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Author Title († = Read a long time ago) Category Rating Date Added
Martin Amis Night Train Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Martin Amis The Information Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
José María Arguedas Deep Rivers Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2010-09-05
Jane Austen Emma Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Jane Austen Persuasion Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2015-06-07
Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Beryl Bainbridge Every Man for Himself Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Julian Barnes Flaubert's Parrot Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Julian Barnes Love, etc Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2007-09-10
Julian Barnes Talking It Over Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Julian Barnes The Lemon Table Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013-03-30
Julian Barnes The Porcupine Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Simon Baron-Cohen Autism and Asperger Syndrome: The Facts Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2020-08-10
Kevin Barry That Old Country Music Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2021-04-25
Simone de Beauvoir Les belles Images (Beautiful Images) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013-02-23
Simone de Beauvoir Mémoires d'une jeune Fille rangée (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013-02-23
Belcampo (Herman Pieter Schönfeld Wichers) Het Verhaal van Oosterhuis (The Story of Oosterhuis) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2018-07-01
Alan Bennett Keeping On Keeping On Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2017-04-27
Thomas Bernhard Alte Meister (Past Masters) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009-09-07
Thomas Bernhard Das Kalkwerk (The Lime Works) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009-09-07
Thomas Bernhard Der Untergeher (The Loser) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009-09-07
Thomas Bernhard Frost (Frost) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009-09-07
Thomas Bernhard Holzfällen (Cutting Timber) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009-09-05
Maeve Brennan The Philip Larkin I Knew Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2011-10-23
Hermann Broch Die Schlafwandler, Part 1: Pasenow oder die Romantik Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009-12-07
Craig Brown One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time Music Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2020-07-14
Bill Bryson Neither Here nor There Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2019-06-26
John Carey A Little History of Poetry Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2023-06-20
Peter Carey The Tax Inspector Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2006-10-09
Humphrey Carpenter Dennis Potter Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2004-05-06
Raymond Carver Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Daniel Chamovitz What a Plant Knows Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2018-07-21
Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Thekla Clark Wystan and Chester Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2004-05-06
Philippe Claudel Le Rapport de Brodeck (Brodeck's Report) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2019-08-21
Joseph Conrad Il Conde Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2014-08-31
Joseph Conrad The Idiots Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2014-08-31
Joseph Conrad The Informer Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2014-08-31
Joseph Conrad The Lagoon Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2014-08-31
Joseph Conrad Youth: A Narrative Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2014-08-31
Benjamin Constant Adolphe Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013-04-14
Norman Davies The Isles: A History History Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2004-01-26
Paul Davies and Julian Brown (editors) Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2008-12-28
Virginie Despentes Vernon Subutex, Part 1 Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2017-09-17
Charles Dickens Bleak House Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2006-11-09
Charles Dickens Hard Times Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Jenny Diski Nothing Natural Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2011-01-16
Jenny Diski Skating to Antarctica Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2015-08-17
Adam Eason The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2007-05-19
Gerald Edelman Bright Air, Brilliant Fire Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2005-02-08
George Eliot Daniel Deronda Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2011-03-05
Arthur J Ellison Science and the Paranormal Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2005-11-18
Richard P Feynman QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2010-04-25
Ernst Peter Fischer Brücken zum Kosmos (Bridges to the Cosmos) Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2011-09-25
F Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2005-08-31
Michael Foley The Age of Absurdity Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2011-01-09
Theodor Fontane Effi Briest Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013-02-24
Michael Frayn The Russian Interpreter Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2007-05-19
Gabriel García Márquez News of a Kidnapping Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
André Gide La Symphonie Pastorale Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2012-05-08
André Gide Les Faux-Monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009-08-25
Elkhonon Goldberg The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2007-05-10
Tristan Gooley How to Read Water Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2017-12-30
John Gray Straw Dogs Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2010-12-27
Paul Griffiths The String Quartet Music Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2004-10-04
Peter Handke Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied (Short Letter, Long Farewell) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013-04-14
Jean Hartley Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2014-01-24
David Hepworth Nothing is Real Music Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2023-02-05
David Hepworth The Rock and Roll A Level Music Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2020-07-25
Hermann Hesse Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013-04-14
Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2015-10-11
Henkjan Honing Iedereen is Muzikaal (Musical Cognition: A Science of Listening) Music Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2020-06-20
Claudia Hunt What's for Tea? Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2017-09-24
Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Kazuo Ishiguro My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2018-01-09
Henry James The Bostonians Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2014-05-01
Steve Jones The Language of the Genes Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2005-09-22
Franz Kafka Amerika / Der Verschollene (America) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013-01-21
Franz Kafka Das Schloss (The Castle) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2017-01-01
Milan Kundera L'identité (Identity) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2003-11-09
Milan Kundera The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009-08-25
Milan Kundera The Farewell Party Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Madame de La Fayette La Princesse de Clèves Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013-04-14
John Lanchester Whoops! Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2011-03-12
Philip Larkin A Girl in Winter Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2008-09-24
Antoine Laurain Le Chapeau de Mitterrand (The President's Hat) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2016-02-06
D H Lawrence Sons and Lovers Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
John Leslie Infinite Minds Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2015-03-04
Helen Lewis The House with Old Furniture Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2020-11-27
Bruce Lipton The Biology of Belief Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2008-08-23
Penelope Lively City of the Mind Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2016-03-26
David Lodge Deaf Sentence Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013-09-08
David Lodge How Far Can You Go? Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2012-01-14
David Lodge The Practice of Writing Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013-10-13
Alexander McCall Smith What W H Auden Can Do for You Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2014-01-26
Graham McCann Fawlty Towers: The Story of Britain's Favourite Sitcom Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2007-12-29
Russell McCormmach Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009-02-21
Ian McEwan Enduring Love Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009-08-25
Yehudi Menuhin Unfinished Journey Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013-04-16
Leonard B Meyer Emotion and Meaning in Music Music Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2004-10-04
Mary Midgley Beast and Man Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2015-01-25
Jonathan Miller France: A Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2018-02-06
Jeremy Narby The Cosmic Serpent Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2004-07-26
Daniel Nettle Strong Imagination Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2020-02-09
Redmond O'Hanlon Trawler Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2021-03-06
Mike Parker Map Addict Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2018-09-15
Mike Parker The Wild Rover Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013-06-09
Roger Penrose The Emperor's New Mind Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2004-11-05
Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2016-03-12
Helga Ruebsamen Olijfje (Olive) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2019-02-11
Oliver Sacks Hallucinations Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2014-10-04
Arthur Schnitzler Fräulein Else Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Paul Scott The Towers of Silence Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2024-03-24
Alan Sheridan André Gide: A Life in the Present Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2007-02-26
Ian Stewart Nature's Numbers Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
John Sutherland Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2022-01-10
Graham Swift Ever After Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
Graham Swift Making an Elephant Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2015-04-07
Michael Talbot The Holographic Universe Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2006-03-25
Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2017-06-11
Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2019-01-13
Ivan Turgenev First Love Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading None
John Williams Stoner Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2014-01-13
Sula Wolff Loners: The Life Path of Unusual Children Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2019-03-23
Stefan Zweig Schachnovelle (Chess Story) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2003-07-09
Stefan Zweig Ungeduld des Herzens (Beware of Pity) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009-06-13

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