The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
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Andy Miller. The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
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Dedication
A Word of Explanation
Book One. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Book Two. Middlemarch by George Eliot
Books Three to Five. Post Office by Charles Bukowski. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Book Six. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (Supplementary Book One – Cooking with Pomiane by Edouard de Pomiane)
Books Seven to Nine. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett. Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
Book Ten. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville. and introducing Book Zero, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Book Eleven. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Books Twelve and Thirteen. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Books 28, 29 and 31. Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel. The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith. The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Books 41 and 42. The Essential Silver Surfer, Vol. 1 by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, John Buscema. Krautrocksampler: One Head’s Guide to the Great Kosmische Musik – 1968 Onwards by Julian Cope
Book 45. Atomised (Les Particules élémentaires) by Michel Houellebecq (Supplementary Books Three to Ten – Whatever; Platform; Lanzarote; The Possibility of an Island; The Map and the Territory; H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life; The Art of Struggle, all by Michel Houellebecq; Public Enemies by Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Lévy)
Books 49 and 50. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
Epilogue
Notes for Reading Groups
Exclusive Excerpts from the Personal Blog of ‘Leonard Bast’
Appendix One. The List of Betterment
Appendix Two. The Hundred Books Which Influenced Me Most
Appendix Three. Books I Still Intend to Read
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About the Publisher
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