2. What books on your shelf are begging to be read?
Oh God, it would have been easier to say what have I HAVE read.
So, the top 20 as follows:
M.R. James - Collected Ghost Stories; Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea; Bertolt Brecht - The Caucasian Chalk Circle; Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland; Margaret Attwood - The Handmaid's Tale; Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla; Virginia Woolf - The Waves; Sheridan Le Fanu - In A Glass Darkly; Henry James - The Turn of the Screw; Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse; Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway; Vladamir Nabokov - Lolita; James Joyce - Ulysses; John Steinbeck - East of Eden; 2 Ransom Riggs books; John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath; Alex Owen - The Darkened Room; Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (though I am part the way through it) and ditto John Polidori - The Vampyre.
Oh God, it would have been easier to say what have I HAVE read.
So, the top 20 as follows:
M.R. James - Collected Ghost Stories; Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea; Bertolt Brecht - The Caucasian Chalk Circle; Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland; Margaret Attwood - The Handmaid's Tale; Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla; Virginia Woolf - The Waves; Sheridan Le Fanu - In A Glass Darkly; Henry James - The Turn of the Screw; Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse; Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway; Vladamir Nabokov - Lolita; James Joyce - Ulysses; John Steinbeck - East of Eden; 2 Ransom Riggs books; John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath; Alex Owen - The Darkened Room; Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (though I am part the way through it) and ditto John Polidori - The Vampyre.