The Places You Will Go: Jacobus's Essential Books

Here is Jacobus Raj's list of favourite books. Jacobus is a sub-editor with the Star's Metro section. He's a big fellow with very little hair (by choice) and a colourful taste in shirts. He is also nutty in a thoroughly nice way :-)

This is what he has to say about his list: "The books are listed in no particular order; just my favourite books at the moment because the list does change over time. Any ranking given reflects current reading preferences and will change over time."

Jacobus's Essential Reads
1. American Psycho – Brett Easton Ellis

2. The Gulag Archipelago – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

3. Krushchev Remembers – Edward Crankshaw (ed)

4. Watership Down – Richard Adams

5. Dune – Frank Herbert

6. Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

7. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

8. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

9. Focault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

10. Eats Shoots and Leaves – Lynne Truss

11. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

12. Against Our Will – Susan Brownmiller

13. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

14. I, Claudius – Robert Graves

15. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking

16. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown

17. Roots – Alex Haley

18. Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley

19. When Rabbit Howls – Truddi Chase

20. Gorky Park – Martin Cruz Smith

21. Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin

22. The Jungle is Neutral – F Spencer Chapman

23. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

24. Spiral Dance – Starhawk

25. The Witches of Eastwick – John Updike

26. The World According to Garp – John Irving

27. Spycatcher – Peter Wright

28. Enigma – Robert Harris

29. Fatherland - Robert Harris

30. The Alienist – Caleb Carr

31. Ring of Bright Water – Gavin Maxwell

32. A Canticle for Liebowitz – Walter Miller

33. A Citizen of the Galaxy – Robert Heinlein

34. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Phillip K Dick

35. Magician – Raymond E Feist

36. The Belgariad – David Eddings

37. Fairy Tale – Raymond E Feist

38. The Doom that came to Sarnath – HP Lovecraft

39. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt

40. On the Road – Jack Kerouac

41. Armageddon: The Musical – Robert Rankin

42. The Doors of Perception – Aldous Huxley

43. Rumpole for the Defense – John Mortimer

44. A Time to Kill – John Grisham

45. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

46. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

47. All Things Great and Small – James Herriot

48. My Family and other Animals – Gerald Durrell

49. 51st State – Peter Preston

50. Battlefield Earth – L Ron Hubbard

The Places You Will Go

~ have books will travel ~

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Jacobus's Essential Books

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