Scratchwood ever infected by Faffbook has been inspecting woodcuts of his past and stickily precise conquests. He sits and here we are when all good souls are slumped as saggy Saturday allows, set to toil but unlikely in our sighs and filling time then inch by unturned inch. It is and again books that are the cause for his mood. Faffbook has a list and he, he has not many of them to his name. An oaf without letters claims nearly half and a bawd of better humour not far less.
He has it in mind to produce but lazily so, our own list - or his list (but mine). In no especial order nor claims to better nor worst, no more than one per writer and that which first occurs, not perhaps the best or most likely that considered such.
A different list then without in places those usual and bullish suspects. Again and note in no particular order, nor one made as better than another.
Fifty here, yet another fifty when the mood once more takes.
Dreams of Sex and Stage Diving – Martin Millar
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
London – Edward Rutherford
Nine Princes in Amber – Roger Zelazny
Psychoville – Christopher Fowler
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
Logan’s World – William F. Nolan
1984 – George Orwell
The Winter King – Bernard Cornwell
The Final Programme – Michael Moorcock
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Stand – Stephen King
Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Back in the USSR – Eugene Byrne, Kim Newman
Thin He Was and Filthy Haired – Robert Llewellyn
Night Watch – Terry Pratchett
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
The Pyramid – William Golding
Goodbye to All That – Robert Graves
The Magus – John Fowles
Swords of Lankhmar – Fritz Leiber
Porno – Irvine Welsh
Barcelona Plates – Alexei Sayle
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner
Lifeboat – Harry Harrison
The Machine Gunners – Robert Westall
Jack the Bodiless – Julian May
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
Danny Champion of the World – Roald Dahl
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K. Dick
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsythe
Cider with Rosie – Laurie Lee
The Code of the Woosters – P. G. Wodehouse
The Fallible Fiend – L. Sprague de Camp
The Fandom of the Operator – Robert Rankin
The Liquidator – John Gardner
Faust – Robert Nye
The Fabulous Riverboat – Philip Jose Farmer
Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
The Fog – James Herbert
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