You’ve read Shakespeare. You’ve memorised Dante. You are Homer. Still you hunger. What is left? Try these:
Helen Waddell - The Wandering Scholars
James Ashcroft - Making a Killing
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Gore Vidal - The Last Empire
Hart Crane - poems
John Plaster - SOG: The Secret Wars of America’s Commandos in Vietnam
Soren Kierkegaard - Journals
Martin Amis - The War Against Cliche
Derek Walcott - Omeros
Virginia Woolf - A Room of one’s own
Michael Herr - Dispatches
David Crane - A Book Against Fear
Thomas Browne - Urn Burial
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Duncan Falconer - First Into Action
Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient
Julian of Norwich - A Revelation of Divine Love
J A Baker - The Peregrine
Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Albert Camus - The Fall
Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising Sequence
George Steiner - No Passion Spent
John Webster - The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi
Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Bryan Appleyard - Aliens: Why they are here
Alistair MacLeod - Island
Alan Furst - Dark Star
John le Carré - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
