Library · Abraham Thomas

My Library

Inspired by Patrick Collison, this page is an incomplete catalogue of my (physical) books. My rate of book-buying dramatically exceeds my rate of book-reading, but it shouldn’t exceed my rate of book-indexing, so hopefully this catalogue will be complete ~~soon~~ eventually.

To make it easier to browse, I’ve split this page by category:

Books in green are very good and recommended. Books in red are life-changing: I saw the world differently after reading them.

🔬 Science & Mathematics

One Two Three … Infinity, George Gamow
In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat, John Gribbin
The Quark and the Jaguar, Murray Gell-Mann
QED, Richard Feynman
Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman!, Richard Feynman
Six Easy Pieces, Richard Feynman
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces, Richard Feynman
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 vols), Richard Feynman
Flatland and Sphereland, Edwin Abbott
Chasing Science, Frederik Pohl
Hexaflexagons, Probability and Hanoi, Martin Gardner

The first Martin Gardner book I ever read; along with a (sadly lost) copy of Yakov Perelman’s Mathematics Can Be Fun, the beginning of a life-long interest in words, numbers, puzzles and games.

Mathematical Magic Show, Martin Gardner
Fads & Fallacies, Martin Gardner
Did Adam and Eve have Navels?, Martin Gardner
The Colossal Book of Mathematics, Martin Gardner
The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles, Martin Gardner
The Sacred Beetle, Martin Gardner
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener, Martin Gardner
How to Solve It, George Polya
From Here to Infinity, Ian Stewart
Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries, Ian Stewart
Hoard of Mathematical Treasures, Ian Stewart
Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, Ian Stewart
What If?, Randall Munro
Chaos, James Gleick
The Information, James Gleick
Time Travel, James Gleick
Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh
The Code Book, Simon Singh
Big Bang, Simon Singh
Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferriss
The Whole Shebang, Timothy Ferriss
The Big Picture, Sean Carroll
Cosmos, Carl Sagan

Cosmos (both book and TV series) was formative for me in so many ways: science, history, humanism.

Fun story: when I was 13 years old, my family lived in Kuwait. We were there when Saddam Hussein’s army invaded in 1990. We spent two months living in occupied territory, before escaping via bus caravan through the desert, three days in the hold of a cargo ship, and airlift from Dubai.

When we escaped, we had to leave almost everything behind, carrying only what would fit into a backpack each. I had a much-loved collection of books that I had to abandon; my parents told me I could choose one book to keep.

I chose Cosmos.

The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan
Broca’s Brain, Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
Comet, Carl Sagan
Metamagical Themas, Douglas Hofstadter
Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter

What can I say about GEB that hasn’t been said by a thousand geeks before me? Nothing, so I won’t even try.

Le Ton beau de Marot, Douglas Hofstadter
I am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter
The Mind’s I, Douglas Hofstadter
The Flamingo’s Smile, Stephen Jay Gould
Eight Little Piggies, Stephen Jay Gould
Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould
The Panda’s Thumb, Stephen Jay Gould
Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes, Stephen Jay Gould
Full House, Stephen Jay Gould
The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould
I Have Landed, Stephen Jay Gould
Dinosaur in a Haystack, Stephen Jay Gould
Bully for Brontosaurus, Stephen Jay Gould
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, Jared Diamond
The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert
Life on Earth, David Attenborough
The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin
The Malay Archipelago, Alfred Wallace
Consilience, Edward O. Wilson
Naturalist, Edward O. Wilson
Beautiful Swimmers, William Warner
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey
In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall
Lucy, Donald Johanson & Maitland Edey
The Lives of a Cell, Lewis Thomas
Microbe Hunters, Paul de Kruif
Periodic Tales, Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks
The Island of the Color-Blind, Oliver Sacks
Hallucinations, Oliver Sacks
Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
The Ancestor’s Tale, Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
Genome, Matt Ridley
The Red Queen, Matt Ridley
The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley
The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker
The Goshawk, T. H. White
The Peregrine’s Saga, Henry Williamson
The Double Helix, James H. Watson
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
King Solomon’s Ring, Konrad Lorenz
The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett
The Emperor’s New Mind, Roger Penrose
Thnking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari
Abundance, Peter Diamandis
Range, David Epstein
Hackers, Steven Levy
Geek Sublime, Vikram Chandra
Infrastructure, Brian Hayes
Structures, J. E. Gordon
The New Science of Strong Materials, J. E. Gordon
The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski
The Western Intellectual Tradition, Jacob Bronowski
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte
Earth from Above, Yann Arthus-Bertrand
The Atlas of Life on Earth, Michael J. Benton
The Prehistoric World, Richart Moody
The Earth: An Intimate History, Richard Fortey
Life, Richard Fortey
Bottomfeeder, Taras Grescoe
Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer
Fashionable Nonsense, Alan Sokal
Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos, William Poundstone
Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges
The Man Who Knew Infinity, Robert Kanigel
Men of Mathematics, E. T. Bell
A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar
Galileo’s Daughter, Dava Sobel
The Scientists, John Gribbin
Asimov’s Guide to Science, Isaac Asimov
Einstein, Walter Isaacson
Apollo 13, Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger
Chasing the Sun, Richard Cohen
The Flight of the Iguana, David Quammen
The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee

