BOOKS


I have a habit of picking up any Penguin Modern Classics that I find second hand.

The way they form a loose collection, visully similar but textually unrelated is appealing.

The penguin of approval has become a staple of my bookcase.

Now my young daughter can recommend new books.




1: Timeless favourite


4: Great read
3: Solid book
2: Somehow lacking
1: Didn't enjoy


Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut 5 2025/02/25

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut 5 2025/01/20
The Plague Albert Camus 2 2024/12/30
The Wood at Midwinter Susanna Clarke 3 2024/12/27
Into the War Italo Calvino 3 2024/11/22
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2 2022/08/13
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain Amy Jeffs 2 2024/04/12
Until August Gabriel Garcia Marquez 3 2024/03/25
Day Bringer J. S. R. Varma 3 2024/03/23
Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic (Tales of the Weird) Daisy Butcher 2 2024/02/24
Between Two Fires Christopher Buehlman 4 2024/02/19
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 2 2023/09/26
The Lonely Londoners Sam Selvon 3 2023/09/12
The Drowned World J.G. Ballard 2 2023/09/09
Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4) Terry Pratchett 3 2023/01/24
Second Place Rachel Cusk 2 2023/09/04
The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith 2 2023/09/02
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1) Satoshi Yagisawa 3 2023/08/25
Goodbye, Eri Tatsuki Fujimoto 4 2023/08/09
The Loki Sword (Fire Born #3) Angus Donald 4 2023/06/04
The Saxon Wolf (Fire Born #2) Angus Donald 4 2023/05/29
22-26 [Fujimoto Tatsuki Tanpenshū 22-26] Tatsuki Fujimoto 2 2023/05/05
The Last Berserker (Fire Born #1) Angus Donald 4 2023/05/04
H is for Hawk Helen Macdonald 3 2023/04/28
Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories Mike Ashley 3 2023/03/27
17-21 [Fujimoto Tatsuki Tanpenshū 17-21] Tatsuki Fujimoto 3 2023/03/26
Siva! Leigh Richmond 1 2023/03/05
Cursed Bunny Bora Chung 1 2023/01/27
The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata 3 2022/08/30
Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata 3 2022/08/26

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez 5 2022/06/26
The Silence of Stones (Crispin Guest, #8) Jeri Westerson 4 2022/05/13
The Mermaid of Black Conch Monique Roffey 4 2022/04/27
The Creative Gene Hideo Kojima 2 2022/04/27
The Mist in the Mirror Susan Hill 2 2022/02/27
The Coffin Path Katherine Clements 2 2022/02/27
Moriarty (Horowitz's Holmes, #2) Anthony Horowitz 3 2022/02/27
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Jaron Lanier 3 2022/02/27
The Lost Ones Anita Frank 4 2022/02/27
The Ghosts of Heaven Marcus Sedgwick 4 2022/02/27