A biography of books: i am, like a character in Bibliomen, a creature born and fed of books, and the books which i remember most are those that i read at important points in my life. Or the reverse: i remember my life as i do because it has been marked up by the pens of these men.

In no chronological order.

• The Birth of the Modern, Paul Johnson
• A Bend in the River, VS Naipaul
• Claudius the God, Robert Graves
• Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
• The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee
• The Tin Drum, Günter Grass
• The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
• King Lear, Shakespeare
• Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
• Steppenwolfe, Herman Hesse
• The Copernican Revolution, Thomas Kuhn
• Gilgamesh, trans herbert Mason
• Inferno, Dante, trans Robert Fitzgerald
• Peace, Gene Wolfe
• The Castle, Franz Kafka
• Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
• Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
• Brodie’s Report, J.L. Borges
• The Man Who Was Thursday; The Everlasting Man, G.K. Chesterton
• The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
• Envy, Yuri Olesha
• Orpheus Descending, Tenessee Williams
• Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenter; J.D. Salinger
• The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Mystery of Capital, Hernando de Soto
• The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
• Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay

Still unread.

• Charles Williams, Taliessin Through Logres; The Region of the Summer Stars
• William S Burroughs, The Black Rider (with Tom Waits)

Other reviews.

• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley