I don't exactly need an excuse to source inspiration for reading material, so when World Book Day (Thursday 4th March) and #avatarfriday over in the Twitterverse collided, I started taking notes of people's favourite/recommended book(s). Then extended the question to Facebook.
I decided to populate the list grouping books by the person who suggested them. Some of you know each other, may want to read all of a person's recommendations, follow them on Twitter (if they've not protected their Tweets), etc.
Thanks one and all for the inspiration. Here goes:
Me (@littlegingerkid)
Jim Dodge - Stone Junction
John Dos Passos - Manhattan Transfer
Daniel Levitin - Your Brain On Music
Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway Tree
Cory Doctorow - Little Brother
James Joyce - Ulysses
William Least Heat-Moon - Blue Highways
Bill Drummond - 45
@al_green
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett - Good Omens
James Herbert - Portent
Roald Dahl - Danny The Champion Of The World
@ashcoates
Hunter S Thompson - Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years Of Solitude
Spike Milligan - Rommel? Gunner Who?
Haruki Murakami - Kafka On The Shore
@Padawan_Aurora
Dawn Porter - Diaries Of An Internet Lover
@Blair_Bookshop
Stanislaw Lem - Memoirs Found In A Bathtub
@thebookgarden
John Peel & Sheila Ravenscroft - Margrave Of The Marshes
John C Parkin - The Way Of F**k It
Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Iain M Banks - Consider Phlebas
Orson Scott Card - Enders Game
@Boo2AGoose
Tony Hawks - Travels Round Ireland With A Fridge
@buffystar
John Wyndham - Day Of The Triffids
Terry Pratchett - Mort
@chrisrolls
Eckhart Tolle - The Power Of Now
Viktor E Frankl - Man's Search For Meaning
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
@dannifromdublin
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
Garth Nix - Abhorsen
@deanoshoes
Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
@dougie1983
Roald Dahl - The BFG
@ellyoracle
Jung Chang - Wild Swans
JRR Tolkein - The Hobbit
@ericisbananaman
Peter Benchley - Jaws
@Gem_W
Charles Bukowski - Ham On Rye
Roddy Doyle - A Star Called Henry
John Trolan - Slow Punctures
Karl Guard
Maus - Art Spiegelman
Debbie Harding
James Frey - A Million Little Pieces
John C Parkin - The Way Of F**k It
@davidhaskoll
Christopher Brookmyre - Quite Ugly One Morning
@I_am_Heather
J M Barrie - Peter Pan
Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
George R Stewart - Earth Abides
Michael Ende - Neverending Story
@THEjaydoubleyou
Douglas Coupland - Microserfs
Matt Kidd
Howard Marks - Mr Nice
@LittleMarsy
Judith Kerr - The Tiger Who Came To Tea
@Lilmisstory
Hunter S Thompson - Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail
Edward Monkton - A Lovely Love Story
Armistead Maupin - Tales Of The City
Josie Lyons
Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
Milan Kundera - The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
J D Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Dennis Johnson - Already Dead
W E Bowman - The Ascent Of Rum Doodle
Truman Capote - Other Voices, Other Rooms
Patrick Neate - Twelve Bar Blues
Simone de Beauvoir - The Mandarins
Jonathan Coe - What A Carve Up
Charles Mingus - Autobiography
any of F Scott Fitzgerald's novels
@Madieeeeeeee
Cornelia Funke - Inkheart
@mickyates
Miyamoto Musashi - Book of Five Rings
@mothleen
Stephen King & Richard Bachman - The Long Walk
@Nick_Coombes
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Jo Pashley
Christopher Brookmyre - One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night
Debs Phethean
Patrick Suskind - Perfume
Miranda Pighills
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
Chris Place
Carlos Ruiz Zafron - Shadow Of The Wind
Craig Richardson
Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
Lucy Rigley
Enid Blyton - Folk Of The Magic Faraway Tree
Stan Berenstain - Bears On Wheels
Eric Carle - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
@Ryecatcher
Shusako Endo - Scandal
@siowls
Howard Marks - Mr Nice
@steamrunner
S A Wakefield - Bottersnikes and Grumbles
@TeekaCheeka
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Douglas Adams - The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
@_ToffeeApple_
JRR Tolkein - The Hobbit
Jon Walsh
Adrian Chiles - We Don't Know What We're Doing
@webstl
Mick Foley - Have A Nice Day
James Herbert - The Rats
WWF cookbook - 'Can You Take The Heat'
Michael Eavis et al - Glastonbury Festival Tale
David Belbin - Festival Bite
Andrew Collins - Where Did It All Go Right
Robert Kirkman - The Walking Dead
@vivyouell
Carson McCullers - The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe
(Oh, and if I've missed anything out AND if anyone would rather not have their name - or book choices - listed on a public blog post, let me know and I'll take 'em down)
