Everyone can see their randomised reading lists at the same time here. I will also be making individual topics for everyone hopefully all in one go but we shall see.
This thread will be locked as it is an information only thread.
George 1. Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote 2. The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 3. The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett 4. The Bitter Glass Elias Dillon (WL)
Karen 1. Vernon God Little DBC Pierre 2. Hunger Knut Hamsun 3. Shroud John Banville (WL) 4. On the Edge of Reason Miroslav Krieza
Gail 1. The First Garden Anne Herbert 2. The Atrocity Exhibition J G Ballard 3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 4. Conversations in Sicily Elio Vittorini (WL)
Pip 1. The End of the Road John Bath 2. The Storm of Steel Ernst Junger (WL) 3. Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac 4. Complicity Iain Banks
Valerie 1. The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 2. Midaq Alley Naguib Mahfouz 3. Closely Watched Trains Bohumil Hrabal 4. Mr. Vertigo Paul Auster (WL)
Amanda 1. So Long a Letter Mariama Ba (WL) 2. Disgrace J M Coetzee (WL) 3. Dirty Havana Trilogy Pedro Juan Gutierrez (WL) 4. Blaming Elizabeth Taylor
Kristel 1. Kieron Smith, boy James Kelman 2. The Time of the Hero Mario Vargas Llosa 3. All Souls Day Cees Nooteboom 4. Tyll Daniel Kehlman (WL)
Tatjana 1. Reveries of a Solitary Walker Jean-Jacques Rousseau 2. Humphry Clinker Tobias George Smollett 3. The Czar's Madman Jaan Kross (Romanian) 4. The Plumed Serpent D H Lawrence (WL)
Diane 1. The Discovery of Heaven Harry Mulisch (WL) 2. Locus Solus Raymond Roussel (WL) 3. La vida del Buscón / The Swindler by Francisco de Quevedo (Spanish) 4. Dora Bruder (The Search Warrant) by Patrick Modiano (French)
Daisey 1. Possession A S Byatt 2. A Girl is a Half Formed Thing Eimear McBride 3. Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel García Márquez 4. The Recognitions William Gaddis (WL)
Dianne 1. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera 2. Written on the Body Jeannette Winterson 3. The Living and the Dead Patrick White 4. Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett (WL)
Pamela 1. Anagrams Lorrie Moore 2. The Holder of the World Bharati Mukherjee 3. Burmese Days George Orwell 4. The Lusiad Luis Vaz de Camoes (WL)
Hilde 1. The Go-Between L P Hartley 2. A Severed Head Iris Murdoch 3. Love Medicine Louise Erdich 4. Roman 1987 Dag Solstad (Norwegian)
MaryAnn 1. Oblomov Ivan Goncharov 2. Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light Ivan Klima 3. Ada Vladimir Nabokov 4. The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty
Jaime 1. Giovanni's Room James Baldwin 2. Jazz Toni Morrison 3. Brave New World Aldous Huxley 4. Your Face Tomorrow Javier Marias (WL)
Patrick 1. The Ambassadors Henry James 2. On the Heights of Despair Emil Cioran 3. Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas 4. Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley (WL)
This thread will be locked as it is an information only thread.
George
1. Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote
2. The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
3. The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett
4. The Bitter Glass Elias Dillon (WL)
Karen
1. Vernon God Little DBC Pierre
2. Hunger Knut Hamsun
3. Shroud John Banville (WL)
4. On the Edge of Reason Miroslav Krieza
Gail
1. The First Garden Anne Herbert
2. The Atrocity Exhibition J G Ballard
3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie
4. Conversations in Sicily Elio Vittorini (WL)
Pip
1. The End of the Road John Bath
2. The Storm of Steel Ernst Junger (WL)
3. Lost Illusions Honoré de Balzac
4. Complicity Iain Banks
Valerie
1. The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley
2. Midaq Alley Naguib Mahfouz
3. Closely Watched Trains Bohumil Hrabal
4. Mr. Vertigo Paul Auster (WL)
Amanda
1. So Long a Letter Mariama Ba (WL)
2. Disgrace J M Coetzee (WL)
3. Dirty Havana Trilogy Pedro Juan Gutierrez (WL)
4. Blaming Elizabeth Taylor
Kristel
1. Kieron Smith, boy James Kelman
2. The Time of the Hero Mario Vargas Llosa
3. All Souls Day Cees Nooteboom
4. Tyll Daniel Kehlman (WL)
Tatjana
1. Reveries of a Solitary Walker Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2. Humphry Clinker Tobias George Smollett
3. The Czar's Madman Jaan Kross (Romanian)
4. The Plumed Serpent D H Lawrence (WL)
Diane
1. The Discovery of Heaven Harry Mulisch (WL)
2. Locus Solus Raymond Roussel (WL)
3. La vida del Buscón / The Swindler by Francisco de Quevedo (Spanish)
4. Dora Bruder (The Search Warrant) by Patrick Modiano (French)
Daisey
1. Possession A S Byatt
2. A Girl is a Half Formed Thing Eimear McBride
3. Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel García Márquez
4. The Recognitions William Gaddis (WL)
Dianne
1. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera
2. Written on the Body Jeannette Winterson
3. The Living and the Dead Patrick White
4. Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett (WL)
Pamela
1. Anagrams Lorrie Moore
2. The Holder of the World Bharati Mukherjee
3. Burmese Days George Orwell
4. The Lusiad Luis Vaz de Camoes (WL)
Hilde
1. The Go-Between L P Hartley
2. A Severed Head Iris Murdoch
3. Love Medicine Louise Erdich
4. Roman 1987 Dag Solstad (Norwegian)
MaryAnn
1. Oblomov Ivan Goncharov
2. Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light Ivan Klima
3. Ada Vladimir Nabokov
4. The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty
Jaime
1. Giovanni's Room James Baldwin
2. Jazz Toni Morrison
3. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
4. Your Face Tomorrow Javier Marias (WL)
Patrick
1. The Ambassadors Henry James
2. On the Heights of Despair Emil Cioran
3. Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas
4. Eyeless in Gaza Aldous Huxley (WL)