🗿 History & Biography

The Epic of Latin America, John Crow
The Scramble for Africa, Thomas Pakenham
The Blue Nile, Alan Moorehead
The White Nile, Alan Moorehead
Red Nile, Robert Twigger
Explorers of the Nile, Tim Jeal
Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold, Mark Cocker
King Leopold’s Ghost, Adam Hochschild
City of Fortune, Roger Crowley
Empires of the Sea, Roger Crowley
Constantinople, Roger Crowley
Conquerors, Roger Crowley
Black Sea, Neal Ascherson
Atlantic, Simon Winchester
Pacific, Simon Winchester
The Edge of the World, Michael Pye
Rubicon, Tom Holland
SPQR, Mary Beard
Alexander the Great, Robin Lane Fox
The Classical World, Robin Lane Fox
The Normans in Sicily, John Julius Norwich
The Middle Sea, John Julius Norwich
A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich
A History of Venice, John Julius Norwich
A Traveler’s Companion to Venice, John Julius Norwich
The Italians, John Julius Norwich
Europe: A History, Norman Davies
The Thirty Years War, C. K. Wedgewood
The Monks of War, Desmond Seward
The Basque History of the World, Mark Kurlansky
Defeat: Napoleon’s Russian Campaign, Phillipe-Paul de Segur
Sakhalin Island, Anton Chekhov
Lenin, Robert Service
Trotsky, Robert Service
Stalin, Robert Service
To the Finland Station, Edmund Wilson
A People’s Tragedy, Orlando Figes
Natasha’s Dance, Orlando Figes
The Crimean War, Orlando Figes
Stalingrad, Antony Beevor
The Fall of Berlin 1945, Antony Beevor
Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder
Ten Days that Shook the World, John Reed
The Code-Breakers, David Kahn
Enigma, Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Between Silk and Cyanide, Leo Marks
The Double-Cross System, J. C. Masterman
China: A History, John Keay
India: A History, John Keay
The Great Hedge of India, John Keay
India Discovered, John Keay
Last Post, John Keay
The Great Arc, John Keay
Mad About the Mekong, John Keay
The Honourable Company, John Keay
Midnight’s Descendants, John Keay
The Tartan Turban, John Keay
Sowing the Wind, John Keay
India Conquered, Jon Wilson
Land of the Seven Rivers, Sanjeev Sanyal
The Great Moguls, Bamber Gascoigne
The Mughal World, Abraham Eraly
The Baburnama, Babur
White Mughals, William Dalrymple
Return of a King, William Dalrymple
The Last Mughal, William Dalrymple
Kohinoor, William Dalrymple
The Anarchy, William Dalrymple
The Great Game, Peter Hopkirk
Trespassers on the Roof of the World, Peter Hopkirk
Setting the East Ablaze, Peter Hopkirk
Like Hidden Fire, Peter Hopkirk
Quest for Kim, Peter Hopkirk
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road, Peter Hopkirk
The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan
Silk Roads, China Ships, John Vollmer
The Silk Road, Frances Wood
Xanadu, John Man
Marco Polo, John Man
Tournament of Shadows, Karl Meyer & Shareen Brysac
A History of the Arab Peoples, Albert Hourani
Arabs, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright
The Kingdom, Robert Lacey
Inside the Kingdom, Robert Lacey
The Quest, Daniel Yergin
The Prize, Daniel Yergin
1491, Charles C. Mann
1493, Charles C. Mann
100 Great Adventures, John Canning
100 Great Lives, John Canning
The Creators, Daniel Boorstin
The Discoverers, Daniel Boorstin
The Seekers, Daniel Boorstin
The Age of Revolution, Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Capital, Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Empire, Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Extremes, Eric Hobsbawm
Civilizations, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davies
London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd
The Faber Book of London, A. N. Wilson
Seven Ages of Paris, Alistair Horne
The Bog People, P. V. Glob
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (abridged, 1 vol), Edward Gibbon
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (complete, 8 vols), Edward Gibbon
Panorama of the Classical World, Nigel Spivey
Medieval Panorama, Robert Bartlett
Panorama of the Renaissance, Margaret Aston
Panorama of the Enlightenment, Dorinda Outram
The Classical Tradition, Anthony Grafton
Cities and Civilization, Christopher Hibbert
Cities of Mughul India, Gavin Hambly
A Study of History, Arnold Toynbee
The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes
Falling Upwards, Richard Holmes
Mercator, Nicholas Crane
On the Map, Simon Garfield
The Mapmakers, John Noble Wilford
The Map that Changed the World, Simon Winchester
Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
Collapse, Jared Diamond
The World Until Yesterday, Jared Diamond
1421, Gavin Menzies
Uncommon Grounds, Mark Pendergrast
Food in History, Reay Tannahill
Salt, Mark Kurlansky
A History in Fragments, Richard Vinen
Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint Exupery
Barbarossa, Alan Clark
The Conquest of New Spain, Porfirio Diaz
A History of the Vikings, Gavin Jones
The Fatal Shore, Robert Hughes
Lusitania, Diana Preston
Dead Wake, Erik Larson
Thunderstruck, Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson
Vermeer’s Hat, Timothy Brook
Color, Victoria Finlay
Eighty Days, Matthew Goodman
Krakatoa, Simon Winchester
The Man Who Loved China, Simon Winchester
The Bounty, Caroline Alexander
Captain Bligh and Mr Christian, Richard Hough
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer
The Fatal Impact, Alan Moorehead
The Origins of the Second World War, A. J. P. Taylor
A Short History of the World, H. G. Wells
Glencoe, John Prebble
Culloden, John Prebble
The Highland Clearances, John Prebble
The Structures of Everyday Life, Fernand Braudel
The Wheels of Commerce, Fernand Braudel
The Perspective of the World, Fernand Braudel
The Mediterranean (2 vols.), Fernand Braudel
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Amin Maaloouf
The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
Mutiny on the Bounty, William Bligh
Valverde’s Gold, Mark Honigsbaum
The Island of Lost Maps, Miles Harvey
Postwar, Tony Judt
The House of Rothschild: Money’s Prophets, Niall Ferguson
The House of Rothschild: The World’s Banker, Niall Ferguson
The House of Morgan, Ron Chernow
Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Battle Cry of Freedom, James McPherson
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
One Summer, Bill Bryson
Eyewitness to History, John Carey
A Nervous Splendor, Frederic Morton
The Ottoman Centuries, Patrick Balfour, Lord Kinross
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam
The Reckoning, David Halberstam
The Coldest Winter, David Halberstam
Dispatches, Michael Herr
Five Families, Selywn Raab
Atrocities, Matthew White
The Vikings, Robert Ferguson
In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick
The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman
The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman
The Zimmermann Telegram, Barbara W. Tuchman
The March of Folly, Barbara W. Tuchman
A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman
The Chinese in America, Iris Chang
The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang
A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
The Secret Histories, John Friedman
The Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari
Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey
From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman
Cooper’s Creek, Alan Moorehead
From the Boer War to the Cold War, A. J. P. Taylor
In Spite of the Gods, Edward Luce
The Path Between the Seas, David McCullough
Arabia Felix, Thorkild Hansen
Will in the World, Stephen Greenblatt
The Black Jacobins, C. L. R. James
The Path to Power, Robert Caro
Means of Ascent, Robert Caro
Master of the Senate, Robert Caro
The Passage of Power, Robert Caro
The Power Broker, Robert Caro
Working, Robert Caro
Lords of Finance, Liaquat Ahamed
Unruly Waters, Sunil Amrith
Class, Paul Fussell
Debt, David Graeber
The Box, Marc Levinson
The Boundless Sea, David Abulafia
The Outlaw Sea, William Langewiesche
Churchill’s Secret War, Madhusree Mukerjee
Legacy of Violence, Caroline Elkins
Slouching Towards Utopia, Brad DeLong
The Napoleonic Wars, Alexander Mikaberidze
Lords of the Horizons, Jason Goodwin
Osman’s Dream, Caroline Finkel
The Evolution of Civilizations, Carroll Quigley
The Florentines, Paul Strathern
How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr
Freedom’s Forge, Arthur Herman
Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe
Devil in the Grove, Gilbert King

