A Sort of Reading List (with thanks to 'HM')

Here I reproduce, with thanks,  a recent posting by ‘HM’, which answers (or partly answers) a question often put by contributors here about my book recommendations:’ Here – because I like lists – is a list of some of the writers and books that Peter Hitchens has praised, or at least mentioned with interest. Some of it is from memory so there may be mistakes. Eric Ambler Kingsley Amis The Old Wives’ Tale, by Arnold Bennett Human Smoke, by Nicholson Baker The Great Deception, by Christopher Booker and Richard North The Real Global Warming Disaster, Christopher Booker William Boyd Ray Bradbury The Gap in the Curtain, by John Buchan Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War, by Patrick J. Buchanan The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan Edmund Burke A.S. Byatt The Riddle of the Sands, by Erskine Childers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, especially the Sherlock Holmes stories and Micah Clarke.  The Stars Look Down, A.J. Cronin Charles Dickens, especially Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities Orderly and Humane, by R.M. Douglas The Siege, by Helen Dunmore Silas Marner, by George Eliot T.S. Eliot The Third Reich in Power, by Richard Evans When Money Dies, by Adam Fergusson C.S Forester Flashman books, by George Macdonald Fraser Robert Frost Alan Furst Night Falls on the City, by Sarah Gainham Goodbye To All That, by Robert Graves Among the Dead Cities, by A.C. Grayling Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene She, by H. Rider Haggard Covenant with Death, by John Harris The Ghost, by Robert Harris George Herbert To End All Wars, by Adam Hochschild South Riding, by Winifred Holtby A.E. Housman M.R. James Alan Judd Keats Philip Larkin Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John Le Carre The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis The House in Norham Gardens, by Penelope Lively The Box of Delights, by John Masefield Somerset Maugham The Cruel Sea, by Nicholas Monserrat Aubrey and Maturin novels, by Patrick O’Brien George Orwell The Hidden Persuaders, by Vance Packard The Death of Mao, by James Palmer Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman English Journey, by J.B. Priestley Alms For Oblivion, by Simon Raven Mary Renault Philip Roth, but only American Pastoral, I Married a Communist and The Human Stain The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara Shakespeare Nevil Shute Peter Simple (Michael Wharton) Strangers and Brothers, by C.P. Snow Race and Culture, by Thomas Sowell John Steinbeck, especially East of Eden and Travels with Charley Elizabeth Taylor Tennyson The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey Edward Thomas The Big Pick-Up, by Elleston Trevor Hugh Walpole Evelyn Waugh P.G. Wodehouse All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson The Lady Vanishes, by Ethel Lina White John Wyndham W.B. Yeats The World of Yesterday, by Stefan Zweig And a few he doesn’t like: Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ted Hughes, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, Ian McEwan, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf’