Here is Martin Vengadesan's 50 Favourite books. Martin is a writer with Star Mag where he has a fortnightly column called Music Myths & Legends. He is also my husband!
Martin's Essential Reads1. The Happy Prince And Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
2. Collected Short Stories by Saki
3. Aunt's Aren't Gentlemen by P.G. Woodhouse
4. The World According To Garp by John Irving
5. A Son Of The Circus by John Irving
6. A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
7. The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
8. The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
9. The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
10. The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame
11. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
12. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
13. The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
14. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
15. Tortilla Flat And Other Stories by John Steinbeck
16. The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
17. King Lear by William Shakespeare
18. MacBeth by William Shakespeare
19. A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
20. Animal Farm by George Orwell
21. The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
22. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
23. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
24. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
25. The Wombles by Elisabeth Beresford
26. The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins
27. The Mayor Of Castorbridge by Thomas Hardy
28. Silas Marner by George Elliot
29. Our Man In Havana by Graham Greene
30. Candide by Voltaire
31. Sketches From A Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev
32. Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung
33. At The Back Of The North Wind by George MacDonald
34. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
35. King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
36. Uncle Cleans Up by J.P. Martin
37. The Naughtiest Girl In School Is A Monitor by Enid Blyton
38. The Mystery Of The Screaming Clock by Alfred Hitchcock
39. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
40. Pollyanna Grows Up by E.H. Porter
41. The Consolation Of Philosophy by Boethius
42. Roots by Alex Haley
43. Be Here Now by Babu Ram Dass
44. The Little Prince by Antoine De Sainte Euxpery
45. Confessions Of An English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
46. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
47. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
48. Agamemnon by Aeschylus
49. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
50. The Communist Party Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
She scares me too. I kinda loathe her actually ;-)
Posted by: Daphne | Friday, June 04, 2004 at 19:12
Pollyanna? Hmmmmm ! Ok, I admit it - Pollyana scares me! ;D
Posted by: Liz Tai | Friday, June 04, 2004 at 17:54