📔 Essays, Memoirs & Journalism

Rising from the Plains, John McPhee
In Suspect Terrain, John McPhee
Assembling California, John McPhee
The Control of Nature, John McPhee
The Crofter and the Laird, John McPhee
Irons in the Fire, John McPhee
Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee
Levels of the Game, John McPhee
The Founding Fish, John McPhee
Pieces of the Framce, John McPhee
Oranges, John McPhee
Coming Into the Country, John McPhee
The First John McPhee Reader, John McPhee
The Second John McPhee Reader, John McPhee
Annals of the Former World, John McPhee
The Survival of the Bark Canoe, John McPhee
Draft No. 4, John McPhee
The Purple Decades, Tom Wolfe
The New Journalism, Tom Wolfe
The Faber Book of Journalism, John Carey
The Penguin Book of Lies, Philip Kerr
Tell Me No Lies, John Pilger
Heroes, John Pilger
Hidden Agendas, John Pilger
Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie
Step Across This Line, Salman Rushdie
The Paris Review Interviews (4 vols), Editors
Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips
The War Against Cliché, Martin Amis
Arguably, Christopher Hitchens
The Complete Essays, A. K. Ramanujan
The View from the Cheap Seats, Neil Gaiman
Cultural Amnesia, Clive James
Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
Bradbury Speaks, Ray Bradbury
No Man is an Island, John Donne
The Best of Myles, Flann O’Brien
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
A Collection of Essays, George Orwell
The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Hell’s Angels, Hunter Thompson
Vintage Didion, Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
Ideas and Opinions, Albert Einstein
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien
Essays, E. B. White
Bookless in Baghdad, Shashi Tharoor
Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
Nobody’s Perfect, Anthony Lane
A Mencken Chrestomathy, H. L. Mencken
Selected Writings, William Hazlitt
Selected Essays, T. S. Eliot
The Writer and the World, V. S. Naipaul
Clearing a Space, Amit Chaudhuri
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
Akenfield, Ronald Morton
Republic, Plato
The Golden Bough, James Frazier
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
On War, Karl von Clausewitz
Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan
A Short History of Modern Philosophy, Roger Scruton
History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
The Inner Game of Tennis, Timothy Gallwey
Orientalism, Edward Said
An African in Greenland, Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Dreamers, Snigdha Poonam
Principles, Ray Dalio
What It Takes, Stephen Schwarzman
The Outsiders, John Thorndike
Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Taleb
The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb
The Bed of Procrustes, Nassim Taleb
Antifragile, Nassim Taleb
Fatal Risk, Roddy Boyd
The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver
The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith
Confessions of an Advertising Man, David Ogilvy
Medium Raw, Anthony Bourdain
Poison Penmanship, Jessica Mitford
Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Laurie Lee
A Moment of War, Laurie Lee
So, Anyway…, John Cleese
The Informant, Kurt Eichenwald
Serendipities, Umberto Eco
On Literature, Umberto Eco
Keeping an Eye Open, Julian Barnes
Lost at Sea, Jon Ronson
How Asia Works, Joe Studwell
One From Many, Dee Hock
Empires of Light, Jill Jonnes
Straphanger, Taras Grescoe
Voices from the Sky, Arthur C. Clarke

🎼 Language & Music

The Joy of Lex, Giles Brandreth
More Joy of Lex, Giles Brandreth
The Joy of Cliches, Nigel Rees
A Word in Your Shell-Like, Nigel Rees
Usage and Abusage, Eric Partridge
Let a Simile Be Your Umbrella, William Safire
No Uncertain Terms, William Safire
On Language, William Safire
Empires of the Word, Nicholas Ostler

This is a terrific book and one of the top 5 non-fiction books I’ve ever read. (My top 5 actually includes at least 25 books, but what can you do.)

