Nina Allan’s List
Posted in Alasdair Gray, BBC, Fantasy, John Banville, Keith Roberts, M John Harrison, Other fiction, Reading Reviewed, Science Fiction, Scottish Fiction, Scottish Literature at 12:00 on 2 December 2019
This is Nina Allan’s response to the BBC’s list of 100 Books that shaped our world.
As usual the ones in bold I have read. (18. 19 if John Banville’s Shroud and Eclipse count as two.) Some others are on my tbr pile.
Borka: the Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers by John Burningham
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Stig of the Dump by Clive King
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
Thursday’s Child by Noel Streatfield
‘Adventure’ series by Willard Price
The Ogre Downstairs by Diana Wynne Jones
Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
‘UNEXA’ series by Hugh Walters
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
‘Changes’ trilogy by Peter Dickinson
‘Tripods’ trilogy by John Christopher
The Dolls’ House by Rumer Godden
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Pavane by Keith Roberts
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Drought by J. G. Ballard
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Search for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Doktor Faustus by Thomas Mann
Ada by Vladimir Nabokov
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
The Affirmation by Christopher Priest
Midnight Sun by Ramsey Campbell
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
The Brimstone Wedding by Barbara Vine
The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Personality by Andrew O’Hagan
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Iron Dragon’s Daughter by Michael Swanwick
The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
Shroud/Eclipse by John Banville
My Tango with Barbara Strozzi by Russell Hoban
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Shriek: an afterword by Jeff VanderMeer
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
Glister by John Burnside
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Kills by Richard House
A Russian Novel by Emmanuel Carrère
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano
The Dry Salvages by Caitlin R. Kiernan
In the Shape of a Boar by Lawrence Norfolk
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
The Accidental by Ali Smith
Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn
F by Daniel Kehlmann
Straggletaggle by J. M. McDermott
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
All Those Vanished Engines by Paul Park
Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
The Infatuations by Javier Marias
Outline by Rachel Cusk
A Separation by Katie Kitamura
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates
This is Memorial Device by David Keenan
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
Attrib. by Eley Williams
Berg by Ann Quin
When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy
Munich Airport by Greg Baxter
Caroline’s Bikini by Kirsty Gunn
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz
The Sing of the Shore by Lucy Wood
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
