Books devoured and treasured…the list continues!
In no particular order
Albert Camus – Lyrical and critical essays
Albert Camus – The rebel
Annie Frank – The diary of a young girl
Anthony Price – A new kind of war
Autobiography of Booker T Washington -Up from slavery
Aldous Huxley – Brave new world
Anatoli Boukreev – The climb
Alvin Toffler – The third wave
Adolf Hitler – Mein Kampf
Adrian Cowell – The tribe that hides from man
Ayn Rand – Atlas shrugged
Ayn Rand – Anthem
Ayn Rand – The voice of reason
Ayn Rand – The fountainhead
Alan Gurganus – White people
Alvin and Heidi Toffler – War and anti-war
Alan Paton – Cry, the beloved country
Anthony Sampson – The seven sisters
Allister Maclean – The lonely sea
Alfred Sundel – A history of Aztecs and the Mayas and other conquest
Arkon Daraul – A history of secret societies
Aung San Suu Kyi – Freedom from fear
Albert Camus – Resistance, rebellion, and death
Anna Politkovskaya – A dirty war
APJ Abdul Kalam – Wings of fire
Anthony Burgess – A clockwork orange
Adam Armstrong – Song of the sound
Arundathi Roy – The god of small things
Alexander Solzhenitsyn – Cancer ward
Annick Smith – Homestead
Alan Caillou – Bichu the jaguar
Anne Rice – Cry to heaven
Amir Khusrau – In the bazaar of love
Alex Haley – The autobiography of Malcolm X
Alice Walker – The colour purple
Anthony Doerr – All the light we cannot see
Bill Bryson – Down Under
Bill Bryson – Notes from a big Country
Barry Lopez – Arctic Dreams
Basil Davidson – In the eye of the storm
Brian Marriner – Cannibalism
Brain Herbert, Kevin J Anderson – Dune
Catherine Caufield – In the rainforest
Canyon Sam – Sky train
CS Forester – The nightmare
Craig Thomas – A wild justice
Cynthia Moss – Elephant memories
Carlos Castaneda – A separate reality
Carlos Castaneda – The eagles gift
Colson Whitehead – The underground railroad
Carsten Stroud- Snipers moon
Chandrahas Choudhury – Arzee the dwarf
Colin Wilson – The occult
Colin Thubron – The lost heart of Asia
Colin M Turnbull – Tradition and change in African tribal life
Chinua Achebe – Things fall apart
Caroline Fraser – Rewilding the world
Charles Darwin – The origin of species
Chrisopher McDougall – Born to run
Cormac McCarthy – No country for old men
Charles de Lint – Someplace to be flying
Coralie Younger – Wicked women of the Raj
Dan Brown – Digital fortress
Dan Brown – Deception point
Dan Brown- The Da Vinci code
Dan Brown – Angels and demons
Daphne Sheldrick – An African love story
DC Comics – DC goes ape
David K Leonard – African success
Dee Brown – Bury my head at wounded knee
David Grann – The lost city of Z
David Quammen – The flight of the iguana
DH Lawrence – Twilight in Italy
Dean Konntz – Icebound
Dalene Matthee – Circles in a forest
Dean Konntz – Strange highways
Dean Konntz – From the corner of his eye
Dean Konntz – Winter moon
Douglas C Jones – Arrest sitting bull
Darrell Garwood – Thirty five years of CIA
Daniel Defoe – Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
E Annie Proulx – The shipping news
Ernest Hemingway – The old man and the sea
Ernest Hemingway – True at first sight
Ernest Hemingway – A farewell to arms
Edgar Alan Poe – Ten great mysteries
EF Schumacher – Small is beautiful
Edward Abbey – Desert Solitaire
EL Doctorow – Loon lake
Eric Newby – The big red train ride
Emily Bronte – Wuthering heights
Edgar Alan Poe – Mystery and imagination
EL Doctorow – Billy Bathgate
Edward Marriott – The lost tribe
Edward Behr – Anyone here been raped and speaks English
Eric Helm – Vietnam, ground zero
Erika Cheetham – The prophecies of Nostradamus
Edited by James Little – Way out there – the best of Explore
Edited by Sebastian Faulks, Jerg Hensgen – The vintage book of war stories
Edited by WE Williams – A book of English essays
Edited by Jon E Lewis – The mammoth book of journalism
Edited by Joseph Mersand – Great narrative essays
Edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W Lamm & Stephen J Mckenna – The world’s greatest speeches
Edited by Leo Panitch, Colin Leys – Violence today
Edited by RW Jepson – Short stories by modern writers
Edited by Jon E Lewis – Endurance & adventure
Edited by Lionel Casson – Classical age
Edited by Bill Pronzini, Martin H Greenberg – The mammoth book of World War 2 stories
Edited by Khuswanth Singh – New Indian fiction – contemporary writing in English
Edited by Abraham Chapman – New black voices
Edited by Jon E Lewis – The mammoth book of how it happened, Everest
Editors of rolling stone – The age of paranoia
Edited by Alec Robertson, Denis Stevens – The pelican history of music
Edited by Bernadette McDonald – Extreme landscape
Edited by Jonathan Cott – Dylan on Dylan
Edited by Robyn Davidson – Journeys, an anthology
Elizabeth Kolbert – The sixth extinction
Ed Viesturs – K2: Life & death on the world’s most dangerous mountain
Edward Abbey – The monkey wrench gang
Frank Kafka – The diaries of Frank Kafka
Franz Kafka – The trial
Farley Mowat – Sea of slaughter
Frans de Waal – are you smart enough to know how smart animals are
Frank Herbert – Dune
Farley Mowat – Never cry wolf
Farley Mowat – And no birds sang
Frank McCourt – Angela’s ashes
Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell – Imperial China
Frederick P Grove – In search of myself
Fidel Castro – On imperial globalisation
Frank McCourt – ‘Tis
Felice Benuzzi – No picnic on Mount Kenya
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The possessed
George B Schaller – Stones of silence
George Orwell – Animal farm
George Orwell – Essays
George Orwell – 1984
Gunter Grass – The tin drum
George RR Martin – Game of thrones
Gretel Ehrlich – Islands the universe, home
Graham Greene – The ministry of fear
Gordon Vorster – The textures of silence
Gerald Durrell – The drunken forest
George Catlin – North American Indians
Gore Vidal – On our own now
Gore Vidal – Washington
Geoffrey Turner -Indians of North America
Graham Swift – Waterland
Graham Greene – The human factor
Gregory David Roberts – Shantaram
Herman Wouk – The winds of war
Haruki Murakami – Kafka on the shore
Haruki Murakami – The elephant vanishes
Haruki Murakami – Underground
Haruki Murakami – After dark
Henri Charriere – Papillon
Henry Miller – Tropic of cancer
Henry Miller – Plexus
Henry Miller – Black spring
Henry Kyemba – State of blood
Henry David Thoreau – Walden and other writings
Harper Lee – To kill a mockingbird
Heinrich Harrer – Seven years in Tibet
Han Suyin – And the rain my drink
Hiren Gohain – The contribution of the revolutionists in India’s freedom struggle
Hiram Bingham – Lost city of the Incas
Homer – The Odyssey
Hugh Prather – Notes to myself
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s cabin
Henry Williamson – Tarka the otter
Isak Dinesen – Out of Africa
Ishmael Beah – A long way gone
Iain Banks – Espedair street
Irving Wallace – The word
Isaac Asimov – Foundation’s edge
Irving Stone – Jack London, sailor on horseback
Jack London – The call of the wild
Jack London – The star rover
Jack London – White fang
Jack London – To build a fire and other stories
Jack London – The sea wolf
Jack London – The people of the abyss
Joseph Conrad – Heart of darkness
Joseph Conrad – Heart of darkness
Joseph Conrad – The secret agent
Joseph Conrad – Typhoon and the shadow line
Joseph Conrad – The nigger of narcissus
Joseph Conrad – Victory
John Pilger – Hidden agendas
Jeremy Scahill – Dirty wars
Joe Simpson – Touching the void
Joseph Conrad – Youth and the end of the tether
Joseph Conrad – An outcast of the islands
Jay Griffiths – Wild – an elemental journey
Joe Simpson – The Beckoning Silence
Jonathan Kandall – Passage through El Dorado
Jung Chang – Wild Swans
John Briely – Cry Freedom
JD Salinger – The catcher in the rye
Jack Kerouac – Into the wild
Jack Kerouac – On the road
Jack Kerouac – The dharma bums
Jamil Ahmad – The wandering falcon
JG Ballard – Empire of the son
John Hersey – Too far to walk
Jim Corbett – Jungle lore
Jean Kerr – The snake has all the lines
JiM Morrison – Wilderness
Joseph Heller- Catch 22
Joseph Heller – Picture this
Joseph Heller – Something happened
Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman – No one here gets out alive
James Dickey – Deliverance
Jean M Auel – The clan of the cave bear
James Joyce – The portrait of the artist as a young man
Jane Goodall – In the shadow of man
Jared Diamond – Collapse
Jared Diamond – Guns, germs and steel
James A Michener – Iberia
John Berendt – Midnight in the garden of good and evil
James Bunting – Adolf Hitler
Joy Adamson – Born free
JRR Tolkien – The fellowship of the ring
Janaki Lenin – My husband and other animals
John Gunther – Inside Europe today
John O’Hara – The big laugh
John Oliver Killens – And then we heard the thunder
John T Flynn – While you slept
James Baldwin – Go tell it on the mountain
Jean M Auel – The valley of horses
John Le Carre – A perfect spy
Jeff noon – Nymphomation
John Steinbeck – Of mice and men and cannery row
John Steinbeck – To a god unknown
John Milton – The lost horizon
John Livingston Lowes – The road to xanadu
James Cavell’s – King rat
John creasey – Gideon’s lot
Jules Verne- Around the world in 80 days
Jeremy Rosen – Kabbalah
James Joyce – Ulysses
John Christopher – The long voyage
Jean p Sasson – The rape of Kuwait
Kent Harut – Plainsong
Kazuo Ishiguro – The unconsoled
Kazuo Ishiguro – When we were orphans
Kahil Gibran – Complete works
K Ulllas Karanth – The way of the tiger
K Ulllas Karanth – A view from the machan
Kenize Mourad – Our scared land
Kunal Basu – Racists
Kenzaburo Oe – The silent cry
Kobo Abe – The face of another
Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse 5
Konstantine Simonov – Days and nights
Kuki Gallmann – I dreamed of Africa
Kuzhali Manickavel – Insects are just like you and me except some of them have wings
Leon Uris – Mila 18
Leon Uris – Exodus
Leon Uris – Topaz
Leon Uris – The Haj
Leon Uris – Battle cry
Lawrence Anthony – The elephant whisperer
Lawrence Anthony – The last rhinos
Leo Tolstoey – What is art
Leo Tolstoey – The death of Ivan Ilyich
Leonard Cottrell – The bull if minos
Lewis Cotlow – The twilight of the primitive
L Sprague de Camp – The ancient engineers
Louis L’Amour – Education of a wandering man
Louis L’Amour – Last of the breed
Laurens Van Der Post – A story like the wind
Ladislas Farago – The game of the foxes
Markus Zusak – The book thief
Mitch Albom – Five people you meet in heaven
Mitch Albom – Tuesdays with Morrie
Michael Blake -Dances with wolves
Moses Isegawa – Abyssinian Chronicles
Michael Harris Goodman – The last dalai lama
Martin Amis – Times arrow
Martin Amis – The information
Mikhail Solviev – My nine lives in the red army
Maya Angelou – All god’s children need travelling shoes
Marvin Harris – Cows, pigs, wars and witches
Maurice Herzog – Annapurna
Masanobu Fukuoka – The one-straw revolution
Martin Buckley – Grains of sand
Max Hastings – Going to wars
Michael Shaara – The killer angels
Merlin Minshall – Guilt-edged
Masuji Ibuse – Black rain
Matthew Reily – Contest
Mark Twain – Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mario Puzo – The family
Mario Puzo – Godfather
Norman Mailer – The presidential papers
Norman Mailer – The executioner’s song
Norman Mailer – Ancient evenings
Naseer Rahmed, Saurabh Singh – Kashmir pending
Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman – Fragile things
Naomi Klein – This changes everything
Niebuhr – Moral man and immoral society
Nihal De Silva – The road from elephant pass
Nien Cheng – Life and death in Shanghai
Norman Lewis – A goodness in the stones
Nicholas Evans – The horse whisperer
Nick Rosen – Off the grid
Outside 25 – Classic Tales & New Voices from the Frontiers of Adventure
Pat Barker – Regeneration
