This is kind of taxed off Toby's blog... but never mind. This is my current list of books to read this year. If you have read any of them and want to either warn me away from them or encourage me further, feel free to comment.
1) The Ghost Road -- of course.
2) Rabbit, Run -- John Updike (suggested to me by dad, who apparently loves these books. I take that to mean there are more than one Rabbit book)
3) Heart of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad (I've started this four times and failed every time. 5th time lucky?)
4) Rocking Horse Road -- Carl Nixon (my favourite NZ writer. Read his short stories, they're good as)
5) For Esme with Love and Squalor -- JD Salinger (short stories by the Catcher in the Rye man)
6) Jonathan Livingston Seagull -- Richard Bach (I read it ages ago. It's an insane book about a seagull - fantastic)
7) The latest Alex Rider book -- Horowitz (It's like watching a Die Hard movie)
8) Q & A -- Vikas Swarup (about some poor waiter in India who wins a billion on a game show. Everyone thinks he cheats. Its very dramatic)
Thats all I can think of currently.
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Alex Rider books are awesome, yet in the last one he somehow went to space and had some intergalatic battle with a crazy evil-man. So really, where can he go from there? Alternate worlds?
Jonothan Livingston Seagull, ah that takes me back. Awesome book. "all I want to do is fly"
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