I really enjoyed Foucault's Pendulum too and Baudolino too.
Mary Renault's Persian Boy and the Patrick O'Brien Jack Aubrey/Maturin were some of my favourite historical fiction.
Anything by Studs Terkel is basically de rigeur for anyone interested in 20th century us social history.
Both Steinbeck and George Orwell,
Also cookery books by Jane Grigson - her delightfully pithy prose has been demonstrated to lower my blood pressure.
Anything by Terry Pratchett - although reading his books now just fills me with melancholy given his tragic disease and death.
Last edited by madeinuk; 04/17/15 02:51 PM.
