – Vikram Seth (India)
Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie (United Kingdom/India) 

Barkskins – Annie Proulx (United States)
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White (United States)
Saving Fish from Drowning – Amy Tan (United States)
The Overstory – Richard Powers (United States)
The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi – Arthur Japin (Netherlands)
The Noise of Time – Julian Barnes (United Kingdom)
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes (United Kingdom)
The Girls – Emma Cline (United States)
Mystical Body – Frans Kellendonk (Netherlands)

Most recently read:

The Safekeeping - Yael van der Wouden (Israel/Netherlands)