Parry ebony satin brown – The shirt off his back
Pierre Loti – India
Pico Iyer – Falling off the map
Paul Theroux – Dark Star Safari
Paul Radin – The world of primitive man
Peter Matthiessen – The tree where man was born
Peter Matthiessen – The snow leopard
Petru Popescu – Amazon beaming
P Sainath – Everybody loves a good draught
Peter Jenkins – Across China
Pearl S buck – The good earth
Prerna Singh Bindra – The vanishing: India’s wildlife crisis
Pearl S buck – The living reed
PH Wodehouse – Piccadilly Jim
Ramachandra Guha – Patriots and partisans
Ramachandra Guha – India after Gandhi
Robert E Svoboda – Aghora 3
Robert Ludlum- The Matlock paper
Robert Ludlum – The Bourne identity
Radhakant Bharati – Rivers of India
Richard Bach – A gift of wings
Richard Bach – Illusions
Richard Ellis – On Thin Ice
Ralph Helfer – Modoc
Redmond O’Hanlon – Congo journey
Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
Robert M Sapolsky – A primate’s memoir
Rayford W logan, Michael R Winston – The negro in the united states
Raymond Firth – Human types
Robert M Pirsig – Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Rachel Carson – Silent spring
Richard L Harris – Che Guevara
Rupert Furneaux – Ancient mysteries
Rohinton Mistry – A fine balance
Richard Herman JR – Forces of eagles
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Essays and poems
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Selected essays, lectures and poems
Suketu Mehta – Maximun city
Sir Walter Scott -Kenilworth
Salman Rushdie – Step across this line
Shoba Naidu – On the yeti trail
Salman Rushdie – Shalimar, the clown
Santimoy Ray – Freedom movement and Indian muslims
Stephen King – Cujo
Stephen King – Desperation
Sir Walter Scott – The talisman
Sidney Hook – Marx and the marxists
Slawomir Rawicz – The long walk
Sebastian Faulks – Charlotte gray
Sigmund Freud – Interpretation of dreams
Stephen King – The drawing of the three
SA Ayer – Story of I.N.A
Saul Bellow – Humboldt’s gift
Stephen W Hawking – A brief history of time
Sun Tzu – The book of war
Salman Rushdie – Shame
Senastian Junger – The perfect storm
Stephen Fry – Paperweight
Steff Penney – The tenderness of wolves
Saul Bellow – The rain king
Stephen King – The dead zone
Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong
Stephen King – Rose madder
Steve Elsworth – Acid rain
Sebastian Faulks – The fatal Englishman
Taslima Nasrin – Lajja
The prince Philip, James Fisher – Wildlife crisis
Thomas Keneally – Schindler’s arc
Terry Goodkind – Blood of the fold
Todd Balf – the last river
Tim O’Brien – The things they carried
Tony Geraghty – Guns for hire
Timothy Findley- Not wanted on the voyage
Thomas Keneally – Towards Asmara
TE Lawrence – Seven pillars of wisdom
Tanya Reinhart – Israel/Palestine
Todd Balf – The last river
Thurston Clarke – Searching for paradise
Thomas Keneally – Jacko the great intruder
Thomas Berger – Crazy in Berlin
Takashi Matsuoka – Cloud of sparrows
Thomas Gifford – The windchill factor
Tom Wolfe – The electric kool-aid acid test
Timothy Findley – Famous last words
Tom Clancy – The cardinal of the Kremlin
The anchor essays annual – The best of 1997
Virginia Woolf – Jacob’s room
VS Naipaul – An area of darkness
VS Naipaul – Guerrillas
Vikram Seth – From heaven lake
Virginia Woolf – To the lighthouse
Vladimir Nabokov – Loloita
Virginia Woolf – A writers diary
William Golding – Lord of the flies
Walter Musley – Bluelight
W Somerset Maugham – On human bondage
WEB Du Bois – The souls of black folk
Wendy Kaminer – Its all the rage
WH Hudson – Nature in downland
Winnie Mandela – Part of my soul
Winston Spencer Churchill – My African journey
William E Burrows, Robert Windrem – Critical mass
William L Shirer – Berlin diary
William Faulkner – Sanctury
Wilbur Smith – Cry wolf
W Michael Gear, Kathleen O’Neal Gear -People of the fire
William Baze – Just elephants
Wilbur Smith – A time to die
Wilbur Smith – Elephant song
