Tracks Provides Suggestions for Extended Reading by Related Subjects Which May Take You to Some Rather Strange Places!
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CONTENTS Puzzles And Intrigues page 2 Historical Romps page 4 The Dogs Of War page 6 Other Worlds page 8 Crimes And Misdemeanours page 10 On Your Travels page 12 Character And Conflict page 14 Once you’ve read The List where do you go next for reading suggestions? Tracks provides suggestions for extended reading by related subjects which may take you to some rather strange places! © Charlie White, December 2004 1 PUZZLES AND INTRIGUES • The Unburied – Charles Palliser • Carter Beats The Devil – David Glen Gould • Tinker, Tailor – John Le Carre • The Crow Road – Iain Banks • Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil – John Berendt • The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time – Mark Haddon Temple – Matthew Reilly Archangel – Robert Harris The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins The Nautical Chart – Arturo Perez-Reverte The Secret History – Donna Tartt 2 THE TRACK…. The Quincunx – Charles Palliser Family / Betrayal / Documents Family House Of The Spirits – Isabel Allende Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons The Expedition Of Humphrey Clinker – Tobias Smollet Betrayal Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton Spies – Michael Frayn Kowloon Tong – Paul Theroux Documents The Name Of The Rose – Umberto Eco Losing Nelson – Barry Unsworth Bleak House – Charles Dickens 3 HISTORICAL ROMPS • Lincoln – Gore Vidal • Falls The Shadow – Sharon Penman • Credo – Melvyn Bragg • Falling Angels – Tracy Chevalier • Alexander – Valerio Massimo Manfredi • The Clerkenwell Tales – Peter Ackroyd Hornblower And The ‘Hotspur’ – C.S. Forester Rebel – Bernard Cornwell Master And Commander – Patrick O’Brien Rumours Of War – Alan Mallinson Wellington – Christopher Hibbert THE TRACK…. 4 The Master – Colm Toibin Exile / Writing / Theatre Exile Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift Blackberry Wine – Joanne Harris The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant – Stephen Donaldson Writing Scoop – Evelyn Waugh A Gathering Light – Jennifer Donnelly Epitaph Of A Small Winner – Machado de Assis Theatre Wise Children – Angela Carter An Awfully Big Adventure – Beryl Bainbridge Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens 5 THE DOGS OF WAR • Empire Of The Sun – J. G. Ballard • The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje • Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres • The Red Badge Of Courage – Stephen Crane • One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich – Alexander Solzhenistyn Bomber – Len Deighton The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien Birdsong – Sebastian Faulkes The Naked And The Dead – Norman Mailer War And Peace – Leo Tolstoy 6 THE TRACK…. Regeneration – Pat Barker War Poets / Madness / Blurring Fact And Fiction War Poets Goodbye to all that – Robert Graves Diaries 1915-1918 – Siegfried Sassoon A Deep Cry – Anne Powell Madness The Underground Man – Mick Jackson The Comforts Of Madness – Paul Sayer The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman Blurring Fact And Fiction The Late Mr Shakespeare – Robert Nye Archangel – Robert Harris The Garden Of Earthly Delights – Nicholas Salaman 7 OTHER WORLDS • Consider Her Ways, And Others – John Wyndham • Foundation – Isacc Asimov • The Player Of Games – Iain M. Banks • Eon – Greg Bear • The Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams • Dune – Frank Herbert The Dispossessed – Ursula Le Guin Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman Rune – Christopher Fowler The Handmaiden’s Tale – Margaret Atwood Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 8 THE TRACK…. Neuromancer – William Gibson Sensory Perceptions / Corporations / Mavericks Sensory Perceptions Blindness – Joe Saramango Ingenious Pain – Andrew Miller Oscar And Lucinda – Peter Carey Corporations Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand The Company – Robert Littel Nostromo – Joseph Conrad Mavericks Life Of Pi – Yann Martel Vernon God Little – D. B. C. Pierre The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler 9 CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS • Death Du Jour – Kathy Reichs • The Silver Pigs – Lindsey Davies • The Murder Room – P. D. James • Along Came A Spider – James Patterson • The Kalahari Typing School For Men – Alexander McCall Smith • The Mummy Case – Elizabeth Peters Last Tango In Aberystwyth – Malcolm Pryce The Ice House – Minette Walters White Murder – David Wishart Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow – Peter Hoeg Crime And Punishment – Fydor Dostoevsky 10 THE TRACK…. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd Ghost Stories / Rituals / Narratives Ghost Stories The Turn Of The Screw – Henry James Blackberry Wine – Joanne Harris Ghost Stories – M. R. James Rituals Return Of The Native – Thomas Hardy Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake Moby Dick – Herman Melville Narratives Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf London Fields – Martin Amis 11 ON YOUR TRAVELS • Playing The Moldovans At Tennis – Tony Hawks • Brazzaville Beach – William Boyd • Passage To India – E. M. Forster • A. A. Gill Is Away – A. A. Gill • Touching The Void – Joe Simpson and Chris Bonington • Star Of The Sea – Joseph O’Connor Travels With My Aunt – Graham Greene Pecked To Death By Ducks – Tim Cahill The Age Of Kali: Indian Travels And Encounters - William Dalrymple When The Going Was Good – Evelyn Waugh The Magus – John Fowles 12 THE TRACK…. The Piano Tuner – Daniel Mason Music / Mysterious Women / Notion Of Self Music Music And Silence – Rose Tremain An Equal Music – Vikram Seth The Pianist – Wladyslaw Szpilman Mysterious Women The Winter Queen – Boris Akunin Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier Devil In A Blue Dress – Walter Mosley Notion Of Self The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand A House For Mr Biswas – V. S. Naipaul The Unbearable Lightness Of Being – Milan Kundra 13 CHARACTER AND CONFLICT • Being Dead – Jim Crace • Porterhouse Blue – Tom Sharpe • Remains Of The Day – Kazuo Ishiguro • The Cloning Of Joanna May – Fay Weldon • The Flame Tree – Richard Lewis • Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy Boy Kills Man – Matt Wyman Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh The Quiet American – Graham Greene Don Quioxte – Miguel de Cervantes Les Miserables – Victor Hugo 14 THE TRACK…. The Cryptographer – Tobias Hill Codes / Wealth / Identity Codes Enigma – Robert Harris The Code Of The Woosters – P. G. Wodehouse The Seventh Scroll – Wilbur Smith Wealth Breakfast Of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut The King Of Pirates – Daniel Defoe The Line Of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst Identity Where You Once Belonged – Kent Haruf The Shipping News – Annie Proulx The Count Of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas 15.