Ad Infinitum, Nicholas Ostler
The Stories of English, David Crystal
Made in America, Bill Bryson
The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
Just My Type, Simon Garfield
The Power of Babel, John McWhorter
Word Origins, Cecil Hunt
Christmas Crackers, John Julius Norwich
More Christmas Crackers, John Julius Norwich
Still More Christmas Crackers, John Julius Norwich
The Big Bang Christmas Crackers, John Julius Norwich
An Almanac of Words at Play, Willard Espy
Another Almanac of Words at Play, Willard Espy
O Thou Improper, Thou Uncommon Noun, Willard Espy
Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. C. Brewer
Brewer’s Cabinet of Curiosities, E. C. Brewer
Words and Rules, Steven Pinker
The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, Ralph Elster
On Language, Noam Chomsky
Word Games, Peter Newby
The King’s English, H. W. Fowler
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, H. W. Fowler
The English Language, Robert Burchfield
Pure Pleasure, John Carey
Word and Phrase Origins, William Morris
American Slang, Robert Chapman
Indian Classical Music, Raghava Menon
Nad: Understanding Raga Music, Sandeep Bagchee
Euphony, L. Subramaniam
The Raga Guide, Editors
Blues People, LeRoi Jones
Old, Weird America, Greil Marcus
Mystery Train, Greil Marcus
The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross
Listen to This, Alex Ross
The Great Pianists, Harold Schonberg
Mozart, Maynard Solomon
Why Jazz Happened, Marc Myers
The Forms of Music, Donald Francis Tovey
Bhairavi: The Dawn of Indian Music in the West, Peter Lavezzoli
A History of Western Music, Donald J. Grout
Three Mozart Operas, Richard Moberly
The Band: A Musical History, Robbie Robertson
Really the Blues, Mezz Mezzrow
Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country, R. Crumb

🧳 Travel, Adventure & Exploration

I have a minor obsession with collecting travel books. I doubt I’ll visit all or even a tenth of all the places I want to visit, but I can read about them…

Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
Hindoo Holiday, J. R. Ackerley
Last Chance to See, Douglas Adams
The Search for Shangri La, Charles Allen
A Mountain in Tibet, Charles Allen
The South Pole, Roald Amundsen
Lost in Mongolia, Colin Angus
Thesiger, Michael Asher
The Heart of the World, Ian Baker
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Matshu Basho
I See By My Outfit, Peter Beagle
A Visit to Don Ottavio, Sybille Bedford
The Desert and the Sown, Gertrude Bell
The Path to Rome, Hilaire Belloc
In the Himalayas, Jeremy Bernstein
A Walk along the Ganges, Dennison Berwick
The Outermost House, Henry Beston
The Mountains of My Life, Walter Bonatti
Himalaya, Ruskin Bond
Everest, Chris Bonington
Annapurna South Face, Chris Bonington
Quest for Adventure, Chris Bonington
The Roads to Sata, Alan Booth
Looking for the Lost, Alan Booth
Wild Wales, George Borrow
The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev
A Cook’s Tour, Anthony Bourdain
The Taste of War, Margaret Bourke-White
The Way of the World, Nicholas Bouvier
South from Granada, Gerald Brenan
The Face of Spain, Gerald Brenan
Three Sheets to the Wind, Pete Brown
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson
The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson
The Road to Little Dribbling, Bill Bryson
I’m a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
Down Under, Bill Bryson
Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage, Hermann Buhl
A Ride to Khiva, Frederick Burnaby
On Horseback Through Asia Minor, Frederick Burnaby
A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, Richard Burton
Goa and the Blue Mountains, Richard Burton
Discovery, Richard Byrd
The Station, Robert Byron
The Road to Oxiana, Robert Byron
First Russia, Then Tibet, Robert Byron
Road Fever, Tim Cahill
A Wolverine is Eating My Leg, Tim Cahill
Hold the Enlightenment, Tim Cahill
Pecked to Death by Ducks, Tim Cahill
Pass the Butterworms, Tim Cahill
The Accursed Mountains, Robert Carver
Journey to the Alcarria, Camilo Jose Cela
Volga, Volga, Lesley Chamberlain
In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin
The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin
What Am I Doing Here, Bruce Chatwin
The Viceroy of Ouidah, Bruce Chatwin
The Island, Anton Chekhov
The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Poets and Pahlevans, Marcello di Cintio
Driven, Marcello di Cintio
Equator, Thurston Clarke
Mr China, Tim Clissold
Burmese Lessons, Karen Connelly
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Artemis Cooper
On the Trail of Genghis Khan, Tim Cope
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere, Graham Coster
Clear Waters Rising, Nicholas Crane
Letters from Russia, Astolphe de Custine
City of Djinns, William Dalrymple
In Xanadu, William Dalrymple
Nine Lives, William Dalrymple
The Age of Kali, William Dalrymple
From the Holy Mountain, William Dalrymple
Two Years Before the Mast, R. H. Dana
Danziger’s Travels, Nick Danziger
Great Heart, James Davidson
A Walk Around the Lakes, Hunter Davies
Into the Silence, Wade Davis
Running in Place, Nicholas Delbanco
Down the Great Unknown, Edward Dolnick
Passages from Arabia Deserta, C. M. Doughty
Mother Tongues, Helena Drysdale
Prospero’s Cell, Lawrence Durrell
The Greek Islands, Lawrence Durrell
The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader, Lawrence Durrell
The 8:55 to Baghdad, Andrew Eames
This Cold Heaven, Greta Ehrlich
An Unexpected Light, Jason Elliott
Mirrors of the Unseen, Jason Elliott
Europe, Europe, Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Our Towns, James Fallows and Deborah Fallows
All the Wrong Places, James Fenton
Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, Will Ferguson
Road Trip Rwanda, Will Ferguson
Words of Mercury, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Captain Scott, Ranulph Fiennes
Atlantis of the Sands, Ranulph Fiennes
Colour, Victoria Finlay
Two Towns in Provence, M. F. K. Fisher
News from Tartary, Peter Fleming
Brazilian Adventure, Peter Fleming
One’s Company, Peter Fleming
The Man Who Walked Through Time, Colin Fletcher
Atlas Obscura, Joshua Foer
The River Congo, Peter Forbath
The Hill of Devi, E. M. Forster
Obscure Kingdoms, Edward Fox
Chasing the Monsoon, Alexander Frater
Beyond the Blue Horizon, Alexander Frater
Tales from the Torrid Zone, Alexander Frater
Travels in Siberia, Ian Frazier
Great Plains, Ian Frazier
Artic Adventure, Peter Freuchen
The River’s Tale, Edward Gargan
Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things, Gary Geddes
Sailing Home, Gary Geddes
In an Antique Land, Amitav Ghosh
Travels in the Congo, Andre Gide
Off the Rails in Phnom Penh, Amit Gilboa
By the Ionian Sea, George Gissing
Journey to Kars, Philip Glazebrook
An Egyptian Journal, William Golding
On Foot to the Golden Horn, Jason Goodwin
The Gunpowder Gardens, Jason Goodwin
Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik
Africa Dances, Geoffrey Gorer
The Lost City of Z, David Grann
Journey Without Maps, Graham Greene
The Devil’s Picnic, Taras Grescoe
The End of Elsewhere, Taras Grescoe
Sacre Blues, Taras Grescoe
The Impossible Country, Brian Hall
Stranger in the Forest, Eric Hansen
Motoring with Mohammed, Eric Hansen
Tranquebar, Georgia Harding
The White Spider, Heinrich Harrer
Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer
Lands of Lost Horizons, Kate Harris
A Journey to Ladakh, Andrew Harvey
Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon
River-Horse, William Least Heat-Moon
Prairy-Erth, William Least Heat-Moon
Roads to Quoz, William Least Heat-Moon
The Silk Road, Sven Hedin
The Wandering Lake, Sven Hedin
The Trail of War, Sven Hedin
My Life as an Explorer, Sven Hedin
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Dispatches, Michael Herr
Annapurna, Maurice Herzog
River Town, Peter Hessler
Oracles Bones, Peter Hessler
Strange Stones, Peter Hessler
Country Driving, Peter Hessler
The Ra Expedition, Thor Heyerdahl
Green was the Earth on the Seventh Day, Thor Heyerdahl
Journey to the Jade Sea, John Hillaby
African Calliope, Edward Hoagland
Under a Sickle Moon, Peregrine Hodson
Footsteps, Richard Holmes
Passage to Torres Strait, Miles Hordern
Blue Latitudes, Tony Horwitz
Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz
Baghdad without a Map, Tony Horwitz
One For The Road, Tony Horwitz
Walking the Woods and the Water, Nick Hunt
The Last Place on Earth, Roland Huntford
Shackleton, Roland Huntford
Tales of the Alhambra, Washington Irving
Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer
Falling Off the Map, Pico Iyer
Tropical Classica, Pico Iyer
The Lady and the Monk, Pico Iyer
The Global Soul, Pico Iyer
Sun After Dark, Pico Iyer
In the Land of Oz, Howard Jacobson
Flying Visits, Clive James
Italian Hours, Henry James
Diary of a Pilgrimage, Jerome K. Jerome
Charting the Sea of Darkness, Donald Johnson
Big Dead Place, Nicholas Johnson
Shooting the Boh, Tracy Johnston
Looking for Lovedu, Ann Jones
Mali Blues, Lieve Joris
Passage Through El Dorado, Jonathan Kandell
Running the Amazon, Joe Kane
Balkan Ghosts, Robert Kaplan
The Soccer War, Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Shadow of the Sun, Ryszard Kapuscinski
Travels with Herodotus, Ryszard Kapuscinski
Imperium, Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Ice Museum, Joanna Kavenna
Journeying, Nikos Kazantzakis
Italian Journeys, Jonathan Keates
Into India, John Keay
Beyond the Pyramids, Douglas Kennedy
Lost Japan, Alex Kerr
Eothen, Alexander Kinglake
Travels in West Africa, Mary Kingsley
Darjeeling, Jeff Koehler
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
Eiger Dreams, Jon Krakauer
In Search of Zarathustra, Paul Kriwaczek
Sahara Unveiled, William Langewiesche
Endurance, Alfred Lansing
High Tartary, Owen Lattimore
In Bolivia, Eric Lawlor
Looking for Osman, Eric Lawlor
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T. E. Lawrence
Twilight in Italy, D. H. Lawrence
Sea and Sardinia, D. H. Lawrence
Sketches from Etruscan Places, D. H. Lawrence
A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Between the Woods and the Water, Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Broken Road, Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Time to Keep Silence, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece, Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Traveller’s Tree, Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Light Garden of the Angel King, Peter Levi
The World The World, Norman Lewis
The Happy Ant Heap, Norman Lewis
Voices of the Old Sea, Norman Lewis
An Empire of the East, Norman Lewis
To Run Across the Sea, Norman Lewis
Jackdaw Cake, Norman Lewis
A Dragon Apparent, Norman Lewis
Golden Earth, Norman Lewis
A Goddess in the Stones, Norman Lewis
Journey into Barbary, Wyndham Lewis
The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh
Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez
Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez
Horizon, Barry Lopez
Fabled Shore, Rose Macaulay
They Went to Portugal, Rose Macaulay
Landmarks, Robert MacFarlane
The Wild Places, Robert MacFarlane
The Old Ways, Robert MacFarlane
Travels with a Tangerine, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
The Hall of a Thousand Columns, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Landfalls, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Eastern Approaches, Fitzroy Maclean
A Person from England, Fitzroy Maclean
Pies and Prejudice, Stuart Maconie
Travels with Rosinante, Bernard Magnouloux
Danube, Claudio Magris
Forbidden Journey, Ella Maillart
The Cruel Way, Ella Maillart
Turkestan Solo, Ella Maillart
Wilfred Thesiger, Alexander Maitland
In Europe, Geert Mak
West with the Night, Beryl Markham
The Crossing Place, Philip Marsden
The Chains of Heaven, Philip Marsden
The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
The Cloud Forest, Peter Matthiessen
Far Tortuga, Peter Matthiessen
The Birds of Heaven, Peter Matthiessen
African Silences, Peter Matthiessen
The Tree Where Man Was Born, Peter Matthiessen
End of the Earth, Peter Matthiessen
The Home of the Blizzard, Douglas Mawson
Ring of Bright Water, Gavin Maxwell
Lords of the Atlas, Gavin Maxwell
The Stones of Florence, Mary McCarthy
Venice Observed, Mary McCarthy
Travels with a Writing Brush, Meredith McKinney
Roads, Larry McMurtry
The Man Who Loved Egypt, John McPherson
Maximum City, Suketu Mehta
The Crystal Horizon, Reinhold Messner
Stroll, Shawn Micallef
The Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller
The Panama Hat Trail, Tom Miller
On Trails, Robert Moor
Frost on my Moustache, Tim Moore
Sun Dancing, Geoffrey Moorhouse
Apples in the Snow, Geoffrey Moorhouse
The Fearful Void, Geoffrey Moorhouse
To The Frontier, Geoffrey Moorhouse
Calcutta, Geoffrey Moorhouse
Om, Geoffrey Moorhouse
Among the Cities, Jan Morris
Hong Kong, Jan Morris
The Matter of Wales, Jan Morris
Oxford, Jan Morris
Destinations, Jan Morris
Triests and the Meaning of Nowhere, Jan Morris
Spain, Jan Morris
The Naked Eye, Desmond Morris
Nothing to Declare, Mary Morris
Maiden Voyages, Mary Morris
In Search of England, H. V. Morton
A Traveller in Italy, H. V. Morton
Tundra, Farlet Mowat
The Polar Passion, Farlet Mowat
Ordeal by Ice, Farlet Mowat
Sibir, Farley Mowat
A Journey into Russia, Jens Muhling
Where the Indus is Young, Dervla Murphy
On a Shoestring to Coorg, Dervla Murphy
In Ethiopia with a Mule, Dervla Murphy
Full Tilt, Dervla Murphy
A Place Apart, Dervla Murphy
Eight Feet in the Andes, Dervla Murphy
Rounding the Horn, Dallas Murphy
The River of Lost Footsteps, Thant Myint-U
North of South, Shiva Naipaul
Beyond the Dragon’s Mouth, Shiva Naipaul
A Turn in the South, V. S. Naipaul
An Area of Darkness, V. S. Naipaul
India: A Wounded Civilization, V. S. Naipaul
Among the Believers, V. S. Naipaul
India, V. S. Naipaul
Farthest North, Fridtjof Nansen
The Emerald Route, R. K. Narayan
Journey to the Orient, Gerard de Nerval
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Eric Newby
The Last Grain Race, Eric Newby
On the Shores of the Mediterranean, Eric Newby
Round Ireland in Low Gear, Eric Newby
Slowly Down the Ganges, Eric Newby
Love and War in the Apennines, Eric Newby
A Traveller’s Life, Eric Newby
Departures & Arrivals, Eric Newby
Somethin Wholesales, Eric Newby
The Big Red Train Ride, Eric Newby
A Merry Dance Around the World, Eric Newby
Borderlines, Charles Nicholl
The Fruit Palace, Charles Nicholl
A Voyage for Madmen, Peter Nichols
In Trouble Again, Redmond O’Hanlon
No Mercy, Redmond O’Hanlon
Trawler, Redmond O’Hanlon
Into the Heart of Borneo, Redmond O’Hanlon
Holidays in Hell, P. J. O’Rourke
Challenging the Amazon, Francois Odendaal
Cry of the Kalahari, Mark and Delia Owens
Pole to Pole, Michael Palin
New Europe, Michael Palin
Erebus, Michael Palin
Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk
Miracle in the Andes, Nando Parrado
Inca-Kola, Matthew Parris
The Dangerous River, Raymond Patterson
In Light of India, Octavio Paz
