I am now 21 years old.
In my past 21 years I have read several books which I will not review, but I think it's important that they are included because they show where I come from before I begin my reviews. Some of them I read in school, and this post will probably be updated as I remember novels I read in my past.
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Richard Adams - Watership Down
David Almond - Skellig
Iain Banks - Dead Air
Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone
Louis de Bernières - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Russell Brand - My Booky Wook
Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code
Candace Bushnell - Sex and the City
Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl - George's Marvellous Medicine
Roald Dahl - Fantastic Mr Fox
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho (my favourite novel to date, although it is hard to pick!)
Bret Easton Ellis - Glamorama
Bret Easton Ellis - The Rules of Attraction
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith - Ripley Underground
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
Stephen King - The Green Mile
Sophie Kinsella - Confessions of a Shopaholic (and sequels)
D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
C.S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Andrew Marr - History of Modern Britain
Andrew Marr - The Making of Modern Britain
A.A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh
Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveller's Wife
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Louise Rennison - Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Bernard Schlink - The Reader
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Patrick Suskind - Perfume
David Talbot - Brothers
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Rose Tremain - Restoration
E.B. White - Charlotte's Web
Oscar Wilde - Picture of Dorian Gray
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
I have also read a fair bit of Shakespeare (which I love!) I am familiar with:
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Romeo and Juliet
Antony and Cleopatra
Othello
Hamlet
The Tempest (my favourite)
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
There are so many more to read and see though, which I plan to continue throughout my life.
Other dramatics I have read include John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and Brian Friel's Translations; all thanks to A Level English Literature!
I am not reviewing any of the academic books which I read in order to get my degree, one of note would be David Beresford's Ten Men Dead, which was a godsend during my dissertation!
