Books to read before you die

Exclusive books are running a competition asking Fanatics members to submit their favourite 10 fiction reads. They’re using the submissions to assist them in creating a 101 Books to Read Before You Die list, for launch at the Cape Town Book Fair.

So, roughly taken from my list of books read, here are my submissions. Disclaimers of course are that you can ask me tomorrow and I’ll have changed my mind, and that the unique combination of point in time and book make all the difference. Some of these books I haven’t read for a long time. Enough wriggling, here they are:

1. Always Coming Home – Ursula Le Guin
2. Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkein
3. Neverness – David Zindell
4. The House of the Spirits – Isabelle Allende
5. The Famished Road – Ben Okri
6. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
7. The Island of the Day Before – Umberto Eco
8. Brave new World – Aldous Huxley
9. Dune – Frank Herbert
10. Waiting for the Barbarians – JM Coetzee

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