Books for rereading

There are books that I feel the need to reread over and over again. They are not necessarily the best books - with the most intriguing plot, richest bibiliography or most charismatic characters. But they make me feel at home inside myself and that feels good. Re-reading them is a prophylactic activity. I thought I should start noting down what they are rather than rely on finding them again when I need them. I distrust my memory. Sometimes I forget how to spell 'hello'.

I'm starting with a modest list and will add to it when I have the time.

Fiction

• Albert Camus - The Stranger
• Alexander Dumas - The Three Musketeers (& all the sequels, perhaps stopping short of The Vicomte de Bragelonne)
• Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus
• Arthur Conan Doyle - everything Sherlock & The Lost World
• Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman (also brilliant audiobook by Jim Norton)
• Francoise Sagan - Hello Sadness
• Isaac Asimov - all Robot stories
• Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
• Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
• Orhan Pamuk - The Museum of Innocence
• Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Ray Bradbury - The Martial Chronicles
• Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
• Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone

Non-fiction

• George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London
• George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
• Henry Miller - The Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
• Jeremy Bernstein - A Palette of Particles
• Joel Levy - Poison: a Social History
• Val McDermid - Forensics: the Anatomy of Crime

Poetry

• Adrienne Rich
• Ramona Herdman
• Siegfried Sassoon
• Sylvia Plath
• Wilfred Owen

Take me home