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
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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
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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….
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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
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