My Personal Canon of Books
Books you probably heard me rant about
1 min readOct 12, 2022
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Recent favourites
- Bonsai
By Alejandro Zambra - This Is How You Lose The Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - The City & The City
By China Miéville - The Dispossessed
By Ursula K. Le Guin
All-time favourites
- House of Leaves
By Mark Z. Danielewski - The Contortionist Handbook
By Craig Clevenger - Ficciones
By Jorge Luis Borges - World War Z
Max Brooks - Le Petit Prince
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Cat’s Cradle
By Kurt Vonnegut - Bluets
By Maggie Nelson - Essays in Love
By Alain de Botton
Old Favourites
- Relish
By Lucy Knisley - Portugal
By Cyril Pedrosa - Daytripper
By Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá - Pilules Bleues
By Frederik Peeters - Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino - There There
By Tommy Orange - The Sellout
By Paul Beatty - Survivor
By Chuck Palahniuk - The Instructions
By Adam Levin - I Play The Drums In A Band Called Okay
By Toby Litt - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
By Michael Chabon - Shantaram
By Gregory David Roberts - A Beginner’s Guide to Japan
By Pico Iyer - The Kindness of Strangers
By Lonely Planet - The Art of Happiness
By the 14th Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler
