My favourite books:

Requests for book suggestions are very common around these parts, so I thought I’d make a comprehensive list of my favourite books. I would recommend every book on this list, obviously. In no order - 

• The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
• No-one is Innocent - Alan Parker
• Lux the Poet - Martin Millar
• Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation - Martin Millar
• I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
• She’s Come Undone - Wally Lamb
• The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb
• We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
• Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
• Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson
• Lord of the Flies - William Golding
• The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Silmarilion - J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
• Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
• 1984 - George Orwell
• Books vs. Cigarettes - George Orwell
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
• A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
• Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
• East of Eden - John Steinbeck
• The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
• The Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes
• The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton
• The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Frederich Engels
• The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara
• Common People - Martin Knight
• Human Punk - John King
• Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
• Coming Through the Rye - J.D. California
• The Ninth Life of Louis Drax - Liz Jensen
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
• Hamlet - William Shakespeare
• Macbeth - William Shakespeare
• King Lear - William Shakespeare
• The Tooth Fairy - Graham Joyce
• Committed - Dan Matthews
• Bright Shiny Morning - James Frey
• My Friend Leonard - James Frey
• A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
• Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
• Abarat - Clive Barker
• The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
• The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
• I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
• Cowboys and Indians - Joseph O’Connor
• Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
• Rancid Aluminium - James Howes
• Dracula - Bram Stoker
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
• Threepenny Opera - Bertolt Brecht
• Mother Courage and her Children - Bertolt Brecht
• The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
• A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
• The Book of Relevation - Rupert Thompson
• Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
• Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
• Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
• Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
• Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
• Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
• Damned - Chuck Palahniuk
• Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
• Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
• Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
• Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
• Black Coffee Blues - Henry Rollins
• Do I Come Here Often? - Henry Rollins
• Smile, You’re Travelling - Henry Rollins
• Get in the Van - Henry Rollins
• Solipsist - Henry Rollins
• Nothing Feels Good - Andy Greenwald
• American Hardcore: A Tribal History

I’m sure there are more, but that’s a bit to be going on with. xo