Books

A selection of books I have enjoyed.


[Index]

 

my favorites

Dune, Frank Herbert
NP, Banana Yoshimoto
 
The third chimpanzee, Jared Diamond
    Héliante, Stefano Benni  
    Japanese Chronicles, Nicolas Bouvier  
Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges
    Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
1984, George Orwell     The Martian Chronicles, RayBradbury   Snowcrash, Neal Stephenson    
 
The war of Don Emmanuel's nether parts, Louis de Bernières
    A history of Danish Dreams, Peter Høeg     The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
    MacBeth, William Shakespeare     Indigo, Marina Warner    
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman    
The end of the world / Hard-boiled wonderland, Haruki Murakami
   
The Dispossesed, Ursula LeGuin
 
   
The instrumentality of Mankind, Cordwainer Smith
  Morgane, Michel Rio      
  The penal colony, Franz Kafka       La Maison des Mères, Elisabeth Vonarburg   Waterlands, Graham Swift

 

other good ones

Rork, Andréas        
Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
   
  Martians go home!, Frederic Brown  
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
      Sputnik sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
        The Evolution Man, or how I ate my father, Roy Lewis   The songs of distant Earth, Arthur C. Clarke  
    Oriental Tales, Marguerite Yourcenar    
Soie, Antonio Baricco
  The Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann
Amber, Roger Zelazny       De cape et de crocs, Ayroles & Masbou   The missing head of Damasceno Monteiro, Antonio Tabucchi  
  The Golden Compass, Philp Pullman   Le Baronperché, Italo Calvino   White teeth, Zadie Smith   Harry Potter and the goblet of fire, J.K. Rowling
   
L'homme à l'oreille croquée, Jean-Bernard Pouy
    Hyperion, Dan Simmons    
Le Parfum, Patrick Süskind    
Slaughterhouse 5, by Kurt Vonnegut
    Nuée d'oiseaux blancs, Yasunari Kawabata