Catfish and Mandala, Andrew X. Pham
The Road Through Miyama, Leila Philip
Venture to the Interior, Laurens van der Post
Journey into Russia, Laurens van der Post
The Lost World of the Kalahari, Laurens van der Post
The Colorado River and its Canyons, John Wesley Powell
The Other Nile, Charlie Pye-Smith
Travels in Nepal, Charlie Pye-Smith
Bad Land, Jonathan Raban
Old Glory, Jonathan Raban
Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Jonathan Raban
Arabia, Jonathan Raban
For Love and Money, Jonathan Raban
Passage to Juneau, Jonathan Raban
Coasting, Jonathan Raban
Driving Home, Jonathan Raban
Around India in 80 Trains, Monisha Rajesh
Around the World in 80 Trains, Monisha Rajesh
Dead Man’s Chest, Nicholas Rankin
Alive, Piers Paul Read
Starlight and Storm, Gaston Rebuffat
The Inland Sea, Donald Richie
River in the Desert, Paul William Roberts
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage, Tim Robinson
Stones of Aran: Labyrinth, Tim Robinson
Unsuitable for Ladies, Jane Robinson
The Jaguar Smile, Salman Rushdie
The Stones of Venice, John Ruskin
The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt, Mary Russell
Special Correspondent to the Times, William Russell
Airman’s Odyssey, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Iron & Silk, Mark Salzman
Every Rock, Every Hill, Victoria Schofield
All the Roads are Open, Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Scott’s Last Expedition, Robert Falcon Scott
A Fez of the Heart, Jeremy Seal
Meander, Jeremy Seal
The Rings of Saturn, W. G. Sebald
From Heaven Lake, Vikram Seth
The Brendan Voyage, Tim Severin
The Sindbad Voyage, Tim Severin
The Spice Lands Voyage, Tim Severin
Heart of the Antarctic, Ernest Shackleton
South, Ernest Shackleton
Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Tahir Shah
Arabian Nights, Tahir Shah
Beyond the Devil’s Teeth, Tahir Shah
In Tasmania, Nicholas Shakespeare
The Rivers Amazon, Alex Shoumatoff
Travels with my Trombone, Henry Shukman
Jupiter’s Travels, Ted Simon
Touching the Void, Joe Simpson
Sailing Alone Around the World, Joshua Slocum
Cold Beer and Crocodiles, Roff Smith
Blind White Fish in Persia, Anthony Smith
Nonstop Metropolis, Rebecca Solnit
On a Chinese Screen, W. Somerset Maugham
Off the Rails, Lisa St Aubin
Through the Dark Continent (2 vols), Henry Morton Stanley
Into the Dark Continent, Henry Morton Stanley
The Lycian Store, Freya Stark
The Southern Gates of Arabia, Freya Stark
The Valleys of the Assassins, Freya Stark
Beyond Euphrates, Freya Stark
The Minaret of Djam, Freya Stark
Alexander’s Path, Freya Stark
East is West, Freya Stark
The Coast of Incense, Freya Stark
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner
Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
The Log from the Sea of Cortez, John Steinbeck
Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land, John Stephens
Malaria Dreams, Stuart Stevens
Night Train to Turkistan, Stuart Stevens
Travels with a Donkey, R. L. Stevenson
An Inland Voyage, R. L. Stevenson
The Silverado Squatters, R. L. Stevenson
In the South Seas, R. L. Stevenson
The Places in Between, Rory Stewart
The Weather Prophet, Lucretia Stewart
The Aran Islands, J. M. Synge
Facing the Congo, Jeffrey Tayler
The Lost Kingdoms of Africa, Jeffrey Tayler
A Fortune-Teller Told Me, Tiziano Terzani
The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux
The Old Patagonian Express, Paul Theroux
Riding the Iron Rooster, Paul Theroux
Sunrise with Sea Monsters, Paul Theroux
The Pillars of Hercules, Paul Theroux
The Kingdom by the Sea, Paul Theroux
The Happy Isles of Oceania, Paul Theroux
Fresh-Air Fiend, Paul Theroux
Deep South, Paul Theroux
Dark Star Safari, Paul Theroux
The Tao of Travel, Paul Theroux
Arabian Sands, Wilfred Thesiger
The Marsh Arabs, Wilfred Thesiger
Among the Mountains, Wilfred Thesiger
The Life of My Choice, Wilfred Thesiger
Cochineal Red, Hugh Thomson
The White Rock, Hugh Thomson
The Dead Yard, Ian Thomson
Mirror to Damascus, Colin Thubron
Shadow of the Silk Road, Colin Thubron
Jerusalem, Colin Thubron
Among the Russians, Colin Thubron
The Hills of Adonis, Colin Thubron
In Siberia, Colin Thubron
Behind the Wall, Colin Thubron
The Lost Heart of Asia, Colin Thubron
The Sea and the Jungle, H. M. Tomlinson
Running with Reindeer, Roger Took
No Full Stops in India, Mark Tully
Roughing It, Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain
A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain
Following the Equator, Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
The Eighth Continent, Peter Tyson
No Shortcuts to the Top, Ed Viesturs
Courting the Diamond Sow, Wickliffe Walker
Fool’s Paradise, Dale Walker
When the Going was Good, Evelyn Waugh
Honeymoon in Purdah, Alison Wearing
Maiden Voyage, Denton Welch
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Rebecca West
Kings of the Yukon, Adam Weymouth
Travels in a Thin Country, Sara Wheeler
Cherry, Sara Wheeler
Terra Incognita, Sara Wheeler
All Aboard with E. M. Frimbo, Rogers Whitaker
Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield
Scrambles Amongst the Alps, Edward Whymper
The Linhay on the Downs, Henry Williamson
Europe Without Baedeker, Edmund Wilson
Calcutta, Simon Winchester
The River at the Center of the World, Simon Winchester
Third-Class Ticket, Heather Wood
Time Among the Maya, Ronald Wright
Cut Stones and Crossroads, Ronald Wright
Stolen Continents, Ronald Wright
Slow Boats to China, Gavin Young
Slow Boats Home, Gavin Young
Return to the Marshes, Gavin Young
Worlds Apart, Gavin Young
From Sea to Shining Sea, Gavin Young
In Search of Conrad, Gavin Young
Black Dragon River, Dominic Ziegler
Train, Tom Zoellner
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories, Patricia Craig (ed.)
The Punch Book of Travel, William Davis (ed.)
The Picador Book of Travel, Keath Fraser (ed.)
The Norton Book of Travel, Paul Fussell (ed.)
The Best of Granta Travel, Granta (ed.)
Ox Travels, Mark Ellingham (ed.)
The Explorers, G. R. Crone (ed.)
Exploration, John Keay (ed.)
As Told at the Explorers Club, George Plimpton (ed.)
The Oxford Book of Exploration, Robin Hanbury-Tenison (ed.)
Maiden Voyages, Mary Morris (ed.)
A Thousand Leagues of Blue, John A. Murray (ed.)
A Book of Sea Journeys, Ludovic Kennedy (ed.)
A Book of Travellers’ Tales, Eric Newby (ed.)
A Book of Lands and Peoples, Eric Newby (ed.)
A Taste for Travel, John Julius Norwich (ed.)
The Faber Book of the Sea, John Coote (ed.)
Istanbul: A Traveller’s Reader, Laurence Kelly (ed.)

🎭 Fiction

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
No Longer At Ease, Chinua Achebe
Arrow of God, Chinua Achebe
Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd
Milton in America, Peter Ackroyd
Brick Lane, Monica Ali
Dear Illusion: Collected Stories, Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
The Untouchable, John Banville
Doctor Copernicus, John Banville
The Newton Letter, John Banville
The Book of Evidence, John Banville
Kepler, John Banville
Athena, John Banville
Ghosts, John Banville
The Infinities, John Banville
The Regeneration Trilogy, Pat Barker
Nothing To Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Julian Barnes
Talking It Over, Julian Barnes
England, England, Julian Barnes
Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes
The Porcupine, Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
Before She Met Me, Julian Barnes
Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett
The Voyage of the Narwhal, Andrea Barrett
Seven Men, Max Beerbohm
The Long Ships, Frans Bengtsson
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
Q, Luther Blissett
2666, Roberto Bolaño
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolaño
The Mortdecai Trilogy, Kyril Bonfiglioli
Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges
Collected Non-Fiction 1923-1986, Jorge Luis Borges
Das Boot, Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, Jesse Bullington
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
Possession, A. S. Byatt
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso
If on a winter’s night a traveller, Italo Calvino
The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Our Ancestors, Italo Calvino
Under the Jaguar Sun, Italo Calvino
t zero, Italo Calvino
Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino
Numbers in the Dark, Italo Calvino
Difficult Loves, Italo Calvino
Why Read the Classics?, Italo Calvino
Italian Folktales, Italo Calvino
Fantastic Tales, Italo Calvino
The Outsider, Albert Camus
Auto Da Fé, Elias Canetti
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey
Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey
The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon
The Final Solution, Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
The Shooting Party, Anton Chekhov
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Gordon Dahlquist
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
The Human Comedy: Selected Stories, Honoré de Balzac
The Diary of a Provincial Lady, E. M. Delafield
Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow
All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
Kissing the Witch, Emma Donoghue
The Commitments, Roddy Doyle
The Snapper, Roddy Doyle
The Van, Roddy Doyle
The Guts, Roddy Doyle
The Deportees, Roddy Doyle
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, Roddy Doyle
A Star Called Henry, Roddy Doyle
Oh, Play That Thing, Roddy Doyle
The Dead Republic, Roddy Doyle
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle
Bullfighting, Roddy Doyle
The World As I Found It, Bruce Duffy
Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
Faith in Fakes, Umberto Eco
Baudolino, Umberto Eco
The Prague Cemetery, Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Umberto Eco
Half-Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
The Siege of Krishnapur, J. G. Farrell
Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
Novels in Three Lines, Felix Feneon
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante
The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante
City of Dark Magic, Magnus Flyte
The Last King of Scotland, Giles Foden
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
The Magus, John Fowles
Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
The Corrections, Jonathan Frantzen
Conversations with Beethoven, Sanford Friedman
Children of the Days, Eduardo Galeano
Soul Mountain, Gao Xingjian
The Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The General In His Labyrinth, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collected Stories, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Dead Souls, Nikolai
Collected Tales, Nikolai Gogol
The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
Travels with My Aunt, Graham Greene
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon
Uncommon Type, Tom Hanks
A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr
The Good Soldier Svejk, Jaroslav Hasek
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Closing Time, Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
In Hazard, Richard Hughes
The Wooden Shepherdess, Richard Hughes
Tun-Huang, Yasushi Inoue
An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro
When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
We, the Drowned, Carsten Jensen
Ulysses, James Joyce
Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Franz Kafka
Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis
Measuring the World, Daniel Kehlmann
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
Domino, Ross King
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, Reif Larsen
I Am Radar, Reif Larsen
The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
Christ Stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi
The Little Country, Charles de Lint
How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn
Samarkand, Amir Maalouf
Leo Africanus, Amir Maalouf
Midaq Alley, Naguib Mahfouz
The Thief and the Dogs, Naguib Mahfouz
Miramar, Naguib Mahfouz
My Traitor’s Heart, Rian Malan
Londonstani, Gautam Malkani
Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Bring Up The Bodies, Hilary Mantel
Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel
A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel
Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
The Scapegoat, Daphne du Maurier
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
A River Sutra, Gita Mehta
The Emperor’s Children, Claire Messud
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell
Number 9 Dream, David Mitchell
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
Hav, Jan Morris
The Discovery of Heaven, Harry Mulisch
Skippy Dies, Paul Murray
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov
Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov
Ada, or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
The Luzhin Defense, Vladimir Nabokov
A House for Mr. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul
Wizard of the Crow, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
The Understudy, David Nicholls
Lempriere’s Dictionary, Lawrence Norfolk
The Pope’s Rhinoceros, Lawrence Norfolk
In the Shape of a Boar, Lawrence Norfolk
John Saturnall’s Feast, Lawrence Norfolk
The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
The Famished Road, Ben Okri
Songs of Enchantment, Ben Okri
Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje
The Truth, Michael Palin
The Quincunx, Charles Palliser
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
The Black Book, Orhan Pamuk
The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk
Other Colours, Orhan Pamuk
Snow, Orhan Pamuk
The New Life, Orhan Pamuk
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio, Iain Pears
Stone’s Fall, Iain Pears
Amistad, David Pesci
The Gray Notebook, Joseph Pla
The Hangman’s Daughter, Oliver Pötzsch
The Beggar King, Oliver Pötzsch
The Gold Bug Variations, Richard Powers
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Richard Powers
Orfeo, Richard Powers
The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
Plowing the Dark, Richard Powers
The Time of Our Singing, Richard Powers
The Cretan Runner, George Psychoundakis
The Captain’s Daughter, Alexander Pushkin
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon
Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon
Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
V., Thomas Pynchon
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
The Imperfectionists, Tom Rackman
Fire from Heaven, Mary Renault
The Persian Boy, Mary Renault
Funeral Games, Mary Renault
The Bull from the Sea, Mary Renault
An Ermine in Czernopol, Gregor von Rezzori
Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
Villa Incognito, Tom Robbins
Wild Ducks Flying Backwards, Tom Robbins
Skinny Legs And All, Tom Robbins
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Tom Robbins
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Golden House, Salman Rushdie
The History of the Siege of Lisbon, Jose Saramago
Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald
The Emigrants, W. G. Sebald
The Peach Blossom Fan, K’ung Shang-jen
Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels, Edward St Aubyn
The Wayward Bus, John Steinbeck
In Dubious Battle, John Steinbeck
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Perfume, Patrick Susskind
Lark Rise to Candleford, Flora Thompson
Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth
Morality Play, Barry Unsworth
The Rage of the Vulture, Barry Unsworth
The Ruby in Her Navel, Barry Unsworth
Laurus, Eugene Vodolazkin
Expelled from Eden, William T. Vollmann
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
Deadeye Dick, Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut
Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut
Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
The Sword of Honour Trilogy, Evelyn Waugh
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh

As of February 2020, I’ve catalogued 8 of 30 bookshelves in my house.