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I've read a lot for most of my life. These are the some of the ones that have stayed with me.
Early years - read to me by mum or dad
| A A Milne - Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner | |
| Kenneth Graham - The Wind in the Willows | |
| C S Lewis - Out of the Silent Planet, Voyage to Venus (aka Perelandra), | |
First ones I discovered for myself
| Michael Bond - A Bear Called Paddington, More About Paddington etc | |
| Norman Hunter - Professor Branestawm etc | |
| Hugh Lofting - Dr Doolittle etc | |
| C S Lewis - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe & other Narnia books | |
| Tolkein - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings | |
| Robert Heinlein - Have Spacesuit - Will Travel | |
| E E Doc Smith - Lensman Series |
'’Classics"
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Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Joyce - Ulysses |  |
| Douglas Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach |
More recent discoveries
| Anthony Burgess - Little Wilson and Big God, You’ve Had Your Time, This Man and Music etc | |
| Terry Pratchett - Discworld books (especially 'Men at Arms(?), 'the Hogfather' ??) | |
| Robertson Davies - Deptford Trilogy, Salterton Trilogy, Cornish Trilogy | |
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Iain Banks - the Wasp Factory, Espedair Street (The Crow Road) |
| Patrick O'Brien - the Aubrey & Maturin series | |
| Louis de Bernières - Captain Corelli's Mandolin |
Children's Books (discovered later in life)
| Alan Garner - the Stone Book Quartet |  |
| William Mayne - A Swarm in May etc | |
| Gillian Cross - Chartbreak (books about music) | |
| Adèle Geras - ?? (cleverly told, captures experience of being in play - suffused with the spirit of Checkov's 'Three Sisters') | |
| J K Rowling - Harry Potter books |
Books about books
| A Sounding of Storytellers - John Rowe Townsend | |