My favourite authors are Orwell, Hanif Kureishi, Jonathan Coe if that's any help.
2006-10-01 09:02:20 · 33 answers · asked by micktravis 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
You might enjoy 'Amsterdam' by Ian McEwan, it has some of Coe's darkness.
Try Alison Lurie or David Lodge (beautifully-written, wry, gently satirical).
You might also enjoy Will Self, Howard Jacobsen, Martin Amis or Hilary Mantel - all excellent writers with that satirical darker side that would appeal to you.
[I don't think Artful Dodger has the foggiest....]
2006-10-02 10:31:41 · answer #1 · answered by Bridget F 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Pam Houston, Zadie Smith, Native Speaker, When We Were Orphans, Augusten Burroughs, Raymond Chandler, Charles Bukowski, Bradbury
2006-10-01 09:08:22 · answer #2 · answered by Lucy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've read none of those. But I recommend dropping down a gear and reading the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phil Pullman. It's officialy for kids, but i'd like to meet a kid who can really get the themes in those. For my money, you need a few of life's battle scars before you know what he was on about.
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx, has been my no.1 for a while though. Ignore the film, it missed the point by a mile.
Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen, has to be on the list somewhere.
I'm also vaguely reading Zen Guitar, by thingummybob. It's a collection of cheesy aphorisms but all the better for it.
Oh yeah hang on - I forgot Catch 22, Heller - fantastic! Leviathan by someone is very good, and Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald) is also excellent.
I recommend not reading The Man Who Walks, by Alan Warner. it's just too pointlessly unpleasant. Every second word is yacuntya. For why?
White Teeth and On Beauty by Zadie Smith are fantastic.
Life of Pi - excellent, vivid and very troubling. Well, it spooked me, especially the bit with the meerkats.
2006-10-01 09:07:31 · answer #3 · answered by wild_eep 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Da Vinci Code
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Anne Rice novels
Paradise Lost (have to read the notes in this book)
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Complicity by Iain Banks
Of Mice and Men
2006-10-01 22:21:52 · answer #4 · answered by linzi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anythign by Patrick McGarth, he wrote Grotesque, Spider and a whole load of others...really cool, Dean Koontz for a horror or Graham Masterson (he is Disgusting with a capital D)
Fay Weldon (everyone has to read at least 1 Fay Weldon in their life1) Angela Carter..Margaret Attwood, Chuck Palahniuk, just finished reading Haunted, discoverd he wrote the book Fight Club which the film is made from.....wierd writer, couldnt put the book down, have loads more I have 10000's of books!
That should do you!
I don't really read best seller books though..sorry!
2006-10-01 09:17:15 · answer #5 · answered by recklessme 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont know alot about authors as i've recently started loving to read, but i do love the Dan Brown books (except Digital Fortress, it's a big let down compared to the others) and also enjoyed 'The Traveller' by John Twelve Hawks. (thats if you're into thriller, conspiracy type books.)
2006-10-01 09:07:43 · answer #6 · answered by ♂Dyl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. This book intertwains three stories at least, a satyrical one in which many hypocrites get punished by the Satan in Stalin's Moscow; a wonderful Romantic one in which Margarita is fighting for her love; and a deep re-thinking of the Passion story with Pilate and his headache.
2006-10-01 10:09:07 · answer #7 · answered by Agnes K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charles De Lint, Ben Jonson, Caleb Carr, Sarah Waters... Happy reading!
2006-10-01 09:34:50 · answer #8 · answered by marirene74 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try my mom's books. My mother is Dianne Henderson, author of The Miller's Pond Mystery Series.
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2006-10-02 11:24:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lional Shriver or Life of Pi by Yann Martin
2006-10-02 04:51:17 · answer #10 · answered by syncopation112 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