-just about anything by Don DeLillo, my favourite living US writer -DeLillo has understood everything about modern life; start with "White Noise" "Mao II"
-in the goes-without-saying category: Brett Easton Ellis / Chuck Palahniuk / Michel Houellebecq / Douglas Coupland / Paul Auster / Irvine Welsh
-Marguerite Duras (my favourite French writer) -but I don't know how she translates
-my personal hero Boris Vian -he was everything
-the -like- Dub, alcohol fuelled, B. Vian Flann o'Brien
-Alain Robbe-Grillet
-the admirable John Steinbeck "Cannery Row" "Tortilla Flat"
-the admirable George Orwell (did me thesis on him so I did!) "The Road To Wigan Pier"
-Faulkner (I like me Southern Gothic me)
-talking of, Paddy mcCabe
-Martin Amis "Money" "Time's Arrow" "Dead Babies"
-Fielding "Tom Jones" / Sterne "Tristram Shandy"
-Phil K. Dick
-Louis de Bernieres
-Jane Austen
-Jimmy Baldwin: "The Fire Next Time"
-Pierre Prevert / Raymond Queneau / Marcel Ayme
-"l'Honneur perdu de Pedonzigues"
-probably the most imaginative novel I came across: "The Book Of Danish Dreams"-Peter Hoegh
-John Irving (for ex. "The Cider House Rules")
-Dickens
-Kundera
-could never really get into Murakami though; read 3 of his always critically acclaimed novels but... it doesn't sound right.
-Zadie Smith "White Teeth"
-ABCD Pierre "Vernon God Little"
-Mary Roach "Stiff" -terrific stuff! need to read her latest one ("Bonk" or something)
-seminal study (even though I think he loses it in the 3rd part as he extrapolates the plots onto history in the making as if there were a predetermined / structured movement to history) "The Seven Basic Plots"-Christopher Brooke
-Joyce "Ulysses"
-Carson McCullers
-Pinter, my favourite playwright
-Joseph Heller "Catch 22" "Something Happened"
-frankly... could never get into Updike, I just can't; idem with Roth -I just don't care for his world.
-Russell Banks ("The Rule Of Bones")
-comics: Daniel Clowes ("Ghost World") / Bill Skenkiewicz / Dave McKean / Neil Gaiman ("Signal To Noise" "Cages" etc.)
-comics: the lovely Argentinian "Mafalda"
-comics: Reiser / the abominable Vuillemin
-the extraordinary Pierre Bayard "Who Killed Roger Ackroyd"
-Rimbaud
-"The Moon In The Gutter" -great baroque oddity of a filum too!
-bought but as yet unread: "The Testament Lost In Zaragossa" by this Polish guy
-idem with Bruno Schulz; always meant to get into him
